Tuesday.

Two’s Day?

Too’s Day?

Tuesday.

Today.

Tuesday.

Ruse day?

Fuse day?

Muse day?

Snooze day?

Tuesday.

New’s day.

Pew’s day.

Stu’s day.

Shoes day.

Tuesday.

Booze day?

Whose day?

Moos day.

Sue’s day.

Hu’s day.

Foo’s day.

Tuesday.

Bruise day.

Use day.

True’s day.

Zoo’s day.

Roo’s day.

Tuesday.

Dues day.

Ewe’s day.

Goose day.

Tuesday.

Loos day.

Q’s day.

Views day.

Tuesday.

Two’s Day?

Too’s Day?

Tuesday.

Today.

Hey, everybody!

It’s Monday night!

It’s time for red lines!

That’s bananas!

Yeah, I don’t get it either.

Apparently, the banana phaser photo below ranks on page 3 of Google Images in a search for “banana is scared photos.”

Okay, wait… There’s something in in the way so it won’t fit…

Hold please…

Banana phaser…

Banana is scared photo?

Okay, here we are…

It is #1 in a search for banana phaser photos, but no one searches for that.

Still, I’m not sure I see the connection between “banana is scared” and “banana phaser.” In fact, the only place “scared” is even mentioned is in JD’s comment.

You would think that, if a banana is a phaser, it wouldn’t be scared of anything. After all, it’s armed!

Then again, it could be afraid of being set into overload…

I saw this on one of the food channels. It may have been on an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, but I’m not sure.

Anyway, you put a hamburger patty in between two grilled cheese sandwiches.

No pictures, sorry.

You see, the two grilled cheese sandwiches serve as the bun, and the cheese is built-in! I used American cheese on one sandwich and Muenster cheese on the other.

Now, that’s good eats!

Found a link with a recipe, not that you really need a recipe. Just slap a hamburger patty between two grilled cheese sandwiches. Top as desired. How hard is that?

At any rate, here’s a recipe: The Grilled Cheese Cheeseburger.

Can a design be sophisticated and cute?

Guess I may find out soon.

Anyway, sometimes I hate teasing y’all, but, you know, there are times I cannot come up with something to write while at the same time I have things to write about but I can’t tell you. Or rather I don’t want to tell you just yet. Which means part of me wants to tell you, part of me says I can’t tell you yet and, since I occasionally listen to myself, all you get is a teaser.

Thus, the image above. Which is a teaser. Though not exactly. It’s a representation of a teaser. Or, rather it’s not related to what I’m doing except in theme. That is, what you see here you won’t see on what I’m working on, except in a completely different way, which is to say the image you see here won’t be seen at all.

And, while you figure out that hot mess, I’ll get back to work.

Oh, and say “Hi!” to Mike Aragona, who is, at the moment, the only one who knows what I’m talking about. And, by that, I mean that he knows slightly more than you do but only slightly. Or more.

Basically, you’re all like Pete’s tiny mushrooms. In which case, Mike would be the big mushroom that’s blocking you from the moonlight, but you’re all pretty much stuck growing in the dark.

You know what would be cool? A glow-in-the-dark mushroom. Oooh. Must add that to my project list…

Okay, since I don’t know if I’ll have power or not, I’ll go ahead and schedule a blog post. So, you may see new blog posts appear, but if you don’t otherwise hear from me, it’s likely because I have no power. (In other words, I wrote this post yesterday, which was Wednesday.)

Anyway, after last year’s blackout, apparently as soon as I got power back, I rushed to do some very important things, like taking pictures of bottles so you don’t have to.

I like to think of it as a valuable public service. One day, when I get a newer camera, I’ll be able to take higher resolution images–and not have to clear out the camera’s memory as often–which will be even better for posterity. Prosperity too, depending upon your perspective.

The day after posting bottle pictures, I shared some links for boosting traffic to your blog. From “bottles” to “boosting”–it works. Just think of this blog as a wild game of Scrabble.

After that, I wrote “How the Renter-Investment Mentality Undermined the Ownership Society” which got some decent feedback.

Finally, on that Friday, I posted “The Audacity of the Empty Post” which demonstrates the value of appreciating those days when I have a useful post. Because, you know, I just can’t keep up the pace of useful posts several days in a row. So, appreciate the ones you do get.

Finally, again, I closed out the week by “Reaping the Rewards of Ferret Bueller.” Incidentally, it was just a couple months ago that the chihuahua pack finally finished off the last of that order.

And, on that note, should I have no power at the moment, please keep in your thoughts the shivering chihuahuas.

Well, that was a strange spam… Either the spammers are getting desperate or someone’s trying to be innovative.

At any rate, judging from the subject of a spam message I just received, apparently they have a medicine now that’ll help men in the bedroom plus fight the swine flu (H1N1).

I wonder if they call it Tamiviagra? (Tamiflu + Viagra — Ugh, if I have to explain it, it’s not funny anymore.)

Anyway, I suspect it was just their sneaky way of trying to get people to click the link in the eMail to visit their website.

In which case, it didn’t work on me.

