Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out. --Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy
Here's a funny story. Well, I'll think it's funny as soon as I get it cleared up.
Today at work I tried to log onto La Vie en Rose. Suddenly I got a notification that it was blocked by Websense, my company's web filter program. What was the filter category? Well, I won't put it, because just putting the word on there might block it again, if I ever get it unblocked. Needless to say, it made my site seem very shady.
So I checked out the recent comments to see if anything would have triggered that, and decided that a short conversation we had recently, concerning a certain hair salon establishment, where the women wear less than they should, might have triggered that filter.
Then I got an e-mail from Brandon in my office, asking what on earth I was putting on my website to get it blocked for something so bad! Made me feel dirty. Now I'm wondering if our IT group can see me repeatedly trying to access a website that has already been determined to have shady content. I would certainly hope they would let me explain myself on that one...
My only concern now is that - once it gets recorded as being shady, will it stay that way - no matter what's on it?
Now we can all laugh. But I will stay thoroughly disturbed until I can figure that out.
I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday. I got the sweetest toy for Christmas – my own Pocket PC! I’ll write more about it later. For right now I wanted to share a moment I experienced yesterday, that few of you will find amusing. But those of you that do, you'll really know what I mean.
So, I went to get my hair cut yesterday. And when I sat down, the girl cutting my hair said, “Have you seen that new movie, Return of the King?” I said I had, about three times now. I was glad, because I figured that I’d have something to talk to the hairdresser about while she cut off (a lot!) of my hair. Here’s the ensuing conversation.
“I was just so impressed with that movie!” she exclaimed.
“Yeah, I’m a huge Lord of the Rings fan,” I said. “I love those movies.”
“Man, I was so excited for that elf-princess girl to come in the end and meet up with that guy with the dark hair, whatever-his-name-was, who became the king, I think.”
I was quiet for a second. But I tried to continue.
“Return of the King does a great job of the book, in my opinion.”
“Oh, I haven’t read the books,” she responded.
“Yeah, the books are great. But the movies do a great job of capturing them, in general,” I tried to continue.
“I’ll bet. Are the other movies good, too?”
Needless to say, I spent the rest of the hair-cutting experience in silence.