March 16, 2001

I promise that all my prancing about on the keyboard will someday result in a Pulitzer winning novel./Submitted by: Buffy

Hi everyone:

Morning and Renae. That combination mixes about as well as water and oil. Every morning about 7 a.m. Silly jumps up on my bed and walks up the length of me. There is a pillow placed on the headboard especially for her and she'll step over my head onto her pillow. That's usually enough to get me up. It might as well get me up 'cause if I remain in bed too long she walks down the length of the headboard, jumps onto the floor, and runs around to the foot of the bed where she jumps back up and walks up me again.

My morning routine is to grab some caffeine before stumbling my way into my computer room turning on the light in the process. Walking is hazardous at this time of day. Not only am I hung over from the medication my doctor has given me to help me sleep, Silly is at my feet, hurrying me into the other room where she knows that in my desk drawer waits a package of "cookies." Once her cookie addiction has been sated, I logon to check my email and stats on Renae's Room.

My husband usually doesn't work on Fridays and this morning was no exception. Normally he gets up at 4 a.m. so staying in bed till 7 is a bit long for him. It wasn't surprising to me to come into the computer room and find him sitting at my computer playing with Sim City. I was disgruntled. There was Silly running about the place wanting her cookies and Abe was in my chair. I plopped it down in my rocker and very grumpily told him he was in my way but that was O.K. 'cause he could just do for me what I normally do. Silly got her cookies while I was saying this.

Abe finished what he was doing, minimized his game, and followed my instructions on what I wanted done.

Despite the muddledness, I was feeling a bit devious. Renae's Room had just been featured on LynnLynn's Links during the week and so far there hadn't been any changes from the norm on the site statistics that my web host provides. Till now we've been running along at a slow, but steadily growing pace and are up to an average of about 105-115 visitors per day. (Hey, we're a relatively new and unknown site.) So, expecting to see a number somewhere around the 110 area, he suddenly blurted, "Huh? What happened!" There were well over fourteen hundred visitors that had visited on the prior day and he was totally unprepared. By now I was awake enough to giggle and give him an explanation.

Sometimes I think he keeps me around because I keep his life so interesting....

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If you've been to Renae's Room recently you've probably noticed something missing. I've pulled all the advertising from that opening page. I don't promise to keep it off, but I'm going to try. Because of the loading time it's better for you if I keep them off, however, I really need to find a way for RR to support itself. I've decided that, at this point anyway, affiliate marketing is not the solution. For now, the ads will remain off but if I find something that I feel should be placed there, I'm reserving the right to do just that.

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We've added 4 new pet jokes and one new school joke.

There were 20 handwriting sheets for grades PreK-K mentioned on your last newsletter. This time I've added 8 sheets for grades 1-2 and 8 sheets for grades 3-4.

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Additions to the Links section:

Continuing Education:   1

K-4
Science/Biology   3
Multiple Sites   1
Science/Oceanography   2

5-8
Language Arts/Miscellaneous   2
Language Arts/Poetry   1
Multiple Subjects   1
Science/Biology/Anatomy   4
Science/Biology/Zoology   3

9-12
Auto Mechanics   1
Home Economics   1
Math   2
Music   26

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There's a treat in store for you this week in the websurfing area. Silly selected a few sites from her area and has included them for your enjoyment.

Biology
A Cat's Guide to Human Beings
http://www.cathumor.com/A%20Cat's%20Guide%20To%20Human%20Beings.htm

Civics
Looney Laws About Animals
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/loonylaws.htm

Physics
The Laws of Physics as Applied to Cats
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/physics.htm

Psychology
Cat Quotes
http://www.asan.com/users/coby/catquote.html

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In watching the stats I see that you guys like the fonts as much as I do. Following is a list of what's new in this area:

Hollow:
Undercover, UniTorted, Pi in the SciFi, Zurklez, Vacant Capz

Fun/Nautical:
Petits Bateaux, Wreckage, Jenna's Shells, LMS Whale of a Font, PF Mermaid, Lost at Sea

Silly's Picks/Breath Mints:
LMS Whale of a Font, Fishy Print 2, G Fish 1

Silly's Picks/Musical Instruments:
Chicken Scratch, Roady Roadrunner, Chick

Decorative/3-D:
3-D LET

Decorative/Display:
Rubberneck, Simpleton, Walshes

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That appears to be it for this time. Have a great two weeks and don't forget to wear green tomorrow.

Renae
http://www.renaesroom.com