Author: The Jody

I deleted one point four megabytes of spam from my comments text file last night. 1.4 meg. In a text file.

Why oh why oh why? And the thing is, this takes effort to do. I really don’t believe it’s automated – although I’m sure someone will tell me if I’m wrong – which means someone is actually taking the time to go in, open the comments, and leave the spam. Over and over and over again. Can it really be that lucrative to leave hundreds of comments in the archives of a barely-read blog? If it’s an actually person, they have spent at least a couple of hours over the last two months, leaving these things. What kind of return can they possibly get? Is this the result of all those anti-spam email bills?

Can’t these people just find normal jobs?

We went for the fake tree this year. I know, I know. And again, I know. I love the smell of real trees too. I love the whole experience of going out to look for the perfect tree. However, the perfect tree does not love me. Last year I really could tell my sinuses were acting up once the tree got in the house. I have read that real Christmas trees have a mold factor, some being moldier than others, and I happen to be allergic.

So we got a fake tree that looks, I might add, really nice. I’m pretty happy with it, considering.

Plus it already had the lights on it, which is a bonus.

New content on the Thyroid Humor page! Don’t forget to tip your waitress.

More locals have checked in on the SMart KSears thread about the Mall at Whitney Field. I love knowing that people from the area are reading. Of course, that means that like any celeb, I now have to completely dress up and do full makeup when I go out of the house, because I could run into any of you and the paparazzi from the Sentinel would have a field day.

So the question I have, that was raised in the comments of that post – can someone remind me of the name of the restaurant that was attached to Woolworths? I have Harvest something stuck in my head, but I know that wasn’t it. As I said in my comment, it always seemed really dark in there. Now I’m wondering if it was to kind of, well, hide the food.

On a similar subject, do any of you remember when the Victory Market at Twin City Mall (in the old location, when it was right next to Kmart) had a restaurant in the back?

Wow, it feels weird to not have the Nano deadline staring me in the face anymore. I really love doing it – there is no way I would write that much without the pushing and prodding of trying to “win” the attempt. Now I’m kind of sad that I didn’t finish last year because it puts a hole in my record.

I have decided that I have to keep going, while the muse is still in the room. Not with the same intensity, but I am going to allow myself the long rambling “just write anything” moments to keep momentum up. I hit a point on Sunday where I really liked what I was writing. There was an actual plot. I want to expand on that before I let it fall to the wayside like the other 2 finished attempts and the half attempt from last year. I have a lot of paper covered with crappy writing, that’s for sure!

I don’t have a copy of the finished product with me, but I can tell you that the thing I was writing about when I hit 50k was something about how you don’t want your hands to smell like pudding. I’m surprised Random House hasn’t already called…