27 January 2003 - 5:32 p.m. Online shopping � which totaled $78 billion including travel � amounted to only 3.4 percent of total retail dollars spent by consumers in 2002, she said. Forrester projects that figure to grow to $95 billion, or 4 percent of the total, in 2003. Do you find it hard to believe that the percentage is that low? I would have thought that it would be more like 15% or 20% by now. I mean, I know lots of people who did all theire holiday shopping online, including me. Maybe it's still just a geek thing. (0) Comments?

27 January 2003 - 5:22 p.m. Just remember, "golf" spelled backwards is "flog." (0) Comments?

27 January 2003 - 4:00 p.m. What is that white rabbit doing here, and why does everyone keep calling me Alice?! (0) Comments?

27 January 2003 - 12:58 p.m. As we walked past the inn with the painting of a parrot on it, the smell of the sea washed up over us. The warm air surrounded us with saltiness and the aroma of steaks from the pub down the street. It was 3:00 in the afternoon and the intensity of the mid-day heat was beginning to mellow a little. The gulls started flying and calling again. Shadows began reappearing around us as some of the sunglasses began to vanish. People started emerging from their air-conditioned, retail havens. We walked back toward the main street, past some small shops with clothes, sandals and wind-chimes. We could just see the kite shop up ahead with it's display of wind-socks and spinning wheels flapping like tropical birds. Tank-tops and titties ran past us up and down the street as the August heat relaxed just slightly, and we turned to each other and simultaneously said the same two words, "ice cream!" (0) Comments?

27 January 2003 - 12:54 p.m. It is going to be cold tonight. They're predicting zero degrees Farenheit. ZERO. Bill and I are driving to California tonight. Who's coming with? (0) Comments?

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27 January 2003 - 9:24 a.m. We have a little goldfish pond in our back yard. The weather's been so cold that the little filter/fountain keeps forming an ice dome above the surface of the water. We better have some warmer weather soon, or I'm going to end up with frozen fish-sticks. Normally, just the movement of the water would keep the temperature a little above freezing, but it's just been too cold. I've been out there with a hammer and chisel, breaking open the ice so the filter can continue working. (0) Comments?