Hey boys and girls! This is just a heads up for the coming few days: 2phatgeeks.com will be going through some Maintenance as we’re currently experiencing some WP plug in issues. I would like to blame this on bariguy, my husband, but I fear that it’s due to me and we think trying to use the debacle that is Intense Debate. We couldn’t save drafts or posts directly from the WP admin yesterday either, but today we...

April 16th, 2009. 2:00 am – 9:00 am. Earlier on the 15th when we arrived at the Orlando Greyhound bus station, I was in for a mightly surprise. For three hours on the first evening when I started my trip I was literally in heaven. The bus was sparsely populated and I had two bus seats of my own to easily stretch out across. The bus, while not being new was at least relatively clean enough and it was quiet. All that changed in...

Every day on my trip to work I pass by a carwash right next to the gas station I usually hit . Out in front, it has one of those “insert the letters” marquee type of signs, allowing the message to be changed. Usually it has some sort of pithy little saying related to whatever holiday is closest. For the past week this sign has said the following: Congratulations to Tom Falcone Employee of the Month! Not unusual in itself, and...

So, a couple weeks ago I was speaking to an otherwise intelligent but very, very Christian co-worker about the fact she is letting her teen daughter go to the launch night for some new vampire book. I expressed a bit of surprise that she was letting her daughter go to such secular festivities. Her reply: “I don’t believe it, of course, I’m a Christian, but I believe that my kids are smart enough to tell the difference between reality...

As some of you may know and remember, I signed up a while ago to payperpost.com. It’s a chance to line my pocket with some extra change and practice writing whenever a subject or product comes along that I can write about. Payperpost.com opened a second site, which is in beta, called Social Spark. Social Spark has quite a bit in common with Payperpost given they’re created and backed by the same company. Social Spark, however,...