http://www.simplerandomness.com Random Thoughts on Many Random Things Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:30:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, it's time for a Monday morning gripe! Right now I live in a condo complex.  And it seems lately that almost once a week I am just amazed at the stupid things that I see happening at our trash dumpster. First, let me let everyone know about a very simple rule ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/i-live-near-a-bunch-of-idiots/ So at some point this week my allergies hit again.  I just have your common seasonal allergies, and they seem to hit me at the beginning and the end of the season.  But this time they decided to turn into a head cold as well! Honestly, I don't understand allergies at ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/allergies-are-not-my-friend/ When you're starting up a website, it's very important that you have a good and reliable web host.  The problem is that there are so many to choose from! I'm using a particular host, but honestly I think of changing it from time to time.  So as I've been thinking about ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/reliable-web-hosting/ Do you ever find yourself just eating the same thing all the time?  I'm finding I'm in one of those ruts where I really don't have much variety in my diet.  Here's a sample: Eggs, Toast, and Cereal Oatmeal, Hard-boiled Eggs, Banana Hamburger Patty with either rice or bread plus salad Some type of ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/eating-the-same-thing-every-day/ As I've already mentioned several times, I was in Las Vegas last weekend.  Now, Vegas is known for a couple of things, but one thing that I think is really worth going down there for is the good food!  I've eaten at a couple of restaurants down there and they've ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/the-paris-buffet/ I was in Las Vegas last week for a blogging conference (Blog World to be exact) and wish that I would have had time to do a little golfing while I was there.  But unfortunately I didn't... One of the cool things about going to Vegas is that there are lots ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/do-some-golfing-in-vegas/ So for the last couple of weeks I've gone away from Rockstar energy drinks and have instead been drinking Monster.  So far the results aren't too bad and I really like a few of their flavors! So for fun today, here are the rankings so far for the best flavored Rockstar ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/new-rankings-on-monster-and-rockstar-energy-drinks/ So this weekend I'm hanging out and learning a ton at BlogWorldExpo (which I'll write more about later) and I've seen a couple of people with these really really small laptops.  I have a 14" Dell and it works fine, but I could never imagine working off one of these ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/i-could-never-use-an-asus-eee/ I always assume that at least a portion of the people that read this blog from time to time are either currently online business owners or are at least thinking about it. Either way, if you're going to sell stuff online, you have to be able to accept credit cards.  Otherwise, ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/online-processing/ So lately I've been thinking a lot about doing more reading.  I used to do a lot of reading actually, but in recent years I've just been so busy with everything that I haven't had the time to do it. You know what has been great though?  We don't have TV ... http://www.simplerandomness.com/i-should-read-more/