The Gap Supports Witchcraft!
NaBloPoMo Day 20 Well, that’s what the wankers at American Family Association seem to think.  They’re dissing the Gap’s latest TV ad because it mentions Solstice, which is equivalent to supporting witchcraft.  Um.  Ok, whatever.  I get the impression that the AFA thinks Christmas has been celebrated since the dawn of time, and encourages their groupies to completely ignore the fact that Solstice has been celebrated for far longer. Ah well.  This all just makes me want to make a special trip to the mall to shop at the Gap.  And we all know how I feel about malls!  All my Wiccan friends and I will have a very merry Gap Solsti

My New Printer
NaBloPoMo Day 19 My old printer, which was going on five years old, has been increasingly reluctant to actually print anything.  Well, I guess that isn’t really true.  It’s been printing… just not on paper.  It started off by pulling the paper in a bit askew and finally wound up — yesterday — refusing to even try to pull any paper through.  So I wandered off to the local office supply store to buy a new printer. I picked the Epson Stylus NX515 because my last three printers have been Epsons, and except for the little problem of them not lasting forever, they’ve been great machines.  The print quality is exce

Dear Website Designers
NaBloPoMo Day 18 I would like to share with you some of the things you do that piss me off. First, you autoplay a video or some music when I go to your site.  Don’t do that.  What if I’m surfing the web at Oh-Dark-Thirty?  I don’t need your noisy website to wake up the rest of the household and, incidentally, scare the crap out of me.  What if I’m surfing the web at work and listening to my happy music?  Do you really think I want to hear YOUR crap over my happy music?  Oh, no.  I do not.  Just stop doing this.  It’s obnoxious, and it’s rude. Next, you decide you know what the best size is for my

Three Cheers for Annoying Things Rolling Around in the Car
NaBloPoMo Day 17 Yesterday morning, I spent about 15 seconds grabbing an empty can that had been rolling around in the back of my car for several days and tossing it in one of the recycling bins in the garage.  Had I not done that, the SUV that sped though the red light at the intersection of Lincoln and McKinley would have plowed into me.  That would have been really inconvenient, to say nothing of the fact that neither I nor my car would have been very happy about it. And yo!  Where are the Albany cops when you need them, eh?  Because that’s not the first time I’ve seen someone ignore red lights on Lincoln.  It was, however, the

Malls and I Are Incompatible
NaBloPoMo Day 16 I used like going to malls.  Something changed somewhere along the way, though.  Today, the thought of going to a mall fills me with dread.  Could be the mad crush of people, could be the fact that parking in a mall lot is a danger to life, limb and vehicle.  Or it could just be that everybody sells the same thing in different packages. I had occasion to visit one of our local malls the other day, though.  While there trying to avoid all the Christmas crap, I saw a parent and child combination that almost had me laughing out loud.  The child was on one of those kid leashes, and every time the parent picked the kid up to stand