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While waiting in the drive-thru line at Dunkin Donuts yesterday, Junior asks “Why do old people like coffee so much?”

Well, that’s a good question. I have no idea, as I AM NOT AN OLD PERSON!

I put that Google toolbar on my copy of Internet Explorer, and it has a little icon for page rank. If you hover over the button it tells you the importance rating of the page you’re on. The main Dump page is 6/10 for importance. The blog’s importance rating is only 4/10. I think we can do better than that, don’t you?

In other news, stuff I wrote last Friday is already in Google being searched. I’m talking about Tom Brady dating Tara Reid. Of course, now let’s see how long before this gets picked up too. I don’t begrudge these guys the chance to date, but geez, do they have to date the hottest women on the planet?

Okay, Monday morning rant. Not really a rant, but you know.

1. Job listings on monster.com that are no more than an ad to buy someone’s “book” of available work from home “opportunities”. Slimeballs.

2. Buying a package of Memorex CD-Rs and having HALF of them fail. Yes, literally every other one was bad. I reached a point where I almost tossed every other one before even trying it.

3. Unavailable refills for the CD labelling “system” I use. I know I could switch to something else, but that means my templates will no longer work, which means I have to create new ones from scratch, and that’s a pain in my arse.

4. Something else. I’m not sure what, but I know there will be something.

It’s late September, and I wanted to go to the Bolton Fair today. It just didn’t work out. Junior seems to have been hit by some allergy thing, as have I a little bit, and it’s freaking hot out there. I mean, not July hot. Well, sort of. It was about 87 and very humid. It was just a sticky gross day and I had visions of the Sterling Fair from two weeks ago dancing in my head so I decided not to push it. I think being hot and sticky while sneezing and with a runny nose could have resulted in the mother tantrum of all time at some point. I think it’s better to just write off the fair this year, and look for something next week that will maybe kind of sort of take its place, even though nothing can. I mean, this is a fair where the midway can’t be seen until you’re in that particular field, so it would have been ideal for us. We just wouldn’t go down to that part of the fair, y’know?

Got Monster’s Inc. Love it. Love the two shorts that are included. Like the outtakes. Got me to thinking…there’s an animator out there who goes to cocktail parties and says

“Ya, I worked on that Pixar movie.”

The Cute Young Thing ™ looks at him in awe and says “Really? Which part did you do?”

“Uh, I spent the last year working on an outtake”.

I mean, that’s someone’s whole reason for being. To create something that is classified as a mistake.