Oh, and I just received another spam message trying to sell Viagra (or fake Viagra–who knows really?). You know, if you want men to go to your website to buy Viagra, maybe you ought not to have “laugh” in your domain name. Just saying.

It’s gonna be a windy Christmas…

Okay, so it’s not Christmas yet, but it’s the Christmas season so, you know, close enough.

While other parts of the midwest are being hit with snow, we’ve got high winds. The winds are supposed to be about as strong as the remnants of Hurricane Ike that we went through last year.

The news media is already warning of potential power outages which, combined with the cold temperatures moving in, would not be good. Windstorm Ike gave us power outages that last for days in some areas around here. And, given that my confidence in the local power company is pretty low (seriously, I think we’ve had more power outages in the past couple years since this company bought out the previous power company, than we had power outages in the prior 20 or so years), I’d be surprised if there weren’t power outages.

I still hope they won’t be, especially for all those who might end up stuck in the cold.

At any rate, if you don’t hear from me for a couple days, you’ll know why. Not that anyone would really notice but, just in case, now you know.

Almost two years ago, I did a post entitled “It’s Yblagulous!”

When checking my stats for this month so far, I saw that 7 people came to my blog using the keyword “yblagulous” which led me to look up that old post. Don’t know why “yblagulous” suddenly garnered interest this month; I don’t recall seeing it in my stats in previous recent months.

As you recall (which you will if you read that old post), I originally came across “yblagulous” in my search for keywords related to “motivation.”

It was a term coined by Dr. Mike as part of an experiment.

Unfortunately, I didn’t note how many websites Google found in a search for the term, but it is now up to (or down to?) 2,300 sites. If I remember right, Dr. Mike was on page one of the search results, which allowed me to track down the source pretty easily.

Now, he’s in the middle of page two and I’ve managed to score the number 1 spot in Google.

Don’t worry, Dr. Mike, I’m pretty sure I’m not profiting off the term. Maybe you should create some t-shirt designs and put them up on CafePress. But if you use the phrase “It’s Yblagulous!” I might want some royalties. Haha!

Apparently, though, the word has apparently caught on as a word meaning “poorly defined”, which was one of Dr. Mike’s definitions for the word. If you do a search in Google, you’ll see a few sites that are indicating “yblagulous means poorly defined.”

I think we need to prod Dr. Mike into doing his write-up of part 3 of his experiment.

To the regular readers of my blog, this post is not directed at you. This post is directed at the spammers. If you’re a regular, do not comment on this post. This is going to be one of my honeypot posts. That is, if anyone leaves a comment, such as “Wow! Great post! I would like to read more. I have bookmarked your blog. Thanks.” then I will instantly know the commenter is a spammer, a.k.a. moron. This post has no real value whatsoever and, if you are a human being reading this, you will know not to leave a comment. Okay?

Many bloggers have apparently been suffering a rash of comment spam lately. Can’t say that I’ve noticed any measurable increase, but Akismet does a pretty good job of catching them, so I don’t notice. Akismet deletes them too, so I never even have to see most of them. Sure, some slip through but no biggie really. Anyway, on to the post for the morons…

Dear Morons,

First off, this is a blog. This is not a forum. So, if you leave a comment greeting the other forum members and expressing your joy at becoming a member of this forum, you are a moron. Either that or an automated piece of software, in which case the person on whose behalf you are spamming is a moron.

Next, do not leave a comment on this post. I am giving you fair warning not to comment on this post. If you do comment on this post, especially if you leave a comment saying how useful this post was, then I will know you didn’t read this post and that you are a moron. Either that, or you are a bot, in which case, once again, the person on whose behalf you are spamming the Internet is a moron.

Third, do not leave a comment on this post. Seriously. I am mentioning this twice. Three times if you count the preface to my regular readers at the beginning of this post. Thus, if you follow through and leave a comment on this post, you are a moron.

In fact, I had titled this post “Dear Morons” but I have just now changed the title to “Dear Morons (do not comment on this post)” so now you have absolutely no reason to comment on this post. If you do, you are a moron. If you leave a comment, you will be marked as a spammer, your comment will be deleted, and you’ll probably wind up on Akismet’s blacklist. On top of that, you could become prematurely bald, your family jewels may wither and fall off and your aura might turn a greenish shade of black. So, I am giving you fair warning: DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS POST.

Really. Can I make it any clearer for you? If you comment on this post, you are a moron. Here, I’ll do it also in italics so you cannot miss it. If you comment on this post, you are a moron.

Finally, if you are a real person reading this and you’re spamming blogs indiscriminately because some marketing “genius” told you that’s how to market your product online and make money, stop it. Ask yourself how much money you’ve really made by spamming the Internet and pretty much incurring the wrath and undying hatred of bloggers everywhere? If you’re not making the money you thought you would, it’s time to stop listening to those people that advise you to build your web business on spam. Instead, you should check out my course, The Internet Marketing Backstage Pass, where you’ll learn the right ways to build and market your online business.

Or, you can continue being a moron and leaving spam comment after spam comment, which will end up being deleted, and see little to no gain out of your efforts. Or the efforts of your little spam bot.