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On Monday morning I was on my way to work. The radio news break mentioned something just as I was pulling into the parking lot about how a recent survey found more than 50% of American’s who are living together are unmarried. Then this morning the news reported the population of our country has reached an estimated 300 million people.

This begs the question: How’s that abstinance only sex education policy workin’ for ya, Gee Dub? One would think, if people were following your policy all these unmarried cohabitants would make the population decrease or at least stagnate. I’m sorry, Gee Dub, stagnate was too big a word. Go look it up. Get back to me.

I have started to receive about 100+ comment spams per day. This is the reason why you don’t see your comment immediately after you post it– because I have it set so I have to approve it first, otherwise i’d have a million worthless spam comments. Anyway, if you have posted one recently and don’t see it up, let me know via email and try again. Thanks!

Eh, I don’t know where the days go anymore. It seems like all I do is work and sleep work and sleep. I know somehow that that’s not truly the case but I can’t seem to figure out where the rest of the time goes. Anyway, keep on checkin’ in because I haven’t gone anywhere.

So let me tell you about something that irks me… Parents who send their kids to school sick. Atleast 75-80% of the kids at school have been sick over the last two weeks. This could technically be considered an epidemic. On Monday we had almost 25% of the school population absent on one day. The unfortunate thing is that most of those kids returned the following day hacking, coughing, sneezing, and puking. Why? I ask. I feel like I need to wear a gas mask to work and collect hazard pay. Now I know that the parents side of this is that you can’t always take off work to stay home with your sick child but there has to be some other solution than sending a child with a 103 degree fever out the door to be looked after by the teachers. They’re just going to get sent home anyway. So why not keep them home in the first place rather than sending them to school for a few hours to infect everyone else? I say we close the school. In the meantime i’ll be off buying more bottles of hand sanatizer…

Alrighty, not too bad. I got myself a brand spankin’ new layout!! I’m very proud of this one because I did 90% of the changes through css which was time consuming at the time but made things much easier tonight. More importantly however, the photographs of the purple hydrangea used in the banner picture were taken by me. For as much as I adore photography, it was irritating to no end that the tulips from before were not my own. I had high hopes of doing a different sort of layout but until I can figure out how to stand in the middle of the highway, those pictures are not available.

Well, finally off to bed! Enjoy

If you happen to be stopping by right now and this is the top post, then what you’re seeing is probably a mess. I’m in the process of changing the layout so it looks funny but check back soon for something new

It’s that time of year again…. well, I can’t really say again. Afterall, December 16th was the one year anniversary of something-insightful.com. Yes, it was that day that I thought to myself, “Self, what the heck, you too, can have a domain” And I think now about what i’d have done with the hundreds of hours I spent trying to make something-insightful look moderately decent. So what I should say is that it’s that time of year where I try to spruce things up a bit on my site. And it was going pretty well too. I upgraded wordpress though you probably can’t tell. (I had lots of help on that, Thanks Dottie). I also am trying to convert everything over to using stylesheets but i’m failing miserably. It’s supposed to make things easier but at the rate i’m going it would be easier to make my cats stand up and dance. So for all my babbling about changes, you’ll probably not notice any of them. And that’s okay. I do have hopes of making a new layout with pictures that I took myself but right now i’m just looking for the perfect picture. Maybe by next Christmas

Who will be the 600th hit on my counter? I’m actually really impressed by this and as I’ve said before, none of my visits to my own page (to check the upload or whatever) count towards that number. And considering I don’t post a link in my instant messenger or anything, that’s quite a lot of hits! Maybe I should give a prize to the 600th person. You know, make confetti rain down on them as soon as they enter the site. Or I could bake that person a cake. Give them a new car… make them throw a football through a tiny hole 50 yards away. No wait, someone’s already doing that. So yeah, I guess you will just have to be satisfied with my undying gratitude, for taking that ticker just one more pace. And if I recognize your IP I just might give you a shout out Now isn’t that worth clicking for? I thought so!

Not much new to say except that I just added 3 new pictures to my picture gallery bringing the total to a whopping 4 pictures. I’ve been working on something new for my gallery for a while but it isn’t coming along the way i’d like. Eventually, when I find about 3-4 days where I have absolutely nothing to do i’ll be creating my photography webpage but in the mean time this will have to do: New Pictures

The first two pictures were taking during the worst of Hurricane Wilma which really, didn’t end up being much of anything. Winds were about 50 mph with some higher gusts but after the storm blew past we were blessed with just about the most beautiful day of weather that I’ve seen in a very long time. I’m hoping the hurricanes are done for this season because i’m sick of them!