NEVER JET HOT

In the old days, people often had to tell a family court judge exactly what is wrong before a divorce would be granted, and the circumstances of the split would affect the division of assets to some degree, one would suppose. Hence the entertainment value of the courtroom show "Divorce Court". People arguing over phone bills on Judge Judy just doesn't do it for me. With today's no fault divorce laws, there is no good reason to keep track of every irksome thing. For instance, the judge would not want to hear about when we are sitting up reading in bed, Teresa's annoying habit of chuckling over "Life in These United States" or whatever, it kind of takes the edge of of the Dean Koontz novel I am reading. That's all right, I cut the last page out of the bodice-ripper she is reading.

Still working graveyard shift... I sleep some during the day, but not a lot, and fitfully, like this guy...

I wanted so bad to start a sofaking.com website with pictures of people sitting on various couches. Or maybe cats or dogs sitting on couches. Or rather sofas. Each would say "This sofa isn't just good, it's sofaking good! Maybe with a little Sofa King royal logo. I'm sure it would have been a huge hit, stupidity + cats + Internet= COMEDY GOLD Unfortunately someone is camping on the domain name, and I don't think it works with a dash in it.

I wish I WISH we had googled "Wonder Hanger Rip Off" or some variation of that before buying some online - Total "double deal" order was supposed to be $19.99 plus S&H - Which turned out to be over $30 for a total of $51.78 If I had only looked I would have seen scores of complaints on the poor quality, excessive shipping, unauthorized credit card charges, and more! Being online retailers ourselves, I am ashamed and saddened by their thievery. I hope anyone reading this will spread the word, I am going to report it to the state attorney general and to whatever carrier brings it (If it even shows up) It's time for this hanger ripoff to come out of closet!

I got the new 2009 version of Quicken, I don't know where I got the idea that they would have made it more svelte, and it wouldn't have that annoying habit of reserving a big rectangle for the quicken logo in the middle of the screen, preventing me from doing other computer stuff while waiting (and waiting) for it to load. I mean, they could have made it a thing on the side instead, at the very least. Tried to sell the wife on a poor man's multi-monitor setup, which involves getting an old laptop do do the easy stuff on the same desk, but unfortunately she thought of an even cheaper version of that idea, which involves playing solitaire on the computer desk with a real deck of cards. Oh well, at least I get to cheat that way.

I'm kind of torn on this new "Creamsicle" design on the website here... It looks nice and somewhat tasty, but does it psychologically prepare you to purchase novelty items today? Or are you more inclined to tiptoe into the kitchen and eat a big bowl of orange sherbet with a wooden spoon? I would do that right now, but the stupid dog would wake up, click around in the kitchen to alert the whole house. And another thing... Why is Sherbet usually pronounced "SherBERT"? Am I saying it wrong?

Just got a note from Swaptree, a DVD/book trading service... I tried them months or years ago, but doggone it, they have a system that makes you print the postage online, and it nags the hell out of you automatically... We are on Bookmooch (book trading site) and we generally mail books out pronto, but I don't need a nudge from big brother. It's a slick looking site, but they need to lighten up a bit before people will start posting zillions of items. I hope they take a page from Bookmooch's playbook and allow for people who also have a life. Often we request books there wherein the sender can't send it for a week or two, and once in a while they don't send it at all for whatever reason. We tell bookmooch and they give us our point back. It's not the end of the world! I guess what I am saying... Take a chill pill, Swaptree!

You know, this would almost be a believable story until she went to South Africa. People rip off the elderly all the time, I guess they figure to beat the other evil offspring to the inheritance. Very sad if true. I suspect my parents are going to give anything left to a home for orphaned three-legged mangy dogs, with a separate allotment to the Postal Carrier's Benevolent Dogbite Fund, just to be fair. And why not. Here's that spam; Dear Friend, My name is Mrs Sarah Henderson am 75yrs old of age, i stay in new york city, USA. I am an enterpreneur, I have companies, stocks and shares in various banks in the world. I spent all my life on investments and coporate businesses. I lost my husband and two adult children, in a fatal accident that occured in November 5th 2003. I lived a reckless high society life without God.. I dont give and care about people. later in the year 2004 Febuary i was sent a letter for medical check up, As my personal Doctor confirmed that i had a lung ...

We finally had a google page rank of 1 for NoveltyTradingPost.com, now I see it has gone away. I have a few theories about what I may have done to cause them to punish this site, but you know what Google? You and I are through. I have a day job, I don't have to worry about making money on the novelty business, it's basically a hobby and a learning experience anyway. Getting tired of you and your little unexplained snits. Jeeves will show you the door.

I don't understand why some web stores pay to advertise keywords, but then make it hard for the customer to buy. For instance, "Magnetic dog Note Pad". I click the link (They pay maybe a quarter or fifty cents right there?) Then I am taken to a page with dog note pads, starting with Akita, but I am looking for West Highland White Terriers - guess what page Westie note pads are on? I don't know, it only shows five. So I click "show all" and wait. Now, this does not "whet my appetite", it's just annoying. Ultimately, I won't pay $19 and shipping, maybe sales tax, for this item, they don't even look like Westies, at least not like the one that is sleeping under my desk. Even still, A page with tiny pictures in an index might have worked better? We need some sort of psychic google; and don't think they aren't feverishly working on that.