Shadowscope

I was hanging out over at Pointless Drivel and Mr Fabulous put up a post that I commented on that briefly touched on this subject. I wanted to pontificate but it ran too long so I cut it down to a sentence or two and decided to put the rest here where it belongs, in the cesspool that is my brain. Only you get to share in it.

Let’s face it. I work in a pretty fast paced environment. There are no set breaks. Big Sally doesn’t get to take 15 at 10 AM while I get 30 minutes for lunch at 11. It just doesn’t work that way. Everyone has to take turns and when it’s busy you just don’t get breaks. This brings around the fact that sometimes you have to combine what you are doing in order to get it all in.

I’ve been known to balance a drink and a sandwich in one hand while holding a smoke in the other hiding outside the building trying to get it all down in about five minutes. I will also occasionally wander into the crapper while eating, although I try to make sure nobody sees me do it. It can be interesting trying to eat while using the bathroom, and zipping back up is a bitch. Good thing I wear that black apron. I could walk around all day with the willie hanging out and you would never be the wiser. Unless of course someone hot walked in. Then there might be pokey issues with the apron that might best be hidden within the folds of the old briefs.

Now when I am at home I will take all sorts of stuff into the toilet with me. Normal accessories include my cell phone. People get pleasantly surprised with grunting and splashing when they talk to me on the phone. If it’s one of my ‘pains in the asses’ that have to call me ten times a shift because they can’t find their ink pen I take distinct pleasure in ripping loose a good fart or two and then make sure to flush before we hang up. I also usually take my iPaq and play solitaire when I’m farting around. I tend sneak my smokes in and turn the fan on as well. Not that the wife doesn’t know I’m doing it but the mixture of poopy and cigarette smoke is volatile to a non-smoker. If I have coffee I’ll take it and a book if there’s a good one I’m reading.

I tried taking the laptop, but it gets pretty hot and balancing it on my lap while my pants are down around my ankles is something I only tried once. No singe marks on my dugan!

Eating can be quite a sticky issue. Literally! I have no problem eating while in there. My nether rgions are probably cleaner than my hands anyway, so what’s the problem? You just have to be picky what you get. Nothing to terribly hot obviously. I have on occasion spilled a bit of coffee and it’s like setting the laptop on there, only in liquid form. No donuts, no PBJ sandwiches. Snack cakes are alright but then you have to deal with the issue of crumbs and explain to the wife why there were crumbs in your pubes. ‘Oh, it’s OK honey, I was just eating a Ding Dong’ just doesn’t sound the same when used in that particular context for some stupid reason.

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Nasty bug at work

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Damn thing was crawling up the wall

It’s been quite some time since I’ve had the chance to write a review on another blog. Mostly I’ve been hit up for other types of sites, mainly businesses looking for linkage. That’s part of what Random Encounters of We is looking for I am sure, but they also asked for an honest review of the site itself, so here it is. I’ve been trying to decide for several days now what to write. With some of the stuff it’s real easy because I can just say “so and so has a product and it might be a good idea for you to look at” and feel OK because I never said I use it (unless I have) but with another blogger I want to give an honest review and maybe we both can learn something from it.

Bear in mind I know almost nothing about designing blog templates and it was like ripping teeth out of my head to come up with the design I am using and it was just adapted from a normal web site with tables and a bit of embellishment on my part. Not only that but my tastes seem to be a bit different so you have to take it with a grain of salt, but I hate the generic blogger templates, which is what it looks like they are using to me. I don’t like the bright green at all. It makes me want to rip my eyeballs out of my skull, but as I said, this is coming from a guy that has bright orange Halloween text on a black background. Opinions. We all heave ’em, er..have them.

The site has been around for about ten months and obviously judging from the page rank, has some return visitors and a few links to it. I read through about a month’s archives on the front end and on the back end to get a general idea about the blog and who ‘we’ are. They also participate in paid blogging, as I do. One of the things I noticed is what I will do a lot of times when I really don’t have a lot to say and am just trying to make a couple of bucks…

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Some of the most recent entries sound like they are just creating filler. Maybe it takes one to know one because I have days where I will post 20 or 30 entries and maybe one comes from the heart. I only had to go back a couple of pages in the archives though to find a recent entry that sounded like she knew what she was talking about and enjoyed writing it. It’s a post on finances and debt entitled ‘Past, Present and Future of Your Money‘. It was an enjoyable post and I felt like I could learn something reading more of this stuff.

One of the biggest ways to be successful as a blogger (as if I really know this stuff) is to write about what you know and know about what you write. You can always tell when I have enjoyed writing about something here, there is usually plenty of crassness and foul language and gnashing of teeth. Over at Random Encounters of We it’s about money and the family.

They also run a games blog called Random Games as well that you might be interested in checking out.

Anyway, the bottom line is that I like the blog, but I think I would develop more posts about things that make you go hmmm…and redo or have someone else redo the template. There are tons of blogger templates and plugins out there for free that I have seen.

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I suppose there is something to be said for extreme sports but I am partial to trying to chug two beers at a time myself. That’s about as extreme as it gets.