No Youting!*
Happy Christmas to both of you. I appreciate your patronage throughout the year. This is the brief story of how we all got sick. It didn’t start with this, but it came close:
It actually started when my brother, his wife, and two daughters arrived here from Chicago. They showed up with a raging case of the flu…
…or was it the Billy Goat Curse?
Be that as it may, the kids were slobbery and their parents had the creeping crud. T’was the season of giving, so they gave. And gave. And gave.
And we’re all sick.
But we all had a great Christmas, and we got everything we wanted…
…which was to be together.
Your pal,
bob
* – New word coined by The Cutest Nephew In The Whole World.
It’s a grand combination of “yelling” and “shouting,” don’t you think?
P.S: As I actually place my actual email address on this site, the bad, angry robots that crawl the Innernut looking to sell me cut-rate Viagra (no need, but thanks for thinking of us) have latched on. Naturally, I bounce their email back to them, mostly the bouncing is returned to me as a mail administrator notice. Most of them are ritual, out-of-the box responses; “delivery failed, sender unknown” (here’s a cool tip for you administrators out there: ARE YOU CHECKING YOUR FREAKING LOGS TO SEE IF YOUR SYSTEMS ARE BEING USED AS RELAYS FOR SPAMMERS! And if not, why not?). One of today’s bounce failure notices was cute though…
“Hi. This is the qmail-send program at thai.com.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.”
See? They’re not checking their logs either, but at least they’re putting some effort into the enterprise. Maybe.