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Why yes, I do have something else to say about Neopets.

First of all, why haven’t more of you signed up to play? You realize that if enough of you are sucked in, er, I mean, registered, and actually play a little, I get Neopoints to use to buy things within the little Neoworld for my Scorchio, Bigdumptruck, right? Right.

I’m still struggling with trying to figure out how these people are making money, given that 90% of the on-site advertising is fake. That is, it’s advertising for things on the site. Like “Come and play Game X!” or an ad for a hot dog stand in the game. It’s like what the internet would be in a perfect world – no popups, not in-your-face stuff. Just “play your games and oh by the way, it’s been a half an hour, remember to eat at McDonalds” in a little 1″x.5″ ad. Seriously.

Junior to me, as I’m painting my toenails:

“That doesn’t look as good as you think it does.”

So the current Happy Meal prize is a Neopet. I bought Junior a plush one for Christmas, and we also had some little plastic ones from last year. Then friend of the dump sent me over to the Neopets Site where you can play games and stuff for free. Free. No real ads either. I have no idea how they are doing it, but can I *tell* you how much fun I’m having. Of course, it’s a big time suck, but I’m still having fun so there!

Swing by, pick out a neopet, and then play some games! You’ll hate me in the morning!

Finally replaced Old Shivvers last night. He was about 9 years old, and was loud, didn’t work all that well, and was loud. We have an open floorplan on the first floor so we need a bigger air conditioner to cover the whole area. Back when we bought him we didn’t have a lot of cash so he definitely wasn’t top of the line by any stretch of the imagination.

I got a Kenmore last night that has a timer on it, so I can set it to start up about an hour before we get home. You cannot begin to imagine how great a feature this is. With the old one, if we wanted to have the house cool when we got home, we had to leave it on all day. This was a total waste of electricity.

And it’s quiet. That alone is worth the [sale] price. So today we’re expecting 93, and when I get home tonight…it won’t be an oven!

I’m already hungry. That can’t be good. I hope I didn’t get spoiled with all the grazing I did over the weekend.

Actually, I weighed myself this morning and there was no change from before I left. Does weight gain show up right away after you pig out?