I’m going to show you some of my favorite T-shirts over at Crack Smokin’ Shirts. Actually, these are the ones I’d buy for my blogging buddies if I had lotsa money. The names link to the blogs, and yes, the images are affiliate links… so what.

For Samantha Burns:

For David:

For MacBros:

Two For Diane:

For JJ:

For Rich:

For Skye:

For DragonLady:

For LingoSlinger:

For Boris:

For Leesa:
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Considering that I am an avid Internet Explorer hater, I must admit that the new IE v. 7 (now in beta) is pretty freakin awesome. It’s got tabs, and every website I’ve looked at with it so far looks better than in my Netscape and Firefox. Hmmmmmm. motorola free i205 absolutely ringtonetool aenema ringtoneringtones 10centfree ringtone trium polyphonic 110abba 3200 lg ringtonesringtones 86111for com herrington billy profile amazonringtone cdm 8615 audiovox Map

As Diane mentioned in a comment in the post below this one, I’ve been sick with bronchitis. But a few days of antibiotics and I’m feeling like new again. Well, not NEW exactly. After all, I still have this almost 40-year old body.

You would think that after a week of no posts, I would have something to write about. I don’t. So I’ll tell you about the book I read while I was sick and in bed.

98 Reasons for Being, by Clare Dudman. This was a fiction based on fact, about a Jewish woman placed in an insane asylum in Frankfurt in the mid-1800’s. Jewish people weren’t actually allowed in the asylums with other citizens then, so the story as it was couldn’t have happened. But most of the rest, including the name of the asylum, the Doctor’s name who ran it, and the medical procedures and medical theories, were fact.

I knew that doctors were crazy back then, but some of the procedures and theories described in this book were jaw-dropping. For instance: in it there was an actual list written by a group of doctors of the top causes of insanity. One of them was CURED hemorrhoids. That’s right. You should never cure hemorrhoids because it may cause the patient to go insane. Then on the list of top uses for leeches, there was this: Place one leech on the rectum of someone who is going insane from having their hemorrhoids removed, so the leech will imitate the missing hemorrhoids, and the patient might regain their sanity. Ummmmmm… yeah, ok… a slimy critter latching to and sucking on my ass…. that will put me in my right mind.

ANYWAY, It was a really good book, a great story. I recommend it.

This is a Swiss Army Knife / Swiss Memory Stick. It slides into any USB port, and works like an extra hard drive. Carry it from computer to computer. Up to 512MB of memory. Also includes a knife with 7 tools, a flashlight and pen. This is crazy! lol.

For several years my home phone provider was SBC, formerly SWB (Southwestern Bell), because I had no choice, that was the only option if you wanted phone service in your home. And it showed in their phone bills, outrageous rates, taxes on everything. Long Distance? Oh GOD the rates. It showed in their customer service; if you were behind on your bill and called to get an extension, you got snotty attitudes and talk about “policy” and just not much help at all. The also do a credit check before you’re allowed an extension, and if you don’t make the extension date, it goes on your credit report!

Then there are the extras. You want caller ID? 7 bucks a month. 3 way calling? 5 more. Oh you’re having a problem? NO PROBLEM, they’ll send someone to your house… but if they come inside its 75 bucks on your next bill. OH unless you have the insurance at 11 more dollars a month. I once had a bill from SBC for 175.00 for one month.

FINALLY!!! SBC has some competition. SAGE Telecom is now in Arkansas. YES they’re cheaper, much. YES it’s a regular phone line, YES they have all the extras, and YES you can keep your old number. I was so fed up with SBC that when I got an advertisement from SAGE in my mailbox, I called immediately, talked to them for a few, and made the switch. My phone bill is under $30 a month and I get 250 free minutes of long distance each month (which I never use up), free caller-id, free call-waiting, and free 3-way calling.

One month I was particularly broke and all my bills were due, some past due, at once. I called SAGE to see if I could get an extension on my bill. What surprised me was that a human actually answered the phone! What, no recording? I was a little thrown off. I said “ummmm Hi, I need to speak to someone about an extension?” (Surely the hold will come now.) “You can speak to me” he said. “Ok, I need an extension.” “What’s your phone number?” I gave it to him, a minute later he said “Ok, you can have an extension. Is there anything else?” Well.. Yes…. “How long do I have to pay it?” A pause then… “When do you want to pay it?” Thinking this can’t be right, and testing him, I said “Next month, with next month’s bill.” What do you think he said? “Ok, anything else?” Then I paused… “Well, are you sure? I can just pay it next month? What’s your name?” He said of course he was sure, gave me his name, thanked me for calling. I paid the bill the next month.

