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Okay, so I did something stupid. I left a picture post open to the public - I don't know, .... at the time it didn't bother me,  but I've been pretty open about myself, where I am, etc., on here, and sometimes I know that's a stupid thing to do.

I got an anonymous comment on the post early this morning. Totally unthreatening - but for some reason it just sent chills down me.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: July 24th, 2005 - 08:25 am		(Link)
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about that swingers party..awful or disapointing feeling, I bet?

Cute girl in the pic too.

 

So I scurried around and friends-locked the post. And then to reassure myself, I checked my StatCounter - marvelous thing, that. Records the ISP address of everyone who looks at my journal. Its the little secret that makes me feel quite smug about anonymous commenters. The ISP address is remarkably accurate, because I can program mine into the StatCounter and it will not register my visits. If I don't stay on top of it, I will suddenly appear on my counter, because apparently it changes on occasion, just slightly. So its accurate, no question.

This particular commenter has been here to look around before. I even know that the commenter uses Firefox, when I go to the stat breakdown. 

c-24-128-165-178.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (Comcast Cable Communications Holdings Inc)

Massachusetts, United States, 9 returning visits

Date	Time	WebPage
24th July 2005	12:35:54 AM

The times don't match because the StatCounter is located in a different time zone than LiveJournal, but they match according to my Yahoo mail inbox.

But for some reason, my paranoia is not completely assauged.......

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I'm working up a list of purchases I want or need to make in the next several months.

I currently have two hard drives on my computer, and two cd drives, with a floppy drive as well. My burner doesn't work, and only one of the cd drives works. So I'm thinking I want one of those USB memorysticks. They're pretty cheap right now at Circuit City, and I'm thinking if I had one, it would allow me to remove some of the stuff on my second drive, and speed up things overall. Circuit City has a 4-port USB PocketHub that I could really use, too. After rebate, it would only be $4.99! What a baaaagain! http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Kensington-Mini-USB-PocketHub-33058-/sem/rpsm/oid/75534/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

I'm also drooling over a Kodak 3.1 megapixel digital for $70 at Amazon, or even a 4 megapixel for $149! AND a webcam. Men have been asking me to get a webcam for several months now, and I'm about to break down and do it. They're pretty cheap right now, too. I should just let one of those pervs go ahead and buy it for me and send it to me. bwwaaahahahahahahhahahaaaa

I still need an air conditioning unit for the upstairs - my current one isn't really cooling much at all, only maintaining the status quo. They're usually on sale SOMEWHERE but now that summer is waning, I'm hoping I'll find a great deal next payday. *crosses fingers*  The air conditioner really should come before the camera, and probably will. My stepfather would say "You can make it another year with the one you've got" but you know what?   It didn't work right LAST year. I collect a small bucket of water every 24 hours, and keep a small wet spot beneath it, because the bucket isn't big enough to catch all the water that drips from the unit. I would rather live in denial, praying and hoping that I won't even be LIVING here next year, but it doesn't look like I'm going anywhere. I don't see how I can, so I'd best try and get a new unit. (I'd also like to find some way to keep the damned SPIDERS out of the downstairs unit, and keep them from coming in the fucking HOUSE but that's a whole nother story.)

I've got an Amazon WishList on my user info page with a lot of these things on it. I'm just making this post as a record, so I can keep track of the things I want, need, etc.