May 2007

Some Boring Stuff…

Although I use Sitemeter and Z-Extreme counters on my site, every once in awhile I check awstats to see how people are getting to my site as well as what the searches are. I have almost as many image search hits from google as I do keyword. That is amazing.

Here are the biggest keyword phrases that lead people here.

2900 different key phrases Search Percent
republican debate 1198 10.4 %
porn youtube 1107 9.6 %
natalie holloway 829 7.2 %
youtube porn 612 5.3 %
jennifer needs 502 4.3 %
youtube of porn 285 2.4 %
natalie holloway update 249 2.1 %
anna kournikova 144 1.2 %
republican debates 119 1 %
natalee holloway 106 0.9 %
Other phrases 6342 55.1 %

I suppose I need to find the entries that have those phrases in them and put google ads right smack in the middle of them or something. Perhaps I will have time this afternoon. It certainly wouldn’t hurt…

Here is the list of biggest referrers to my site (for the month of May) not including the search engines.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php 193 193
http://lab-wire.com/klx/tbsp2.php 161 161
http://huffcrimeblog.com 129 134
http://www.top-ogloszenia.com 117 117
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Shadowscope 109 109
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com 85 85
http://payday-loan.sexany.info/Patriotic-Posters.html 80 80
http://house-boat-rentals.sexany.info/active/Patriotic-Posters.h… 80 80
http://home.bellsouth.net/s/s.dll 47 47
http://gutrumbles.com 44 44
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi 39 39
http://technorati.com/tag/porncast 32 32
http://digg.com/software/Beyond_TV_4_6_Review 31 31
http://www.25peeps.com 30 30
http://technorati.com/search/%22ron%20paul%22 29 29
http://tnchick.com 27 27
http://www.netvibes.com 26 26
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display 25 25
http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/index.asp 23 23
http://www.technorati.com/search/%22ron%20paul%22 22 22
http://www.mcgehee.cc 20 20
http://tnchick.com/archives/686 20 20
http://www.technorati.com/search/%22ron+paul%22 18 18
http://www.mylot.com/nr/viewframe.aspx 18 18
http://keeskennis.blogspot.com 17 17
– Others 3747 4243

One scary thing that I noticed when I browse the full list in Awstats is that for each blog or “real” web site there are 10 spam sites. Ugly…

Anyone that doesn’t think Google rules the search world needs to look at this sometime. Google accounts for exactly 85% of the search hits that lead here. There were 8997 Google Image hits, 8835 Google hits, the next closest was Yahoo with 1375, and MSN with 690. Obviously it is all in what each search engine thinks is relevant information, but it also shows me that most people (as if we don’t know this already) use Google as their search provider.

Five More Days…

Five more days, five more days. Just keep saying it like you mean it. I don’t need to bitch about it too much, I am the one who made out the schedules for my managers but I needed to make sure that they got their days off and that I was able to take next Sunday off. The only was I could do that was to work twelve days but I am seriously regretting it right now.

One of my managers is having issues with being able to perform his job to the point where all of of money is suffering. In a job like ours if you are losing money (profits) in one area and can’t (or refuse to) fix it, then we make it up in other areas. Thus he and I will be working doubles and cutting some hours for a couple of his cooks which means I am working a double on Friday. That’s gonna suck but it has to be done.

One of my biggest bonuses is for hitting a profit target. Unfortunately I won’t and it is all on this guys store. That’s close to a thousand dollars I won’t be seeing on my check three and a half weeks from now and I am not particularly happy about it. What gets me is the people that steadily complain about the money they are making but can’t take the time to get off their asses and actually make it. Once I have explained several times in detail exactly why and how to make the bonus and just get ignored and get asked what the problem is again and again I start to lose patience. I guess I am going to have to practice that over and over until I get it right.

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

But just to make up for it, here is one for the believers in the group…

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Tramp Stamp Tuesday

Needs bigger clothes. I didn’t say ALL of them would be attractive…

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The Laptop

With the Boy leaving for boot camp in a few weeks, the wife has laid claim on his laptop while he is away. That was quick. I guess I shouldn’t complain as I am going to temporarily snag his 19″ LCD. I say temporarily because he worked very hard for it a couple of years ago and bought it with the proceeds of a summer’s work.

Anyway, I will have to get to the laptop at least once or twice. I have some software to install, including a tracking package, and I also want to pop some extra Dell Memory in as well.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a day for all of us, no matter our political beliefs, to pause and reflect on the sacrifices of our fallen service members who have died valiantly in order to uphold our beliefs in Life, Liberty and Property, those most valuable assets which are recognized in the founding documents of our great country.

Have a great day folks…

Ashamed…

I guess I did something tonight that I have never done before, and I feel like shit right now because I know it was the wrong thing to do. I napped for a couple of hours this evening in preparation for going out tonight and checking on the stores to see what my third shift is doing. There is never enough management oversight in our stores on the graveyard shift, so they do pretty much whatever the fuck they want. If you have a good manager that has been there any length of time they mostly behave, but if you have new managers like I do or shitty managers, they rip us off blond or worse.

The first store I visited I sat in the bank parking lot for awhile spying on them with my cool little spyglass. The restaurant wasn’t busy, but it was pretty steady. A full house. After awhile I drove over and parked in the lot behind the building so that they wouldn’t see me drive up. I walked around the side of the building and when I got inside the only person on the floor was the cook. The few tables without customers were nasty and both of the waitresses were in the back room. Nobody even noticed. Hell, I made it all the way around the counter and had tapped the cook on the shoulder before he even noticed I was there. Scared the shit out of him. I could have grabbed the cash register and been gone had I wanted to.

When I walked in the back room, it was full of smoke from whatever the fuck the two waitresses had been smoking. Damn they scrambled to hide it. One of the girls was so freaked out she was shaking. I just dilly dallied around as if they had done a good job of fooling me and acted stupid, checked a few things and walked the fuck back out of the restaurant like nothing had happened. What I should have done at that point is fire all their asses on the spot and found replacements, but the place was full and I didn’t want to be out of my bed in the first place. I am sure that they will behave for a least a couple of days now, maybe long enough for me to find replacements and shit-can them, but a few years ago I would have done just as I should have and fired them all.

The other two shops were pretty good. Everyone was on the floor working and the places looked at least OK. I did find a cook to come in for one of them so they could go home, but that was about the extent of it at the other two stores.

Maybe it’s not as big of a deal as I feel like it is, but I have this shitty knot in my gut because I am ashamed that I acted like a pussy and went home to bed.

Monday Manboobs

Damn. Only look before breakfast…Posting a few minutes early as I am headed in to work for a couple of hours.

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Fuck the Pain Away…

As a child of the seventies in Atlanta I watched all of the older syndicated on what was to be later called TBS including the Andy Griffith show as well as the offshoots and all of the other sitcoms.

I have said before that the World Wide Web is a glorious place. Where else could you find something as cool as the edited footage from the Andy Griffith show set to the tune of Peaches – Fuck the Pain Away. Sooner or later I am going to be in Washington and I am going to have to buy the Zero Boss a beer. Thanks for turning me on to the link at 5AM this morning which is when I came across it.

How to Make an Airhorn

I found directions over at Lifehacker about how to make your own airhorn in about five minutes. Cool. I could have used one of those last night at the graduation. I was the one hooting and hollering when my son’s name was called. The don’t call me a dumbass redneck for nothing.