Thursday, February 12, 2009

No Use For a Name

Welcome back palorinos! I have been MIA for a while, I know. Hopefully the lines of communication haven't been permanently severed. I do have plenty of wonderful excuses as to why I've been remiss in putting the words down in the cyberspace, but some of those excuses, er, reasons, are good, the rest of them will be explained with very little detail below.
First off, I would like to mention that I now have almost fully entered into the geekdom that is to much technology as I've purchased my very own little corner of the internet. This is one of the reasons that I've been otherwise occupied on the internets, I had been trying to find a good name. I don't know if I succeeded or not, but I found one that will eliminate the need for confusing tax forms to be filled out. I originally settled upon the url of sterlingfalcon.com. Which is still active, and when I was initially researching the Google results for this name, it was mostly sales of jewelry, which I was cool with, figuring that eventually I would work my way up there and stand apart from these other options. I originally wanted to use a version of my name, however with authors out there writing books that are turned into movies, that became impossible. There are also musicians and realtors who have also stolen versions of my name and even shortcuts like my initials or dwall were unavaiable. All these reasons led me to sterlingfalcon. However, what I discovered once I added the words 'Web Studio' to the end of my little company name, and googled for those results. I discovered that one of the biggest (according to Wikipedia) gay porn producers uses the company name of Falcon Studios. So that causes all searches for Sterling Falcon Web, or Sterling Falcon Web Studio or the like to bring up the world of gay porn. And as that isn't my target audience, and I am using the site for my T-ball teams, I didn't feel that this was the best way to go. So the past couple weeks have been spent in methodical and detailed hunts for ways to have a name that would stand out a bit, and also not result in gay porn appearing towards the top of the results page. And so I settled on wallacewebstudio.com this site still has the image up for Sterling Falcon that I was going to use, but I'll get around to that one someday. This leads us into the other uses that our internet has been getting lately.
As you no doubt recall from studious reading of this fastasmagorical blog, my wife and I had been having issues receiving our certificate which got us three nights in Vegas. We had been planning to use these nights to celebrate our anniversary in Sin City, and called recently to get our accomodations set up. And we were told that the two hotels that this particular time share company used to tempt you to buy are the Wild Wild West Hotel and America's Best Value Inn. Now, without going into many details, these hotels are not 5 star establishments, I don't know if they even have any stars. They do have plenty of drugs and prostitution, which would be great if I wasn't going for my anniversary, but I digress. The stories on TripAdvisor are simply wonderful, if you have some time, check them out. And you must have time if you're reading this. So we're not going to be using them for our Las Vegas hotel stay. We may just purchase our own way down there as tickets on Virgin right now are $225 with taxes. Which is half the price of anyone else.
So along with that one, we're also trying to plan a trip to Disneyland with my in-laws. During this planning we're trying to figure out if they would be willing to be there for the first two days and then kindly leave. So we could have our little family trip also. I don't know if that's going to happen, but we're hopeful!
And next Tuesday I'm going to try to enroll Little E in preschool. She's been asking to go ever since T started Kindergarten. She wants to go and make things in school to bring home and put on the fridge like her big brother. So hopefully I'll be able to get there in time to sign her up for the class and get her a spot. The one thing is she needs to be potty trained, and we're not really pushing that at all right now. Although she does know that once she's going in the big girl potty she gets to go to school and will get her Pony Chonies from grandma. As she spotted some My Little Pony panties in our local Kmart and has been asking for them since. And it's great to hear the lilting rhyme of pony chonies. And if you arrived here after a search for pony chonies, you've come to the wrong place. Type in Falcon Studios!! That'll take you where you need to go.
So anyhoo, that's the quick rundown. I'm hopeful to get going with this again in a steady manner, but we'll see. T-ball practice starts up next week for my newest run with the world of 5-year-old ballplayers. And though I'm looking forward to it and the excitement it should bring, it's still going to be rough for the first few weeks while I try to figure out where everybody stands on the talent level. Ah well, I will leave you with the name of our president as spoken by my Kindergartener. "Wakkabama!"

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