You have to have a sense of humor these days with all of the crap spewing on the news and with the pig flu being the prominent news story it makes it even worse. For one I cannot believe they are blowing this out of proportion because there have been thousands upon thousands of people just dying alone from the regular flu much less the bird and pig flu.

Either way I have a funny story my boss told me yesterday. He was either in Walmart or Costco shopping and he happens to be in a wheelchair. He has a cough from his allergies and he happened to cough really loudly in the store when some man he did not know came up to him and asked him if he happened to be in Mexico recently because he obviously came to the conclusion that my boss had the pig flu since he was coughing. Well, my boss said no he has not but he did visit a Taco Bell the other day. The man had an odd look on his face, did not say anything and just walked away lol You think he didn’t appreciate that response?

It seems like eons ago I took myself on a mini vacation down to Daytona Beach when I had this 3 day free hotel pass to use. One of those days I took myself to SeaWorld since I had never been before and still have yet to make it to Disney. I had a blast watching Shamu and got soaked in the process because I was right in the front row. I loved looking at the penguins and walking through the trail under the water with all the fish swimming around me. Now had there been rides like the Manta it would have made it even more special to me because I love roller coasters unlike a lot of people I know. It just would not have been as much fun going on the ride by myself but that’s here nor there. I should go back down there this summer for my own mini vacation again.

The Manta ride will be open May 2009. SeaWorld is celebrating this new ride with a contest which could win you a “Front-of-the-line” pass to Manta at SeaWorld in Orlando. What you need to do is check out the “Participate and Win” section to do the Manta Quiz which is essentially scouring the website for the answers to the quiz. If you answer the 5 questions correctly you will receive an email from RideTheFlyingRay. You must go through all 6 of the activities to receive your “Front-of-the-line” pass but completing at least 5 of the activities will get you a complimentary electronic photograph of you on the Manta ride.

Last time I went to our aquarium we had a couple manta rays in the pools but no famous ride for them. There is a video clip about the ride on the website too and it looks awesome because the ride is actually in the shape of the manta ray. Be sure to get your quiz done as soon as possible for the May opening.

I want a blackberry phone so bad I can taste it now. My contract on my current phone is up on June 21st and I’m swapping over from T-Mobile to AT&T. I have had nothing but problems with T-Mobile since they moved us from Suncom over to them without even asking and their customer service sucks donkey balls. I’m still unsure when exactly I can get of my current contract because they keep changing the termination fees but I think I might get out of the contract a month prior because according to what I’ve read yesterday I still would have to pay either $50.00 or my months service bill whichever is bigger and my bill is usually $55.00 for unlimited everything which is not going to be offered anymore. My bosses new blackberry came in today and I was playing around with it downloading our medical software for about an hour and updating the address book because for some reason that did not carry over from the Verizon address book thing that supposedly gets saved online. Tomorrow I will get it back to add more stuff on it I think so I’ll be even more envious. The one I’m gonna get is the blackberry curve sapphire blue.

You know as long as I can remember my dogs have been flealess. They get baths when they need them and they are mainly inside dogs. Usually the only time I have to treat the is when my mother would watch them so after the first time I learned to pretreat at least a week in advance like I was going to do next month when the dogs get boarded at the local kennel but now I have to get the flea treatment now because I could not get all of the fleas off of them from just a bath alone. Not sure where they picked up these nasty critters but what kills me is it is only the one dog, Stormy, who has them. Pepper for some odd reason never gets fleas except that time at my mothers but even then they did not last long. They must not like her blood for some reason.

Well I knew it wasn’t going to be too much longer but I didn’t think it was going to be this weekend either. I’ve already started my freakishly long and scary water bug massacre of the season. This one managed to make it all the way upstairs to the ceiling in the stairway hallway when I spotted the sucker. Luckily, I still had a Raid can in my bedroom from last season sitting beside the TV which I never bothered to bring down to the kitchen and so I jumped through the doorway to get in and out of the bedroom with the can and then sprayed the little sucker till he fell down and put the Raid can on top of him until I could get something more substantial to weight him down until he died because I am not about to go picking those things up if they are still moving around. You can refer to my last debacle with one during the night 2 years ago here. At least I got this one before it could crawl in my covers and you better believe I wear clothes now to bed.

Now onto the mole front. Still have one, maybe even two. I was mowing the lawns this past week and not only are there tunnels in the owners yard next door but I found tunnels in my side yard now too. Exactly what does one need to do to get rid of these varmints because the dogs sure aren’t having any luck with it in either yard. Granted the owner only has a Pomeranian so really he couldn’t do any damage but mine are hunting dogs for christs sake.

So this weekend since I do not have a part-time job still I decided to head my pasty white butt to the beach to start the beginnings of my tan which has not occurred in some years mind you because I am usually always working weekends. I head off to the beach and arrive around 11 AM for my 2 hours because I like to tan for 1 hour on each side. Now I managed to find myself a nice quiet spot with no one around me until 10 minutes into me getting ready to take a snooze I hear a hoard of people clambering about with children telling them to stop doing that and to stay over there, etc. Dunno why they had to choose near me I mean there was an entire beach to pick from. I dealt with it and left.

Now later on that day in between watching the NFL draft I kept heading over the HG TV channel like I normally do on weekends because I like getting ideas on how to change the look of a place or get ideas for when I can finally move out of the trap I’m in into a house. This weekends episodes happened to be about going green. I love that idea because it will help save on your energy bills as well as water bills if you do it right. A lot of those ideas made sense too especially when they showed one hospital was growing herbs and vegetables on their roof. We could all do our part even when choosing a web hosting company. Some of the companies use wind and solar power to help supply the energy and why not considering that is free of course. You cannot stop the wind nor the sun so use it to your advantage. All of your Today.com blog folks who got dumped for the Entrecard fiasco should be checking out your options at Web Hosting Geeks.