I am fascinated with the details on how I sleep. I can directly observe almost all other aspects of my health but sleep is one thing I must rely on others to understand. After waking myself with grinding jaws, I gave a call to Dr. Garside Friday to get some sort of treatment going for my poor sleeping. I spoke with his nurse and asked to see the sleep report myself. After all, I paid handsomely to have it produced, right?
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Secrets of selling, lesson 1: tracking your ad
Last night I got smart and put an html IMG tag in my Craigslist ad for the house. Now anytime anyone views the ad, they pull a 35-byte GIF image from my webserver. I can then track how effective the ad is.
After setting up my tracking at 9:30 last night, five people clicked on the Craigslist ad. Out of those, two of them went on to view the home at the GreatRaleighHome.Com website. A forty-percent clickthrough rate is awesome!
About the Sargasso Sea
When I posted the Cracker song Be My Love yesterday, I became curious about the Sargasso Sea. Being a sailor, I pride myself on knowing where various seas are but I’d never heard of this one. No wonder: the Sargasso Sea is the only sea without shores.
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Ah yes
Its going to be a fine weekend, indeed.
Cheap Thoughts: Spammers
So, just what did male enhancement product companies do before the Internet was invented? Hold Tupperware or Avon-type meetings at someone’s house?
Downtown makes me a TV star
On the way to the street to unload a coworker’s car a few moments ago, I got interviewed by WTVD reporter Tim Nelson about the drought and whether the city’s done an adequate job letting people know about Stage 2 restrictions taking effect tomorrow. He was asking if the city’s full-page ad about water restrictions was “buried” at the back of today’s the N&O’s business section. I basically told him you’d have to be under a rock if you didn’t know about the upcoming restrictions.
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Be My Love
Happy Valentine’s Day! I love the spooky, carnivalesque feel to this song.
Be My Love
Cracker
Garage D’or
I dream a white bright light
In endless fevered night
A birdwing brush across my back, you say to me
You could be my love
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Hunt for perfect sleep goes on
I’m up earlier than usual this morning because the sound and pressure of my teeth grinding woke me out of a sound sleep. Over the last few years, my dental hygienist has spotted the damage, first attributing it to a bad habit of chewing ice but deciding last week that I must grind my teeth in my sleep. She showed me the visibly flat edge I’ve worn into my incisors. Yikes.
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A nibble on the house?
Kelly tells me this morning that an agent called about the house this morning! She wants to look at it in the morning on behalf of her client, so we’re going to be busy tonight!
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On board with Obama
Kelly and I kicked in a few bucks to Barack Obama’s campaign this weekend. I know it seems we’re piling onto the bandwagon but I said way back in September that he’d likely get my vote.
I used to respect John McCain after reading about how he conducted himself as a POW and how he’s defied death a half-dozen times. Too bad he sold out in the 2004 election. And anyone who considers Joe Lieberman a friend is suspect right from the get-go.
Hillary Clinton …. well, we just won’t go there.