Kerry Allen's Blog

Aug 26 2008

Random pointless observations

Tag: Random silliness, Tech status — Kerry Allen @ 9:01 am

1.  Angelic daughter attended her second day of school yesterday after having the best first week of school ever (go the first day, get the rest of the week off) and was given lists of rules in all her classes to be taken home and signed by student and parent to indicate understanding. My understanding is that in every class the first and foremost rule is “Be happy at all times, or you will be punished.” I envision a school filled with children, their faces contorted with huge smiles, desperately forcing the words help us through their clenched teeth.

2.  There’s a TV commercial in these parts that says God doesn’t want children to play video games. This seems counterproductive to me. In my experience, everyone who plays video games has a very intimate relationship with God, chummy enough to chat about his Son and call on him to damn things on a regular basis…

3.  Choosing a web hosting company apparently makes use of the same brain sector as choosing a line to wait in. As I will choose the wrong line at the grocery store (where a single person ahead of me with two items will invariably be joined by a partner pulling 3 carts and want to write a check for part and pay cash for the rest, despite which she will not have enough money and will want to put things back) and the bank (where a single person ahead of me will invariably be conducting 37 transactions, each individually, none of which were prepared beforehand, and most of which involve payment in pennies), so will I choose a web host that itself completely vanishes from the internet on a regular basis, taking my site along for the ride. If you try to visit and get a “no such site” page, try again later. And if you yourself are ever in the market for web hosting, don’t sign up for a multi-year deal right off the bat. Yes, extended terms often offer cheaper rates, but if your host turns out to have more downtime than a newborn baby and you have to switch to another provider, it’s not such a value anymore.

3 Responses to “Random pointless observations”

  1. C.J. Redwine is SO pretty.
    August 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am

    1. That’s a bit disturbing…I bet I know rule #2. NO HAIRBANDS ON WRISTS, YOU ANARCHIST!

    2. *laughs helplessly*

    3. Psst. Okay, so, I know a guy who knows this guy who, for a glass of Yoohoo and a Spam sandwich, will make that contract disappear. Forever.

  2. Kerry Allen is SO pretty.
    August 29th, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Angelic Daughter said to me, “Hurry up and write that book. When you’re rich, I demand to be home schooled.” She’s so miserable, I didn’t have the heart to tell her about riches as they pertain to romance novelists. I may have to take up bank robbing as a night job.

    Kidding! Kidding! Duh. What kind of fool would rob banks and then admit it on the internet?
    :giggle:

    Psst. Okay, so, when I was little, I ate fried Spam sandwiches, and I once mistakenly purchased a gallon of Gustafson Farms chocolate “drink,” which I imagine is similar to Yoohoo because it for durn sure is nothing like chocolate milk, and just thinking about the combination of the two, given that taste is the one sense for which I have excellent sensory memory, just made me throw up in my mouth a little.

  3. C.J. Redwine is SO pretty.
    August 29th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Glad I could give you that little jaunt down memory lane.

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