Frenchy's Rant

It’s 6 AM, the second day of our Tribute to the Troops tour. Yesterday was spent scratching our collective heads at the many curve balls the military seems to love to lob at us. The biggie so far?

No power. Without those flowing electrons, all our high tech HDTV gear is just another place for desert dust to stick to. Today, once we pay our electric bill, we’ll spend the day checking and rechecking our gear, and by the end of the night, one way or another, we’ll be ready for the Sixth Annual Tribute to the Troops show.

The internet connection us pretty crappy right now. I’ll try an upload some pictures later.

Time flies. It’s already December, which means it’s already time for the WWE to pack up our gear and schlep it overseas. This is the sixth time I’ll get on that big C-17, strap into the misnamed ‘Deluxe Comfort Seat’ and head halfway around the world, all to bring our men and women in uniform some good ol’ American style sports entertainment.

It’s time to leave the comfort of Eastern Standard time and head into the confusion and uncertainty of Military Daylight Wasting time. Things take longer in Iraq; it takes a long time to get there, more time to transform a desert into an arena, time to transform a tent into a production truck; it takes time for the dogs to sniff our gear each morning, everything just takes more time, which is why I think the military uses a twenty four hour clock.

All that time is well spent, because for two hours, we will entertain the troops that, for the sixth year in a row, are far away from home, loved ones, friends and family. For a short time we bring much needed smiles to faces, which, regardless of feelings about the war, for me at least, is time well spent.

Rumor has it that, in addition to mixing the show, I will be writing a blog on WWE.com about this trip. When (and if) I find out that rumor is true, I’ll post a link to that blog here (and hopefully post a link there to this blog, for all WWE.com’s Faithful Fifteen Million to ignore) In any case, after it’s all said and done, I’ll be sure and take a little time afterward to write up the Tribute to the Troops show here.

Delays, lost luggage and ridiculous security procedures are all part of the reality of air travel now. Thankfully, Delta Airlines has recently given me something to look forward to on their flights.

Meet Deltalina, the sexy star of Delta’s new pre-flight safety video.

Hey there Blogger Folks,

Frenchy here, President and Chief Bloggist from the widely ignored blog called Frenchy’s Rant. I’ve been using your free blogging service now for a few years, and would like to first say a hearty thank you for allowing me to post my meaningless rambles and brain vomit cost free for all fifteen of my faithful blog readers to overlook.

Recently, there have been some changes to your fine service which, quite frankly, suck. In particular, I am talking about the way images are now processed on this blog. In the past, I could post images that were properly resized for the width of my blog template. The few souls who stumbled across my blog could immediately see that, in addition to a crappy writer, I am also a crappy photographer. Now, when I add an image, the image is posted in it’s full size, out of focus glory.

Example of the problem:

How this photo should look:

See the problem? Unless readers now take the time to click on each image – a big problem to me since hardly anyone even reads my blog – they’ll miss important details. For example, the dirty old letch slouched in the chair staring at the bikini hotties on the beach. This is a very important detail to the overall story of the picture, a very important detail which could easily be missed. That’s not an improvement, that’s stupid. I would imagine this is a bigger problem for blogs that actually have a following, but it’s a pain in the ass for me too.

Now that Google owns Blogger (along with just about everything else) it’s impossible to get help, or even much information about this new so-called ‘feature’. Googling ‘blogger image size problem‘ brings up a bunch of forums where other, real bloggers are complaining about this issue, so it’s not just me being… well, being typical bitchy, cranky ol’ Frenchy. But in my Googling, there is nowhere I can find that says they are fixing it, working on it, care about it or anything.

Come on, Googleguys! You’re the mega-geniuses that brought us AdSense! Certainly you can forgo some of that great ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ attitude that the AdSense AssHoles have perfected and get this stupid problem fixed.

Hmm… maybe that’s what the Bloggerati over at Google Master Control need. A dose of their own medicine! OK, I’m game. Googlegoons, until you look into and more importantly FIX this silly image posting upgrade, I present you with this award: