Second Life…

So, I decided to try out Second Life. I have really been enjoying myself. It is interesting how one can get on there and meet new people. I have met one person in particular on SL that I am really loving spending time with. In fact, when I log on, he is the person I most want to speak with and spend time with.

It is odd, but when you are on SL it is very easy to lose yourself in that universe.

Feeling This Way This Morning

So all morning I have been dealing with a stupid god damn medical insurance company. They switched around my daughter’s coverage to a plan that is absolutely worthless for a five year old child. Found this video in my reader and boy does it really show off how I am feeling at the moment.

Trying out Office 2007

So I broke down and downloaded Office 2007. I don’t exactly know why I felt the need to try it out, but I did. I think it has something to do with the fact that I am a technology junkie. I love new programs. There is just something so fun about playing with a new program and seeing what bells and whistles the creators have decided to include this time.

Right off I can tell you that I am impressed with the addition of the blog posting from Word feature. I have my personal blogs and my professional ones and sometimes logging into all of the different blogs can be down right irritating. I have been searching for a central location publisher that will access my different blogs. It appears that this may in fact be the solution I am looking for…although I am not sure that this feature alone will be enough to get me forking out the bucks associated with this particular program. We shall just have to see as I play with the program over the next couple months.

Finding Myself…

So I have slowly been finding some of the things I left behind…  Isn’t it odd when all of a sudden you realize that you have lost some things and now all of a sudden you are working to find them…

First on my list…my smaller ass.  I would like to locate it…I know that it is inside this larger ass somewhere.  I just have to find a way to uncover it.  The problem I am dealing with is that until we get my Thyroid meds leveled out, working out is somewhat painful…hmmmm…oh smaller ass won’t you tell me how to find you again…

Sharing the Lights…

From Christmas Lights

Thought I would share these with you. What can I say, I couldn’t resist going outside and taking a few shots of the house after the first snow. I have always loved the way that Christmas lights glow off of the snow.

This is a totally weird test of this process….

So I thought I would try out the Windows Live Writer and see if it actually works for this blog.  What can I say, I have gotten to the point where I have so damn many blogs located in so many different places that I thought I would look into my options for having one centralized location where I can write and publish my blogs to their various destinations.

Sounds simple enough, it’s just that every program I have tried so far has been a royal pain in my ass to either set up or publish with.  Here we go with another try.  So far so good.  The typing interface on this one is pretty decent and for me to say something positive about Microsoft means it must be impressing me. 

Now for the big test…how well does it publish…

Christmas lights…

The lights have been hung…yeah!!!! When the weather takes its scheduled nose dive temperature wise I will not feel the need to go outside. I was going to hold off on finishing the job until the coming weekend, but then I discovered the impending shift in temperature and remembered freezing my hind end off last year.

I have a bad habit of procrastinating. I acknowledge this problem and I am trying to fix it…but change is not easy and sometimes I fall into old habits…what can I say, I am human. Everyone has flaws…oh and if you think you don’t, let me point out your biggest flaw…delusions of grandeur.

People are not perfect…perfect is boring…perfect never experiences the roller coaster because they never make a mistake or change their mind…

Oh well…the Christmas lights look good and I actually managed to side step procrastinating myself into a frozen ass.

Buy Nothing…hmmmm

So you know that yesterday I avoided the malls, stores, and any form of retail outlet. I did this because being in the middle of all that pushing and shoving just does not stir up a great holiday spirit for me. Anyway, I was listening to the NPR news summary this morning and I heard about the women who have been pushing this “Buy Nothing” day. Which you know, for the reasons they explain it, isn’t too bad of an idea.

On the other hand though, I have come to realize that for some people this whole shopping thing is like a drug. They have to participate in the rush of having people trampling all over them. They have to go for that bargain. They need to have at least one gift to give that would have cost them more if they had not gone out on Black Friday.

The whole process is like a drug that sneaks up on them once a year and shakes them out of their senses. It sends them scurrying into the malls. Like the lemmings, they rush through this way and that grabbing anything in their path. This urge to shop is the reason why some people (who rightfully need them) have a year’s supply of nose hair clippers, tie tacks or Bathroom readers.

But you know if you pull yourself back from wondering about this whole thing and look at the big picture… At least the need only hits once, maybe twice a year. Very few people end up dead because of it, as compared with other addictive behaviors. Plus there is the added benefit that if you happen to be related to or be friends with one of the addicts you tend to find some pretty cool stuff under the tree…and I don’t know about you, but I’ll sit through the “do you know what I had to get that,” war story anytime for an IPOD that I currently can’t afford to get for myself.

Oh, I may sound a bit cynical, but hey it’s an opinion, take it, leave it, trash it…you know what they say about opinions…

Shopping…I don’t think so…

 

So I am really, really glad that I have long since abandoned the quest for the after Thanksgiving holiday shopping bargain. I would not even dream of wanting to be trapped in the middle of all of this mess.

I guess to some, my attitude may really suck…but I just can not even comprehend the need to make a purchase so bad that I would subject myself to pushing and shoving. Hey, if it is your thing than more power to you…I am just not going to go out there and put up with all of that mess.

Thanksgiving Laugh

So I was doing some mindless cruising this morning and found this video.

What can I say…I had to laugh.  It’s totally and completely offensive to some, but oh well…sometimes that is just the way it is.