January 27, 1996 Volume 2, No. 3

KEEP THE DOGS!: Send in the dolphins instead . . . water water everywhere . . . has the world flipped on it's axis and I missed? . . . it's so soggy . . . the clouds . . . the dirty snow . . . that's right . . . there's still snow on the ground . . . you folks in Minnesota . . . go ahead an' laugh . . . I'm complainin' 'bout snow . . . then part of it melted . . . it rained like crazy . . . the Potomac got full . . . s'posed to do it again this weekend . . . glad I'm not close to the river . . . but it just stays cloudy . . . I'm a tender plant . . . I need a little sunshine . . . my basement's gloomy enough without being sun-deprived . . . some people say I'm more like sun-ripened . . . I don't know if they mean the wrinkles or the smell . . . speakin' of deprived . . . I've had to work real hard the past couple of weeks . . . no time to devote to the web . . . but I'm back . . . I also checked my biorhythm chart . . . I'm an emotional wreck today . . . pretty weak too . . . I'm on the way to stupid . . . maybe I should go curl up in the corner with a good book . . . bowl of snacks . . . wait for the time to pass . . . NAW . . . not me . . . jump up . . . face the world . . . a cheery disposition . . . NOT!

SUPER BOWL: Who cares! . . . heresy . . . unless it's my hometeam . . . it's just another football game . . . that I don't care to watch . . . but I do have a soft spot for the Pittsburgh Steelers . . . one day I happened to be watching one of their games . . . many years ago . . . heard the name of the place-kicker . . . he was the same guy that had played on the football team where I went to college . . . he and another jock had been me an' my roommates "suite" mates in the dorm . . . we shared a common bathroom . . . I remember they never cleaned it up . . . it was always me an' Carl scrubbin' it down . . . I used to give Roy haircuts . . . an' some of the other football players . . . plugged our sink on many an occasion with hair . . . I remember when Roy (the kicker) loaned me his roommate's car . . . problem was . . . he didn't tell his roommate . . . so I had wandered down to where the car was parked . . . went into town to run some errands . . . was gone for a couple of hours . . . came back . . . parked it near where it had been . . . came back to the room to the message that the cops were lookin' for me . . . seems like the owner of the car had reported it stolen . . . Roy thought it was really funny . . . he finally admitted what he had done . . . the roommate settled down . . . the police reluctantly went away . . . that was an exciting semester! . . . remember Roy . . . laces out!

WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP: My youngest are on teams for the Savage Boys and Girls Club . . . playin' basketball . . . remember it's heart that counts . . . last week they were playin' against a team that had a kid taller than most of the adults . . . it was pitiful . . . I kept tellin' 'em to bite his ankles . . . but the kid just kept layin' the ball in . . . I s'pose that's why they're doin' good in school . . . it's not gonna be the athletic scholarships that see 'em through school!

MENTAL NOTES: Has the web seemed busier than usual . . . is it just gettin' crowded . . . every where I turn . . . people are movin' to more powerful servers . . . my provider's addin' all kinds o' stuff . . . phone lines . . . servers . . . disk . . . the page counter's addin' all kinds of stuff . . . must be a bonanza for the equipment manufacturers . . . I've been lookin' at a newsgroup on HTML authoring . . . following the debate between the Netscape elitist faction . . . the Browser impaired . . . I think I fall into the Netscape faction by default . . . that's what I browse with . . . even worse . . . I designed most of the screens to look ok to me on my system at work . . . the 21" monitor . . . I was havin' trouble readin' most of the text . . . discovered how easy it was to stick in the basefont tag . . . make everything big . . . looked good at work . . . then I brought it up here in the basement . . . looks like the large print edition of the Reader's Digest . . . I just can't win . . . so not only am I "Netscape Enhanced" . . . I want the whole world to get 21" monitors . . . run at 1600 x 1200 (whatever the real numbers are) . . . so my pages'll look real cool . . . while you're at it . . . get a Pentium 200 . . . ISDN connection . . . then you'll really love the Web! . . . jes' tell 'em Mikey sent ya!

"When all else fails, crawl into a shell, feel sorry for yourself then GET OVER IT! Nobody likes a perpetual whiny butt, all we wanna do is laugh." --Mikey, Thinking Too Hard