We had to replace our doorbell button the other day. That got me thinking about doorbells in general.
What I really dislike about doorbells is sometimes the house is dead silent and someone rings the doorbell and it just about gives me a heart attack because it is so loud. Other times we might have the TV blaring and the pizza delivery man rings the bell and we cannot hear it because it is not loud enough. The volume is rarely right.
So I thought it would be cool if someone would make a doorbell that would first sample the room’s background noise level before it rang, then made the ding-dong sound at a volume appropriate for the room. That would eliminate the heart attacks and the missed pizzas.
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
My friends, today the internet is under attack. Everywhere I turn on the web I’m faced with big “Stop SOPA” splash screens. Time after time today I’ve tried to access websites only to be stymied. When will this madness end?
Enough already!
I was against SOPA before the day started, but now I’m considering supporting it. Why?
OUT OF SPITE.
I want my internet back! Who’s with me on this?
(And no, I don’t support SOPA. Geez, give me a little credit.)
I saw a TV news story the other day about Beyonce’s brand new bouncing baby Blue. It said that she keeps her little precious in a completely transparent crib made out of acrylic. The weird thing is that the crib’s sides have rails and slats, just like a typical wooden crib.
Isn’t that odd? The purpose of a crib with rails and slats is to give parents the ability to see into the crib without having to walk up to it and disturb the baby. Since an acrylic crib is transparent, there is no need for rails and slats. So why not just make the crib with solid acrylic sides?
Wouldn’t this make the crib safer by eliminating the risk of the baby putting his head or a limb through the slats and getting stuck? I’m always hearing stories about babies being injured in their cribs from doing this.
I wasn’t paying attention at the gym after my workout the other day and suddenly found myself in the middle of the locker room, trying to figure out why it was the mirror-image of how it was supposed to be. It was like the showers and the lockers switched places.
Did they remodel overnight? No, I had walked into the women’s locker room! Oh shit!
I ran out of there with my eyes closed. No one was in there, thankfully. Otherwise I’d probably end up on some kind of sexual predator list for the rest of my life.
Anyone else ever walk into the wrong locker room?
My, you bloggers have been a busy bunch in the month and a half I’ve been away. I have a whole lot of blog posts to catch up on. I’m reading them, but forgive me for not commenting on many of them.
Does anyone else feel this way: completely relieved the holiday season is over? The weeks from mid-November to Jan. 2 is shear torture and I’m so glad they are over. Everything seems brighter outside (literally and figuratively). We got a little snow yesterday that stuck and now everything is beautiful white. I have a huge smile on my face now 
