Yes, yes I did. I changed the layout. I tell people it was to make it easier to navigate for people who are either unfamiliar with the concept of “Mouse-Over” lists, but honestly it’s just part of my Word Domination Plans. So far I’m still on Plan ‘A.’



Why’s this page different, though?
You may have noticed that this blog page is slightly different from the others. The colors & content design are about the same, but the sidebar & navigation menu are flipped to the other side. Why? No reason, I just wanted to set the blog apart a little bit from the rest of the site. I think it solves that pretty well, eh? Not to worry, for the ONE or TWO people that actually patron this place, this is nothing like the blog changeover of a few months ago; all the content is right where it was before, nothing’s moved, just the layout is different. Enjoy!



Back to the regularly scheduled blog
I couldn’t go through all the trouble of writing a blog & not mention Michael Vick Pleading Guilty, could I? Have I mentioned that I think he & Clinton Portis are gay lovers who have a combined IQ equal to less than a pile of my own dung? Oh that’s right, I have.



Yahoo joins Paramount, Universal in Pissing me the Hell off.
They’ve been playing around with my homepage recently, letting me know that there’s a New Version! That I’m just sure to love. I tried it, because I’m a sucker for all things new, but I switched back to old. Mostly because I’m stubborn. The new page is just too damn wide. The type is just too damn big. What the hell? Yahoo decides to “update” their page, and suddenly it’s assumed that everyone is 10/20 vision or something? Yeah. But see, I could get over all of that. The real deal-breaker is that they removed content from my page that I can’t get back. That pisses me off. What’s really insulting about it, though, is that on the page that leads you to your new page is a little cartoon guy that says something to the effect of “Relax. All your old content is already there!”

Lying sons of b*tches. F-you, Yahoo. I think I’ll just go to Apple’s start page or something. Maybe buy an iMac or new Macbook Pro 17” w/ glossy, HD screen. Take that, bastards. Take away my “New Movies Released This Week” module and think I won’t notice? How the hell else am I supposed to know what’s new this week? Huh?

See? See how it’s all linked? Uni & Paramount take away the possibility of getting their catalog on Blu-Ray, thereby postponing any sort of “Ultimate Home Theatre” anti-theatre plans I had, and Yahoo is taking away my link to what’s new in the damn theatres.

Conspiracy, I tell you.



Pleasant Surprise of the Month
Wanna know what our combined gas bill was this month? $40. Sick, isn’t it? What’s funny is that it doesn’t seem like we drive all that much less. But obviously we do, as in So Cal our monthly budget was $250 a month. Yikes, we’re saving over $200 a month in gas alone. Our utilities bill this month? $40. Yeah. See, we ran up a whole whopping 189 Kilowatt hours. We don’t use any A/C – in fact we don’t even have one –we don’t use any electricity most of the time, and when we have lights on they’re all the high-efficiency kind.

Yeah, we switched over all the existing bulbs in the house to the CCFL variety. You’d think this would be an expensive venture, but actually, no. We were at a local supply store looking for a park bench for our back yard (which we found), and stumbled upon a parking lot sale (which is where we found the bench. For $40. Pattern?) While in line to check out, I look over and see BOXES of CCFLs, on sale for 75¢ each. Damn. So yeah, we stocked up. Regularly like $3-$4 apiece, no? So it was a good buy and the savings will catch up with us next month, to boot!



And just to reiterate
Michael Vick is a flamer. Clinton Portis loves him for it. And in a land ruled by Karma, they’d both be mauled repeatedly until their death by perfectly-sane-yet-judgmental dogs.

Peace.

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