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There are people on the net that have nothing better to do with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Saturday, February 25, 2006
Funny Search Engine Queries
Every domain owner does it. Glances now and then (sometimes more then now and then) at the search terms by which visitors find their site. Some are understandable, some are bizzare, some are of course people looking for pr0n, and some are just funny. Take this one about hockey: 25 Feb, Sat, 20:25:18 Google: WHAT IS A FUCKING short handed goal? I love that they actually capitalized the first part. And how it wasn't just "what is a short handed goal" it's "what is a fucking short handed goal". This was one irritated searcher!  The answer really isn't that terribly hard to find (try hockey glossery" or wiki, but I'll help out future searchers. When a team gets a penalty, the player who caused the penalty goes and sits in the penalty box. Think of it like a time out. Minor penalties are 2 minutes, majors are 5 minutes. (Under some circumstances there are game misconduct penalties where the player is ejected from the game but that's getting ahead of the point.) Anyway, the team who got the penalty is now down a player. Making them "short handed." (It's also known as five-on-four since there are normally five players per team on the ice at a time. If you're down one, you've only got four players instead while the other team still has five.) This gives an advantage to the full-strength team known as a power play. Anyway, if the short handed team (the one who is a man down because of the penalty) manages to score a goal, it's called a short-handed goal. Basically, it means you defied the odds by not only holding your own against one extra opponent, but you snagged control of the puck and scored despite being down a player. So short-handed goal is a goal scored while the team is down a player because of a penatly. See? Simple. Hope the poor searcher finds the answer some day. And that when they do, they're not so frustrated trying to find it. 
Friday, February 24, 2006
Intolerant Fucks
When did it not only become ok but somehow socially acceptable to be a proudly proclaimed bigot? On a Disney board I belong to, someone posts this message: Someone mentioned that there is some big 'national' Gay Days thing the first week of June. I know that it says their official park to visit is MK on that Sat. but is there somewhere I can find a schedule of what the 'official' parks are for the other days in order to avoid them? First off, you're a cunt. And that's not a word I ever use. It's just about the single most foul curse in the entire English language to me. Secondly, how about your post YOUR schedule so we can avoid YOU? Thirdly, gods, avoid them. What are they, objects or something? It's damned rude to refer to people so dismissively. Can't be near the "homos" now can we! Don't want to catch "the gay" or anything. Gods forbid our childern have to be around "queers."  Grr! Shit like that just pisses me off more then I can put into words. And if little miss "momto3grr8tkids" (gag) wasn't bad enough, people are actually defending her and trying to make excuses! ("Oh, well, maybe she just wants to avoid crowds." It's fucking JUNE in WDW. It's going to be crowded no matter if it's Gay Days or not!)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Still The Same
Not worse on the possible cold front, but not better either. Still kinda achy, rundown and really tired. My throat's been kinda scratchy (in that feels-like-something's-stuck-in-it way) but not really sore. My nose has been kinda runny  but it could just be high allergin counts in my area. Hell, I suppose the not-quite cold symptoms could all be allergies. Let's hope. I really don't want to deal with a full-on cold again. Love picked up some echinacea yesterday, so I've been taking it in hopes of helping curb the cold if that's what it is. If it's not, taking it for a few days certainly won't hurt.Um... *hums* Not much really to mention. It's been pretty quiet around the house here. (And around the blog. Hello? Is this thing on..?) I've been a little out of it/disconnected lately. Probably part of the tired thing that may or may not turn into a cold. I've got that want to do something creative/crafty but don't know what and don't really have any attention span anyway. The apt complex lady is coming by tomorrow to check out the split in our kitchen vinyl flooring. It's totally coming up along the seam so the property manager wants the one leasing agent to come look and see if they're going to replace it. Which, they need to do. Next Tuesday we're getting a carpet cleaning so I'm going to have to move a bunch of furnature out of the way for that and get up at the asscrack of dawn for his appointment. The girls will be spending a few hours on the balcony so they don't get into the wet carpets. Fun for the whole family. Yeah, so did I mention boring?  How about you guys comment and give me (a) something to talk about or (b) something to read so maybe I can get out of this dull, worn-out funk. Heck, I'll even take a bad joke. Throw me a freakn' bone here...  Alrighty. Ciao for now.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
