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June 29, 2006
Alien Abduction
I may have been abducted by aliens last night.
I have a pain in my left butt cheek that I can't explain. It feels like I've had a tetanus booster; but I haven't.
When I went to bed last night I felt fine. The temperature dropped into the 50's -- I had my windows open -- I slept very well. Maybe too well.
This morning I awoke with the pain in my butt cheek. And it hurts a little when I walk.
I've done nothing this past couple of days even remotely exercise like.
Not only does my butt cheek hurt but when I got out of the car this morning I had a little trouble walking ... I couldn't get my legs working just the right manner and wondered if some sort of really bad problem might be on its way. A few seconds later this was reduced to a sore cheek.
Assuming this is not the result of an alien abduction I'll have to go with the pain being a physical manifestation of the irritation I've been putting up with from Comment Spam. The last couple of days I've spent more time tweaking things than you'd ever be able to guess from looking at the site. I never did get the Comment Preview looking right. I'm not sure I even had a Preview button before the tweaking began.
Comments to older entries will now be shut off after a certain number of days. This should have no effect on most people -- once in a while a comment will be made to an old entry, but this is fairly rare.
There is a chance I broke something during the tweaking and I'm unaware of it. If you see that something is busted, please let me know.
The item that I finally decided to use to take care of spam was fairly easy to install. As was the thing I installed and decided to uninstall. The problem I had was that to install the first item I had to bring some of my templates to a more current state; and then I couldn't get them to look the way I wanted (a shortcoming on my part). And then I wasn't 100% in love with the way the first item worked.
So I installed the second item. And in the ten minutes that have passed since the install, it seems to be working.
And while the whole process of trying to get rid of Comment Spam is a pain in the ass, it still doesn't explain my left butt cheek.
Posted by delmer at June 29, 2006 5:41 PM
Comments
Have you found the probe yet?
Maybe it's a sciatic nerve thing.
Posted by: The Phoenix at June 29, 2006 11:41 PM
...comment spam and butt cheek-ache.
oh jeebus!
Posted by: dyna at June 30, 2006 1:09 AM
The pain is kind of a dull ache and seems to have worked itself out (mostly) overnight.
The better news is that there were no overnight Comment Spams and your two came through so the whole mechanism isn't busted.
(I seem to be winning ... for now.)
Posted by: delmer at June 30, 2006 6:48 AM