Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich. for Wednesday, December 19, 2007

For some reason, a peculiar twist of my mind visualizes a completely different scenario than the one that was intended, in the new Starbucks commercials that are running now, during the holiday season. In one, a woman encounters a bear while walking in a snow-covered forest setting. She approaches the bear and puts her arms around the surprised bear, giving him a “ bear hug.” The incredulous bear raises his paws and hugs her back, in a message obviously intended to convey the spirit of the... Sign in to see full entry.

My computer is driving me crazy! It is capriciously changing the colors of the icons on my desktop display, making very irritating blip sounds that forced me to turn down the volume, which I don’t really use anyway. I have to repeatedly restart my dial-up connection, it refuses to allow me to browse through my favorite writers on our blog site, and when I attempt to leave a comment, it kicks me off in the middle of one and puts me back into my own site without warning. It is even slower than... Sign in to see full entry.