I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

Well...I just totally wasted an entire morning, thanks to the website, "Blogrox."

I wanted to set up a new Dr Who fan fiction page, as my present page, Dusty's Dr Who fan-fic" has the stories added backwards--last chapters first, which is probably discouraging to most readers. So, I found a site I sort of liked, that uses WordPress, called "Blogrox."

Okay, posted my first story, it published okay. So, I went to do a second, shorter story I'd written last year, and...it's GONE. I hit "publish" all 7 times, and...heaven only knows! It's out there in cyberspace somewhere, or deleted...I have no idea. And, the site will say that I've "saved" a draft--when I actually really did hit "publish" and not "save"...this site is so buggy, they should put a can of Raid! on the homepage.

And, the only place to get help is some cheezy "support" forum--that won't let me log into it!
Dang! This is a horrible site. I have so little time left on the internet, now that the plug is being pulled, that it really frosts my britches to totally waste- my time on a bad website like that.

So...stay the hell away from blogrox, if you want to set up a new blog on another site, try Blogger or WordPress, or someone else more reliable.

I just saw a little of the David Tennant in the Who Do You Think You Are? episode, on researching his family--great show! I wish we had something like that here.

Even more, I wish I was rich enough to hire someone to help me sort out my late-mum's genealogy papers! Wow! What a mess!

My late-mum started researching her family in the late 70's--and continued for over 25 years. She never used a computer, and EVERYTHING is hand-written notes! Everything. Mountains and mountains of papers, going back for all that time. About a quarter of her research has been lost, through a couple of moves, but still, I've two or three boxes of papers, index cards, charts, books, etc. About a 24 to 30 inch tall stack of papers, when it's all said and done.

I was a local history buff and amateur researcher, in my early to mid-20's, and I did often ferry my mum around to cemeteries, libraries and town halls and churches--all over NY state, for years...but...I'm LOST. I've no clue where even to begin, to try and sort out this mess! It's really terribly daunting.

I wish I could be in a WDYTYA show, like David was...but, that's never going to happen, LOL

My great-great-great grandfather:

You know, one thing I won't miss, with the loss of my internet, is the spam and scams in my e-mail's in-box.

And, lately, spammers/scammers are getting soooo-incredibly lazy! I mean, more and more frequently, half my spam is in non-sensical gobblety-gook. For pity's sake, why even bother to spam me, with stuff that's completely impossible to read? I suppose it's that these empty-headed morons are getting paid by the e-mail, perhaps?

I know there's so many idiots out there, to the point where it's becoming quite alarming--I mean, I really do have serious doubts about the evolutionary progress of the human race...and, on top of that, now the con-artists are doing it as well!

I got an e-mail in (I think) Italian, saying "congratzioni!"....or something like that. Yeah, well, don't speak Italian, thanks.

I can't hardly believe my own eyes!

Someone had e-mailed me a link to some David Tennant Totally Dr Who videos, and since I'm still up (coughing), I thought, what the heck, might as well watch them, right?

Well, I'd no sooner had the first video up and running, when Boots sat up in my lap, ears perked, and stared at the computer screen intently. Well, I thought, he just liked the movement and voices--Boot's LOVES televison--he'll even sit for half an hour, watching his own reflection in in my 20 some-odd year old televion's screen (I don't use it much any more, but don't want to give it up)--anyway, I put something else on--and, Boots lost complete interest...then, a short while later, I put the other David Tennant interview on--Boots sat up and began intently watching Tennant again...OMG! David Tennant's got a new fan-boi...well, the actor is safe, anyway--Boots is neutered.

Recent TV news report:

Noose upsets HVCC student

TROY - A student at Hudson Valley Community College says she found what she considers a hate symbol hanging in her classroom.

In response to that, the state Senate passed a bill to last month to make it a felony to display a noose on public or private property.

(Hudson Valley Community College is across the Hudson River, from my hometown. It's located outside the city of Troy, NY.)

