Opinion

You know how it goes: You're walking down the street. There is you. And there is only one other person to be seen, who just so happens to be on the same sidewalk, sharing that same 4ft strip on concrete. What do you do? Options?

I enjoy the fresh air; al aire libre, as we'd say in my Spanish class. Recently, I came to the conclusion that I need to pick up a cool habit -- one of those habits gives me an excuse to stand outside and mindlessly gaze into the breeze. But there's a hitch. I despise cigarette smoke and I don't take much to consuming alcohol. (These are the two main things I've seen people doing while procuring the aforementioned stance.) I could try the more social approach and talk to people while leaning against a fire hydrant, but I'd quickly be portrayed as "creepy." What then shall I do?

Yesterday, while driving home in the right-hand lane, a driver in front of me stopped to let another vehicle cross traffic in front of her. This would have been a nice gesture...in fact I might not have even minded stopping. However, it was rush-hour and we were on a busy road with two lanes of traffic each direction and a busy center lane. Cars in the lane left of me went wizzing on by, ignoring the holdup to their right. The vehicle which Mrs.

Since this section of Randomland is nothing but a complaint forum, I find it necessary to complain about our server. Yeah, it's cheap enough, but the connection is flakey! Sometimes you'll click a link and it'll take forEVERLONG-TIME before going through. Other times, it'll take forEVER and acutally never do anything. Maybe our old host, which gave us piddles for diskspace, wasn't so bad afterall. Or maybe the WordPress backend of this site is eating the requests. Whatever the case is, it's too late to go back.

After having slipped off the (google) radar for a while, Randomland finally ranks somewhere back up in the top two/three listings for the search "randomland." True: there is still not much on here but useless rants, but I'd like to put more up here.