Friday, June 09, 2006

If I'm not here.....

Come look for me here

I'm fed up....

All week, Blogger has been having issues. I'll post something, it'll work fine for a little while.... Then I'll start noticing that I can't get to my page. Or if I can, the comments aren't working. A bunch of folks can't upload pictures. The whole thing has been nothing but a big ol' mess.

Blogger's status page happens to be a blog hosted on.... you guessed it... Blogger. There's something that makes sense! They have problems, and you can't get to their blog to know what they are because the friggin system is down. But even if you could get there, you wouldn't get any information anyway... They don't bother updating the site until after they fixed something, and even then, they don't really give you a clue what has been happening anyways...

I've been playing around with wordpress a little. Checking out a freebie account seeing what I can do with it. I'm not happy with the freebie stuff i've found so far though.... I don't have the control over things like my template that I have become so used to. So I started thinking.... My birthday is next month. Why not ask for a domain and hosting for my birthday? That would solve so many issues... I could run wordpress on my own domain and probably stay a lot happier with the whole blog thing. Plus, I could branch out into a few other areas that I've been wanting to anyways. And I could host my wife's and my mom's blogs too...

So look for big changes soon... I want off of blogger badly. I'm so sick of wondering if it'll work today. I'm sick of wasting credits on traffic exchanges for a page nobody can get to... I'm ready to grow up, embrace my inner geek, and start my own space on the net.

*************NOTE********* It looks like Blogger is still screwed this morning too... When i wrote this, there were nice pretty breaks and seperate paragraphs.... when I posted, I looked and I have one huge jumble of text.... Go figure!?!

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Public service announcement

The two most common searches that bring people to my site... Pringles - Everlasting love commercial I'm sorry folks. I don't know why so many people search for this. I don't know why Google has decided that since I mentioned Survivor seems like a Pringles commercial and Somebody sang the song Everlasting Love on American Idol on the same post a long long time ago... I don't know why you think you may find the video here. It's not going to happen. I don't like the song. I don't like commercials. I don't know where you can find the video. I don't care. Go away. 55 gallon aquarium stand plans This one I can help you with. I posted about the stand that I built back in January of 2005. I linked to a guy that has some great plans. I am very happy with the tank stand. Build it and enjoy! Lately I've been getting hits for Ephedramax too.... I mentioned that in one of my spam posts.... Nope folks... I ain't got any. I can forward you some e-mails from folks who claim to have plenty at good prices though.... It's sad.... I get these same old keyword hits... Throw in guppy and guppyman, and that pretty much covers my regular search engine hits. I don't get any of the cool stuff like "Big Breasted Hot Mamas" or "Pregnant Goat Videos". None of the good stuff I see so many people get.... I guess I'm boring or something.... Oh well... Hope you folks find your Pringles song... or not. I don't care either way...

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Blogger issues... Bored on a Tuesday....

******NOTE - If you are here from radio opensource- I have a new blog... Blogger got to be too much for me to deal with... Visit me here***** I have no clue what Blogger has been up to... Their picture hosting seems to have gone nuts the last few days, and yesterday I had trouble even getting my page to come up.... I guess I can't complain too much... It's free, right? So today I was trying to figure out something to post. I hate when I just sit on the same post for days at a time. Yeah... I like the last group of pictures, but I need something fresh.... But I hate posting just for the sake of posting. Where is the fun in that? So I decided to grab a few pics that I originally stuck on an anonymous blog I started and gave up on.... Speaking of giving up on blogs.... I had a great time when I started Diary of a Lesbian Guinea Pig... I have guinea pigs that for some reason have decided that girls are their thing. At first, it was so easy.... I had all kinds of ideas on things to post. The first series of posts was great fun... But then it hit bottom. I mean... how much can you post about creatures who sit in a cage and eat, poop and sleep 24/7...? I wish the creative juices had kept flowing for that one, and I keep hoping the spark will come back... but so far it just sits there... Waiting... Hoping I'll come back and figure out how to keep it interesting... We'll see if it ever happens... Anyway... Enjoy these pictures... I went outside to check the mail... When I came back in, I heard a semi-scream from my wife... "Get it, get it!" I'm like... "get what"? She says "the lizard that is over here terrorizing me!" So I go and chase this little guy around... Carefully keeping my body between him and my dogs (who would love a snack)... I finally catch hime and take him outside... He was so grateful, he posed for a bunch of pictures for me! So tell me.... Would this scare you? And just for grins.... Here's a few passion flowers I gave my mom a few years ago... The vine looks great now!

Sunday, June 04, 2006

After the storm.....

Last week, we had some nice storms roll thru the area.... Her are a few shots I took after it finally quit raining. Enjoy!

Friday, June 02, 2006

What are you people..... Nuts?

I logged into Blogmad earlier and saw this: Wow... you people are crazy... that's all I have to say about it...

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Thursday rambling....

I debated doing a Thursday Thirteen, but decided against it. I love the traffic that comes by because of it, but I hate writing 13 things out.... so today, I think I'll pass.... Instead, you get the privledge of reading some random thoughts that I have... Tuesday, I was waiting for the Astros game to come on, so I decided to watch a little of the White Sox/Indians game.... Some guy hit a 2 run homer... the ball bounced just above the yellow line and back onto the field... I looked in the crowd... Did I just see what I thought I just saw? Let me hit rewind... OMG... yes I did. Let me hit rewind, and go through in slow-motion... frame by frame... Too funny! Some guy turned to what I assume is his girlfriend and grabbed her boobs. He waited until he knew he'd be on national television and felt her up while he was there.... She smiled... Too funny. I tried to get the video of this, but the only one I can find is so small you can't make out what is going on. If anybody has a source for good quality video of this, let me know... Girl is blonde with a blue shirt on... she's pretty easy to see in the crowd. I have noticed a lot of blogs by gay folks. I have no problem with that, but some of them have me wondering. Some seem to be out there for the sole purpose of blogging about being gay. Why? What is the point? If that's who you are, fine... but does who you sleep with define you to the point that it's the only thing you have worthy of talking about? I debated trying to put together a "Heterosexual Man's" blog that discussed being straight, but I wouldn't know where to begin. It's who I am... it's not the "Be all, end all" of my existence. Maybe I just don't get it? It reminds me too much of when Ellen came out. She had a semi-funny show, but once she came out, every joke she had from there forward was about being gay. Why? Is there some super-secret gay thing that I don't get to know about that makes being gay the only subject worthy of talking about to you? Is there a certain level of gayness that you are trying to achieve by speaking about nothing but gayness in public? Do you earn brownie points or something? Another thing that has me wondering is self proclaimed blog critics. Or folks who decide to let everybody know what not to do on your blog. Some don't like "mommy blogs", or "Religious blogs". Some don't like "political blogs" or "sports blogs". Most claim to have this vast knowledge of all things technical, but for some reason, they haven't discovered that a browser window has a little 'X' in the top right corner. Folks.... move on... Don't like what somebody has to say, go somewhere else. Don't like the template somebody used? surf away.... There are millions of blogs out there folks! Just because you see the same ones over and over you seem to think you are now some kind of authority on them? Maybe your traffic exchange is limiting you a little too much... Branch out and go see what else is out there... eventually, you may even find the blogs you are looking for. The only thing I'd agree with you on is auto-play... There is a feature that I think should be banned from the Internet- not just blogs. But guess what..? I hit pages with it, I move on. I block them from my surf rotation at traffic exchange sites, and I don't worry about them anymore. Get over it people... I just looked up and saw this was getting to be longer than I wanted, so I'll stop now... Have a great week everybody... Sorry to skip the 13, but I just wasn't in the mood.