etee's Blog

So, one morning I open my email, and find this cryptic missive from a blogger-friend of mine:

I'm trying to "tag" you, but I'm getting a "there's nothing there" message when I click on either the title of your (latest) post, or the "send feedback" link.

I thought, "Hmmmm..." (more like "What the heck is she talking about!?", actually), and started trying to troubleshoot the blog. I had just recently upgraded the CMS, and thought maybe a new bug had been discovered. Turned out that it was the case, something to do with quotes in the title or words from the title name in the tag field or something like that... it was 4AM for crying out loud, not the time at which I am able to demonstrate my awesome geek skills to full effect. Anyway, I fixed things so that clicking on the article would quit displaying that silly error message, then went along as if nothing had happened, figuring her reference to "tag" had something to do with the fact that the first word of the error message was, in fact, "Tags".

Later in the day, I was cruising the web taking a break from work (on my lunch hour, I'll have you know), I stopped by her site, and discovered what she meant by "tag":

Here are the rules of the game:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

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Okay… so now I’m supposed to tag and link to six more people:
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Ed T at etee’s Blog

(Craaaaaaaaaap)

So, now I gotta pick out 'six random things' about myself - which, as everyone knows, is impossible, as that would require a true random number generator, which doesn't exist... but, here goes something that will have to pass:

1. I have not worn a pair of socks since, oh, sometime before the turn of the century.
2. In fact, I no longer even own a pair of socks. (the dryer must have eaten them all or something)
3. I do, however, own a few cameras. More than a few cameras, in fact. And, I am not afraid to use them, in case you haven't noticed.
4. I am also a ham - as in 'amateur radio operator'.
5. I am a disabled veteran of the Vietnam era.

(Are we there yet?)

6. I did not vote a straight-party ticket in the most recent election.

(whew!)

Now comes the real hard part: finding 6 bloggers to hand this off to, who won't proceed to look me up and firebomb my home in response.

1. Jenny The Bloggess
2. Julie who Uses Her Words (and quite well, I might add)
3. Nicki who is raising a Peanut
4. Steph the Shutterbloggesss (who I haven't heard from since post-Ike)
5. Min the Esoterica (and self-professed bad mom)
6.  

Sorry, but I had to stop at 5. Otherwise I would have completed the sequence 6-6-6, which would probably have resulted in the initiation of the countdown to Armageddon or a plague of frogs or something like that. Also, maybe because I felt like being different. Or, maybe I can't follow rules. Which would be another random fact about me. And we can't have that, since I already posted 6 sort-of-random things about myself. So, forget what I just said.

Finished. Now, I'll just sit back and wait for 5 angry bloggers (bloggesses?) to launch a DDoS on my site.