NEVER JET HOT

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!

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.

Seems I only get "page one" google results for terms I can't use. Because of the random nature of this "blog", we wound up #4 for the Washington state city of "Hoquim" (Yeah I spelled it wrong.) Maybe I should have discussed "Seqium"? That's spelled wrong too, (I think) ... Poor spelling seems to be the key to success! Another time I was griping about people talking at the library, as of this morning this website is #1 for the search term "shushtime" - Gunna have to add that to my fauxcabulary.

Have you noticed the WWW is a big mess? Good grief, Al Gore what have you wrought? It's good to secure funding for things, but be a little choosier next time. (EDITORS NOTE: If these blog posts make even less sense than before, it's probably because I have a new job that's graveyard shift, and I also have a Westie dog. It's not a good combination. Last week, two UPS trucks decided to back up to each other and do a package transfer of some sort. I thought the dog was going to have a heart attack! He was repeatedly jumping 5 feet straight up while barking and trying to push the door open from the wrong side. That sort of thing is not conducive to a good night's sleep.)