Xanapus' Lair

I don't blog here so it's better to go to my other blog which is a WordPress blog at www.xanapus.com/blog.  Thanks bunches.

Mike

Children in the band

OH MY GOD BECKY!

The kids next door came home from school and 2 of them have brass instruments!  I'm not exactly sure what kind but I can hear them pretty clear.  It's obvious to me that they have never played them before because the tune they are playing isn't even close to resembling a song.

I empathize with them though because when I was 11 or 12 I played the tuba every day when I got home from school.  My parents would only tolerate me playing it for 1 hour a day and sometimes they made me cut it short after only 10 seconds lol.  Sometimes I had to just practice my fingering.  Yes, I said fingering.

Now I know what I put my parents through all those years ago lol.

Jury Duty

I have something to say about jury duty.  Yes I realize that it's an important thing for the courts and all but the way they go about getting people to be on the jury sucks hard.

You get a jury duty notice in the mail and you have so much time to report and if you don't show up you go to JAIL!  WHAT!  How is that even fair?  It's like they are forcing people to go there instead of work and they don't even pay you that much money to miss work.  I mean it's one thing if you work at a McDonald's, you need the time off from that but what if you make thousands of dollars a week from commission and so you are losing money by going to jury duty.

That is so messed up that you can go to jail if you don't go.  I know that this has been going on for a long time but it just goes to prove to me that this country is not yet free.

Now I know that nobody is going to volunteer for Jury Duty but come on, why don't they recruit people who are out of work?  Why not make this an incentive to bring people in for jury duty.  Offer them a chance to make some money while they are out of work especially now that people are out of work.

It just sucks that they threaten you with jail time if you don't go to jury duty.  It's like the church threatening hell if you don't go to church which is worse than jail but I have a feeling that's where they got the idea to threaten jail.

And if you don't do jury duty and go to jail you will probably lose your job for being in jail and you won't be able to get a new one because now you have a record.  It's a trap.  They send people these post cards every year and you have no choice but to attend or face having a criminal record and not being able to get a job.

Great job government.

Solutions From Beyond

This is something I just found on Facebook.  It's a new show called Solutions From Beyond.  You can apply to be on this show.  Here is what it says in the site:

Do you have a conflict with someone that only a deceased loved one can solve?  Do you need to contact someone on the other side to settle a disagreement here on earth?

Apply here to be considered for this life-changing new television show featuring a gifted and renown medium who can take you on a journey to find a solution from beyond.

Personally I am a huge skeptic in the matter of people being able to talk to the dead.  I'm the type of person that I have to experience it to be a true believer.  If the psychic can tell me what nobody else knows, something that was between me and the dead person then I will truly believe.

The funny thing is, 2 of my favorite shows on TV are Medium and Ghost Whisperer lol.

Annoying Pop-ups

I hate pop-up ads so much.  It really pisses me off when I'm at a website and all of a sudden something pops up on my screen trying to sell me something.  It's one thing to see ads on a site because you can ignore them but the pop-up's are in your face.  Sometimes they take over completely and you are forced to just close the browser completely which gets rid of what you are looking at and then you have to reload it again.

I put ads in my blog at the very beginning of September with the hopes of making some extra money that I can use basically to pay for this site.  Unfortunately the InfoLinks one was causing pop-ups and I couldn't narrow down which one was doing it until today when I put in the Halloween theme.  I noticed that every time I went to my own blog I was getting pop-ups and it was pissing me off.

I was just going to scrap ALL of the ads because of it.  I got rid of the WidgetBucks ads but still had pop-ups.  Got rid of the Chitika ads but still had pop-ups.  Got rid of the InfoLinks ads and pop-ups ceased.  So, WidgetBucks and Chitika are back on and InfoLinks is gone.

So no more worries about pop-ups and if you still get them please let me know by commenting in any post and I will do what I can to find and eliminate the problem.

By the way, I still get paid per click for all the ads on my site so clicking is a good thing and there is no obligation on your part to order anything when you do click.  Sometimes what you click goes to free information anyway.  But clicking will help me pay for this site.