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Lately I've been having some serious issues with writer's block. It seems like all the time I have so many ideas just floating around my brain until I sit down to actually write. The second I pick up a pen/pencil, or sit down at the computer my brain just empties. It's beginning to make me insane. I have all these things plotted out and notes written down, but when it comes time to turn them in to something -- *poof*. Sometimes I get lucky and can get a few words down, but then if I look them over I am horrified. I start wondering who on earth would read this? It's worse than the worse thi...

Catching up... Or "Yes, I'm still alive and kicking."

Hi everyone! I'd like to apologize for the long hiatus. Many things have been going on in my personal life. I won't go in to too much detail, but I've had a lot of health issues and a couple of surgeries in the interim time. I've also lost three close family members in the space of the last couple of years that have thrown me and I have still not really absorbed their loss. Another reason that I have been absent so long is that I've also had a lot of self-doubt as a writer. I have actually gotten some writing done, as well as a bit of my first novel started. After the first bit I was hi...

What is this blog about, anyway?

Just recently I began submitting my blog to various blog related listing sites, and found I had a small problem. All of them ask me to classify what this blog is about. Uh-oh. For some reason they all seemed to lack the proper category. The neglected to add the "whatever strikes my fancy" category. That led me to sit down and really think about what this blog is about. I've been told it's a "mommy blog" since I have posted parenting relating things, or it's a "contest blog" because I post giveaways. Ok, I can get with that, sort-of. Those are parts of me, but I have a problem with cla...

5 Minutes for Special Needs

Many of you don't know that I have both a sister and a niece with special needs. My sister suffered brain damage as a result of her belirubin climbing to record heights as an infant. Her functioning level was put at that of a six year old, even though she is 30 years old. She is the sweetest person, but has had a very rough life due to this and other unrelated problems. My niece has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, and I have been learning all I can about this very common Autism Spectrum Disorder. As a result, I am a proud supporter of sites and causes that promote information and f...

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If you find I am in jail….

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Didn’t that catch your attention? It should have. I am currently considering going postal on any AT&T DSL workers I can find…. Ok. Not really, so please don’t put me on any lists or anything, ok?)

I have spent several days now with limited to no internet access and AT&T is just not helping me. They had a massive outage the other day and completely killed my browsers and Second Life access. (Not that big a deal really, right? Wrong. Not only do I have my internet businesses, but I also have several jobs doing hosting at clubs in Second Life.) I could limpingly (not really a word, I know, but best possible description) access my e-mail, but only barely, and couldn’t send out a single e-mail. I couldn’t even access the browser to send it through there… They kept giving estimated times it would be resolved, but guess what? They lied!

So then it’s fixed. Sort-of. I can access the web now, if I want to wait five to ten minutes to load a single page. At that point it’s not worth the frustration because I get so mad waiting for the darn page to load I’m becoming more homicidal.

The issue with sending mail still isn’t resolved. I’ve been having problems for a few months now where it will decline the e-mail. Something will sneak through here and there, but sometimes it would take up to twenty times to send one e-mail! (Have you realized I’m not a patient person by this point?) So I go to the site and read that every e-mail has to be verified through the main account. Ok. Pain in the butt, but I’ll do it. I start verifying my e-mails and get through just a few of my e-mails for my seventeen current domains and can’t add any more. (Yes, you read that right. Seventeen. Be quiet. I get enough comments from my husband….) Are you kidding me? A limit on how many e-mails you can send to?

So I call tech support. Again. I am at the point that I don’t even need to listen to the questions to respond. My darling husband is in the background listening to the growing irritation in my voice and laughing. (You would think we would have been married long enough at this point that he would know that’s not the best idea when I’m mad, but oh well.) After waiting sixteen minutes for a live person they hang up on me. I decide after several heated and creative expletives I should wait a while to try to talk to someone for help.

A couple hours later I try again and get a real live person. (I decided not to pay attention to how long I was on hold to spare the poor person that would hopefully eventually take my call.) Low and behold — I get a person that has half a clue! The first time I talked to someone they told me that I had entered the settings wrong and that’s why it wasn’t working. Pretty talented thing of me to do since I followed the EXACT directions she gave me. I gave up on her and just dealt with having to send the same e-mail over and over. This new person finally gave me a solution. Ok, so they had to give me a special server to send mail from. (Looks like I’m not the only one with a domain addiction. Who would have thought?)

So, now I can send e-mail! Woo-hoo! Maybe I’ll leave the rest of AT&T’s employees alone. I finally found one competent worker. So for those of you that work at AT&T’s internet branch, you have that one person to thank. Sad thing about it is, I cant’ for the life of me remember his name…

Now off to catch up on e-mails I’ve been putting off……

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