Crabby Blogging Lady

Blast it.

I went to the local “mega behemoth gigantic super” center store Saturday. I’m still shaking from the shock. I could kick myself.

I HAD to go. We were out of milk. The kids had guzzled it down during the week, and I really didn’t want to drive to the convenience store (creepy in there). So I drove the 3 extra miles to the “mega behemoth gigantic super” center store, TOTALLY forgetting that it was a Saturday. And a Saturday afternoon, too!

*screams of horror*

Why does every shop on Saturday? You’d think they’d hate the cologne-soaked crowds, the sweaty, dirty, screaming children, the bumper-to-bumper traffic. I know I sure do. I came home in shock. Get me to see one of the folks who work those Occupational Therapist Aide Jobs, I needed help!

So next time I get it in my head to go to the store on a Saturday, especially when it’s just FOUR WEEKS before Christmas, kick me. Hard. And pray that I get the message.

The government. They will never forget. They will never forget that nasty glare you gave little Kimmy in the play yard. They will never forget the bad word you said when you were a teenager, or the time when you tripped the class nerd to make the rest of the class laugh. They will never forget your mullet and your roach clips and your bare belly midriff.

I’m serious! They will really never forget!! Get a load of this news story.

Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded “racist” or “homophobic” for using playground insults, infractions that could impact their future careers.

The shocking figures were disclosed after civil liberties group the Manifesto Club made a Freedom of Information Act request which betrayed the fact that kids who used petty jibes are now being treated as thought criminals by education authorities.

…The majority of the reported cases involved primary school children.

“The record can be passed from primaries to secondaries or when a pupil moves between schools,” reports the Daily Mail.

“And if schools are asked for a pupil reference by a future employer or a university, the record could be used as the basis for it, meaning the pettiest of incidents has the potential to blight a child for life.”

That is just sad. SO SAD!!! Little kids are little kids! And who wants to have life’s mistakes and foibles and sins stamped onto your forehead for the rest of your life, following you around in a line of trailer hitches. I just can’t believe these people are being so cruel.

You know, thank God that He is not like that. When we repent and turn to Him, He takes all our shame and regret and guilt and throws it away and never looks back. I love you, Lord, for that. And Lord…… please hurry up and come back because these idiots here on earth are creeping me out. Amen.

Yes, here it is, another “I hate spam” post. I have very good and frequent opportunities, I tell ya!!

I am wising up to the spam problems. Believe me, I have tried everything. The native WordPress spam eater, a plugin that bashes spam based on the IP, a captcha spam catcher, a banning spam plugin…. and a zillion plugins in between. *sigh* Nothing really stops spam for long. It’s getting kinda tiresome….

So despite my arsenal of spam fighters/killers/catchers/rebuffers, I’m still spammed like mad. Today, it seems a bot was attacking my web server, because I got a ton of spam across ALL my blogs at about the same time. Now, I have a spam catcher that stops that kind of behavior… well, it’s supposed to, anyway.

*SIGH*

So tell me, great blog guru, how do YOU control the spam? Do you have some magical tool that kills it dead? Or do you grin and bear it?

Oh by the way– I saw someone wearing one of those sassy IT mens t shirts. Isn’t it hilarious?!?!?! Gotta get one!

You know, I’ve always felt that Google was just too stinkin’ big for its britches, and here it is in my face again– the Page Rank fiasco. Three months ago, my blogs were ranked by Google as 2′s, 3′s, and 4′s.

ALL OF A SUDDEN they are 0′s. All of them.

Oh, Google, you are (once again) showing your bias again. If Page Rank is based on inbound links and authority, HOW can my blogs SUDDENLY be 0′s? I have PLENTY of inbound links and authority.

Google is just becoming more and more irrelevant. That whole “Panda” thing where they changed their algorithm (again) to try and make their results more relevant just muddied the waters even more. I am a researcher, I search the Internet all day long. I’ve learned that if I type in the search words, for example, document imaging, I’m going to get about 3 pages of ADVERTISEMENTS and irrelevant results. It’s just over the top.

*sigh*

I wish someone would build a better search engine. Google needs a little reminding that they are not god.

On this blog, I don’t mind reader input. Heck, go right ahead and leave your comments, as long as they relate to the topic. I’ve seen a good share of caustic comments here, too. This is where I rant and I guess others want to rant, too, I suppose.

But I maintain other websites that are CLEARLY informational or personal blogs. CLEARLY. I’m not crabby on those sites as I am here. There, I may talk about bedding or museums or books or mowing the lawn or something. And yet people go on these rampages, leaving LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG comments filled with their cockamamie theses from high school with a zillion links to George Norry’s Coast to Coast. They insult me with expletives for “mowing the lawn wrong” and then get all vicious and, frankly, scary when I ban them from my websites. In some cases, I’ve feared for my safety and have considered getting Wholesale Insurance online lest any kook do something awful!

Many times, these irate weirdoes act as if they have a certain RIGHT to my website– a website that I have BOUGHT and PAID for with my own money and maintain it at my own expense. They have no “inalienable right” to comment on my sites! I have no obligation to approve their hate-laced, expletive-laden diatribes!

What the heck is WRONG with people?!

You wanna rant and swear and throw temper tantrums? GET YOUR OWN DURN BLOG.

Not baby fever as in I want a baby. Baby fever as in a disease. A sickness. THE PLAGUE.

Watch this video. It’s a time lapse video of a 9-month old baby, showing how much damage a moving infant can wreak in 4 hours.

Now, some gals watching this would think “OHHH! He’s SO CUTE! I want a baby that’s so cute!!” But me, I think: Oh my gosh, that kid destroys everything. Babies destroy everything! They scream, they poop, they cry all night! Get me away!!!

OK, babies can be cute, But is all that cuteness worth the 9 months of agony, the 24 hours of excruciating labor, the lack of sleep, night-time screamfests, puking and snot and fevers….

I’ll just watch the videos. And then run for cover.