Domestic Geek

Still nothing to do here at the old 2nd job. I had one task to do this morning that I drug out as long as possible, but as of 11 am--nada. So, I went to lunch early and have been surfing the Internet ever since. As soon as the art director gets back from lunch (he and the owner have been gone since 11:30), I might ask if I can go home. I feel guilty for getting paid to surf the web. Especially since I know this company can't really afford it. I'd rather be home throwing stuff out.

So, I'm driving from one job to the other this morning and pass Invesco Field. There's a huge banner on the side proclaiming you can win a $500,000 dream home and it gives the following web address:
winahomedenver.com

It's a raffle.

You have to spend $100 for a chance to win this house in Green Valley Ranch. Granted, with only 25,000 possible entries, the chances of winning this is better than the lottery, but still. Screw that.

We're all Britons today
My thoughts are with those suffering from the horrible terrorist attacks in London today.

All right! Nine more days. I like the skin that Miss Zoot has for the Half-Blood Prince. Change the skin to default if you don't see it. I'll do a screen cap tomorrow to save it for posterity.

I'm a late-comer to this whole Harry Potter phenomenon. I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone quite a while after it had come out in paperback and liked it well enough. I didn't understand the hysteria about the subsequent releases. In fact, I didn't read the other four books until after Order of the Phoenix was already in paperback. I am so hooked now, though. I told myself when I finished reading the last one that I could wait until the next one was out in paperback, but...I can't wait. I'm an addict, I admit it. I've read the first five more times than I can count in the last year. I check the HP fan sites daily. I go to J.K.'s site weekly to see if there are updates. Absurd? Maybe. Entertaining? Definitely.

I've got until Monday to order my book to have it delivered on Saturday, July 16th. Must remember to order it after Friday's payday.

I was linked from Instapundit today and when I went to look at my Branica stats, I see that I have had over 1500 hits from there. Whoa. I normally get between 18-35. I didn't get that many hits of people looking for the infamous Toys 'R' Us singing bunny commercial. Everybody but one guy has been a lurker, though. Sorry I don't have anything interesting to say.

I also noticed that somebody found me by searching for "LaDonna (lastname removed) blog". I took all references to my full name off the ol' blog quite a while ago. Will the cached versions of my site ever go away? I'm hesitant to start a professional life when all people have to do to find my lunatic rantings is do a google search on me. I'm really regretting having put my last name in the blog at all. Lesson learned. Maybe it is time to switch this thing to a different domain. I'm thinking of letting ladonnasworld.com go when it expires in January, anyway. We'll see. It would've been nice to find out who was looking for me, though. It's not like a have a really common name.

Of course, that may not totally help. Even though I found no reference to his full name in it, the blog of sex offender and accused murderer Joseph Duncan was found. Maybe the goDaddy site linked it originally or something or a newspaper drug it up. Who knows? Reading some of those entries was chilling, though.

Damn, that embroidery machine went for $1100. What a steal! *sigh* I need money.