Slightly Mordant

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Our little piece of the interwebs gone got reviewed, I submitted my site to a couple of places for review. Always feel a little apprehensive when I do that, hoping not to get a bad review but hopefully some constructive criticism.

Well, Lyndi, over at Nice2All did a stellar review, not because she liked the site (which does give one a nice warm feeling) but because she did a thorough review and offered some great pointers and suggestions. I plan on looking at each point she made and tweaking a little here and there.

Check out the review at: Nice2All.com

Well, another title that should attract attention.

Last night Carolyn was perusing some websites using Stumble Upon!, she came across as site called Shop in Private.com. They sell all manner of items that you may like to obtain in plain paper wrappers and not have anyone know about, embarrassing ailments you need cream for, adult diapers, condoms a wide range of products.

As she was flicking through screens I though I saw a couple words together that were unusual together.

“Wait, go back two screens, I thought I saw something.”

“What?”

“Anal bleaching cream.”

Carolyn gave me an incredulous look: “You’re joking!”

“No, go back, there, there.”

Cream to bleach your anus

Apparently in an effort  to look young and rejuvenated there is yet another treatment available. You can get your Botox, derma abrasions, face lifts and all manner of creams. Now you can also bleach your anus to give it a lighter youthful look. The ad says it would cost $100 in a salon for this treatment but you can get this cream for $9.99.

WTF?

The idea of bleach near an anus is just, I shudder at the thought. This cream contains hydroquinone which helps in lightening your arse area and any other such area you may wish to apply it. Hydroquinone is considered a carcinogen in some areas I think I read, great!

I guess it must be de rigeur to check someone’s anus to see how young they are, the mind boggles!

Link:  Anal bleaching cream

Another awesome contest that is easy to enter on over at Joe Tech, the list of prizes is amazing and ever increasing:

The New Media Super Contest has 72 prizes from over 50 sponsors worth over $4,200! Take a look at the prize and sponsor list below.

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Once again I find myself at a cluttered desk unable to work efficiently with crap piled up all around me, so yet again, I tidied up. I really need to hire a maid to do this for me ha!

I am back to one computer on the desk instead of two and screens everywhere, thought I’d take a few piccies to show where the supposed magic happens, I forgot to empty the trash can and cannot be arsed to retake the pictures. Houdini appears in this picture twice.

My blogging workspace

My Toshiba laptop with 19 inch widescreen monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse are the focal point then all the other blogging tools of the trade scattered around.

Screen in this shot is crappily ’shopped in because of the glare of the flash on original shot.

You are probably aware I like Moleskine notebooks¹ and have several on the desk, most get used for various reasons, two in front of monitor are my everyday notebooks. One I record any changes, updates, plugins and anything else done to the blog, that way if anything goes amiss again I can hopefully figure out what the problem might be. The other is the one I carry everywhere and record ideas for the blog, my To Do lists and projects. I think they call that GTD (Getting Things Done).

My LG phone that I take a lot of pictures with that end up on the blog unless I am using my regular camera which isn’t featured in these pictures, my Canon PowerShot S5 IS Camera,   ² my blogging business cards, Pilot gel pens (I prefer the 0.38mm nibbed kind when I can find that size), a mug of tea and  a bottle of Coke my regular drinks of choice.

Books on style, quotes, thesaurus, a book of poems by Rupert Brooke (92 years old), book of stories from fellow blogger Michael Martin and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( 95 years old).

Various DVD and CD-R media, flash drives and memory cards are a stashed about and a few other bits and bobs. The book I am currently reading is A Train to Potevka³ by Mike Ramsdell.

So there you have it, where the inane, crazy gibberish is created, nice and tidy for the time being, see how long that lasts!

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Wife and I both use Hulu.com on our computers, Hulu lets you watch stuff online for free legitimately. We can be sitting at our desks in the office and be watching different movies or TV shows, especially the old shows and movies.

She was perusing the movies: “Oh look The Return of a Man Called Horse, haven’t seen that in a while.”

“Yeah, Richard Harris, they made a sequel didn’t they?”

Carolyn turns and looks at me and her eyebrows raise.

“Oh wait, that is the sequel, you cannot return somewhere until you’ve been there the first time!”

She turns back to her computer shaking her head.

What?

The Power Blog Award

Bingkee over at I Love/Hate America, check out her blog from the Fav Spot in my sidebar, has honored me with a blog award.

It always warms the cockles of the heart, whatever cockles of the heart are! Cockles are seafood like mussels, so maybe it has something to do with heart muscles, begs investigation, </digression>, to be honored with awards. To know people appreciate the ramblings that get spewed forth here is always head swellingly [did I make up a word?] good.

The Power Blog award, shall sit on my mantelpiece next to all the other accolades, thank you Bingkee. Not sure what the Power Puff girls means but hey I’ll take it.

I assume I am meant to award the award to three other sites, mmm, so many favorites and regular reads. Okay,

Chris at That Guy Over There.

Amy at Amy Grindhouse.

Janna at Jantics.

Wife’s sister and her hubby from San Jose went to Oregon to visit their son, they decided to pop down to Washington to visit the rest of the family, they are spending the night with us. They took their time getting here and spent some time in the casinos on various Indian reservations.

They got here late and I had already gone to bed as I am working Saturday. So they decided to hit up the newest Indian casino and take Carolyn with them. They even spotted her cash to play, so who knows, she may make out like she normally does and come out ahead.

So I am up at 2:45AM in the morning posting on my blog!

Maybe I’ll get some spendies out of it, not into the casino scene myself, I get bored easily there and all the noise gives me a pounding  headache.

Here in Washington, casinos on Indian reservations are allowed slot machines, so the wife will be in happy land, she likes to play the penny slots. When we’ve been in Reno, she has won enough each time to finance dinners and stuff and at least she knows her limits and doesn’t go crazy.

Now let me make a wish list for when she comes home and throws wads of cash all over the place, well, I can dream I suppose.

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I signed up for NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month for this month, a blog post a day, one more day and if I did it right I made it okay. I usually post quite frequently but not necessarily every day, it hasn’t been too hard to do a post a day but I’d rather not have the pressure  to do so.

I am glad I didn’t go ahead with my plans to do NaNoWriMo.

On way home from work I popped into Walgreen’s to get a soda and some other stuff Carolyn asked me to pick up. Dude was bagging my stuff, looking down, when he suddenly coughed. The bugger didn’t cover his mouth or turn his head but coughed straight down into the bag he was putting my stuff into, great! Sick already, I don’t need to extra germs thank you very much, bastage.

Walking to the bus stop talking to Carolyn on my cell phone, a guy carrying some survey or something accosted me and started to talk, I gave him a look; dude, I’m on the freakin’ phone already!

I wish the big neon arrow and sign that is following me around would go away.

Well, Turkey day is upon us, the kitchen is prepped and vast amounts of food will be cooked as we are expecting a house full. Not brilliant when one doesn’t feel well as it is, but I like turkey so will make sure I get a good portion. I may resort to some prune juice to help keep things moving along though.

But here’s to a great day with your family and let there be a minimum of arguments! If you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, then happy Thursday.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, feeling unwell!

In the meantime check out Avitable’s site, he has an easy to enter contest where you can win a crapola load of Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD’s. A crapola load is made up of a boxed set of 40 DVD’s, all the seasons, plus a load of extras.

This would be great for times like now, when I am home sick and can watch DVD’s all day long.

Link: Avitable Buffy the Vampire Slayer contest.