February 2007 Archives

Flower turned to me and said, "That's a good strategy if she won't let you come in her mouth. If you come on her nose first, she'll have to breathe out of her mouth…"

Fortunately, I have never needed that strategy. ;)

I have reopened comments.

Thank you to Mercy and Philip who were kind enough to offer advice to my last post.

I turned on an extra field on my comment form. You have to complete the name of my blog. Capitalization counts.

If you don't, the comment won't be deleted, but it will go to moderation without being published—and that's all I have been trying to accomplish all along.

There have been a lot of comments made by Spammers.

I won't turn commenting off, because I think comments are important, but I am turning on moderation permanently. I'm tired of useless trash showing up on my pages and getting sent out on my feeds.

It just means that you won't see your comment until such time as I weed through the spam. I intend to do so at least daily, or as often as possible.

This is only unless or until I MT is updated or there is some plug-in which can enable some sort of verification. I'm skittish about requiring people to get a TypeKey account just to comment once in a while.

I'm sure open to ideas. Let me know what you think.

I spent the night in a hospital.

Nitroglycerin. Aspirin. Blood drawn four times. Stress test. Nuclear medicine.

Mom and Dad stayed with me.

Flower slept on my bed with me.

I don't know why I had chest pains.

But I learned that my heart is just fine.

It's been a long time. I don't know if they have aged well, or not… But I want to go back and look at what I started.

There are also any number of stories and situations that I never completed, for a variety of personal and creative reasons. I don't promise to finish stories that are three or four years old, but It could happen.

What I want to do for the most part is to re-edit them into a more traditional and linear format. My old blog entries (and therefore stories) came from a period of time when I felt reasonably safe with a browser window open to my site all day long. Any and every pervy thought made it past my (admittedly weak) internal censor and on line. I'm not saying that was good or bad. However, in the current iteration of this site, I think it makes the stories harder to read.

Before, all of my posts only had a time stamp. There was also no title or category. So text in a post could be stand-alone or refer to the one before. Sometimes I intended my posts to do both—It was intentionally free-form and stream-of-consciousness.

When I brought them here to this site and this blog tool, categorizing and titling the posts broke them. There I things I wrote that I have no idea any longer what I meant or who it might have been directed to.

Suffice it to say, instead of bending this tool back to fit those posts, I'm going to re-edit to make the stories flow better and to possibly make them more portable.

I don't intend to make many changes to the original posts. They will retain all of the original spelling and grammar errors and reside at the same URLs.

But I am going to take the old stories and dress them in new clothes.

I won't promise this will happen tomorrow or anything. It always took me many hours to write those little vignettes and time feels so fleeting, anymore. But it is something I feel inspired to do of late.

Thanks, RG. I still love your work.