Behold Internet!

I now have internet...which means you can hear more from me. You wanted that right? Well for better or worse you have me. Internet is a funny thing though. Most of us spent the better part of our lives sans, and now we act like we can't live without it. We spent three months without internet and last week we looked like a couple of zombies, staring mindlessly at computer screens. Yeah it was sad.

Internet has evolved at an alarming rate. I can still remember the sound of the dial-up booting up. If you were fortunate to have skipped the whole dial up thing count yourself so very lucky. Dial-up sucked. It was slow, you were prone to get kicked off at any random moment, and if there were too many people online then you couldn't get back on. Oh and to top it all off, if you weren't one of those people who could afford an extra line. You couldn't use your home phone if you were on the internet likewise internet to phone. This was back a couple of decades ago (wow I feel old) when not everyone and their grandmother had a cellphone either. So you where screwed.

I remember my first boyfriend and I would call each other, and one night when I called his mom answered the phone, and told me in a very polite, but very firm tone that his dad was using the computer for work, and my fellow could not talk. She even punctuated it by pointing out how the phone conversation was choppy because he was trying to get on. As if our very conversation had stopped the world from moving.

Video clips sucked so bad on dial-up. I can remember spending an hour trying to watch a single video clip on the Titanic website (don't judge, it was a different time back then), because there just wasn't a way back then to make the video anything but poor quality.

Here's a...fun...game to play, and it will help you experience what it was like to live in the dark time of 1998. For this game you will need a shitty quality youtube video (think a retro commercial, or something someone recorded with their cellphone) and game dice (six sided, nothing fancy). First thing you do is open the poor quality video, and if you can set it to the lowest quality possible. Then roll the dice twice. The first roll is the number of seconds the video will play before you pause it. The second number is the number of minutes you will wait between pauses, before you can resume your download. For extra...fun?...if you are watching the video between 9:00 in the morning till about 8:00 at night, double the wait time, if it's a weekend triple it. If you can get through the whole video, then congratulations you just experienced dial-up. That was the reason they didn't stream movies and t.v. back then cause My Little Pony would have turned into Gone with the Wind.

So yeah dial-up sucked!

The Christening of a Frybaby

      I am guilty of loving yard sales. There is something about them that draws me in like a mosquito to a bug zapper. I love finding bargains! Also! A yard sale is the best place to furnish your first apartment, without having to resort to the dreaded spool table. If you don't know what I'm talking about Google it. I give you a tip it's not the fancy thing in the sidebar. So awhile back we went scavenging though some local yard sales and found the thing that automatically makes your house a home...a frybaby. It was glorious, and a steal at five dollars. We bought it, and I took it home. I am happy to share with you below the christening of our cute little frybaby. We couldn't be prouder of it!

So there it is, all frying away, but what was it's maiden voyage (well maiden for us)?

Why it's french fries, and not just any french fries, oh no! We christened this bad boy with chilli triple cheese french fries! Let's continue...

I'll admit the chilli goes a long way to curbing my appetite, but what do you want from a can?

There is the holy cheese trinity cheddar, fiesta blend, and for a little fine quality Itallian style.

Oh yeah, and the sour cream. We mustn't forget the sour cream. My only heartbreak was I didn't have any bacon.

The first layer was the fiesta blend, and the next layer was our fancy Italian mix.

Finally we add the cheddar cheese, but we aren't done yet...

Then in an almost euphoric frenzy the chili and yet another layer of cheese was added. In the final throes of ecstasy the sour cream was added. It looked glorious, it tasted glorious. The next day however...well let's just say I have a new found appreciation for the padded toilet seat. The frybaby has gone on to fry many things, and will soon make it's first batch of beignets. It was completely worth five dollars.

Because sometimes Adults need supervision to...

Welcome to my nightmare!

I think Alice Cooper said that. Or maybe it was my Aunt Alice, I dunno. Anyways,  I will freely admit I spent at least a couple of minutes trying to come up with a witty opening line There is something rather daunting about starting a blog. The first entry you pressure yourself to write something that will make people run to you in droves. Well the fact is, I am, alas, not Ernest Hemingway, or well maybe that's a good thing, because if I was I would be dead, and if I was blogging it would mean the dead learned how to use computers. Which is either cool or really terrifying depending on your ideas.

So the good news is I don't have regular internet, so that means you will not be bothered with my two am pot rant on the deep dark meaning behind Are You Afraid of the Dark episodes. However you WILL be subject to the completely sober rants of the deep dark meaning behind Thundercats. So yeah, hang out relax, and lets have some fun. After kids aren't the only ones that sometimes need supervision!