And so the arduous task of moving begins yet again.

March 28, 2004

You know, every time I head into my website configuration in order to post a new entry, I find a new piece of comment spam. Some idiot out there actually devised software to post comments on people’s website advertising the same shit you get in your email inboxes, like penis enlargement pills and the like. I don’t always get notified about new comments being posted for some odd reason, so it’s always pleasant to come in and find three new comments have been posted, all advertising male growth pills or porn sites.

I can live with advertising in society. It pays for the free television we get, it helps pay for public transportation and the baseball games I enjoy, and I’ve come to accept it. But when it’s unsolicited, in such a manner that I can’t filter it out and not even look at it (like with my email provider) AND it invades my personal website, it crosses the line. If I had methods to hunt down the people who invented the software to do it and the people who actually use it, I’d find them and…show them the error of their ways. There isn’t a jury in the country that would convict me. Get me one email user on the jury, and I go scot free.

*Sigh* But it’s not that simple, is it? Instead, I have to just delete the comments as they come in. Since I don’t get notified of all the comments, then I can only do it when I notice it. I’m sure I’ve missed a few, too. And it’s not even on recent ones, either! There are comments being posted to entries two years old! As if anyone except me have read those recently.

Friday I made sure to tape “Wonderfalls”, the TV show I talked about last entry, so that my Mom could see it. I think she enjoyed it, but it didn’t quite gets its hooks into her like it did into me. Personally, I think she enjoy the Mountain Dew commercial with Steven Seagal more. It’s very, very funny, so keep an eye open while you’re watching TV. In addition to a bit of television goodness, this weekend was also spent moving the first of my stuff over to Heather’s apartment. My Dad drove over Saturday morning with the Escape and we took two loads of stuff over, mostly things I won’t need in the next week, like my cooking stuff, my big tall bookshelf I keep all my DVDs on, and of course, my DVD collection itself. I think this next weekend will probably be the big moving time, but I estimate that we should be able to do it al in maybe five trips or so. People always joke about how much stuff I have, yes, but I’m not takingit all. If I were moving OUT out, perhaps. But I still need to store a bit of stuff at my Mom’s. Otherwise I’ll start quietly encroaching on Heather’s space, putting my stuff in her filing cabinets, and the like. Actually, that would sort of be getting her back for how she did that all those years of when she lived here, since she has a tendency to expand like a liquid, filling every available space in her container. And some that isn’t available, too. Maybe more like ice, then.

Anyhow, I’m expecting an interesting time over there. Heather and I have our ups and downs of getting along, but in the past couple of years it’s been more ups than downs. We’ve had some troubles living in close quarters before, but I like to think that she’s..er, WE’VE both matured since then. That and we don’t have the three-way relationship of between myself, my Mom, and her. We’re all pretty sane people individually, but when you put any combination of us together for extended periods of time, if the past has been any indication, well, maybe I should start taking meds NOW to get my body used to them. Heh heh.

I did go over and help Heather clean out her pantry today so that I’d have room to get my cooking stuff in there. We made enough room for my indoor electric grill, deep fryer, steamer, and pizza stone, and probably enough for my rotisserie for when I figure out how to get everything back into the box. I unpacked it all to do that roast chicken about a month or so ago, but man, it’s like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube. My Tetris skills seems to go unused in this case. Well that’s going to be my Rubix cube for the time being. Until I use it again. I pretty much just have my dresser with the clothes in it, my bed, my TV, VCR, and associated equipment, and my computer, and that should do it for the time being. Naturally I’ll have to make supplemental trips in the follow week to get things that I may have forgotten, but that’s everything I need to “move in” and put myself in a position where I can stay there for an extended period of time.

We also watched a bit more “Band of Brothers”, which brings me to only a little more than three hours away from my fourth time through the series. That means more than 40 hours invested in this series, alone. Trust me, it’s worth it.

And so’s “Wonderfalls” if you’re looking for something good to watch on Friday night.

On that note, off to watch the second half of one of the four network TV shows I regularly watch. Night all.

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