The good people over at blogged.com ranked me at an 8.2 out of 10. I never even heard of blogged.com until I got an email from one of their editors yesterday stating:

“We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of
Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.
After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given its 8.2 score.”

Looking over the site it looks like it has a nice directory of blogs in there, as each one is rated on a scale of 1 to 10 based on their quality and are hand-picked by the editors. Users have the ability to rank your blog too but according to the FAQ’s it doesn’t significantly affect your rating because the editors rate all of the blogs. Either way, I feel like I’m back in high school again trying to run a popularity contest. So ummm…vote for me.

I knew something was fishy when I got an IM from my ex whom I haven’t spoken to in over a year:

hey How are you???? this is ur pic rite?! http://www.msn-gallery.com/gallery.php?user=blue_butterfly21.jpg

Worse enough I can’t believe I clicked on that shit.. I thought maybe it was one of those pictures from the amateur night at JB’s Gallery of Girl back in 2004 that caught up with me. But no, as soon as I clicked on it my PC (which unfortunately is the one that runs Windows XP) froze up for a good minute during which time it was sending the same message to all 158 people in my MSN friends list.

Arrrggg…anywho, the virus — which is the Backdoor.Generic3.SAT – is pretty harmless as far as your PC is concerned but you’ll probably get  kicked every time you open an MSN window. So, close your MSN and go here and here to read about how you get cure the internet STD’s you’ve probably just spread around to all your friends. It’s like the 70′s all over again only the free clinic isn’t as crowded.

My house is right in front of the Tallwood woodlands so it’s not uncommon for me to wake up to find possums, squirrels, and raccoons in my garage or upstairs where they come in through the attic. There’s also the rare occasion of snakes on the patio and in the trash cans. Really, none of those bother me because I love animals but the two things I’m deathly afraid of are spiders and rats. Luckily we don’t have a big spider infestation around here but I am 100% sure of the fact that a couple of rats have made my house into their personal condo and playground. I bring forth the following evidence:

Exhibit #1: Bachelor pads under the washing machine and behind the furniture:

We’re having the plumbing and floors redone on one side of the house and when the boys moved the furniture they found nests of fiberglass, dog food, and rat poop in the corner

Exhibit #2: Suspicious hole behind the toilet in one of the master bathrooms

I know that this wasn’t here before because this bathroom was just remodeled. Take note of the wood shavings on the floor and the telltale chew marks on the wall.

Exhibit #3:

This really has nothing to do with the rat situation but I saw this box at my dad’s house and I think it looks kinda like boobs.

I should also mention that on three occasions we’ve seen the dogs go nuts and start chasing an unidentified moving object around the house.

So either the rats start paying rent and contributing to the $90 a month I spend on dog food, or they can have a date with the hot A-Active guy (who, by the way, is welcome to come over with his hose any time).