Culling the Reader Feeds

Whew, I feel like a huge weight has just lifted off my shoulders. 

I just now un-subscribed from my TasteSpotting feed. It's a great recipe site, gathering recipes from all sorts of websites, but it just got to be too much for me to deal with.  The latest stats say it has 690 posts/week and believe me when I say, an extra hundred posts per day to wade through was just too much.

It was twice as worrisome when I also had the foodgawker feed.  According to their latest statistics, they posted 1,563 recipes this last week.  

Both sites were good at finding other recipes sites I subscribed to in my reader, but the problem with the feeds were that most recipes were uninteresting or nothing I cared to save or try (like eel, etc.) Quite a large number were also in other languages and most of the time it wasn't worth the effort to translate them.

I probably have 30-40 recipe site feeds in my reader now; some post every day or multiple times a day,but others publish less frequently. I think I've got plenty for now. I also frequent other sites that have recipes and get several newsletters every day in my email inbox.

Yep, I feel better already.  This will let me devote more time to the dozen Dallas Cowboy website feeds I have.

haimish

haimish haim·ish [hey-mish] adjective Slang
homey; cozy and unpretentious

Yiddish heymish  Middle High German heimisch, Old High German heimisc  literally, pertaining to the home

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Wonder if there's a Yiddish word that describes me: homely, crazy and pretentious?

Rude Interruptions

For the entire weekend, my cable has been breaking in at least once an hour with emergency test messages.  These tests are usually limited to once/week, along with the weekly Saturday noon test of the emergency broadcast system. (the last time I complained to them was when they preformed the weekly test when the National Weather Service was warning of a possible tornado in the storm that was going on at the same time. After complaining to the cable company, I found out it was the city that used poor judgment in testing the sirens during the storm)

The message shows up only for a few seconds (it's still doing it), but it's done it at the most annoying times.  The final straw was last night when I was watching Pawn Stars and the owner told a customer "I'll give you...." and then came the message.  I didn't miss but ten seconds of that program, but it was a detail I didn't want to miss.

It made me so p.o.'d I went to the CableOne website and left a message and got an email from them an hour or so ago. (at least I got a reply) Here's what they said:

Thank you for submitting your online inquiry. Unfortunately we are unable to discuss your issue via email. Please call us at 806 273 5258 for further assistance with this matter. We look forward to resolving your issue.

I immediately fired back a response:

Well, I don't understand why it can't be discussed via email;  in fact, I don't really care to discuss it at all, I only want it fixed.

I wonder why it couldn't be discussed in an email?  Even if I called them, I figure they would just apologize and tell me it was a glitch and that there was no one on duty due to the holiday weekend.  I guess I was the only one who complained. I certainly don't see how it could be MY fault. Maybe it's the city's fault again and maybe I'm complaining to the wrong people. Regardless, it's darned annoying.

I'm an Advertising Einstein

Although I really don't think it's much to brag about.

Go take the quiz Do You Recognize These Famous Logos? and see how you do.

I'm not sure if my great score is due to a good power of observation or simply from watching too much mind-numbing television.

Edit: I had trouble uploading the graphic of my score and finally got it to go, but now it doesn't show up. Blogger doesn't report any issues, so maybe it's just on my end.

Edit again: Just now noticed that the right-hand column is now under all the posts, so I'm hoping it's on Blogger's end and that it will soon be fixed.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Pre-posting this one seven months before my birthday. I hope I'm not alone when this is posted.

Hard to be romantic when there's no one to be romantic with.

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Good grief, I must have been feeling particularly sorry for myself when I scheduled this.

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You Are a Romantic

You have the mind of an artist, even if you haven't developed the talent yet. Expressive and aware, you enjoy finding new ways to share your feelings. You often feel like you don't fit in - especially in traditional environments. You have big dreams. The problem is putting those dreams into action. Your strength: Your vivid imagination Your weakness: Fear of failure Your power color: Coral Your power symbol: Oval Your power month: November

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

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Twilight Zone - Golden Earring

Formed in 1961, Golden Earring has been active for more than 50 years non-stop, which makes Golden Earring the world's longest surviving rock band, formed a year before The Rolling Stones.