Why does most of the candy world hate chocolate so much? What I mean is that, like the cheese world, producers make the most awful product that we as consumers will tolerate. Why is that a 5 pound box of some easter candies cost the same as one bar of really good chocolate? Same with cheese and coffee. I can get a 5 pound can of that red or blue coffee-like stuff for what 13 ounces of what my coffee snob self buys? I can get a big block of that yellow cheese food stuff for what a small wedge of my favorited improved Irish cheese costs? Have we as a nation forgotten what quality is? I’m ranting, so don’t get all “buy American” on me. I concede that there are quality American made products. It is just that in our minds, if I have $5 to spend I’m gonna buy the biggest bag or box or can I can get. No problem with that. I would rather spend my $5 on the best I can get. A matter of philosophy. I’m an empty nester and don’t have teenagers to feed, I can afford to be pickier.
What if we all stopped buying the least palatable option and demanded a better, more nutritious product? Same with computers. What if we stopped buying, say, a certain giant’s software until they made it more like, for instance, another software giant’s product that as an example, works? Is that vague enough to avoid a lawsuit? I see the same things with houses. I go into a lot of houses. I was in one that I just loved this week. I will never be able to afford it, but why can’t we have affordable houses that are built with that kind of quality? Alas, I am living in America, not Fantasyland.
Speaking of fantasy, I will never get my life organized. I blame the organizer makers of the world. I want a digital, portable, paper based, fountain pen friendly system that writes down what I mean instead of what I wrote, or didn’t as is generally the case. I want an organizer that is small and large and easy to find and will fit in pocket and won’t break or get lost and has a built in spell checker and makes coffee and always has a bar of dark chocolate in it. I’d buy one of those. And is water proof. And never runs out of power. And is free.
I want to talk about the nice weather we have been having this week, but I won’t gloat in the face of the awful weather most of the country has been having. Well, not much. Don’t all of you decide to move to Florida, It is too crowded already. But if you do, I can help you buy a house. (shameless plug)
If any of you have asked me questions in the comments that I haven’t answered, please look in my FAQ. I have answers to your questions about blogging and how to reach me and spam and hackers in there. If I don’t, I will soon.
I have joined the twitter-verse. I don’t tweet much, but look for me to start ramping that up soon. It may only be a pithy comment or two each day, but follow me anyway. I have a link on my main page.
I have been doing this for over a year now. I am kinda surprised that I stuck with it, but I have. Thank you to all who encourage me to keep it up. I hope that you get as much from my mad ramblings as I do by writing them.
Why is it that auto-correct only works when I don’t want it to? And who put the ; key closer to the letters than the ‘ key. I seldom use the ; key but use the ‘ key all the time.
I have stacks of paper to organize (those messy little gremlins are back at work) and houses to sell and rent. See y’all next week.
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