Unwanted Commentary

I'm not happy. There seem to be a lot of little things crumbling away in my life. First and foremost is my lost access to UseNet. Evidently the good people at America Online finally deleted my account, three years after I canceled my subscription to their service. Most of my nefarious thieving activities will now come to a halt, no more mp3's, warez and saddest of all, porn. Oh well, maybe this will be an opportunity to grow as a person, or, as I suspect, I'll buckle under and pay for a UseNet account.

I came in this morning to find an email from our rollie-pollie network admin that IM text messaging is going to be blocked as of today. Evidently three attacks in the last three years are too much to bear, and I suppose he's right. I'm not sure as to whom to direct my anger. I want to be mad at our girthy admin, but I know all about the troglodytes with computers that work here and for the most part I see this decision as wise. Indeed, it is a small miracle that we haven't been more major intrusions through IM as most of our knuckle-draggers will click any link you send them. If the link promises free smilies, screen savers of kittens or wall paper of babies being strangled by flowers then the problem is several orders of magnitude compounded. So this is the proverbial several bad apples spoiling the bunch. This sucks chicken toes because one of my few pleasurable distractions at work is being able to chat, especially with Trinity and Mary.

Thirdly, WoW is behaving in a most naughty fashion as of the last few days. It's fine as long as I'm just running around and slaying hordes of monsters or, as is too often the case, dying and running back to my mangled corpse. As soon as I try to open my character sheet, interface with a merchant or attempt to craft something it will freeze up. My hard drive churns and churns as if trying to load, but more and more often it never loads and I have to do a hard reboot. I'm not sure what to do. Reloading the game seems like a good idea, I'm fairly certain the issue is with my clunky old computer, but I quiver in fear at having to reinstall those four CD's. I did run defrag, but I may have to bring out the heavy guns (read Norton) and try it again. I worry that my cheaply hand-crafted system is about to die, especially after it suddenly lost power last night. Fortunately that problem was fixed when I tried a new power cord, so it's running again, but who knows for how long.

So, I'm done bitching…until I think of whatever it was that I forgot.

Oh yeah, I can't get to myspace.com anymore. Our ample admin has, in his wisdom, blocked this as well. *sigh* It's like they're taking away all the things I do here, I might have to start working as I have little else left to occupy my time. I'm still thankful I can blog…and I'm sure *you* are grateful too, my filthy readers.