End of the first week, part 2

So here I am at home at 3:38 PM, having completed my first full week of school. I am sitting on the sofa next to Ting Ting, watching TCM and thinking about the fact that Donna Reed was actually pretty attractive. See fer yerself. funny how I didn't think that when I was younger, but tastes change, eh? Hopefully they evolve, but anyway...

Holy Moley, it works!!

Well, how bout that? Maybe there was some sort of policy change or something, but that is enormously welcome. The funny part is that i probably won;t actually be using these woeds at all, or much anyway. I am glad I can read them now, though.

This is another test...

to see whether the bad words are still blocked out, lo these many months later.

ahem :

fuck
shit damn
hacker

how did that go?

this is a test

Work is work is work

So it seems to me that a greater chunk of my work day involves meetings or conference calls. It is an unfortunate observation that the longer one remains in one's chosen field, the less time one will be able to actually devote to that job's actual tasks, which are replaced by administrative/managerial functions. The alternative is to be entry-level your whole life, with its attendant salary issues. I'm just saying, is all.

Testing accomplished...

OK, so maybe this is a necessary evil in order to avoid inflammatory or hate-filled speech, per se, but it seems to me that a reasonable person's expressions of emotion should not be so closely guarded. Ah well. And what the heck is the deal with blocking H____R, (rhymes with snacker), anyway.

Eureka!!! (i think...)

Ok, so my theory holds so far. I am not sure why the words a*****e and h****r are getting blog-filtered, but they are would the same thing happen to, oh, I don;t know, ?

Let's try...

!!!

F**K!!!

I have decided to ignore bad stuff in this blog. I choose to do so for a variety of reasons. I choose to do so because focusing on bad crap when I do not need to will only bring me down. I also choose to do so because the Net should be a place to forget my troubles, not dwell on them. I also also also really really really choose to do so because the blogging post mechanism seems to be screening out the words *** *** and *** ***. (There are WORDS between these asterisks. One of them is profanity, referring to an unpleasant person and his/her resemblance to a human orifice. The other is not profanity, but it is a word that might raise flags in the computer world, referring as it does to a person who tries to break into computers and such. Publishing this will tell. Here goes....

OK, so I am a little out of date. Busy weeks, so I need to clean things up a bit. So here I am at the new Time Warner Cable Customer Service place on 23rd Street, using one of their free workstations to access the Net. Good time to update the blog, neh? I am here because after 3 years of good and faithful service, our migration to mobile phone technology has brought me to the decision to terminate home phone service, which decision unfortunately also affects the DSL. Otherwise I would just keep the DSL because the speed is fine for me and the Usenet service was excellent for the most part. I am number 341 and the line (and there is a hell of a line here) is up to 321 at the moment. I suppose I could go into detail about the other stuff going on as well. Might, I might.

Well, well, has THIS been a month! I have not been anywhere near this blog, so I guess I better catch up on the highlights...
I suppose I will cover the major topics one at a time...