I had a crappy night at work...for instance, some 6 year old actually answering the phone, DEMANDING, "Who is this!," and, some stinking teenager, said his dad was sleeping, then, in the same breath said, "You suck!" and slammed down the phone in my ear...causing me to accidentally mutter aloud a bad word (really, it was just a gut-reaction and not intentional), which I hopefully won't be fired for Oh yeah, with kids like that, America's bright future, there, ey?

I'm holding my breath that I won't be evicted for paying the rent late again this month--I wish I could find a new job, but my health is so iffy right now, that I have LOADS of reservations about starting a new job in this condition.

Well, I'm totally exhausted, so off to bed I go. Well, at least we only have colds and viruses that go 'round our office. On the other side of town is a "sick" building--an office building with bad air that's been evacuated several times...last time it sent dozens of office workers to hospital, and one female employee came down with chemical pnuemonia, later. Now, in a different business located in the same building, a worker has been diagnosed with the mysterious and potentially fatal Legionaire's Disease. Following the pay cut and lay off, several of our workers left my office to go work at the insurance company located in this building.

To show how hard it is to get a good-paying job with decent benefits in this part of the region, no one in the sick building wants to leave their job--and others keep applying there, KNOWING it's a "sick building"--they just shrug it off and keep working there--becuase they know they can't get a much better job anywhere else around here.

And, of course, the company's that rent the building, have made no plans to move, or to protect their employees--now one may die, and they won't care at all...and this God-forsaken nation, this nation of morons, back in the late 1970's, gave corporations constitutional rights--rights that were intended by our founding fathers who drafted the original document, to be SOLELY for individuals!

So, even today, politicians brown-nose corporations, and towns and county's brown-nose corporations, and employees brown-nose corporations...and this is a democracy? I'm not overly fond of socialism, but think Marx was partly right, in that capitalism and democracy, really are a bit like oil and water.

Actor David Tennant is allegedly one of the U.K.'s sexiest stars, and all the those sex-starved teenage fan girls screaming their love and wolf-whistling at him, finally got to the actor.

At that moment, the actor broke out in tears, bolted away, and stuck his head inside the Tardis' phone receptacle, crying, "I'm not a sex-symbol, I'm not..I wanna' go home."

Slightly under the weather tonight--half the population in America seems to have a headcold, and I'm one of them, I'm afraid.

If anyone reading this lives on the east coast of England--my thoughts go with you tonight, and I sincerely hope that you, your family, neighbours, friends and pets, all get through the storm surge Okay.

Well, I'm really sad that I might never see Learners or CIN with the two Doctors...but, that's life, I guess. The timing sucks a bit though. I was thinking of re-reading Hamlet, to pass the time while I'm internet-less, but I can't find it...some of my books seem to be missing..somehow they got lost in the move last year, and I just never realized--well, it wasn't exactly a happy or easy, or pleasant move. I've been reading some pulp detective fiction by Raymond Chandler (Phillip Marlowe stories, Lady in the Lake, The Big Sleep, etc.) Read one, "Goldfish," that was quite good reading--tiny little twist at the end, which I love Chandler for--and now I'm in the midst of reading another short story, "Red Dust"--or something like that.

Anyway, speaking of Marlowe--different Marlowe this time-- I've go a copy of Marlowe's Shakespeare on my shelf, so I can find something else to read--'tho I will miss the internet, in that I used to use it in place of buying crib notes (to help me understand it better.) I once read Richard II, in an old paperback I had--that sadly, eventually fell apart--called, The Age of Kings...it was really a good book on Shakespeare--as it gave a brief rundown of the basic storyline, so you wouldn't have to just plunge into it cold turkey, so to speak. I like that, almost as much as I liked Hamlet, as for some reason, I just seemed to understand it better, and relate to it better--and, gosh, it really has some great quotes. Even tho' I'd read it in the late 80's, I still remember the line, "the bitter bread of banishment..." That's beautiful, I think.

I hear his little sister went to the party dressed as the Toilet Duck.