Detention

I am not pleased!

 

So… I step away for a few moments and this is what happens to class?  Is it the Spring Fever that’s getting to some around here?  Sweet Mary, mother of Jesus, I tell you, I will not allow this place to become a mockery.  I should make everyone write a 500 word essay on disagreeing with civility, but I can only imagine another brouhaha erupting.  So we shall all sit quietly at our desks instead and reflect on our behavior…

 

A few weeks ago, I don’t remember exactly when, I recall commenting on another blog bemoaning blog owners who act in a heavy handed manner censoring comments.  It seemed perfectly logical to me, perhaps naively, that blog owners should allow readers to comment and hold discussions freely among themselves in addition to their host.  After all, we are adults here and we should be responsible for our own words.  I now have second thoughts, possible reservations about holding that position as an absolute. And those second thoughts are what trouble me – they make me feel hypocritical.

 

I have a problem.  I truly believe we should be allowed to speak our minds, and I truly do not want to referee and step in with respect to moderation.  I have a full time job to attend to and this place is my playground and oasis from it all, not a second job.  This is supposed to be a fun place.  When it stops becoming fun and too much like work, I will have little motivation to play over here.  Not that the world will notice mind you, for I’m not that narcissistic to believe any great loss would occur.  Still it would be disappointing to me.  Do we need to establish a set of playground rules?  Yuk, that sounds so restricting and adult-like.

 

I’m not asking you all to hug each other, just to behave and play nice.  Don’t turn into this guy:

 

But... but... but...

 

Class is dismissed!

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Gaaaa!!!! I am NOT a sock puppet!

OK, I feel the need to rant just a bit, and since absolutely no one is following this Blog, it’s a safe place to scream without being noticed! I’ve joined BlogSpot in order to follow and comment on other blogs I enjoy reading, some public and some private. All this was set up of course with my older e-mail account. Apparently, Google will not be satisfied until I migrate over to their platform which links to their e-mail account.

I’ve avoided the migration, thinking it would be confusing to those I follow, but I have had difficulties logging on to my older account. This always happens whenever the folks in our MIS department are inclined to enhance our productivity by tweaking the system, forcing us to spend several days of lost work sorting through the wonderful productivity enhancements that are supposed to save us time. I think I might shoot the next technogeek who starts off saying, “it would be really cool if…” But I digress.

So… Google tells me the migration will be a snap! They must have hired the same folks who work for us. All I wanted was an account to follow others’ blogs. Oh no – I need to have a blog of my own! So here I am with my very first entry that no one will see, venting about being forced to decide really important stuff, like what kind of template shall I use to signal my thoughts to the world that is not listening.

But what is the point of all this? Oh yes, to all my friends who have Blogs that I’m following, if you see my account twice as a follower, I hope you don’t think I’m a sock puppet setting up all these alternate identities. See, I’m still crazy, but I want to be a classy crazy.

I’m thinking that Google may have made a mistake, letting me blog about random thoughts that swirl around in my mind. I wonder how long before they force me to “migrate” elsewhere…

Thanks for letting me vent. I promise not to bite – that hard at least.