Posted on by Dana Kane

Not dead. Not in jail. Not yet.

Hello all,

While you’ve all been going about your ever-so-uncomplicated lives (insert sarcasm here), I’ve been recovering from what started as a simple dental procedure and ended up being quite an odyssey (who ever knew me to complicate things, huh?), all while preparing for several weeks of all-out spanking madness in order to catch up on all the time I’ve missed.

Happy to report that all HUMAN systems are running optimally and I’ll be back shooting, posting, and generally talking too damn much in just a couple days.

Except, as you know, things are never that simple…

Last night there was a *pop* power outage, a teeny one that didn’t even reset the digital clocks; but it DID knock out my interweb and a whole bunch of other technical crap about which I shall not trouble you, mainly because I don’t understand any of it either. The gist is, I have limited online access until the magical guys come tomorrow evening and wave their I.T. wands over my desk three times or something. I’ll keep up with email when I’m able, but have long since given up on doing any real communicating on my smart phone as the screen is just too damn small. (Ohgod, I just realized – I’m MIDDLE AGED!!)

So this post is really not about much at all, other than the fact that I’ve received several emails to the effect of, “What the hell? Where are the blog posts?”. Okay, nobody said, ‘What the hell’ because they know I’d smack them, but you get the idea…

I’m here. The dentist did not kill me, nor I her, and we will be back to regularly-scheduled programming soon as the interweb decides to play nice with my light-up boxes.

– Dana

18 Replies to “Not dead. Not in jail. Not yet.”

  1. I seriously thought you were rotting in a jail cell for trying to beat up your dentist! :) :)

    You kept your temper in check when the power outage occurred? LOL!

    1. Alexis,

      Are you kidding me? My little dentist lady could probably kick my butt!
      I didn’t lose my temper with the outage until I realized that I can’t watch Mash reruns til they get it fixed. Now, I’m angry.~

    1. Spanky,

      I guess the tech support guys didn’t get the ‘Fear Dana Kane’ memo..

  4. Thanks for the “alive and well” update. I think the tech support guys could use a spanking. You need to keep up your skills, right?

    1. Cautious,

      I’m afraid he’d leave without fixing it, if I tried to smack him around. Maybe afterward..

      oxox

  5. The fear Dana Kane memo..
    Whilst high on novocaine..

    OMG that would be a session and a half for the IT guy
    Fire and brimstone

    That has got to be seen.

    But woo hoo, the lady is back, ish..

    So guess what i want to say….

    :-)

    gehenna, infernal, bottomless pit of fire, perdition

    (didnt say it!!!)

    xx

    1. My irreverent Mooski,

      It’s lucky you’re so far away right now, as I’m feeling particularly sadistic after the couple weeks I’ve had.

      oxxo

  6. For you, i would give you my bottom freely.. With permission obviously..

    And i take it seriously.
    You out of action for any length of time is a bad thing..

    and particularly sadistic??

    oooh

    My testiculars just shrunk..

    xx

    1. Mooski,

      That’s okay, I have a nice piece of twine that will stretch those testiculars right back out again – as you well know.

    2. Why?! As far as I know ANY technology works great in Las Vegas, as demonstrated by the erstwhile Comdex, a plethora of other shows, and most recently CES! Now seriously, and with no desire to create a confrontation, and not expecting to see it published further on the board: really, UPSs are totally great and they do work stupendously well to prevent the kind of headache that you describe. Seriously. This is a suggestion with best intentions. In my work, running a home office that is likely not far from your setup, over the last five years I have had two instances where a great deal of grief was saved by my UPS that was powering my mode. Now, if you really on service suppliers (notice how I did not say “providers”), that have served and nodes outside of your electrical power connection, then their services should be protected against that kind of micro power surge that you described. Really, that is why I brought UPS, because you mentioned that there had been a micro power surge/event. Sorry to nag, but I make s living at these things… :-)

    3. Oh, I see…you’re saying that I should buy yet another shiny black box in order to protect all my other shiny black boxes, which are all already ‘protected’ by a surge protector.

      Yeah, no. Technology can bite me on this one. I’d rather write anyway.

  8. Too many visuals…I liked the image of you in a jail cell (only temporarily) better than the IT guys waving their wands over your desk, FWIW :)

    1. BT,

      The IT guy was so good that he didn’t even need his wand..

      and I would kick jail’s butt.

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