Archive for February, 2007

Adventures in (insert gerund here)

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Too many things are going on at once around here.
Last week’s Plumbing Disaster finished out at $1800, $800 of which went to the clean-out valve that *#)(@#$!!! should have put in when he built the place, the sorry-ass POS.
I had all my belongings other than furniture piled into both bathtubs and in the front […]

Bloody *&%#@^! spam!!

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Before I installed the answer-the-question antispam method, I was getting about 30 spam comments a day, many of them with 50 links or more (which I have the thing set to reject out of hand). For a couple of weeks, I had maybe two or three a day. Today, it hit 18.
I am NOT […]

Karma, where are you?

Monday, February 19th, 2007

My buddy Mogo tells me that I have enough good karma saved up that I should go on a rampage, that nothing can touch me for years. So how does he explain this?
About 6 a.m. (and we all know how well I handle mornings), a horrid noise shot me six feet straight up and out […]

Uh-oh

Friday, February 16th, 2007

After the first Spanish class last week, the one I signed up for so I’d have someplace to practice actually talking, I was encouraged because I was about in the middle. A couple of people were much more fluent than I, a few about at my level or a little better, and a few less […]

NINETY big ones!

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

First, I had to go to Snaotheus’s answer-the-question challenge because I, too, was getting too many dumbass spam comments, many of which included hundreds of links. Last count was more than 50 a day. Where do these bozos get off?!? Worse than pond scum. Pond scum at least has a function. Anyway, the answer to […]