Late instructions on commenting on posts... Oops...

(It's ME - read: Bill (not Tracy))

A brief explanation of one of those things that is not obvious at all - sorry for any confusion.. When you write comments to either Tracy's heartfelt posts, or to my rather clever repartee (if I do say so myself), they will not show up until either Tracy or I have had a chance to review them to be sure it’s not some webbot sending crap our way. The site is not publically visible, but it is not secured either.

Because of this, comments could potentially be posted which would have links taking you to really, really bad websites and not just the ones that show body shop parts. It could very easily become a conduit for malware (read: viruses, worms, and trojans oh my) distribution to our friends and family, not that I - would – do - that to anyone…. (BwaHaHaHa!!!). So in order to do our best to not infect you, we review each comment and retain positive control over whether it is published.

As of 1500hrs EDT (3 PM Eastern for those non-Mil folks) no word yet on what time we report to the Surgical unit tomorrow. As far as communicating what’s happening / happened / etc tomorrow – keep an eye on this page.

If you want a text message or an email, send me an email with that information to (and pay attention here): SaneAndGuilty(at)gmail(dot)com. You will need to replace the four character string (at) with the single @ character, and the five character string (dot) with a period . (under the > on your keyboard).   For an extra $9.95 per minute, I can even call you, too, but I'll need a credit card and your mother's maiden name, and the name of your first pet (or first hsusband / first wife).

It is *extremely* important that you never put a real email address in a public blog like this as it can be harvested (really) to use for Spam generation. That’s how a lot of the junk mail you probably get is originally created. So – for example, had I said my email address is BillIsAHunk(at)Somemail(dot)com, you would actually use the address BillIsAHunk@Somemail.com. Same thing with cell phone numbers for text messages. If you want a text message sent to your cell phone at 603-555-1212, you would do something like this: “six oh three five five five one two one two”.

Now that I’ve thoroughly confused everyone , here is something else to get a headache over (rather than the “usual” things…). This is computer geek stuff – so feel free to stop reading now.

 The phone number (603) 555-1212 in various numbering systems would be:

• Hexadecimal: 167BF33EC
• Binary: 101100111101111110011001111101100
• Octal: 54757631754
• Belinda: 6035551212
• Staples: HEY BILL!!!
• Smith: .08

My fingers are tired now, so must close.. I am sure Tracy will be on later to apologize to everyone about me, and maybe she has more info on times which she will share.

Stay tuned. 

Bill