Fits of joy

Yay! I can waste my time on the Internet again instead of getting real work done!

On the other hand, I can actually get some real work done because I have the Internet! Yay!

That is all.*

*The problem, if you care, had something to do with the radio filter or whatever on the line. The BT tech was helpful in explaining what it was, I just wasn't paying much attention. 8:30am and all that. Also, turns out 2 of our DSL filters were shot (namely, the 2 we were using. Thankfully we've been sent something like 7 of them–along with our 4 routers.).

Argh

Our phone line died. Which of course means our broadband is neither broad, nor bandy. Joy.

In other words, I'm at the library, and any hope of doing any work is shot until they fix stuff at home.

Did I mention I'm overjoyed?

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I seem to have created a twitter account.  Mostly because I have to buy a bunch of plane tickets this year (well, three, and for only two trips, unless someone dies, so no one die because I don't want to pay even more money to the airlines this year), and airlines post deals to their twitter and facebook pages.  I won't join facebook for love, money, or to save my soul, since I believe it is the very definition of hell.*

I do not have a LinkedIn account, nor do I have a MySpace page, though I do have a Google+ account, which I mostly use to play games (yeah, it turns out I am that person, except I don't publicly post/harass others for things in game) and follow homebrew people.  And Wil Wheaton and Jeri Ryan.  Wil Wheaton started the homebrew circle.

I'm debating how much to post to twitter.  I've always like the concept of twitter--I think it's fast and easy and I like the idea of having to keep to a character limit.  Still, I'd rather post here for the most part.  No character limits so I can blather away, and more over, a few people read me here.  Very few, perhaps, but hey.  But if for some reason you feel an urge to follow me on twitter, I'm @KatieWeidmann (creative, no?), and the non-twitter account holding people can see what I have to say (which is one post and not interesting) at https://twitter.com/#!/KatieWeidmann.

*Someone who came over to a party we hosted decided to use my laptop to hop on her account and didn't log out.  Ignoring the fact that I didn't like Henry being violated in such a way, nor do I think it's cool/appropriate/fun to stare at facebook when there are actual people around you, I used her account last night to look up some people and discover that facebook has gotten even more horrible with this new timeline thing.  I also thought about doing evil things to/with her account, but Adam told me not to be mean.  But she started it when she left fingerprints all over my screen!

Weird Statistics

I've been slowly futzing around with the blog, which you may or may not have noticed (or cared about).  Mostly, I've just been cleaning up old links and adding new ones and the like.  There are some new blogs listed on the right now, and some old one have been removed.  I strongly encourage everyone to visit Hyperbole and a Half.  Hi-larious.  Also, go read XKCD, which is often funny, and always odd (protip: there's mouseover text, so hover your cursor over the comic when you're done reading it for more funny/info).

In all this messing about, I just discovered that Blogger provides stats.  I assume this is a fairly new thing; I mean I don't pay loads of attention, but I've been on Blogger for a over two years now, so I figure I would have noticed it at some point.  Either way, it's very neat to see some of the visitor statistics.  I'm not well loved, but that's cool, because I'm not set up to be crawled by search engines (this is intentional).  What is odd, however, is some of the locations I get visitors from.  The United States, of course, and the UK, since I have friends (and homes) in both locations.  But then it starts to get odd.  In order of most hits (US and UK are the top two), I've also got the Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Luxembourg, Angola, Switzerland, Moldova, and Mexico.

Here's the thing.  Most of those only have 2 or 3 hits (ever), except for Russia and the Netherlands.  Why?!  Do I have followers or friends (or stalkers) there?  If so, totally awesome, and if you're in one of those places, you should comment so that I can say hello.  And quite frankly, ask why the hell you care about my rather mundane life, or at least my mundane posts.

In other random news, I'm going to start writing again.  With the death of Geoff a few months ago, I put my one novel on hold, and the historical fiction one has been on hold indefinitely (main character is stranded at the moment, as history is a wee bit sketchy on that part of his life).  I was writing the non-historical fiction one by hand, and I'd started transcribing and editing what I had so far when Geoff blew up, and I just haven't gotten back to it when I got Henry (wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam) up and running.  That was at Thanksgiving, which was immediately followed by Christmas and New Years, so it's been crazy around here, as I assume it has been for most people.  Sadly, I'd love to share my new book with everyone--it's truly perfect for blog format--but as it's journal style and about work, that's not so bueno.  It will be heavily fictionalized, but even though I hate my job, it's the only (paying) one I've got, so I'd rather keep it.  I'm trying, however, to find other things to write about to keep the masses entertained.  Adam and I are going to Iceland in about 3 weeks, so that should provide some interesting fodder for at least a couple of posts.  For now, we'll just say that Adam thinks I should have done more research.  He might have been right.