OK, it’s actually just me, although I’m feeling like I have multiple personalities right now.
You see, I spent most of last week either nose deep in any book that was nearby or asleep because I was using the downtime to stop sucking on Camel butts.
And I am pretty much happy to say that I’ve been without nicotine since around noon on last Tuesday, and if I can sidestep for a moment, I’d like to pontificate on that topic.
First off, the people who say that nicotine leaves your body in three to four days are bold faced lying rat bastards. So are the ones who say that food tastes better when you don’t smoke. Nearly everything I’ve tried tastes like cooked shit. Deep fried corndogs with mustard and washed down with Jones Green Apple Soda are the only thing thats tastes even halfway decent.
I’m only “pretty much happy� because I still don’t trust myself out and about alone because I can go to any quikiemart and buy a pack and the fact that I have to fight the urge to do so with every bit of willpower I can muster sucks more ass than even Michael Moore has available. Needless to say, going back to work tonight will most likely prove a harder test than I have faced in a long time.
Next up, when you start having odd looking crap exiting your body, namely coughing up brown blobs, you should take that as a signal to look at your life choices. So is the realization that you’re spending $45 a week to be able cough up those blobs. That translates into three to four boxes of ammo per week, depending on caliber, or over $2300 a year.
So wish me luck. I have tried and failed at this before too many time than I care to mention, but this has to last. I have felt like some kind of pussy junkie and/or and idiot every time I lit up for the past few months and I was sick of that as well. But the back of my neck has been tingling like a bad speed withdrawal and every time I take my hat off, I am amazed that it doesn’t have a point in the top because my head feels like it should look like that of a sleestak. So needless to say, I’m still a bit touchy, bordering on feisty, and if this keeps up I will have some rather volatile opinions in the coming days, which is why I stopped blogging for a few days in the first place, to keep from getting kicked off the internet.
I did notice that the comments went totally kaput for a couple days there and then magically came back on-line. As much as I would like to take credit for them working again, I had nothing to do with that. When I say that I’m ignorant of what it takes to keep a site running I am not joking in the least bit. I bought this place from Nukevet Neal knowing I knew little about it but wanted to learn. So far, my learning is behind schedule.
Aside from switching to something other than MT, I have no idea what to do about getting the comments to work a little more smoothly around here and getting more folks to speak their piece, which I thoroughly enjoy. I’m hesitant to make a switch because I currently get zero comment spam and very little trackback spam. I’ve been on the receiving end of a spam trail that filled my mailbox to shutdown status in the past and I didn’t like it.
So if you have some insight to a better program to run the comments that works with MT or want to talk to me about a different publishing platform, send me an email and I’ll keep my mind open.
Moving on, tomorrow is voting day here in Washington State and I’ll have some things to say about that tomorrow. I haven’t been keeping up on my writing like I was wanting to, probably due to my habit of clicking on that blue E more than I should have while I was supposed to be away. But that is OK because David read my mind and has some good stuff for you.
Speaking of David, I would like to take a quick moment to thank Barb and he for filling in while I detox’d. I am quite appreciative of the time off.
I’m tinkering around with some tales and testiments that I was hoping to post today, but will most likely be ready tomorrow. So stick around, this could get interesting.
Nice to have comments back. Now that we know the reason for your short hiatus, please explain again the requirement to stay away from the keyboard.
I guess I work in just the opposite way. for me, blogging is a stress-reliever, not a stress-generator. I was a smoker once, and when I gave it up, it didn’t seem like there was stress involved at all, for some reason.
But, good to have you back and good to have comments back.
I may suggest a name to you, but if the system is “magically” back intact now, what happened was most likely a DNS issue between your computer and your Internet portal. Usually, when these DNS conflicts arise, they can be sorted out by rebooting, in order, after a total shutdown of ALL network equipment. The order is: cable/DSL modem, then router, then computer. You have to do it in that order. Also, in your networking, your computer must be set to the choice of finding it’s own DNS address, without proxies.
If you’re on Comcast, I find that DNS conflicts arise all the time because that outfit switches servers frequently, and each time they do it, even though they are supposed to synch the DNS, it doesn’t always synch.
Another very annoying problem I have is what I call “DNS-delay”. When you click on a Favorite URL, you are sending a “ping” through your modem to the cable/DSL server, which, in turn, “pings” that URL for you directly to the Internet. I can’t prove this except by deductive reasoning, but sometimes, the “pings” don’t go in the same outward direction, they reflect back to my computer, which causes a delay long enough to mess up ping timing, which is evidently critical. The result is a “URL not found”. I resend the ping, and it usually works, but sometimes I have to resend several times. Very annoying, and it only happens with this computer networked to Comcast. If I go down to a local java place and use their portal, it doesn’t happen.
Comcast, of course, says it ain’t them, it’s me. They bite a big root, methinks.
Hmm. I don’t know what ISP RNS runs off of, but I do know that my own ISP is Comcast.
Could the fact that I was connecting to the RNS “back end” over Comcast have had anything to do with it? I don’t see how that could have caused comments to fail for everybody else after I finished posting and logged off….