I need a new coat of paint.

maybe two.

becuase that will make me want to write more.

right? right?


I don’t put a smile upon your face no more
I can’t make your heart shine like it did before
You don’t listen to my stories anymore
You can’t comfort me the way you did before

I wanted to post this like, two weeks ago, but I seem to be having all kinds of trouble keeping up on a regular basis. I hate not staying regular this this stuff because i end up forgetting anything cool that has happened in the past week. The ast thing I want you to do is think that I am ignoring you. I'm really not trying to, I'm just having problems with time.


So, the reunion came and went. Nothing special to talk about. I got trashed, and ended up getting talked into going out to cotton's, which lasted for about ten minutes. I had a bottle of water while I was out there, and called in a chip for someone to come get me as I was uncomfortably Drunk(i.e. I was about to eject all that prescious beer I drank). Was good to see people I haven't seen in a long time, and i wish i would have had the foresight to get some phone numbers off of people so I could call them up at drunk o' clock in the morning.



Okay, I'm lying. There is something that did happen at the reunion that I was glad that happened.


I settled the past with a couple.


It had been something that has been more or less unsaid for about the last six months to a year, but we went ahead and made it offical. I always imagined it being much more cataclysmic as that seems to be my style with dealing with exes, but it really wasn't. there was catching up with each other families, how shitty our old places of work are becoming, lamenting on how Brandocrap dosen't work further south, how much i miss playing spades and getting fucked over by said Brandocrap, all intersparced with much needed doses of getting shit off my chest, burying the axe and starting the process of letting it rust.


cybrpunk is doing some zombie fiction of his own. I'm waiting for day 3. maybe if all three of my faithful go over there, he'll keep with it. come on readers, I feed on this zombie stories and if Neil had any other way than paypal, I would totally have long since made my donation to up my allowed reads per week. Anyway, boring shit for the most of you, I'm sure.


Once again had a run-in with another guy who was helping the poor people who are stuck in the 3rd world country of Japan. This time, I didn't get asked if I knew where Japan was, though. Still had the same flier with LARGE INSPIRATIONAL WORDS on it, though. No chintzy bracelets this time, though.

Since I'm running familar ground, I'm going to go ahead and call North a flat-out liar(P.S. I like you, seriously), as No ID girl came in yet again and failed to produce an ID. Except now she's almost 23 and can't believe that I'm still carding her. boo fucking hoo. If she would have had her ID this would all be done and over with by now, but carrying an ID in her white trash daisy dukes along with her cash is appearantly too fucking complicated of a concept for her. Or, MAYBE she's a Sleeper Cell terrorist that is looking to bomb the Rend Lake Dam now that the lake has become a Wonder of Illinois, complete with David Phelps and Ken Gray singing God Bless America. Which I don't understand at all. I mean, I get why Gray was there, and politicians in general, but WTF with the patriotic hymn? I mean, God and Jesus didn't create it, it's man-made. poorly, I might add. but hey, it's drinkable and it gives me a place to go when I'm pissed off and want to be alone. I'll save my "I'm not a Lake Engineer but this is FUBAR'd" critique for another blog.


ANYWAY, back to NO ID girl, If I knew her name(which I don't because, well, you should be able to figure that out), I'd totally nominate her for the female catagory of the 1st annual " Livingdead's Customers Who Deserve Centipedes in thier Vagina and/or Dickhole" award. I already have a very good front runner for the Female category though with another demonic bitch of a customer. Maybe she's a shemale and I need to expand my categories. Anyone willing to take one for the team and find out? I won't tell if you won't.



Also, remember the 90's flowchat? I found out where that came from. Go check it out if you're into geek humor and stick figures. I'll stick it into Linkage soon enough. as soon as I find time. Also, photo album is seriously needing to be added(which I know by now is turning into a long running joke, but like Zapp Brannigan, I do plan to finish someday).

As Commentors know, I had to turn on the "approval required" option for commenting a while back to combat blog spam. I'm cautiously glad to report that i haven't been spammed at all in the last week and a half. I would love nothing more than to let down the gaurd and allow anything to go through without approval, but before I do... I want to hear how anyone else who has had this problem has been faring. I know most people on bloghorn have thiers taken care of almost automagically, but if you run a blog and could spare some time to drop a comment or an email, let me know.

boy, did I go on a rambling yarn. covered a lot of ground. Time for sleepzors. Or warcraftzors. or further hacking apart my chocolatezors. Or maybe doing something useful with all the spare computer parts I got laying around. Zors.


America
FUCK YEAH
Coming again to save the mother fucking day yeah

Getting bombed by blog spam.

Comments are now on a Approve/Deny Basis until i can figure something else out.

Okay. Got some things implemented that i've been wanting to do for a while. Code is up to date, and added my first affiliation. I now eagerly await the dozens of thosands of viewers that will very obviously be beating my server to death now! Or not.

Other things:

Spam filter software is working like a charm. or they got tired of dealing with my agressive nature of deleting it as soon as it popped up.

Don't ask me how, but if you're into RSS feeds, I got one going, if you're into that kind of thing. Seriously, it's like a monkey is just banging away on a keyboard sometimes with me. Sometimes it works, most of the times it dosen't. This time it did, for the most part.

I got to look over a couple more scripts for the photo archive, too. I'm having trouble deciding which one i really want to go with.

anyway, a real update later. I got real world things to do at the moment.

wow. I didn't say "fuck" anywhere in that update.

EDIT: categories not showing on individual updates. Goddamnit. I'll fix it later.


Thank you very much mr. roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to

Site may be wonky for a bit. Implementing new code and a few other things.

And yes, I Promise I'm going to get a photo archive up soon.

Guilty Party Added(sorry it took so long, Sarah. and Crackerjack? You still running a blog? I'd Like to relink you if you do).


New Theme, with filter in place.

old comments cleaned up, and revamped comment system in place robospammers shouldn't be able to comment anymore.

I'm damned tired and I gotta work. I'm going to bed. Will post something meaningful later today.

I could fake it
But I still want more

First off....

Dear Nintendo,

what the fuck? Wii? Are you fucking serious?

Sincerely,

Livingdead


And now for Something completely different.

That big change I was talking about last week? Still working on it. In addition to something else popping up and having been taken care of, I've been trying to wage a small-scale war against spambots who are commenting on old articles. It was sort of fixed with the new base code, but instead of making huge comments like they were, now they're just dropping a name, email, and website, since the text gets filter blocked.

The solution is using a random number image generator(i.e. Like what Sarah has on her commentbox). This also has it's own drawbacks.

One, I have to migrate all my linkage and other errata over into the new theme and make it look right(not that hard, just time-consuming). I have new Guilty parties to add, and i'm still working on the photo archive.


The second problem is that anyone who is visually impaired won't be able to make comments. I don't really wish to discriminate, but I don't think I have any blind readers.

Lastly, anyone using a text-only Browser is going to be in the same boat as the second problem. I'm going to take a WAG and say about maybe one percent of one percent of my dear readers have ever used Lynx(or currently use an old version of Mobile Browser) before, so I assume this won't be much of a bitching point.


Anyway, enough for now. I gotta work in the morning. I need sleep, and the only reason i'm still up was because Gma was yelling for me. more this week as i remember the various topics i was going to talk about.


Something's wrong and I guess you've blown it
Thanks a lot cuz now I own it

Upgraded Blog code in an effort to reduce spammers throwing thier shit in older posts.

shit's going to look wonky for a bit while i iron out the bugs.

Stay with me though. there's good stuff coming. i promise.

move along. nothing to see here.

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