Since the Playboy incident was well-received -- as was the Playboy itself, come to think of it -- I thought I owed the cyber-ether an update: I chickened out.
This seems to happen a lot (not the chickening out part ... well yes, maybe that too), but I always walk mis-directed mail over to the next block over, or more often to the elder lady next door. It's a good occasion to check in on her if she's around. Maybe exchange remarks about the city's latest grass-length crackdown.
But another option didn't even occur to me until my southern Missus and her woman's intuition kicked in again: She reminded me that there was a time back in the day when one didn't take the buggy into town to the post office (or "postufus," as our grandpa pronounced it). And in those days you needn't fear your credit card payment being lifted from your urban dwelling mailbox for identity theft purposes.
So you just put out-going mail in your own mailbox and lifted the tin red flag or finely crafted turkey tail or whatever, and the kindly carrier did the rest.
Thus informed that "new shit has come to light," I chickened out: I stuck the black-cloaked Playboy back in my mailbox. It was presumably picked up by the carrier and either devoured on the spot or delivered to its intended recipient. I avoided the Great Porn Walk and any potential awkward encounter. Problem solved.
Except now, I sort of feel like I let myself down. Maybe missed out on another story, or at least a closer peek into the world of the man ("--or woman") who is missing his ("--or her") Playmates of the Month Year-End Review.
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.
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February, 2008