Not sure what you should be making, but you'd like to know? Then go to http://dc.preferredjobs.com/_pges/preferred_salary_survey.htm. They have dozens of contacts where you can look up national or regional average incomes for the type of work you do. By the way, if you don't find your specific job at one place, check another. I did, and boy, do I work cheap. But, don't we all. If I got paid what I wanted, I wouldn't be working. What paradox (lunacy).

Just when your getting over the Insults page of weeks past, now you must face Despair.com! (http://www.despair.com/) All done tongue-in-cheek, there are a lot of products for sale here including "Bundles of Joylessness" and "The Demotivators 2002 Calendar" showing some really nice graphics and advice like "If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem" and "Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people." Note to self: SMILE at the office!

The Mud Pile (http://www.themudpile.com/) features odd news of the day. I got several chuckles from this 'Darwin Award without the ominous death' type site. I warn you though, you might want to right click and open the entrys in a new window, as the whole page may be totally changed every time you access it. The first page I came to was a toaster the author apparently did not fully appreciate. His suggestion was, at least, that they should remove the totally useless 'Light' and 'Dark' button and replace them with 'L' & 'C', for Launch and Cremate. And what did the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader do to keep from getting pregnant. (Dumb as a box of rocks) No, I don't know how many of his reports are true, but It's pretty obvious many are not.

'The Straight Dope' site (http://www.straightdope.com/) advertises that it's been "Fighting ignorance since 1973 (It's taking longer than we thought). " Supposedly, this site purposes to let you know what's what on nearly every subject someone, sometime, somewhere has written in to ask. Check it out, let me know what you think.

First Baptist Church in Lexington now has a very informative site (http://www.fbclexington.com). Jeff Kobiske from Netease in Parsons and the church staff has slaved many hours putting together this project and, while I may be a bit prejudice, really is extremely well done. Easy to navigate and completely packed with info from calendars and hospital & prayer lists, to links to added information regarding this weeks Sunday school lesson, I think this will be a very valuable spot.

I'd like to list other church's sites in future, if you'd like yours listed, please send your address to me (see the bottom of this article).

Hey folks, if you ever wanted to buy or look at some of the things our grandparents used in every day life ( and, maybe help you to appreciate what you've got?). Check out this site: http://www.cumberlandgeneral.com/AB1257/webpage.cfm?WebPage_ID=1&DID=6 (Yes, I'll put a link to this on my page.)

Also, I would like to list some of the local school web pages in an upcoming article, but I didn't want to list one and not try to find all, lest we leave someone out. If your school has a public site, and you would like to show it off to the rest of the world, have your webmaster send me the address.

I've got so many more, but I've got to cut this off somewhere. If you didn't see yours this week, check it out next week. As always, let me know any good sites you've run across at [email protected]. And remember, all these links are on the website, http://surf.to/nethotspots. Go and add your odd or interesting links.

Today's joke: A woman got on a bus holding a baby. The bus driver said, "DAD GUM! That's the ugliest baby I've EVER seen!"

In a huff, the woman slammed her fare into the fare box and took an aisle seat near the rear of the bus. She fumed for a few stops and started getting really worked up. The man seated next to her sensed that she was agitated and asked her what was wrong.

"The bus driver insulted me!" she fumed.

The man sympathized and said, "Hey! He's a public servant and he shouldn't say things to insult the passengers."

"You're right!" she said. "I think I'll go back up there and give him a piece of my mind."

"That's a good idea," the man said. "Here, let me hold your monkey!"

Take care.