Writing Successes: Edited enough of the Amazon Archives to add yet another installment to the Scrolls. Got far enough to start on another, even. Pretty happy about that.

Music Playing: KINK, although I'm not sure why. Just in the mood for jazz, I suppose. They do this awesome "Lights Out" stuff from 9pm to Midnight that's soft, new-agey, wordless, jazzy tunes set to little pauses of water, rain, surf, that kind of thing. No commercials allowed. While that isn't playing right now, it's a good reason to still be on the station.

One of the pet peeves of the year so far is junk email. I'm sick of it. I get 50 or so JUNK emails now. In my defense, I've had this email address for about SIX years. Seems kind of stupid to go changing it now. So I open the junk, follow the remove instructions and get more crap from the same people. It's horrible.

So when a friend sends me crap, it annoys me even more. Now, I'm a tolerant kind of gal. I generally say nothing about it. And it's always some hoax, some sappy story about this child or that old woman whose life was touched by God somehow, or some joke I've seen once a year since I've had email. I usually delete it and move on.

I didn't yesterday. Yesterday I took the time to look up the hoax on the internet. There are a hundred sites that list these hoaxes so you can check on them before you send them to your friends and catch them up in the nightmare of email round-a-bouts. I look it up. Sure enough, Intel and Microsoft are NOT tracking this email to my closest friends and sending me a check for a hundred million gazillion dollars. Go figure.

I reply to the email and send the URL. I don't say anything, just the URL and my name. Then I realize I was a story too high, so I resend with the right URL and a message of "I had the wrong URL, sorry. Same point, though." I hear nothing more about it.

Small break for background: This email came from a guy who WORKS for Microsoft 8 months out of the year. The same one I've mentioned countless times before, Babe/Ric/Lancelot, whatever. I think his wife sent it to him, and he then sent it to me. I'm not sure. Regardless...

Donin last night says that Lance sent him an email saying that it wasn't a hoax. It's all real. Real, I tell you!

Should I mention that I didn't GET this email? That I still haven't heard a thing about it?

Let's also point out that I don't get emails from either Lance or his wife that AREN'T these kinds of things? No messages about how they're doing, how the kids are doing, how are things my end....nada. If I send something, it goes into a cyber-black-hole or gets a sentence in answer and I have nothing to reply to. They never call, either.

I'm not trying to sound like I'm complaining. I'm really not. Just more information for the masses there. I strive to not put a price on friendship. So saying, "I send them stuff, they never send back!" might sound like I'm saying that there IS a price. I don't mean that. I'm just saying that I send them stuff that isn't nothing, that isn't from someone else's horde of stuff from someone else that someone else sent. That I do care enough to ask after them.

And they can't even email me when they've a problem with something I sent. They have to send it to Donin. And THIS is what has me upset. This kind of back-handed, crappy treatment. I may not have a price for my friendship, but I do require at least a minimum level of common courtesy and respect. I weathered the whole "Nastiest Email Ever" incident with grace, tolerance, and what I hope was love and kindness. I took the highest road I possibly could, not to toot my own there, but I totally did.

I'm done with it. I've had enough of this sneaking around telling Donin everything, and treating me like I'm the elephant in the middle of the room. It's ridiculous, and I don't have to stand for it. In fact, my brain just began composing an email, so I'm not taking my usual "passive aggresive" stance, but standing up for what I know to be right. Guess I'll have to go do that.

Sorry for the total rant, but it's so dumb. And while I was typing this in, I got no less than 5 new pieces of email crapola. *sigh* Yeah, cause what I *so* need in my life is a bigger penis. I know, it's so I can jerk it off while looking at this amazing new free porn site!

To quote Samsara.... *raaaar*






Addendum: Sent the email and discovered it was Lance's wife who sent it. It was hard to tell, given the email address, but it is usually her that sends that kind of thing along. So, I resent the email. Now watch, she did the same thing I did and sent it to Donin by mistake. In which case I look like a total bitch. Oh well, sometimes you just have to do it anyhow. - D