May 2007

Spambot

FYI on a favorite site: I need to clear the air about something. Back in March I was alerted to the fact that a website called “Siteadvisor”, run by McAfee, had “redlisted” my site. Specifically they claimed to have recieved spam emails after “signing up”. What really happened is that their robot entered an email […]

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Muse Moves

I went to bed at 10.ย  At something like two I woke up with a scene nagging at me.ย  I worked it out in my head, figuring I’d write it in the morning…but after two hours I got up and wrote it down.ย  So at a quarter after five, I was allowed to go back

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Friday Night

I got Bly out of the house! Why, yes, I am rather proud of myself.ย  As time goes on, you see, and she works from home and doesn’t have to deal with humans in person for the most part, she becomes more…reluctant…to deal with humans at all.ย  But tonight the word was passed at my

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(Reality) Check Please!

Okay, I put it to y’all. You’re in the IT department. Someone calls you about a printer acting up. The person complaining then hands you off to someone else (this would be me) who is not HAVING a printing problem, but who understands computers better than first person. Second person (me) is working with you,

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Evaluate This

Grr.ย  Real life is really beating at me lately.ย  I want to write, but there are these other things I should really do…like my job evaluation.ย  It’s not going well. Describe your primary duties during this appraisal period that you wish to discuss. Enroll and withdraw students.ย  Maintain SAIS integrity.ย  Maintain attendance records.ย  Maintain cumulative

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Yay for Booze!

Who’d’a thunk a drink was all I needed? But it worked. After all day trying (around a horrific amount of other things needing done) to write and getting nowhere–I just poured most of my only bottle of booze into a big glass, added a little mixer (Dos Santos coffee liqueur, if you must know, and

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