When Did THAT Happen??

Good Evening, Ladies & Gents; time to get something random off my chest--but first, a correction of sorts: in my 2nd blog, MIRACLES & SPECTACLES, I ended by emploring all of you out there to "Embrace & enjoy life the best you can, my friends--as corny as it always sounds, everything & anything can change in an instant"--well, I realize that the tone of my last blog was my lamenting to a great extent my feeling like I don't appreciate all the things I do have & should be thankful for in my life enough, & dwelling on either what I don't have, what doesn't go right, etc. (you know, the cop-out of easily picking out the negative elements in life)--if I do nothing else in this new endeavor of blogging, I must be consistent, in thoughts & words--let me just say, I think I do my best to embrace life (not always successfully, but I make the effort)--I truly am glad to be alive & to wake up every morning when not so long ago, they could've not been the case--I promise to strive for more of backing up what I say with words as well as deeds--OK, next (and lastly): I'm not sure you've all seen these yet, but I notice that on my blogs, as well as 2 others that I read, random words will be in purple and double-underlined (like a web address or e-mail)--when you click on them, you get these annoying "ArcadeWeb" pop-up boxes that are basically advertising & look like Yellow Page-type ads--where did this come from all of a sudden? Has marketing/advertising/subliminal suggestion gone too far?? Depending on the word, the pop-up refers you to a service or company that has something to do with it--it's the original "Big Brother" (the one "watching you" from George Orwell's literary masterpiece, "1984", not the reality show!!) all over again--WTF, people?? You mean to tell me we bloggers & our followers can't even go about our business without any less-than-subtle, Pavlovian (look it up if you don't know what it refers to--I'm just saying!!) prodding & poking--a friend of mine from the theater group I'm a part of (who started out as a dad bringing his daughter down to audition for shows & got sucked into the vortex that is community theater) posts on his rantings & ravings & things that get under his skin on FB under the heading "You know what grinds my gears??"--well, this would be a perfect example of what grinds mine...on that note, time to head off to bed, as I see that time has completely gotten away from me once again--until next time, dear readers :)