Posts from ‘January, 2008’

You may remember from a few days that I was speaking about issues I’ve been having with spammy comments and key words in user names, and thanks to some of your comments and some email discussions going on I’ve now added a comment policy to the code on my site, so that it’s clear what [...]

So today I get the mail and find a notice from the local EMS, saying that our account is delinquent and we 10 days to pay a $360 bill or they will send us to collections. Oh, thank you SO much. Especially as this is a bill from September of last year which was SUPPOSED [...]

I’m trying to overhaul my wardrobe a bit. A week or so ago I cleared our local Goodwill out of black t-shirts, and picked up some t-shirt transfers. I’m hoping to make funny t-shirts but I’ve drawn a bit of a blank with sayings and designs. I’ve got some time to distract myself though because [...]

I’m curious as to what other bloggers do about these sort of things. I get a lot of comments every day on this blog. 90% of them are clearly spam; full of links to porn sites and to medication sites and the like. Others are comments that will get caught in the spam filter, some [...]

I was tagged by Loretta for this meme about things to do at the New Year. Rule: Copy the person and persons’ names that sent it to you and add your own at the bottom of the list. It really helps to build community. Traditions are all listed after the jump….. *My mom used to [...]

I think a colon cleanse might have been more pleasant than some of the things that I’ve been going through over the weekend. There was a mix-up with the medication that I was supposed to take. A new medication that my PCP prescribed for me that I was taking. I didn’t find out that I [...]

…and not a drop to drink. At least that’s what we have if you believe RainSoft. Sometimes a free gift is not worth the hassle. Home Depot told me we could get a $20 gift card if we had them come out and test our water. So, I agreed. We’ve been spending a lot of [...]

…today is an “achy-stiff-twitchy-morning-of-not-good” but in some ways that is good because is the first doctor’s appointment in a while, and I’m actually having symptoms. You can generally guarantee that doctor’s appointments wind up happening on “good days” and therefore the doctor is going, “but things seem fine…I don’t understand. You mention severe pain, not [...]

So, this morning instead of sitting around in a semi-catatonic state for several hours watching my son tear around the house like a mad thing I resolved to get out and exercise in some fashion. This meant putting on sneakers so I could run after him in the wet grass without killing myself in my [...]

My car is at the shop again today for the second time in two days. This isn’t some horrendous on the part of the mechanic it was actually a compromise with him. Yesterday I took her in to have an oil change (which was overdue because of the move) but because I figured it was [...]