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Up until now I have always skimmed through the spam filter to make sure there isn’t something there that is a real comment.  I’m no longer able, nor willing, to do that.  With 200 – 300 spams a day it’s just too time consuming.  And for the very few comments I find that I believe are legit, it’s just not worth it.  So if you leave a comment and it looks like spam to my spam filter, then it’s probably not going to make it though to the post.  It might be because you have too many links in it for Viagra or tramadol (whatever that is) or you’re selling software thru a link, or you send a few dozen similar comments out in a short period of time… I don’t know all the spam filtering rules.  But it does a really good job.  Nor perfect, but really good.

This shouldn’t affect comments that are held for moderation.  Comments are held for moderation because they have bad words or too many links (and the software just isn’t sure about it) or you’re a first time commenter.  These I usually see and approve a couple times a day.

Now back to our regular programming.

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I finally got around to having a few Bits & Pieces t-shirts made up.  I’m going to make them available to anyone who wants one. I had one of each color made at first so I could see how they look.  They are tan, stonewashed green and stonewashed blue.  (The green one almost looks gray.) The ink print is dark navy blue.  They are all 100% cotton so they’ll shrink a little. The ones you see here have been worn and washed 6 or 7 times. (I’ve been wearing them almost every day.)

I’ll probably have a few of the most popular sizes printed up in advance (L, XL, XX).  I can get pretty much any size that you might want. 

They’ll be $10 each plus shipping. XX and larger sizes will be a little higher.  I’m not sure how to handle sales.  I guess I could do it through PayPal just like the donations. 

Here is the artwork. You can click on it to see a larger image.

If anyone knows they want to get one send me an email and let me know what size and color and when I get the first batch printed I’ll make sure I get yours.

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We made it back home this evening.  I had some tall grass to mow before I did anything else.  I should have mowed it before I left, but I just didn’t get around to it.

Anyway, I want to thank all who had nice comments and sympathies for me and my aching neck.  Also, those who suggested treatments, ideas and shared your experiences with similar ailments.  I’m feeling a little better today.  I haven’t had any pain pills today and only two yesterday.  I’m hopefully optimistic that the relief will continue.  I guess I’d say I’m just now occasionally uncomfortable rather that miserable… which is pretty much how I spent much of the last month or so.

I did go to physical therapy Friday and did do some stretching exercises which I said I wasn’t going to do…and I think it may have started helping.  I’m starting to feel like I can get more into it now.  I have three PT sessions scheduled for this coming week, so time will tell.

Thanks for all your participation in the open mics too.  They were fun to read.  Hopefully things will be back to normal here this week… even though I do have a full week ahead of me.  I’m producing a Trivia Night on May 2nd, for the MPS Society locally in St. Louis area.  I don’t know too much about the disease but was asked to do it by a nice young couple whose two children have it.

Anyway, look for things to be sort of back to normal.

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Just a few words to let you all know not much has changed… for the good anyway.  I’ve had physical therapy twice so far and I feel worse now.  They’re stretching my neck (just pulling on my head – I think I’m a couple inches taller now) but that feels pretty good actually.  But for some reason they’re wanting me to build up my chest and back muscles (supposedly to take the pressure off my neck muscles or something like that) and right now that’s just killing me. I think I stretched a upper chest muscle too much and I’m in real pain a lot of the day.  I have to go back again tomorrow (every other day) but I’m not going to do the chest exercises.  They can stretch me, do ultra-sound or whatever else they want, but I’ve got to try to let my chest/shoulder area heal up a little before I put more pressure on it.

I’m going to be out of town this weekend.  I’m going to Kansas City for a family thing.  We’re supposed to go to World’s of Fun Saturday afternoon, but I’ll wait to see how I feel then to decide whether or not I’m going there.

I’ll make a few pre-posts for the weekend and leave you guys to entertain yourselves in my absence with an open mike or two.  I’ll have my laptop with me but not sure I’ll have too much opportunity to post while I’m there.

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