well, let's see if i can come up with any more inane crap to post... 

tweaked the blogvoices 'flag' script for the last time—i hope.  i should just pretend it's cool, but it's not.  all it does is switch from blogvoices' dynamically-generated javascript source (during BV's server-overload time period) to a 'dead' copy of bv.js on my server.  the script doesn't even know whether bv is slow or not—it just switches during whatever time i programmed it to (from 2pm - 9pm, i think.  i don't even remember.)  making it actively watch 24-7 for a delay and then automatically switch to an archived—or better yet, preloaded—version (ooo, there's an idea); that might be cool. 

no matter, though, because my server is not much faster than blogvoices' server lately, ever since the goldbrickers at XO communications bought my domain host, concentricnet.  i used to have a ping (at burgwinkel.com) in the 80's.  today it was 414!  i know that i know very little about network protocols, but the increase in ping rate seems to coincide with a newly sluggish page loading rate from my site, independant of any slowdown by blogvoices.  not to mention all the ftp and telnet disasters they (at XO) have been creating...

enough.  i must ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... relax, and focus my mind on peaceful ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... things, and prepare my body to slip off ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... into the netherworld that follows after ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... one finally comes to the complete acceptance ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... that another totally wasted day is over.    ;)

besides, i'm getting heartburn.