Hope

Barack Obama was on Oprah yesterday. It was a slightly annoying interview because he is someone whose entire comments I want to hear and she kept cutting him off. I've decided that this tendencies is what makes Oprah a good interviewer of the average person. When an average person goes on the show, she is able to prod them along and help them express their thoughts. Most of the time this is a good thing. However, when she interviews someone who doesn't need such help, she tends to interrupt and that can be very annoying when you want to hear the complete thought of the interviewee. Nonetheless, I was extremely happy to hear him talk. Maybe there is hope for the direction of this country. I think I'll buy his new book.

Beta blogger has added a few new features, one of which was quickly adding Google Ads that was really easy and makes it possible to blend in with the template very well. I added it, not because I think I'll make any money from it - I doubt too many of my three readers regularly scrolls to the bottom where I chose to place it - but because I wanted to see what types of ads come up in my blog. Today I have two ads related to working out. Yesterday I had dining in Las Vegas. I find that I'm very impressed with Google's ad ability. I was most impressed when I was emailing my mom about coming home for Thanksgiving and saying that we'd do it if our regular pet sitter could squeeze us into her schedule. That email stream generated a string of sponsored links (in my gmail account, obviously) and the first link was literally the pet sitter that I use! I emailed her and she said she'd upped her exposure since hiring another pet sitter to work with her. Anyway, impressive that it works so well.

It's a very hazy day here today. I think I will make a pot roast for dinner ... seems to go well with the weather. This means I'll actually have to leave the house today.