What do I have to do to get more traffic to this site? Write about sex?

...sigh.  Lemme break out the Porn Tropes...

No more Chinese Spam!  If you guys spam here, at least do it in Esperanto!  Show some effort!

I am A+ Certified

Passed the 220-702 certification exam yesterday.  With the 220-701, that certifies me for computer tech support careers.

SO HIRE ME DAMMIT!

Current status June 21, 2010

• Talking to the Xlibris people to drop the value of the ebook for Last of the Grapefruit Wars to 5.99, to make it more attractive as a purchase...
• Saw Toy Story 3.  Cried twice, and counted at least 3 other moments where Pixar could have made me cry like a beech.
• Still studying for A+ Certification, turns out I do need to have the 701 AND 702, not just a 701 and 602.  Grrrr.
• Libraries are still struggling with budgets.  Some places are thinking of cutting back on volunteer work for God's sake..
• Sorely looking for work.  Part-time work with Census won't start up again until July 1.  And it's part-time, I need some revenues to pay the bills.  :(
• And the damn Chinese spammers will probably be the only ones reading this and posting to it.  I just want some love, is that so wrong?

Buy my ebook!

Finally got around to it, and got the publisher Xlibris to make my short story collection Last of the Grapefruit Wars available in ebook formats!

Buy my book on Amazon Kindle!
Buy my book on Barnes & Noble Nook!
Buy my book on Sony eReader!

It's a good book, people.  Half-decent stories with minimal speeling and grammaticalist errors.  Cheap too at 9.99 a pop (with discounts)!  Tell your friends!  Even you spammers in China!  Buy My Book!  :-)

A Librarian-Writer-Pirate-Wannabe Looks Back at 40

(cross-posted to my otter blog):
And on this 40th birthday I can say only one thing:

Where the hell can I find a cute single woman - Age 25-35 with brunette hair, doesn't smoke, likes football and comic books, with knowledge of either A) European History B) American Politics or C) Paranormal (UFO and Ghosts) Studies - so I can date her and finally lose my goddamn virginity?!

Before April Goes Out the Door, Lemme Note

1) I passed the A+ Essentials exam!  FINALLY!

2) I STILL need to finish the NaNoWriMo book I worked on in November.  :(

3) In another week I'll be just another pirate looking back at 40.

4) I keep asking you Chinese spammers to buy my book, but NOOOOOOOO you cheapskates are just here for the free donuts!  Shame on you!

I'm getting spammed by the Chinese?

Last two entries had comments on them trying to link to other locations on the 'Net.  No comments at all, just the links.  That never looks good, so I trashed them.

If you Chinese guys adding comments are really reading this, could you at least put in a sentence or two so I know I'm not getting spammed by 'bots?  Better yet, can you guys go on Amazon.com and buy my book?  Awesome sauce!

Update 11/24/18: All this week I've seen a serious uptick in traffic to this article. Oh, great, I did something to anger China again.

Dammit, you guys, will you AT LEAST leave a comment in English because I can't read Mandarin or Cantonese or Klingon! AND BUY MY BOOKS!

Update 3/30/19: And the Chinese are back. Traffic to this article is just... meaningless without an honest comment below. IN ENGLISH! You're dealing with a guy who flunked out of college-level German, OKAY?! /headdesk

Update 12/13/22: What the absolute hell? I just got yesterday three more spam comments to moderate. At least this time the comments were in English, and were coming from what looks like Italian domain names.