People are Too Sophisticated

Today I decided it would be fun to add a countdown clock to the sidebar on this blog, that would show everyone how long we have left to enjoy Summer vacation. Of course, this means it would countdown to the first day of school (This Tuesday). So, I go onto trusty old Google.com to find a cool countdown widget (I would use the one that Blogger made, but that's not working for me, for some odd reason) to add to the blog. I thought to myself, How hard could it be to find a decent countdown widget?

Apparently, that hard.

I found countdown clocks that count down to the day a baby would be born, and to Halloween, and Christmas, and Valentines Day, and to next New Year's Day, and to the next episode of "Lost", and to the next solar eclipse, and to your next birthday, and to the day someone leaves for vacation, and to the day people came back from vacation, and the days passed since someone got back from vacation......

Oh my god. Just give me a freaking countdown clock that just counts down to whatever I want it to.

So, after about fifteen minutes of searching for a simple countdown widget, I finally gave up, but after all of that, it got me thinking; how creative can you get, until it's too creative?

For example, I can guarantee that every single infomercial you see on TV isn't going to offer you just an amazing vacuum cleaner; they're going to offer you two vacuum cleaners, and a book light!
And then they're going to double the offer again.
Just give me a freaking vacuum cleaner!!!

Do you see where I'm going with this? I don't know what it is with people, but whenever they offer you something, they gotta give you what you want, and then something you don't want with it.

I just wanted a countdown clock. I ended up finding clocks counting down to the release date of the next Harry Potter movie.

It doesn't really matter anyway, school is only about a day away.
Dang.

Yours in awesomeness,
~Ry.