I have recently been plagued--PLAGUED--by spamments. There IS a spam filter on Blogger, and I KNOW spam filters are not an exact science and require delicate tweaking and will nevertheless make the occasional mistake---but I don't see how ANY spam filter would let people BLATANTLY named "generic [drug for men's Personal Regions created by scientists who could be using that time to create non-stupid birth control]" comment freely. The upside is that when I have to click over to delete the comment, I revisit old posts I forgot I even wrote. I'm thinking of it as a little Swistle Archives Tour.
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Henry, amazed: "I was born ON my BIRTHDAY??"
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I finished the fifth and final book of the Y: The Last Man series, and I was a little disappointed. I really really really liked the series, and I'm still glad I read it, but it feels like it was supposed to be a couple of books longer but then the budget ran out and they were instructed to wrap it up fast.
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I have been frustrated ever since we bought our minivan six years ago, because if there is enough weight on the front passenger seat, a "passenger seatbelt" warning light will flash throughout the entire trip. Sometimes even my purse will set it off. It only JUST occurred to me that I could just...buckle the seat belt. It sits flat against the seat, so it doesn't keep me from putting stuff there.
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Oh, little Henry brightens my day.
I love Henry. And, I think I'm finally going to have to get on the library waitlist for Y. I'm glad you're honest about the ending. I think then if I keep low expectations, then there's less disappointment.
My car flashes the seat belt sign when I have too much crap on the passanger seat too. I have NEVER IN MY LIFE even thought about clicking in the seatbelt. This has been a real lightbulb moment for me.
Ugh with the SPAM! I've been getting more lately too.
I think Henry's comment is the best I've heard in ages :)
Hahahaha I love Henry's comment. So cute.
Henry - so cute! I guess that IS kind of a wild revelation.
There's no way to make this sound NOT creepy, but I have been reading through your archives and I LOVE them. So much good stuff!! So an archive tour would be delightful.
Henry is so funny!! Imagine???
I buckle in stuff in the passenger side all the time to STOP THE DINGGING!!!!
Wow. I drove a car that did that for four years, and it never occurred to me either.
Henry = precious. Also, it's weird for me to adjust to the idea that he speaks in sentences. I think in my head his verbal development was stuck at the "fuffins" stage.
I had a similar thunderbolt realization once when a travel agent told me a one-way ticket was more expensive than a round trip. I narrowly managed not to blurt out "crap, so I have to pay MORE" before realizing I could just book a round trip and NOT FLY BACK. Thinking. It's hard.
"created by scientists who could be using that time to create non-stupid birth control" == YES YES YES
And Henry is adorable.
I love the Henry-isms. I think that kid needs his own blog!
I have noticed the spam thing, too. Weird.
Henry is adorable!
I can't imagine I EVER would have thought of the seat belt thing - you are sheer genius. :-)
I have been getting TERRIBLE spam lately. And a lot of it doesn't even seem to link to anything. It's just a random word salad. I get a little notification on my phone that I have a comment and I'm all "Yea!" and then I read it and it's like "Create beuty with birds on the best asian women with the internet today!" and then I cry a little.
Oh, Swistle! You need to write a book!! Compile your archived posts and put it out there to people who don't do blogs! The world would be a richer place!! I love the way Henry's mind works...child come from such a pure place!
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