Crabby Blogging Lady

This may come as a surprise to you, but I tend to be a little high-strung. For that reason, I make great attempts at reducing stress. Part of my regimen is sharply reducing time spent reading or watching the news, which seems to jack up the stress to exponential numbers.

After an earthquake in the northeast and the constant stream of hysteria about Hurricane Irene, I’ve been peeking at the news a bit more often.

MISTAKE.

The headlines are simply…. disgusting. Horrible. Heart-wrenching. Devastating. High-blood pressure inducing! How can anyone live on such drivel and disaster every day?!

And I think the nasty headlines are planted there on purpose, to make people nervous. Seriously, DO WE CARE that an angry dad tossed his kid on the couch in anger?! Heck, when is THIS news?! When I was a kid, dads would whip off their thick leather belts and nail us. So the kid is tossed on a cushy sofa during an argument and this makes TOP NEWS?!?!?! Aren’t there any starving Ethiopians in the world, can’t the headlines scream the injustice about that?! And don’t get me going about all the persecution of Christians in the world– no major media outlet EVER talks about that! They’re too preoccupied writing about angry dads or Obama’s vacation plans.

So anyway. I feel my anxiety levels creeping up again. I’m spending more time in the Psalms this week. It does a body (and soul) good.

My bloggy pals are also trying to relax more, it seems. Some have been talking about their latest vacation, a time where they sit around and DO NOTHING all day. Another friend raises horses and is dreaming about her latest equestrian riding apparel dreams. Horses are so lovely, imagine riding them into the colorful sunset! Sounds good to me! Gives the mind a time of rest, something sorely needed in this day and age.

How about you? Are you sick of the media vitriol? I say we should tune them out completely. We don’t need those instigators. I’m gonna enjoy my life, how about you?

“I know, I’ll name her after my wife!” he says.

MEN.

NBC News reports that some Russian dude, wandering out in the Arctic because — heck after all, it’s just plain FUN to walk across the Arctic, ya know? — stumbled upon the mummified (frozen) remains of a baby mammoth. It’s actually an amazing find. The creature is preserved intact, even its organs!

According to Scientific Rule #836, any person who discovers something gets to name it.

Either this guy was short on names or he’s looking for a divorce. He named the woolly mammoth after HIS WIFE.

Nice move, dude.

Oh and get this– what do the other scientists want to do with the poor dead creature almost as soon as they get their latex-gloved hands on it? Rip it apart, extract its DNA and clone it!

What is WRONG with people. Didn’t they ever see Jurassic Park?!?!?! And have these knuckleheads considered how much a monster like this EATS??? With most of our feed grain going toward gas and with all the screaming alarmists yelling about “population explosion” and food shortages, they want to clone an EATING MACHINE?

You know, I’ve always felt that Google was just too stinkin’ big for its britches, and here it is in my face again– the Page Rank fiasco. Three months ago, my blogs were ranked by Google as 2′s, 3′s, and 4′s.

ALL OF A SUDDEN they are 0′s. All of them.

Oh, Google, you are (once again) showing your bias again. If Page Rank is based on inbound links and authority, HOW can my blogs SUDDENLY be 0′s? I have PLENTY of inbound links and authority.

Google is just becoming more and more irrelevant. That whole “Panda” thing where they changed their algorithm (again) to try and make their results more relevant just muddied the waters even more. I am a researcher, I search the Internet all day long. I’ve learned that if I type in the search words, for example, document imaging, I’m going to get about 3 pages of ADVERTISEMENTS and irrelevant results. It’s just over the top.

*sigh*

I wish someone would build a better search engine. Google needs a little reminding that they are not god.

On this blog, I don’t mind reader input. Heck, go right ahead and leave your comments, as long as they relate to the topic. I’ve seen a good share of caustic comments here, too. This is where I rant and I guess others want to rant, too, I suppose.

But I maintain other websites that are CLEARLY informational or personal blogs. CLEARLY. I’m not crabby on those sites as I am here. There, I may talk about bedding or museums or books or mowing the lawn or something. And yet people go on these rampages, leaving LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG comments filled with their cockamamie theses from high school with a zillion links to George Norry’s Coast to Coast. They insult me with expletives for “mowing the lawn wrong” and then get all vicious and, frankly, scary when I ban them from my websites. In some cases, I’ve feared for my safety and have considered getting Wholesale Insurance online lest any kook do something awful!

Many times, these irate weirdoes act as if they have a certain RIGHT to my website– a website that I have BOUGHT and PAID for with my own money and maintain it at my own expense. They have no “inalienable right” to comment on my sites! I have no obligation to approve their hate-laced, expletive-laden diatribes!

What the heck is WRONG with people?!

You wanna rant and swear and throw temper tantrums? GET YOUR OWN DURN BLOG.

I CAN’T BELIEVE that people are already talking about Halloween?!?!?! I saw some ladies on Twitter all a-twitterpated about it. Hey, gals, I know you love to sew but PLEASE. It’s August 4th. Halloween is THREE months away. And I hate the holiday, so it’s bad enough when October nears.

I honestly don’t understand how Halloween has become one of the most beloved “holidays” in this country. It’s like a Mardis Gras for irreligious people, I suppose– a time when folks can be grossly immoral and morbid, and yet it’s all OK because it’s a “holiday”!

People are just plumb weird.

What’s worse is that there is no respect for godly, moral activities anymore. How about baptisms and christenings, huh? Those used to be holy days, days celebrated by the family. Oh I still may see a handful of Christening Invitations or whatever, but nothing on par with Halloween.

Halloween is a reproach to our country, our society. People dress up and act like imbeciles. They destroy private property and scare people out of their wits and gorge on sugary snacks. Huh?