OH FOR BLOG'S SAKE...

I feel it's only fair to warn you, this blog has no one topic. If you make it past this sentence, you must be very bored indeed...

I dunno what it's like in your neck of the woods, but for the past several weeks, gas prices have been plummeting like crazy. I drove past a gas station today where it was like $1.79 a gallon (for some reason I've become fascinated by gas prices... I follow them the same way some people follow baseball).

But what's extra-super-fascinating-supersized-with-a-side-of-fries is how many companies are still running ads on television, radio and newspapers that make reference to 'soaring gas prices.'

These companies spent MILLIONS to create ads designed to scare people into buying into their services because, after all, "...gas prices just keep going up - but WE'RE HAVING A SALE! So you can make up for the 'pain at the pump' by saving with OUR (fill in product or service here)!"

It just makes me wonder if a lot of middle management types are scrambling to make up statistics to make it seem as though it was worth investing truckloads of money into ads that HINGE on 'soaring gas prices' now that they're falling. Ah, to be a fly on the wall at some of those board meetings...

Ah well...

My XBOX360 is kaput, which sucks because we also use it as our DVD player. The good news is, it's under warranty... the bad news is, it'll take about 3 weeks to get it repaired.

But - see - look how spoiled I am! Lots of people had their homes engulfed in flames recently and here I am complaining about my precious broken toy. I am now filled with shame.

It's my hope that - with everything that's going on in the world today - perhaps this will be a holiday season where everyone sort of takes a step back and realizes what's really important in life. I know that sounds corny, but I get very corny around the holidays.

Anyway, that's all I feel like babbling about for the time being... I hope this blog finds you in well.

Enjoy the above goblins. They love you.