68% of the people who have visited this site in the past week are USING WINDOWS XP:

L10: Browser/Opsys Results

Startling. Shocking. Like, wow.

I think I’m gonna buy a Mac. Seriously. Maybe a Mac mini, even. Yes! (It’s cool, it’s basically *nix, you know.)

Normally I’m really good at balancing my checkbook. But sometimes even I blow it off for a few weeks. This morning I noticed an envelope from Central Valley Bank in the mail Brett had brought in, and it was too skinny to be a statement, so I opened it.

Two NSF checks paid, fees $44.00.

Whew – at least they were paid. But why am I bouncing checks? I think I’ve got about $129 in my account!

So I got online this morning and balanced my checkbook. I’ve bounced FOUR checks in the past two weeks, each with a $22 NSF fee. Okay, well, there’s $88 I no longer have. Hurumph. How did this start?

Turns out that in March I made a deposit that I recorded in my checkbook as being for $300, but my statement shows it as $200. So either I or the bank screwed up. Since banks rarely screw up, it must have been me.

When all was said and done, I was $29 in the red and had to make a deposit at lunchtime.

Friday morning, when I’ve got time, I’ll have to dig through my receipts just in case – there’s an outside chance it was a bank error so it’s worth finding out. It’s not like me to enter a deposit wrong, but we’ll see.

Damn, I hate it when checking goes bad. *sigh*

Holy shit! Lookit the date! I sure need to finish my fucking taxes already!

I can’t express how exciting it is to check out this site’s stats every day. I don’t think I will ever get tired of knowing this stuff:

Refering keywords for the last 24 hours.

I’ve had 858 unique hits since I installed the counter. About 50 of them are my beloved regulars, the rest found goblinbox.com by typing the following strings into search engines:

Veggie lasagne, checkbook PPC, unix commands, ipod diagnostic mode, wisbar advance 2 theme, ipod mini case kimono, new blinkies, weather panel 2.0, how to take care of a puppy, icon weblog, todd and joe, diary farm house, french lunch, pissing gallery, ttc blinkies, ppc skins, sites for free blinkies, what has more caffeine espresso or coffee, ticklish, morning people,

and my favorite:

redneck hot tub.

The Shrub has The Knack’s My Sharona on his iPod! Snort!

These are some of the strings that were typed into search engines last night and brought people here to goblinbox.com:

ttc blinkies – spinach enchiladas – ipod diagnostic mode – heart virus – my dog has a lump on her back – hex calculator – redhead pussy – blood in pussies – poke her – gif web icon set – cramping in 1st trimester – ganglion cyst – wisbar theme – accounting sucks – veggie lasagne

and my personal favorite:

dirty room full of dust spider.

My GOD I love my L10 hit counter.

You probably would not be surprised to hear the responses I’ve been getting lately. (I say you wouldn’t be surprised because who better than you knows how terrible your emergency room services can be?)

Since siccing your lawyers on an ISP that doesn’t even host my site, the blog post in question has been read by a whole slew of folks who would never have seen it otherwise. And quite a few of them have pointed it out to others, and some of them have contacted me to tell me of their own experiences.

One person told me he’d never allow his wife to set foot in your e-room because of stories he’s heard. Another person told me she feels patients are “obviously a nuisance” to your e-room staff. Another told me he’s disgusted by your immediate use of lawyers and feels it must be indicative of a negative and grasping corporate culture. One woman said she actually witnessed an ER doc making fun of a patient to the nurses at the desk!

In a nutshell, my experience is not unique. Many people have had poor service in your emergency room.

My blog post is not what’s damaging your image in this community – your own poor service is what’s damaging your credibility in this community. Look to your own house, dear local hospital. Seriously.