It's Ventin' Time!

I realize I haven't posted here in a while, but I've had a frustrating day and I needed to get some stuff off my chest.

1. Why is it that no one ever seems to get it when I'm being facetious? I have another blog where I mainly write about sports, and I often make posts that have a tongue-in-cheek tone. I try to be funny but I always get stupid comments asking me how I could think something or other. For real? I make statements that no one who knew anything about sports would make and they think I'm being serious. It's frustrating because you'd like to think someone out there got it and appreciated the humor, but most of the comments indicate otherwise.

It's not just on my blog though. Even in real life people don't seem to pick up on it. I'm I just too subtle or am I just a really poor communicator?

2. Why does Lou Piniella keep putting Bob Howry in the game? Hasn't he figured out by now that he isn't good?

3. I got a message from Firefox asking me to upgrade to the new version. I'd gotten this message before and I figured I'd just do it so I'd stop getting the message. If you're using an older version of Firefox I have some advice for you: Don't upgrade to Firefox 3.0. It has this new URL bar, apparently called the AwesomeBar, and it's a piece of crap. It gives you way too much information, like the headers of the pages you've visited and things that are already in your favorites. It might not be so bad if you could turn off this particular option, but you can't. I'm really upset, but I'm not sure how good an idea it is to reinstall an old version of Firefox due to security issues.

I'm aparently not the only one who feels this way judging by comments I've seen on other forums, but Firefox apparently thinks their new URL bar is the best thing since disposable diapers and intends on keeping it that way. I just want to type in the URL without getting a bunch of crap. Is that too much to ask?

4. It's hard being a young single guy. I work with several guys in their 40's and 50's and they constantly make references to me getting married and having children and such. I'm really getting sick of it, because this is a touchy issue for me. I don't have a girlfriend and the longer I live the more likely I think it is that I never will. I'm not so sure I'm cut out to be a father either. I've told them these things before but they apparently don't think I'm being serious, because they insist on bringing it up over and over again. Why don't people just listen?

Anyway, it's been a rough day. On my "Idol" blog I had been planning to post another Top Ten list but never got around to it. Perhaps I should work on that, even though no one even cares about Season 7 anymore. Hopefully Season 8 will be better, but I doubt it will be if they tinker with it too much.