So, here I am...
I'm getting ready to paint a piece of equipment and masking things off with newspaper. I'm seeing ads for homes. Not just any homes, but for homes that cost 3/4 million dollars. Full page ads. Do they have a picture of the house...NO! They have a picture of some "Drop Dead Georgeous Babe" riding a bike. Its not just the tool catalogs and shop calenders anymore, folks. Realtors have taken up the practice of using the "Gratuitous Babe" in their advertising. OH, NO, NO, she's wearing more than 14¢ worth of fabric, but they make darned sure that her butt looks like "two hard boiled eggs in a wet handkerchief" and that its in very plain view. So, anyway, I painted the goddamn thing and most of their butts too.
Then, I get home.
In the mail box is a CD. Upgrade to MSN-8 Today! ("It's better with the butterfly", they said.) Let me tell you about MSN and then we'll get back to the CD.
I had a great service. I was with Qwest.net. I had purchased DSL and was thrilled with it. Then one day Qwest decides that they don't want to handle their broadband customers anymore and kicked them all into MSN Broadband (like it or not). MSN is not a broadband server. Its powered by, yes, you guessed it, Qwest! Well, it doesn't make any difference how good Qwest was before. Microsoft Technology has so polluted this service that it isn't worth having. I have never been so dissatisfied. I'm looking at Mindsweep with Earthling (or whatever its called). Only costs a dollar more.
I've never used the MSN stuff that comes on the pc so I'm not going to upgrade. Cuz, for one thing, the next day, my boss says she upgraded and now nothing works. Typical, I think. It took her two days to get the computer back up to where it was only as aggravating as it used to be. (God! We do love our PC's...don't we.) But, being curious, I plug in the CD and here is what pops up in the auto-run...Look at this. They want me to use this so they impress me with a picture.
MY GOD!!! Its a thimble-headed gherkin.
Thimble-Headed Gherkin