That Warning Twinge
Uh oh. Oh gods no. Please let me be mistaken. I woke up with that twinge in the back of my throat this moring. The one that's kinda sore but kinda scratchy too. And I immediately recognized it. I had the exact feeling the day before I got sick at Thanksgiving. The cold from hell that turned into three weeks of unrelenting agony. The cold which literally wouldn't get better and began working it's way into my lungs and required antibiotics to get it out of there. The one that was turning into bronchitis at the end. I've been totally exhausted the last couple days. No energy whatsoever. Achy. And then today...the twinge in the back of my throat.  I don't wanna get sick.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Eventful Weekend - Love's Birthday Evacuation
So we had a busy weekend. Saturday was Love's birthday and all he wanted for his birthday was a day at Walt Disney World, so that's what we did. Our friend Rand was going to come with us, but he had been sick all week and still wasn't feeling any better, so he ended up not coming. Friday night I gave Love a nice cake from the Publix bakery and sang Happy Birthday to him. Saturday we went to Disney. And Sunday, we napped and lazed around, recouping from a long day at WDW. We had a first though at the park. We went to our favorite - Magic Kingdom - and had a normal day. Rode a bunch of rides, ate yummy food and snacks and just generally had a great time. Then around 9pm ish, we decided to hop on TTA. That stands for Tomorrowland Transit Authority. (It also used to be called the People Mover and WEDway.) It's a ride that goes along and above Tomorrowland, in and around some of the buildings. It's kinda slow moving, but it's scenic, relaxing and just a nice thing to do. We normally ride it a few times throughout the day when we're there. Well, we had ridden it earlier in the day and thought we'd get in one more. Turns out, we shouldn't have. Heh. We get on. And almost immediately, it comes to a stop. The way the ride is set up, it's in constant motion. You load around a circle area with moving platforms and exit the same way. The cars never stop. Well, it did just past the end of the load platform. So we sit. And sit. And they keep telling us that the ride will re-start momentarly. We've had it stop a few minutes here and there before due to technical problems, but nothing like this. About 15-20 minutes go by before we finally start moving. Everyone applaudes. So we start on the route and the first stop takes you around and into Space Mountain. Well, we come through the tunnel and see the car in front of us. And we're getting closer to it. That shouldn't happen. Pretty soon we smack into it. A few moments later, the car behind us smacks into ours. And so on and so on. We're in the part of Space Mountain where you can see the astronauts working on the space ship and the SM cars are going up the hill climb on either side of you. It's dark and there's quite a bit of noise from the ride mechanics and the environmental sounds. We can't hear if they make any announcements about the ride because of it.  We end up sitting there until about 10pm before we see cast members come along the narrow edge between the wall and the cars. They tell us they'll be with us in a moment and head to the first car. One by one, they manually release the doors and we all get out, single-file and walk down the along the inside of the building. We then come out, walk along the track and down a set of stairs. It was our very first emergency evacuation of a ride.  By the time we got out, we had missed Wishes. Which is a 15 minute fireworks spectacular set to music. It's awesome. We were kinda bummed because it'd been awhile since we'd seen it (the last two times we went, they had special fireworks, not the normal show) and here it was, Love's birthday too. There's only one showing a night so it wasn't something we could catch later that night. We ended up heading to Guest Services and told them how we were stuck for an hour and missed Wishes. To my {pleasant} surprise, the wonderfully nice cast member there, Jeff, said he'd give us tickets to come back another day whenever we wanted. I stood there with my mouth open going...um...wow...ok...wow! thanks! He helped the other lady enter it all into the computer and handed us two tickets. So now we can go back another day whenever we want for free! I was so excited! (And I was so not expecting that!) Love and I finished up in the park and headed out a little before midnight. (It was closing at 12am that night.) We spent the whole drive home talking about how nice the CM Jeff was and how that's the kind of thing that makes Disney, Disney. They have such amazing customer service and the majority of the CM's there are really nice, friendly, helpful people. It makes such a difference in your experience. Anyway, we had a really nice day. And we're beyond thrilled we get to go back whenever we want as well. So that was my exciting weekend and Love's pretty good birthday adventure. Now it's Monday and I find myself wanting to basically just curl up and go to sleep. I'm still beat. Heh. TTFN.
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