Tangled in a World Wide Web

Well, it's August in the South... On a good day, it's 96º with only 70% humidity. Most days, though, it's more like 101º+ with 80% or better. Either way it's hot enough to make the devil sweat. It's been a while since I've written. It seems I only write when I'm down, frustrated, or mad. Not that I haven't been all of those things a few times since I wrote last but, sometimes I just drink instead. This is one of those times that I dread each year... It is the month of Woulda... The 6th woulda been my grandfather's birthday - this year he woulda been 89. The 8th woulda been my 23rd anniversary. The 24th marks 6 years since I went back to school after 18 years. I guess if I woulda done better in high school, it wouldn't have taken so long. I guess if I woulda gone to a better college, I woulda had better job by now. Speaking of the job, this month also marks my anniversary on the job. The pay is not bad for a puppet but I just never was the puppet ...

I watched American Idol tonight and I have just about had it with this show. I have watched from Season 1 and it has just gotten more and more annoying. Tonight, there was approximately 45 minutes of screeching and caterwauling and 10 minutes of stupidity (not contestants) and a five minute "recap" of the talent found.  The new judge is, in the words of our favorite cranky judge, "forgettable". She adds nothing to the show or the competition. The original judges are still the same, sometimes annoying, sometimes strange, sometimes just plain rude. Tonight, I was offended. I have never been on the AI website forums before but I signed up (another annoying process) to be able to spend my two cents. (This is more or less a copy of my post there.) I have to insert a brief summary of the incident for the ten or twelve people who don't watch so that they can follow the logic... This is an excerpt from another post from the forum... ...the auditions in Louisville ky, t...