What NOT To Write About...

I really don't like it when I wait till the last minute to post each day. I'm always yawning like crazy and grasping for a topic to talk about, any topic, but nothing seems good enough. Or, rather, it's not that it's not good enough, it's that I couldn't possibly expand on it. Does that make sense? Let me elaborate...

Off the wall topics that have nowhere to go:

The only thing I saw in the way of news today was the asinine non-stop reporting on the Britney/K-Fed divorce. The only thing I gleaned from all that non-sense was that I will now only refer to him as Fed-Ex. See? Isn't that a stupid thing to write about? Why do I read this trash?

My boss is still a moron, but the balance has been restored somewhat because we have a new person on the crew who has as much power as The Chucky-poo(p) and this new person is benevolent and kind. This has made a world of difference in my working environment.

We've been out of creamer at the house for the last three days, but my sweet bf still makes coffee every morning. I may be a coffee snob. I have to have French Vanilla Creamer or it's just gross. He thinks it's fine with just milk, blech. I bought creamer at the store tonight, and lo and behold...we're out of coffee. Ironic, don't you think?

I watched the History Channel tonight. The strangest, most fascinating shows come on that channel sometimes.

Ooops. I forgot to tell my boss that the kids are out of school on Friday for Veteran's Day. Great.

Oh, another great thing about the Blogger Beta is the spell check. It's much better now. There's no pop-up window showing misspellings, it's just highlights the incorrect words and when you click on the word, it shows a drop-down-like menu of suggestions. WAY better.

Ok, now that I've rambled my way past nine-thirty, I think I'll call it a day.

Day 3: I Heart Google

Google is so commonplace now that I often hear people say, "You should Google that." Have I told anyone how much I love Google? No? Oh, well, ok then.



I have everything I can feasably use that Google makes. I have Gmail. Love, love, LOVE that. Trust me when I say that (I think) Gmail is better than anything else. Mostly. I've tried Hotmail. I've tried Yahoo!. I've had many an OutLook account with the various companies I've worked for. I have nothing against any of these reputable companies. I still use all of them even. I use Hotmail for people that I rarely talk to. I don't know why. I guess it's because it's the first email of my own that I ever had. Call it sentimental. I use Yahoo! for spam. If I ever have to register for something online and they want my email, I give them the Yahoo!. I have to use OutLook for work, and it serves it's purpose well. However, Gmail is the only one that makes me happy. For one thing, no more having to create several different folders for storing my old mail. Instead, I just hit "archive", and poof! It dissapears. But there's more! Let's say I want to find that long ago forgotten-about message from Auntie Edna. I just use Google's handy-dandy search feature built right into my email, and poof! Any and all messages from Auntie Edna magically appear on my screen. I don't know where they've been hiding, nor do I care. They've just appeared when I wanted them to. Ok, let's get more complicated. What if my best friend and I send each other no less that 30 emails to each other every single day, but I need to find a very specific conversation about, oh God, I don't know...nail polish. Now, with any other email account, each and every email that she and I send back and forth would be stored separately from each other, and for one week that would be something like, 150 emails, easily, that I'd have to check one by agonizing one for that one crucial detail about nail polish and how it could cause World Peace or something. If that were the case, I don't think I'd ever find that dang email. I'd be too frustrated by the endless sea of email. But, no! World Peace can be found within Gmail quite easily! See, in Gmail, when you and a friend are sending messages back and forth to each other and they have the same subject line, each response gets tacked onto the end of the conversation. All the previous messages are condensed, so they're not "in the way", and the new message is on top. Neat! That's why I love it. Now, back to nail polish and World Peace. I would just type in the search box "nail polish, world peace" and it would find that one email and highlight the part I'm looking for! It's such a smart mail server. Now, it's not perfect, mind you. It's relatively new and theoretically it's still in Beta. I'm not happy about the fact that it doesn't support smiley faces (emoticons, or whatever). I mean, how can I convey real feeling if I can't go :)? Or :D? Frustrating, I tell you! But, all that aside, I love it.



...walks away from computer, thinks about it till after work*...



I also really like Google Earth. That is single-handedly the.best.program.ever. Also, Picasa Photo Editor. Easy enough for someone who's never done much photo editing.



Google Personalized Homepage is also another of my favorites. You should see it. See, I'm a celebrity gossip (and blog) junkie. Shhhh! Don't tell anybody, especially my boss. I have no less than... (number removed out of shame)(*hangs head) a certain amount of links that I can always keep track of updates. Favorite blogs, news feeds, things like that.



Meh. I'm tired. I was going to put up all kinds of links to give Google and it's fine features the props it deserves, but no.



What kind of computer programs do you recommend?







*never try to half-write something and then go home. Inner Critic nightmare.