This is the warning that appears at the top of a webpage tab when the internet fails to complete your request.  Sharing internet is a bad idea.  I'm not even the one actually sharing the internet, it's my boyfriend's living arrangements for his workterm and it's terrible.

When you open up four tabs and hope for the best, you're bound to get the worst.  Perhaps opening up four tabs is asking a little much of a crappy internet connection, but hey, having to wait to click the inevitable "Reload" on the warning page goes a lot quicker when you have three more clicks to make.  Also, by the time you finish the fourth, the first page may have already started to make some sense!

Forget about images altogether.  Yes, they're there but they may not load.  Best to expect the worst and avoid disappointment when you can't see who was at Terrilynn's party or what Rachael, Jake, and Susan are discussing on Nicole's Facebook wall.

Be cautious about your accomplishments, or should I say "almost" accomplishments.  You may think you have completed something, but if the above has already happened, you may lose your work the  moment you leave the current page.

This post for example, may or may not make it.

Not my favorite restaurant, actually I rarely eat there, but it has come to my attention change is underway.  I have witnessed many changes in the Old McDonald over the years; no more Treat of the Week, salads, apple slices, and milk have made a way onto the menu, heck -- I haven't seen a statue of that goofy (yet scary) clown in ages!  The restaurants themselves have even undergone a transformation away from crazy kid-fun (aside from the Playland) to what I perceive as a more "ski-lodge" feel.

Although I've never been to a ski-lodge, I do feel it is a bit out of character to have leather couches and fire places in a fast food restaurant.  Not to mention the granite table-tops, and flat-screen televisions everywhere... where the hell is the jacuzzi in this classy restaurant?

The change that is most recent to this Golden Arches chain, the change that is provoking this post is what is happening in the great UK.  Have you heard?  It's not hard to find, I found it on the homepage of Yahoo! Canada.  McDonald's in the UK is eliminating the need of cashiers as all of their restaurants will be "self serve" as far as ordering and paying goes.  Yep.  Just walk on up to the touch-screen computers, place your order, pay, hope all goes well, get your food, eat.

I see only a few minor problems with this idea:

1. Job loss - Okay, being a McDicks employee can't be the greatest job in the world, but it is a job.  I've been recently trying to find a job myself, it's not easy.  I can't imagine what's going to happen to all the uneducated people when their best chance in life is giving out free smiles and even that gets taken away from them.

2. Credit/Debit Only - Good grief.  How many times did you walk in to any store as a child and toss a bunch of nickels and dimes on the counter and ask for as many one-cent candy as you can get?  Okay, well what about all of the homeless people who we give our change to?  They can't go buy a Happy Meal with that now...

3.  Touch-Screen Computers - How do they possibly expect the elderly to cope.  Who doesn't know a sweet old grandmother who loves those greasy fries?  Who doesn't know a sweet old grandmother that cowers in fear at a cell phone?  I can't even imagine the frustration these touch-screen computers will bring to all.  What if they need to be re-aligned?  What if they get worn out?  How do you place a special order?  What happens when the order is still wrong? Most importantly, how can computers even replace humans? Oh, wait, even more important:  are smiles still going to be free?

Right now this is only beginning in the UK, it's only a matter of time before it makes its way to the US, then to Canada.  I don't like the way it's looking.  I do use the self-check outs at Wal-Mart, but honestly, I think it's a different case altogether.  When you're ordering food, even if the cashier doesn't get your order right, you can still tell them they're wrong.  How is a computer going to react to criticism?  Probably won't get you the manager.

Summer Job Hunt Status

This question is perhaps the one I dread the most, and since I'm in a new place for the summer I get asked this question a lot.  You're probably wondering why I dread getting asked where are you from so much since the answer seems rather straight-forward...  Actually, for me, there really is no simple answer.
As a small child I have moved with my family four times, finally settling in one town, (which I will refer to as "Western Head"), for all of my grade-school years.  Now the answer seems even simpler, right?  When asked where are you from, I should simply reply "Western Head".

INCORRECT

From my experiences I have gathered that when people ask this question, they generally do not mean in which town did you spend your last 15 years, they actually mean in which land does your family name hail from, so simply replying with "Western Head" does not suffice as neither my mother or father have family ties in the area, leaving So-And-So to continue on and on about this family or that family, and whether or not I have met Bob down the lane.

Sorry, I don't know Bob.

Assuming that So-And-So is trying to figure out where my family name comes from, perhaps just saying "England" or "France" would do the trick, right?  Well I think it would be quite obvious that when I speak I have no hint of an English or French accent (although I can do a good fake one), so I cannot possibly declare I am England.  In the event of my fake accent convincing the inquisitor, a whole new can of worms would be opened such as what brings you here, when are you returning to England/France, what is that land like, etc.

Often, I give up and explain that I grew up in "Western Head", but my parents are from "Blueberry Hill" and "Stephen's Point".  Most times this leads the inquisitor to make a link to someone in my family, thus avoiding admitting that I am not here from England or France, and I have never actually met Bob down the lane.

To be honest, yesterday was the happy day but I was too tired to write anything before bed so here it goes!