About three months after I made the switch from SBC to SAGE Telecom, I got a call from SBC, asking me to switch back. They told me they would make sure I got a lowered rate. I asked them if it would be $30 a month or less. They said sure. I asked If I would get free caller ID and was put on hold for 3 minutes before they said SURE. I asked If i would get free call-waiting and free 3-way calling, and was put on hold again before being given a sales pitch about some plan that has everything for only $7 more a month. A sales pitch that I interrupted with the question of how much free long distance I would get each month. I was put on hold again, I hung up. They had the audacity to call me back, and I interrupted quickly and said that SBC had lost my trust a long time ago, and to put me on their DO NOT CALL list, and hung up again.

If you have SAGE Telecom in your area. I highly recommend it. That reminds me, my bill was only $17 this month because I got credit for referals, lol.

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So I’m going today to get the CHI hair straightening done, or as it’s called in the hair community, “Hair Transformation,” or “Thermal Reconditioning.” I’ve had this done before, so I know it works and I know it’s permanent, or as permanent as anything done to your hair can be. Of course my new hair growth will be curly and much like steel wool in texture, lol. But MAN for the few months it lasts, it’s unreal. I mean, it actually infuses silk into your hair and I can actually run my fingers through it, something I can never do with my hair in its natural state. Trust me, this is NOT your mother’s hair straightener that makes your hair straight but stiff as a board.

Look at these before and after pics. Even those pics don’t do the product justice. My natural hair is much more kinky than what you see there, and Diane can tell you that when she met me in Denver my hair was straight as a board, and that was a couple of months after I had it done the first time.

The downside of this treatment? The cost and the length of time you’ll sit in the stylists chair. Most stylists charge between 125 and 150 an hour, and it takes 3 to 6 hours. You do the math.

The cost for me? FREE. My friend of 20 years, Jose, an amazing hair stylist and very much in demand, had me design a website for his salon. The cost? Trade for a lifetime of CHI hair transformations, lol.

If you have kinky curly ethnic hair that you’ve always despised, and you can afford it even once a year, RUN don’t walk to your nearest hair stylist to get this done!

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As some of you know, I’m a Netflix Subscriber. Recently I’ve gotten addicted to the 24 series, ordering entire seasons at once. Right now I’m in the middle of season two. Since I only get 3 movies at a time, I’ve been sending the last disc of 24 back as soon as I watch it, so I can keep a constant flow of this series coming in my mailbox.

When I see that red Netflix envelope in the mailbox, I never actually LOOK at my name and address on it, I just bring it in and open it to see what I got. From now on I’ll need to look because yesterday I got two Netflix envelopes in the mail, which would have meant I had 4 at a time instead of three. I instantly thought, “They messed up, I’ve got two in the house right now.” But I brought them in and opened them both anyway. The first one I opened was Season 2, Disc 3 of my new addiction, 24. (Enough numbers?). The second one I opened was Season 1, Disc 2….

Wait A Minute! WHY did they send me this? I watched season 1, disc 2, a month ago and sent it back the next day! WHY are they sending me this again? GRRRRR…. I finally had the sense to look on the envelope. It was addressed to Melody….. not me though, Melody Jinks. Address? Not mine. That mail-lady was so used to delivering the red envelopes to me she didn’t look very well either, I guess.

I looked up the address on MapQuest. Just five streets down from me. No wonder my mail lady had it. But SO ODD to me was that the girl had my first name, and was beginning the same series that I’m watching.

I was going to just put the dvd in the return envelope and mail it back since I had already opened it, then I thought how pissed off the girl would be to find it removed from her Netflix queue when she never received it… and besides that, if I sent it back then they would send her disc 3 and she might watch it without looking at the title, and miss all of disc 2, and not get it, and I just couldn’t stand the thought of that! So I got in my car this morning, drove down the street and found her house. She was outside on her porch, waiting on the mail delivery. I waved to her with the Netflix envelope in hand, and she came to the car smiling as if she knew without explanation what happened. I said, “They delivered this to my house by mistake, I live down the street, My name is Melody too, Sorry I opened it. ” She said that was ok, thanked me for bringing it, and said she was waiting on it to arrive as I drove up. I told her it was a great show and that I was in the middle of season 2. We had a good laugh and back home I went.

Isn’t that just crazy though?