Going back to my tread of rants about comments on my blog,  I read this one today:

“… You guys possess a wonderful weblog going right here, KIU!…”

My eyes might be getting tired because I read the last part as ‘KILL’ and I got all confused.  I looked closer and realised it was a U instead of two Ls and still couldn’t figure it out because my mind went for acronyms I know starting with K and only came up with KIA.  All this means is that it took me an extra long time to read 10 words.

Now, I’ve succeeded in making you take an extra long time to read them too and I don’t have to feel so stupid.

A quintuple murder/suicide occurred a mile from my old house.  Makes me pretty happy that we left when we did.  So far, nothing like that has happened in my new neighborhood.  I’m in the BIG city now so that may not hold true for long.  And as it happens, in my old city a mile was actually pretty far away.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have any idea how they (as in ‘them’) come up with product codes? I don’t mean the bar code stuff.  I mean the code that you write down on the order form when you want a specific item from the office supply store.   Like 108R00723.  A mixture of numbers and letters seemingly unrelated to the item itself and impossible to remember for the next purchase.  If you understand that gobledegook, let me know because I have a weird desire understand this sort of thing.

IT’S RAINING!!

I love the rain and even if I lived in Seattle I would love the rain.  The dust mite commercial on the TV right now is kind of harshing my rain buzz but I suppose it will end soon and I can continue to watch the cure little rain drops hitting the pool.

Ah, contentment.

I’ve heard of horse saddles and horse shoes and horse flies but until today I didn’t know what horse tack was.  It sounds like something you do on a boat but apparently all the stuff I mentioned before IS the horse tack (not the horse flies).  It’s all the nifty gadgets and toys you could ever possibly want for your horse and then some.  Amanzing.  Who knew?

The clouds are in the sky, the dew point is up and the artificially created start to the monsoon has come and gone.  I think it might rain some day soon.  And it would really be a good thing.  It’s that time of year when I can’t remember the last time it rained and I’m starting to forget what it even looks like.  Of course the last time, 3 inches came down in 3 days and a nearby town got beached.  They didn’t actually flood, they just became surrounded by water.  The kids got a rain day.

Now that oil is starting to show up in Galveston, it may be time for people to start looking for a Texas Maritime lawyer.  One of the few times in the history of man in which the need for such a specific field will be required.  Hopefully the only time.  And hopefully Texas is far enough away that little damage will be done and the lawyers will lose that particular reason for being.

I completed a survey recently that asked about where I would consider getting an auto insurance quote and they listed companies I’ve never heard of. Then they asked me to answer questions about the companies I had never heard of just based on my impression of the name. It was kinda cool trying to consciously judge a book by its cover when I’ve spent a lifetime trying to deny that I quite literally do just that at the bookstore.

Weird how I connected all those topics, isn’t it?

Elizabeth Post died.

In all honesty I thought she had dies a long time ago but now that I’ve found out that she was recently alive, I am now shocked at her death.

It’s because of her that I know when someone asks you to pass the salt, you get to use it first if you want to,

It’s because of her that I know that you can thank some one verbally for a gift and not have to send a letter later saying the same thing.

From now on, I will be impolite in quiet (and confusing) homage to her.

The count down to the last day of school had begun for my kids. Somehow we have 2 months to go, no vacation days left and yet that only equates to 30 days of school. Now I’m good at math but this seems off to me and maybe you see why. It doesn’t seem like we should be so horrible mislead by a time honored tradition of estimation. I’m rounding the 2 months by only a week and a half (and not taking into account weekends at all) and it’s doubling them amount of time in school.

Weird, tragic, inaccurate estimation…