And we're back. I think I had what is known as a snark blockage- when the feeling of the blahs gets so overwhelming you just don't care about a thing. Well, I got my snark back- at about 2:30 at night Thursday night- which is why I'm here, posting again. The three of you reading should all be so happy.

And with that, here's what's we're feeling cranky about right now.

-Those poncho thingies women are wearing these days. They were kind of cute when they first came out and they can look really good on women but that was before every woman started wearing them, some like every day. day. At this point the whole poncho thing reminds me of back in High School when it was deemed Hawaiian shorts were the big thing. First a few people wore them, and then everyone else did, and soon it got to the point where I showed up for school one day and realized I was one of maybe three or four people who weren't wearing Hawaiian shorts that day. And for that, I was considered a loser in High School

-Hotmail has been SUCKING for the past few weeks. I know they're doing some tweaks to the site right now, adding some things that are probably for the best (more size) and things I could give a fuck about (calendar) but does it really take two weeks to tweak all that? Don't they realize that a lot of people rely on Hotmail for their e-mail and taking down the site for two weeks goes from a minor inconvenience to a pain in the frickin' ass? The most annoying thing is they don't announce that they're going to be making the tweaks and to let you know that the site will be kind of wonky for awhile. So you think everything is fine except for the fact you can't log in all day. Or you get the third or fourth e-mail in an e-mail chain but don't get the first or second e-mail. Or when you get e-mails on Friday that were sent to you on Tuesday.

-The feigned outrage at the recent story that not only the fact that the troops in Iraq don't have enough armor or that Donald Rumsfield is a dick. Tell me something I didn't know. There's a thing called a newspaper, people. Read it sometime.

-All this saying talking about how steroids is baseball's problem. Like 400 pound lineman running the 40 faster than I ever could happens because of fitness and training. And another thing- when celebrities are celebrated for doing some sort of surgical thing to make themselves look more attractives and politicians are celebrated for looking like they're real people when they're all a bunch of Ivy League millionaires, why are we getting all huffy about athletes doing the same? Face it, we got fake celebrities, fake entertainment, and fake politics. Steroids in baseball is just another shoe dropping. Not that I'm that thrilled with the news and I am taking the Bonds' thing harder than most Giants fans that I talk to, but still.

-Speaking of steroids, the fact that the Giants constantly whine about payroll and as a result become infatuated with players nearing 40. Step on up the plate, people- it's all or nothing, shit or get off the pot, Sydney or the Bush. You want to win, win.

-Women on online dating sites who respond to initial e-mails, but stop responding after that. Is there something someone can say after one e-mail that can turn someone off? If you do things like that, shouldn't you also start cruising pet adoption sites for the cats who'll be your only life-long companions?