thebrad

Okay, this one’s for TheBrad …

HOLY BLAST FROM THE PAST, Batman! I thought, seriously, that my sister and I were the only two people in America who had played with 2XL. Played with? How about, spent several hours every freakin’ day pushing that little guy’s buttons?! We still have ours. It was just about my favorite toy!

Maybe I have been influenced by reading about TheBrad’s trials. Maybe I am being too hard on GTE and the other places that obviously really want me to get DSL service here. I think I will go to bed now and try this again in the morning. These kinds of things always seem to go more smoothly after I’ve had three or four cups of coffee.

Wow! This EarthLink page about DSL service says that they have FREE equipment, installation, and set-up! Then it says that the offer requires self-installation!

So, if I install it myself, they’re not going to charge me to install it?! Huh? Join me now as I begin to follow TheBrad’s ill-fated path …

I’ve come to think of blogging as the new bookmarking. I almost never click in my Favorites menu these days. So pretty much nobody but me will want to go to this site. It’s the one for GTE DSL Services. As much as I admire TheBrad, I have to hope and pray that my experience will be better than his. This is currently tops on my ever-expanding, rarely-referenced, hardly-a-help Things to Do list.

I was just in the middle of reading about TheBrad’s journey through ADSL Hell when the thunder began a-rollin’. Hard core thunder. Thunder such that you would be hard-pressed to determine if what you were hearing was thunder or someone trying to recreate the running of the bulls at Pamplona in your attic. Thunder so loud that you could possibly be hearing impaired from its volume. Oh, yeah. Tampa is gonna be a fun place to be.

The beginning of June is always a strange time for me. My birthday is coming again and I’m always sort of troubled that another one of my very few years on the planet is finished. This one has been the busiest yet and it doesn’t look like there’s any chance of slowing the roller coaster that it seems my life is. I don’t know if I’d want it to slow, mind you, but sometimes it just seems like everything is happening and happening and happening and <snip>a bunch of rambles that seemed good last night, but in the cold, hard, light of day are really terrible</snip>
It was nice, though, to read for a bit. I don’t know how I started writing all that. Originally I was just going to say that it was cool to be turkey-pecked for the first time in my life.

There are about a dozen web sites that I visit every day. (The 34 hour span that I recently spent unconnected was seriously painful. I admit, I have a problem.) One of the places I go is The Bradlands. He doesn’t update as often as some of us do, but that’s okay. He makes up for it in public pouncing. There is supposed to be a big brew-ha-ha a’brewing at his blog, but it hasn’t materialized yet. Most of the free world is on pins and needles. I know that I’ve been waiting for months now. Regardless, every now and then I read the about page at one of my favorite sites. The BradLands has a Vision Statement that contains the line:

“a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down the pants”

If that’s not enough to get you to visit him well then I don’t know what is.

Today I just wanna throw my head back and blog and blog and blog and blog.
The BradLands featured a conversation emulator some time ago and I never clicked on it. What a holier-than-thou bastard I am sometimes, eh? er … no .. actually I’m not. I don’t know why I never clicked on it. Turns out it was really very much a comedic experience. Now, me, personally, I dig comedy. You could say, if you were so inclined, “He digs comedy while I am inclined.” Probably nobody would laugh though. Don’t take it the wrong way. So thanks to TheHappyFunBrad ™ (and I bet she’ll be mad when she sees I’ve trademarked his nick!) I sproinked this randomly - generated - but - easily - possible - and - in - fact - quite - typical dialogue between me and SuperChuck.

“a nice combo of wit, lust, and cheese” - TheBrad, writing about my web site

I hope people who read my resume don’t think of this when they see that I’ve done a tremendous amount of work implementing bar codes, scanners, and keyless data entry systems.

I am seriously getting sick of Microsoft jerking me around about my browser. I guess I’m the only farking fool in the world who upgraded to IE5.5 a few months ago. So now when they release a patch I get nothin’. What am I supposed to do, Microsoft?! I guess if you have the latest release you’re just screwed, eh? It also bugs me that the Windows Update page is also useless to me.

I wonder if my dad is listening to our quirky older brother talking about weblogs on BUR …