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Sometimes life is boring.
Maybe you’re at work and it’s just one of those days. Maybe you’re at home with some nasty virus, ready to scream if you have to watch another lame television show and thinking if you do one more crossword, you’re going to go crazy enough to poke your own eyes right out of your sockets and then your elderly mother will give you that see-I-told-you-one-of-these-days-you’d-poke-your-eye-out kind of look.
I wouldn’t want that to happen, really… I wouldn’t.
You’re reading this, and that means you read here at fracas (well even if this is your first time, humor me please) which makes you… a fraccer. And I like my fraccers, so I wouldn’t want you to poke your eyes out of your sockets.
So here I am to the rescue, even though I’m not even here. I’m busy climbing mountains, wrestling bears and bungee jumping off of cliffs the likes of which most people have never seen or ever will see in their lifetime.
(Okay, I’m not doing any of those things, but I am away and wrote this post before I left because I was thinking about you, my cherished fraccer.)
I was reading over at this site and one ‘factoid’ stuck out as if it were a tongue, just taunting me to prove it wrong.
- “Every single possible 3-character .com domain (over 50,000) has long since been registered!”
Seems like a pretty fantastical and really out there kind of claim to me. All of them? Every combination existing?
But you see, I can’t prove it wrong, because I’m off deep-sea diving, hand-picking my own Kona coffee in Hawaii, and trying to discover the best recipe for Poi that can be found out there, so that I can post it and steal all of Rachel’s traffic.
Okay, okay. You don’t believe I’m doing any of those things either. I’m probably not, and for sure not trying to steal Rachel’s traffic. I love Rachel and her Coconut & Lime food blog, it’s really great. But I am actually away, which is why I can’t prove that all those domain names are actually registered.
Would you please give it a try for me?
Your task… should you choose to accept it, is to brainstorm all the 3-character .com domain names you can think of, check them out over at GoDaddy (or any other favorite site you might have for that kind of thing… I’m not picky) and if you discover one that’s not taken, post here to be victorious!
Go ahead. What better did you have to do today? Were you going to fill your day by taking some online quiz to find out what kind of panty you are, or were you planning to write your Master’s Thesis on whether the toilet tissue should be hung with the flap facing inwards or flap facing outwards?
Hop to it now. Report back. I’ll be checking.
And please… wish me good luck with that coffee picking. I hear that Valdez guy is really annoyed with me for breaking our date. What could I do though? I heard that Kona coffee was really great and being a coffee freak who has never been to Hawaii yet, wouldn’t you go if it were you? I’ll probably just travel under an assumed name so he can’t find me. If you see me in an airport somewhere, just please… don’t yell out, “Hey fracas.”
Thanks.
Disclaimer: No, I didn’t really go to Hawaii either. If I weren’t so funny, I bet I’d really piss you off.
Text link to sources:
‘this site’ = http://www.stunning-stuff.com/list-funny-facts/8.html?pg=3
Rachel’s = http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/
GoDaddy = http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
Poi recipe = http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_15609,00.html
Eyeball photo source = http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2006/02/forthcoming-events-reminder-and-new.html
I hope you’re enjoying the posts so far. I thought about asking a guest writer to fill in, but decided to show how much I appreciate everyone who comes by to read here so often by putting in the time to ‘bank’ a number of posts. It wasn’t easy either let me tell you! For a mom, sometimes trying to find time just to do a daily post is like getting a 12 year old boy to have a shower. Not to mention the back to school shopping and all that!
Whew! I burned the midnight oil a few times.
Ok, ok… it was actually the 3:00 am oil.
So today, I thought I would show you all what the fraccy front yard looks like.
Well, maybe not the whole yard.
I have to go across the street to get it all in, and then you don’t get the benefit of seeing the nice flowers and foliage up close. I’ve decided then, to show a certain portion of the front yard that’s quickly resembling a nice secret courtyard. It was a large rectangular piece of grass weeds and ants when we bought the house, and over time we dug beds on all sides with the beds along the longest portion dug right at the street instead of up near the house. We used shrubs at the street level so they would grow to be about 5 feet high and create privacy inside the yard.The plantings then, create a living fence (they’re almost tall enough) with the inside of the front yard being available for our pleasure.
Using curvy lines, we created a woodsy sitting area along one side, and on the other, a brick patio with a spot where a portable cast iron firebowl will go. We have another more permanent stone firepit in the backyard, but this one will allow us to have a wee fire in the early summer when the mosquitos are an annoyance. Okay, that means before the dragonflies eat them all. You see, by the end of July this year the dragonflies were darn near as big as a small bird… like a finch or something. Okay, okay… so that’s a slight exaggeration. Slight.
But I digress. Sorry.
The thumbnail on the left is the woodsy sitting area in the spring, and the thumbnail on the right is the same area in the summer. Click either to see them full size.
I have to say, this sitting area is the one I’m most pleased with. It’s the most wonderful place to sit in the morning with toast or in the evening with coffee, and the best part of it all, is knowing we did it all ourselves. By the sweat of our brow (and there was much) and the crick in our neck (there were a few) it’s there because HGTV said we could do it, and by gum… we did!
