We recently made a purchase for Gabe from Amazon. Whatever we bought (I can’t remember what it was), had a special offer of a free one-year subscription to a magazine named Cookie. How great is that? I would really enjoy reading a magazine dedicated to the science and art of making cookies. It’s hard for me to stay current on the current trends and new discoveries in the world of cookies. The magazines logo didn’t suggest much about the magazine either. I guess I should have been suspicious when the Os in “Cookie” weren’t cookies.

Mmm… cookie

With dreams of new type of chocolate chip cookies and shortbread cookies that glow in the dark, I waited for the magazine’s arrival. It took a really long time for the first issue to arrive. I have found that free magazine subscriptions do not arrive until you have forgotten about them, no matter how long that takes.

This is what I want!

Months later, the magazine finally arrived. I pulled it out of the mailbox and got really excited, running back to the house to show Kari. Then I opened it. It was a stinking parenting magazine. Why the heck would they name a parenting magazine Cookie? What kind of sense does that make?

What an outrage!

Have you ever experienced this sort of nasty surprise?

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Randy emailed me about a site he found where you can upload some MP3s to make a mix-tape that others can listen to. Have a listen to mine. There’s a good chance I’ll never return to that site.

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You probably haven’t noticed, but if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the sidebar, you’ll see I’ve added some Google ads. I should be able to retire in about 2 weeks from the ad revenue. Yes!