Blog Number 87

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I received a few comments on the new layout.  They all were pretty similar.  They went a little like this...

"You changed something?  Hmm, sorry, didn't notice."

I will admit that the main reason for upgrading to the premium Xanga package was to get rid of the Google ads at the top of the page.  If you look at my sister-in-law's site, you will see what I mean.  Look at the top of the page and notice that there are ads.  Sometimes there is just one ad, other times there are as many as four.  Google has this thing called adsense where it looks at the content of the web page and then posts appropriate ads.  For instance, my first blog entry was about a cashier who shorted me $0.15 when I bought some coffee.  That day, the Google ads were for accounting software, coffee, and cash register supplies.  Makes perfect (ad)sense.  Herein is the main reason that I shelled out the $4 for the premium site.  You can just guess what kind of ads were there when I made THIS POST about naked mermaids riding bareback on stallions.  Nuff said (and you're welcome).

So the mother-in-law and sister-in-law are still here (day 2 of "no bath duty" – woo hoo).  As I arrived home everyone was heading out to the park.  This was fine for me since I had a little bit of a headache.  I ended up taking about a 2 hour nap on the couch.  As I was thinking about what to blog about tonight, I remembered a deep discussion a co-worker and I had about 6 years ago about naps.  This lady I used to work with would get very sleepy in the early afternoon and she thought that if our company would allow everyone to take a 1/2 hour nap each day, then everyone would be more productive.  I on the other had suggested that each employee be made to play chess for 1/2 hour each afternoon and that would make us better workers (due to increase in analytical thinking skills).  Also, napping at work would require a lot of space not to mention cots, pillows and maybe blankets whereas chess would only require a few chess sets (we could use the existing tables in the break room).  Well the company did not take either of our suggestions (shocking, eh?).

I still think it is a good idea (making everyone play chess) but as I get older, I see her point about naps.  Plus I know that if it were taken to the employees for a vote, chess would get about 1 vote.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon