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I recently entered a t-shirt contest at searchenginejournal.com. 

I actually won!  I made #2 on the list! 

My entry was a tribute to a great comedy movie called “This Is Spinal Tap” about the music business.  My t-shirt makes reference to the “goes to 11″ conversation in the movie.  If you haven’t seen the movie, rent it.  It’s hilarious. 

I want to say thanks to Loren and the judges.  Maybe I’ll post a photo of myself in my new t-shirt, when I get it.  If you haven’t checked out The Search Engine Journal yet, check it out.  There is a lot of good information there and maybe you can buy my t-shirt soon. 

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Joe Pesci only told us half the story in that Lethal Weapon movie.  It’s the movie where he is complaining about the Drive-Thru experience.  “They Fuck You At The Drive-Thru”.  You know the rant.

You go to the drive through and they never get your order right.  Well, it seems like never.  Actually, they DO get the order right about 50% of the time.  The other 50% of the time, something is wrong with the order.

Odd, when you think about it, really.  I would think that if you’re going to screw up an order, then you would want to be screwing up an order of someone who is eating inside the restaurant.  That way, when they discover that they got fucked, they could calmly go to the counter and get their order corrected.  It’s an inconvenience, but a minor one.

When they fuck you at the drive-thru, however, it is usually later on when you discover that you got fucked.  You get your food and then drive back home or to work or to wherever you were headed with your meal.  You finally get to your destination and then realize that the food that you ordered is NOT in the bag that you’re holding.  To correct the situation then, requires another drive back to the restaurant you just came from.  Quite often, you don’t even have time for that crap.

As I said, that’s only half the story…

The other thing that really pisses me off about drive-thrus is their NEED to upsell me.  I order a burger and a drink because I want a burger and a drink.  If I wanted fries, I would have ordered them.  Simple concept.  Right?  Not to the people running these places.

There must be some sort of standard training video that drills into the heads of the staff, the concept of upselling other items to me.  That really doesn’t bother me.  It’s inconvenient, but only in a minor way. 

The thing that really bugs my ass about it is that they are rude about the upsell process.  The person on the other end of that drive-thru speaker can’t even wait for me to finish placing my order before trying to sell me fries.  In fact, they are SO concerned with selling me those fucking fries, and interrupting me to ask if I want them, that they inevitably have to ask me to repeat my order because they weren’t listening to me when I was ordering!

Here’s a tip for anyone who works in a drive-thru.  Wait until I completely finish ordering.  Then, and only then, ask me if I want more than I ordered.  And, get my order right!

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John Scott has issued the $10,000 blog challenge.  The basic idea is for all bloggers to link to other blogs that are not on the Technorati Top 100 list.  Visit John’s blog and read the details of the challenge.  Start linking to lesser known blogs and be more open minded to linking to blogs in general. 

I link to you.  You link to me.  We both link to other people.  That kind of thing.  It’s good for you.  It’s good for me.  And, it’s good for the greater blogging community.  Maybe you will have the opportunity to read some blogs that you would never have seen otherwise.  You will expose yourself to a larger universe and allow more people to visit your universe through your own blog.

While you’re at it, join his forum too!  Tell him that Zap sent you.

Everyone goes home happy!

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To the two girls who are currently in my life…

HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!
You mean everything to me.
I LOVE YOU BOTH!

To the rest of the girls from my life…

You had your chance.

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I have just completed a week of hell. I have been working on a large project for work. This project has been taking a lot of time and I had a deadline. So, I was waking up early and going to bed late all of last week.
Next week looks to be the same as last week. I still have a lot of work to do there. So, I have at least another week (probably more like two weeks) of early mornings and late nights ahead of me. I met the deadline, but my work has exposed some other things that need to be done there. So, that is what I’ll be doing for the next week or two.
With that in mind, I had the day off today. With my day off, I was going to do a lot of things that got pushed to the side for this project.
I wanted to work on some websites, launch a new domain or two (including creating the html for them), give my dog a bath (pictured below) because she needs it, transfer some MiniDV tapes to DVD and get some sleep.

Well, I got some sleep. I guess the other stuff can wait.
I slept the whole day away today. I felt like one of those “lazy bastards” my dad was always telling me about.
I did, however, manage to post in my blog, after over a month of silence. So, I guess the whole day wasn’t a total write off. Maybe I might even get to some of those MiniDV tapes too! I am going to try to post here more often. Apparently, there are people out there in the ether, actually reading this.

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