Do you know you can customize Google?

I did. I have iGoogle. I chose a theme and added gadgets and tabs.

When I bring up my iGoogle, I see Astro Boy (I just love him) and I get the date, time, and weather (currently 94 degrees and, at 11% humidity, everyone's complaining about how sticky it is) in Denver.

I also have a sticky note gadget, so I can write myself online post-it note reminders. It usually says, "Send chocolate."

I have a news tab with a handful of international news sites. I can skim the titles of the opinion columns on the NYTimes in WaPo every morning, so see if anyone is complaining about anything I'm interested in.

I have a humor tab for when I'm feeling in need of a lift. I can click through to see what Calvin and Hobbes are up to, read the latest Doonesbury, or see what Chimp-o-Matic has to offer.* I have a virtual panda bear pet to feed.

In fact, it's so much fun that finally, after 15 years of surfing the 'net, finally I've found something I like well enough to use it as my "home page." No longer does my browser window show blank when I open it! I have stuff to look at!**

In short, there are no limits to the ways I've found to not work on company time.

Sigh. I don't want to start anything time-consuming or major. Vela's supposed to be sending me the data files for the 'NutNews. In fact, she was supposed to have them ready for me first thing on Monday morning. It's Tuesday afternoon, after 3:00 now.

Problem is, I've been dinking around with small tasks for most of the day in the expectation that she was going to show up with an armload of newsletter content any moment. By now, I'm bored. Bored out of my gourd. Bored and being ignored. (Ed. Pull yourself together.)


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* At the moment?

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment. --George W. Bush (01/14/2001)

And there are people who think this man is not an idiot?

** The R.C. mocks me frequently because I don't change my wallpaper or have a "home page" on my browser. I figure, when I sit down at a computer, I have a lot more to do than to admire whatever background picture might be there. And when I go online, I could be in any kind of mood. I don't want to have to wait for some page I don't care about today to load up.