My Daily Musings

Well, I am still here at work today because we do not get out until noontime, but, really, what can I do today?  There really aren’t any customers to deal with it.  So, I am researching how to transfer my bookmarks from one computer to another and stumbled up a place where I can put all of my bookmarks in one place. 

The great thing about this site, Diigo.com, is that I can have all my bookmarks store on the Internet and it does not matter what computer that I am on.  Thus, if I am roaming, which I often am, I will have my bookmarks available whereever I happen to be. 

This raises bookmarks to a whole new convenient level.  Not only that, you can see other people’s bookmarks.  Thus, if someone is involved in a topic that is one you enjoy, you can find all of their bookmarks and participate in discussions with them.

All in all, it makes for a very interesting and convenient tool.  I recommend to everyone to check Diigo…you probably find it very useful!!!

Normally, on New Year’s, you can find me at the latest, hottest club.  But, tonight, we’ll be kickin it country style as a change of pace. 

After reading that Dolly Parton Back on Top of the Country Charts, I began thinking that I have not been to a country bar for a long time and remembered what fun I had the last time that I did go to a country bar.  And so, I began thinking about New Year’s plan and that it might be fun to get a big group of people, put on some country duds, and hit up the country bar scene on New Years.

I enlisted all of my friends and we have a collective mindset:  We are going to rock the country house tonight.  I have been passing around the latest top 20 country songs so we would not seem like country music invalids when we enter the bar tonight. 

Truth be told, I am SO excited.  When was the last time that I rode a bull?  It had to be at least 5 years ago.  I hope that I can still do it because it was that much fun.

Everyone is up for this unusual, extraordinary treat tonight.

If you all want to find us this New Year’s Eve, we’ll be kickin’ it country style and ya’ll know where!!!

Hope to see you there.  Happy New Years everybody!!!

Tonight, I am going to be cooking aspargus and it brings up some funny stories.

One of my favorite authors is a guy named Tom Robbins.  He is the author of many books but the one that I most love is called Jitterbug Perfume. 

Anyway, in this book he speaks of his deep infatuation with women and mentions that he even loves the smell of women after she has eaten asparagus because she omits a distinct aroma at this time.

So, it is with this story in mind, while I was looking for articles on How To Grill Asparagus that I found a women’s article called Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell?

Now, I know that almost all of you have eaten asparagus and gone to the bathroom at some point afterward.  You probably wondered, "Hmmm, what is that distinct smell?" and then you remember that you ate asparagus.

So, I have one question?

Does the smell of asparagus turn you on?

Today, Friday, December 18th, my company is being very unfriendly.  They are blocking our Facebook access at work.

Now, I sympathize with some people who write that, "My Kids Want To Use Facebook At School" but in the workplace, we are grown-ups so in my opinion this is rather ridiculous.

So, just to get them back, today at work I am not going to work.  Rather, I am investigating how to unblock Facebook at work so that I can still access Facebook even though, technically–quite literally, I am not supposed to be doing this.

It turns out that I am not alone in this issue.  Many people face the same thing and so a whole industry has cropped up around the idea of accessing blocked websites. 

This whole workaround is something known as proxy servers.  Proxy Servers allow you to appear like you are coming from somewhere else.  To use these, I can simply reconfigure my browser and off I go. 

Argghhh, it appears that I cannot reconfigure my browser at work–they’ve locked it! 

Dammit, these guys are pretty good but I’m better and I’ll find a way.  Buying beers for the tech guys always helps 

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