Welcome to another Two Ton Tilly Rant.

I have been trying surveys. I believe that I mentioned them in an earlier post. Well, I am fed up with one particular supposed survey call INBOX DOLLARS.COM. They promise 50cents for every e-mail read. However, they only give credit of one cent. Then when you try to actually get paid for any time and effort put into their activities, you get told that you can’t get paid until you achieve a credit way above what you supposedly have.

In other words, a royal RIP OFF. A lot of time and eye sight wasted on hidden spam and advertising. Nothing has been achieved except to tick off someone who isn’t afraid to label a thief for being a thief. So, beware of INBOX DOLLARS.COM. Their scheme is nothing more than a ploy separate you from you money and time.

Well, ate breakfast this morning. Don’t usually do that though.

My husband and self went to a buffet place that serves breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings. We ate ourselves silly, enjoyed every bite. Left there feeling so full that thinking wasn’t easy. Where we live we have a number of places where that is possible. Found a new place that has catfish. YUM! I know that not everyone likes fried catfish, but with us it is a genuine pleasure.

So, out of all the places we can go, we have: pizzas, Chinese, Tai food, American , catfish, more pizza, Mexican food, salad bars, Japanese food. This is in the middle of Texas after all. We don’t even have to leave the county. Choice is amazing. In a nearby county, we have a military base, and there are restaurants with other choices available. As I sit here right now thinking about all the types of foods available, I am still so full, that I can’t even think about eating a single thing. Don’t usually do this because of the prices of things, but once in a while it is nice to get out and not have to cook.

Am I spoiled? Probably am spoiled, I do live in the USA after all. We as Americans do have choices not available everywhere else. I’m glad and happy to be an American. We wouldn’t have so many choices of types of food if others from other countries hadn’t come here, though. I wonder if they are glad to be in America also?

Recently here in Texas we have had a lot of storms, with the resulting damage to the areas around.

The authorities are trying to clean up what was brought down, and trying to reconnect downed power lines. However, on the other side of the world, the country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) still has bodies floating around in streams, inside the wrecked houses, in lakes. The supposed ruler has focused his attention on the capital city and is ignoring all the rest of the country.

I know that our government messed up when Katrina hit in the south of the US; but, nothing like this blatant disregard for what is morally needed. Any people that need food in the country have been getting spoiled goods. The list goes on and on. Those people need our prayers.

The BBC online has been keeping an eye on the goings on there and it is horrific.

Have you ever tried to find a parking space in a crowded lot, only to find that some person has taken two spaces?

It happens to me all the time. That makes it hard because many times I have to walk with a cane. My car has one of those handicapped plates on it, so I am allowed to park in one of those special spaces. Too many times I’ve looked for a spot only find that a regular person has taken a handicapped spot.

I’ve wanted to do something about it: call the cops (they have too much to do though), flatten a tire (that’s illegal), TP the car (that’s vandalism). Oh well, daydreams. HA

Found a site on the net that tells it all – I Park Like an Idiot.com.

The pictures are awesome. If you have a chance, check it out. The one that got me was the underwater plane…yes, plane.

Maybe it’s just me. I don’t know. All I know is that a particular type of search engine..doesn’t.

I keep getting messages..it can’t find the site…the site has expired…the site doesn’t exist! It does not seem to matter that I had just been using that particular site when BAM it’s gone and I’m looking at a poor excuse why it no longer is there. How can a site NOT exist when it had been getting used? I don’t know. I have found myself yelling at the monitor, calling it a liar, and worse. I know it is just a machine. It is not its fault. That doesn’t make it any less frustrating though.

I have no understanding of why this would happen. I have a firewall, and virus protection; so, my machine should be safe from those thugs that like to mess around with other people’s things. Programs only do what they are programed to do…I thought. Sometimes it makes me feel as if there is a bogeyman just waiting to surprise me with another useless unreasonable message. I almost wish that I could mess him up with Crisco in his hair or Vasoline on his monitor screen. That makes a pretty picture doesn’t it?

I feel better now. My rant has ‘expired’ sort of, at least until the next time.

i have found a site that helps me to relax.

It is filled with pictures of kittens. It also has an alternate site that lets you see pictures of puppies, too. Being able to see these beautiful animals is very relaxing. The animals come in all shapes and sizes, along with many different poses. There are over 6,000 pictures that you can browse through. Even if you are not able to have a pet where you live, going to the site will give you a chance to see animals in many different moods.

It is beautiful.

Kitten Break.com is the site.

There is a commercial that I’ve seen on TV that irks me. It is not one I’ve mentioned before.

It involves cell phone service. A father gripes to his kids about how many minutes they use. Never mind that the girl has gotten excellent grades on a college course, never mind that his son almost kills himself ,destroys the garage, totals the car. The father can only see a bill. He doesn’t care about anything else.

His actions kill the girl’s excitement about achievement, the boy..in shock from almost being killed…does not understand why the gripe about a phone, and not the car or garage. The father’s priorities need to be rearranged. Not about the phone bill, but about his family.

Have you seen office furniture that has 5 wheels? How about those IV stands that you get in the hospital?

They never, repeat NEVER roll in a straight line. You tug them, pull them, get your toes banged, run into walls…..ARG !!!!!!

I use a rolling office chair for computer business. I have mashed my toes, banged my ankles, hit the table legs under the table, tried to scoot from one place to another. It is very frustrating. Why 5 wheels? 4 wheels seemed to work just fine. When in the hospital, the IV stand wouldn’t go where I needed it to go. Having to visit the bathroom became a nightmare. Considering that the hospital pumped me full of fluids, that was quite often. The IV stand caused so much trouble, that I carried it !! That was the only way that I could get access to the bathroom. NO JOY at all.

The person who created the 5 wheel stand should be forced to use only items with 5 wheels to see the curse that he has given to humanity.

No, I’m not talking about messing with a court room jury. I’m talking about finding a way to make something work without necessarily following the exact rules of repair.

I imagine that we’ve all done that at one time or another. A coat hanger for a TV antenna is a good example of jury rigging. I’ve heard it called many things over the years, some of which I will not speak of. Sideways engineering is another moniker for jury rigging. Either way, it is sometimes a shortcut to getting something to work, or even the only available choice when there aren’t the needed parts around. My husband and I have learned many different ways to accomplish repairs when there is a lack of money.

One place we lived had bad TV reception…therefore the coat hanger. Although he found that a bicycle rim hanging on the wall worked in a very satisfying manner. He told me that old spring mattresses flung onto a roof usually worked better. I imagine that the neighbors didn’t like it though.

Oh well, here’s to improvisation. Many inventions came about today because of need, or just plain jury rigging.

If you enjoy the internet and like to find different sites…well have I found something.

Some friends introduced me to a special service called Stumble Upon. I had wondered how to find things to look at when I didn’t even quite know what I wanted to see. Since then I’ve been looking at a lot of different things. It’s fun and easy. If you look at the bottom of this post you will see different icons in a row.

If you notice the icon that is blue & green and has an ‘s’ and a ‘u’ in it, all you have to do is click on it then have fun. Try it out sometime. I did and haven’t regretted it.