I've got nothin'

So, here I am, writing a whole lot of nothing cause I don't really have anything exciting to write about. That means you're about to read a pile of random - enjoy!

1. I've come to realize that more of my friends are single rather than married. All those people I went to highschool with, and college with - I mean, these are people in their mid-20's, some pushing 30, and a lot, A LOT, of us are still single. What's the problem? Are we just too picky these days, or have our parents raised a generation of children who are so over the top cautious that we don't know how to risk falling in love? Either way, my list still stands.

2. My big blog survey is almost over. I don't imagine that the results are going to change much in the next hour or so, so I think its safe to talk about it. I laughed today when I saw that one more person voted for 'I read it every day!' - if that's so, how come it took you 2 weeks to vote on my survey? :P And thank you to the person who doesn't know what a blog is; I LOL'd (that means 'Loads of Laughter' in case you're wondering, to which I should post a link to a 22 Minutes episode, but I looked for it once and couldn't find it. I'm sure Tim could point you in the right direction though)

3. Speaking of the 11 people who voted.... I guess at least one of you has an IP address which is constantly resetting itself, which is throwing off my unique user hit count. So, I deleted it. It was nice thinking that 300 people had visited my blog, but it was a little far-fetched. I'll leave my hit counter up, although, probably half of those 1700 hits have been me checking my own blog. How lame is that?

4. I bought a case of beer yesterday. Its the first 2-4 I've had the pleasure of dragging up the stairs into my apartment. Its my summer stock. We'll see how long it lasts (probably some co-relation to how many visitors I get). Its the kind of beer that can only be purchased in Grey County, or in Guelph - but only because so many people from Grey County live in Guelph. That's right. Crystal. Not so much because its good, but because I'm brand loyal. Or something.

5. Work is good (this week). I got a new computer monitor out of the blue yesterday. The amount of annoyed I was about the $$ which was spent on it was considerably less than the amount of happy I was to be getting rid of a dinosaur of a CRT monitor. And yes, I fully realize that my boss is buying my loyalty.
I also started using Quickbooks this week. Its ...quick. Like, ok, for instance, this is what I used to have to do when paying bills:
- code the invoice with proper account numbers and stuff
- write a cheque and cheque stub by hand
-stamp each cheque in the cheque stamping machine
-find boss to get him to sign cheques
-address envelopes by hand
-stuff & mail cheques
-file invoices
-record cheque stubs into accounting program

Now, eventually anyway, ideally, this is what should happen:
-Write cheque in quickbooks
-print
-stuff in envelope & mail
-file invoice

Seriously! I'm so excited! This is exciting! You just don't understand how completely wonderful this is! I'm going to have so much more time to do other work, and play on facebook - I mean... heh heh... do other work, it's awesome. I spend a full day, sometimes more, EVERY WEEK writing stupid cheques - we're talking about cutting that time in half! I'm already stratigizing for my future - could I conceivably cut my work week down to 4 days?? Interesting thought - it'd be like semi-retirement by age 30! woohoo!

6. I was going to go to bed early tonight. And then this blog happened.