Month: October 2002

You know all those great weblogs out there with deep and meaningful philosophical musings? Well I find them boring. Can’t plow through them. I could agree 100% with everything they say, but dammit, it’s not what I’m looking for when I go blog hopping. I want to be entertained. I want to smile. I don’t want to plow through 200 words on why the economy is in the toilet because the Federal Reserve blah blah blah bloat. But you know what? Part of me is jealous that I’m not able to provide the world pithy and timely observations about Microsoft or Tyco or any other story the Wall Street Journal lives for. I would like to be that kind of site, where people link to you just because it makes them feel in the know. Instapundit comes to mind. Sites like that. I’ve been there, I’ve read some of the stuff, and after a while it all blurs together. Maybe the flaw is with me, that I don’t force myself out to find these sites and learn from them. I’m too busy looking for pictures of babies and stories about Wal-Mart adventures. Because I’m shallow. I guess I need to work harder to be good, quality shallow.

I promised a photo of my favorite little clown!

Ahhh, the best day of the year. The only thing missing is someone giving me presents. I just love the first day of Standard Time, what with the free hour of sleep. Mmmmm, good times.

The weather is WAY better than I’d hoped, so the parade should be fun today. I’ll take my camera with me and maybe I’ll share with you guys.

Googlism : is a fun way to kill a few hours. I entered a bunch of stuff…and one of the things I entered was the word “Mookie”, which is what I used to call Junior (for those of you who haven’t been around since 1997). I figured maybe something about my kid would be in there. Well, there were lots of terms, and I looked for one that sounded like it might refer to something I wrote…and danged if I didn’t get it right on the nose! If you do a googlism search for Mookie, about half way down is “mookie is not clinging to my leg” When I went back and entered that into regular Google…there it was!

Funny thing is that one other match that I thought MIGHT have been a match wasn’t about my kid, but it WAS on the site of a friend of mine. Small world.

Okay, I want to state right here and now that Matchbox car sets kick butt compared to the HotWheels equivelant. I have no stake in either, other than that when I or someone else buys one, I have to put it together. I get to see the quality.

I don’t know why Hot Wheels keeps putting out crap, but I assume it’s because people keep buying it. God Bless Amazon.com, because there were sets I was thinking that maybe might not be as bad as some of the others I’ve already bought, but danged if every single item listed is three stars or less. I mean, all of them. Some twos and ones. The reviews could be written by the “it falls apart when you touch it” robot. And I’ve seen this first hand.

The Matchbox stuff, for instance, this construction site set is made of steel compared to the Hot Wheels ones. AND it gets about 4 stars from reviewers. I give that one 4. So what I’m saying is, DON’T buy the Hot Wheels stuff unless it’s on clearance. And don’t blame me if it’s fragile.