Suddenly Seventeen

I promise my lack of recent posts has nothing to do with the Writers strike.

I've had a cold for a few weeks. That's not all that uncommon for me. A few days of a bad cough turns into a few days of a runny nose turns into a few days of just not feeling good and then the cough comes back. It's pretty minor and I've never gone to the doctor for it. It's just a cold. A doctor's visit would be a waste of time, mine and his.

I took two days off from work this week mainly just to take two days off from work. My boss asked that I bring in a doctor's note. A doctor's note for a common cold. By the time I got to the doctor's, I felt fine, my one symptom, a runny nose, being completely cleared up, and I was rehearsing how I would justify to the doctor coming in. "My boss needs a note," was about the extent of it.

I'm losing track of my story. It turns out, while I felt healthy, I had a temperature, 99.1, and she said my glands were swollen and then said I had a sinus infection, which I think is just a fancy word for a cold. It all happened very quickly and I forgot to ask for a note.

The weird part is at the pharmacy. As the pharmacist handed me my meds, she says to me, "You may want to call your insurance company." I'm not sure what it was but I knew I was guilty of something and turned bright red. She explained that the insurance company has my birthday as May 6, 1990. Each part is pretty close, but altogether, it's way off.

So, while it's nice to be ten years younger, I think I need to make a phone call. I'm curious though how my doctor's office didn't pick up on it.

Happy Veteran's Day

Happy Veteran's Day everybody and thanks to all the veteran's everywhere... or at least all the ones on our side. Today is also significant as it marks the 37th anniversary of the exploding whale.



Yes, the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds. The next line's great too... "alright Craig you can take your hands out of your ears."

Ratings

If I ran a blog empire I would want people to rate my posts as easily as you can rate articles on Yahoo!, CDs at Amazon, or determine the fate of fallen gladiators. I wait... I do run a blog empire! I do want people to rate my posts! Now, if blogger just let me do it I would be a happy camper.

Yahoo! lets you rate each article with a 5 star option. Amazon does the same thing with all it's products. On Yahoo!, you can give movies grades A to F and you can give people the thumbs up or down on their Answers feature. All these are great and wonderful, and would be a great addition to my blog. Well... either a great addition or a short-lived, highly depressing experiment.

Personally, I don't think a five point scale has the range to get a true sense of your opinion towards something. And a ten point scale is too over-used and ten is an arbitrary number anyways, so I am introducing what is to my knowledge the first ever 30 point scale. Thirty points will eliminate ugly decimals, while giving you a broad range to choose from.

It may sound crazy, but it's not - it's revolutionary. Think of the best movie you've ever seen - say it's Home Alone. You think Home Alone is the greatest movie ever made. You especially like the one scene with the old guy in the church. Home Alone would then score a 29. That's right. Nothing ever gets a 30, because something better will always come.

Now let's think of the worst movie ever - say, for whatever reason, you hate the movie Jaws III. Simple enough... it gets a zero. Why can there be a zero and no thirty? Why can there be a zero on a 1 to 30 scale? Because things can always suck.

Anyways, I fear if I drag this on any longer I will start to lose points... even more points than I lost for mentioning that I would lose points for dragging this out. So with no further ado, I urge everybody everywhere to use my new and improved ratings every second of every day.

Or at least until I can convince blogger to give me some sort of rating scale option of its own.