Guess what?

I AM POSTING THIS FROM MY SPOOTY NEW HARD DRIVE AT MY OWN DESK!

OMG, just one day w/out the intertubes sucked serious ASS. You don’t realise how much you use the damn web until you don’t have it.

My Weasel got me not one, but TWO 320Gb drives. One is the main and the other is for Time Machine. We do a Retrospect backup once a week, but I’m going to use Time Machine for redundancy and more immediate backed up file access, if needed.

I’m trolling the referrals today to see if my hillbilly stalker has come back (sadly, no) but I’m seeing some interesting new readers, for instance:

Hello, Ireland!
Hello, Miami!
Hello, Mayo Institute!
Hello, Jackson, MS!
Hello, insightinc.net aka Digital Agent!

It appears there are stalkers in Miami and Jackson, judging by their long visits. Say Hi, sometime, won’t you? Just don’t leave dumbass comments like the Hillbilly Stalker or I’ll mock you. ;-)

I’m amazed at the hits I get for the workout dvd, hamseh tat pic and my recipes. Seriously. These are the top three always. Everyone <3s the Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts! I get lots of google traffic - too bad there's no $$ coming to me for it. I should take a stab at some ads, perhaps. It's just SO difficult to make sense of the schemes! If it's hard for me to understand, then it’s no wonder companies are flummoxed. I think they just drop some cash and hope for the best.

So, today I think I’ll start taking down the tree. Yes, it’s still up because we didn’t get to it Monday. It’s tradition to leave it up until 12th Night (Epiphany, Jan 6) anyway, so we’re just a few days off. Other than that, I’ve got to try to make sense of my hammered email client. Apple Mail did not fare well during the hard drive problems and subsequent copying. I think the problems were caused from my cleaning out and deleting a bunch of old mail recently – and the deleted mail ended up only partially deleted due to the bad blocks on the drive. Then when Mail was copied, it freaked. I may end up tossing it all and starting fresh. It’s no biggie, it’s just email. And if there is something that I really really need, I can pull it from a backup. But I doubt it.

Anyway, I’m back, the phones are up and it’s back to business. Yay!