I jump through hoops to get rid of the comment spammers and then today I get 90 trackback spams. Sheesh. So I’ve renamed my trackback script, and it won’t work anymore. Spammers suck the joy right out of life.
Go check out ARGN, lots of exciting news in the last week!
My kids have rediscovered their Hello Kitty CD player. I let them have the Free to Be You and Me CDs, and handed over my version of The Beatles One. Jo knows about 50% of the words and makes the rest up. “She’s a big weasel. She took me half the way there. She was a day tripper, Sunday driver yeah.”
Weasel. Hm.
We’re watching this show on the History Channel about hygiene. Apparently on the Space Station and Shuttles they bring pottie waste back to Earth.
Why?
Caroline keeps peeing so much her pullups leak and make a puddle on the floor. Last night we had to have a showdown with Jo about her sleeping habits; she wants someone to sit in the room with her until she goes to sleep. Hub was in there for an hour and a half the other night and she never went to sleep, so we now have a timer for 30 minutes. Caroline took crayons and Tinkertoys and ran up and down the halls with her arms outstretched and redecorated our cabinets. Someone flushed something down the toilet tonight and it overflowed at bedtime. Hub keeps using bad language in front of the kids and making me mad. Today I got so upset that I took the little armrest cover thingie off my chair and threw it across the room. The girls looked at me in stunned silence for about 60 full seconds, then Caroline quietly spoke: “I’ll get that for you, Mommy.”
I even got out a jigsaw puzzle to work on for occupational therapy. Guess what? “What can I do, Mommy? She’s taking my pieces. I want those pieces back! Give ’em back! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
On the plus side, Jo’s started calling me “Mama” out of the blue and I think it sounds really old-fashioned and sweet.
Since June 9:
350 attempted comments have been blocked by the Blacklist plugin
I don’t have a count of how many comments have NOT been blocked, but I have added 100 URLs to the Blacklist.
Simply put, the spammers have been making it not fun anymore. So I upgraded to Movable Type 3.0. This means that if you want to comment, you have to sign up with TypeKey. They don’t require a lot of info and they don’t spam you after you sign up. It’s just a level of accountability. I hope you choose to keep commenting even though it means you have to go through an extra step.
And yes, I know some of my templates look like ass right now. I still need to tweak my CSS settings!
I upgraded to Movable Type 3.0. Many things are broken, including the comments. Bear with me; I hope to get it fixed sometime in the next couple of days. If you need something in the meantime, email me. Link’s on the right-hand bar.
What am I doing wrong!?!?
This is the second batch of cookies I’ve attempted in the past couple of days that has turned out spectacularly awful. The first time I used Alton Brown’s “Chewy” recipe, and they came out totally powdery, with a dry, cake-like crumb. This time I used the Tollhouse recipe (which is basically like AB’s recipe only with softened butter rather than melted) and added a little bit of milk, and subtracted some egg white because I am trying to get a nice flat chewy cookie.
They’re like freaking pecan sandies or something. Ugh. What the hell? Even my kids are asking what’s wrong with them.
This sucks.
It had only been about 18 months since my last haircut. I got about 8 inches cut off, base color changed to real auburn (rather than the pinky red drugstore dye), and got blonde highlights. The kids keep asking if I am me.