I was wondering what you were going to try this year. Good job man, though it would be great to have you back here in Columbus. Good luck with everything.

Helminster

 

Ha! You're not getting me this year! For the first time in 5 years, I'm

not falling for your April Fools' joke! So there!

Mickey

 

Ready for you this year, this was pretty low though.

Stephen

 

Nice April Fools Joke......

Randy

 

Nice try-will not be fooled again on 4/1-although we wish you were heading back ( I only read the first two lines anyway)

Nick

 

Sorry, dude, but you didn't catch me this time.

Paul

 

I was waiting for the "April Fool!" at the bottom.

You didn't get me THIS year, Kontras! I am SO proud!

WOO-HOO! I rock!

Ron

 

I assume this is an April Fool's entry?

BM

 

Adam,

Don't look at it as giving up, look at it as another phase in your life. You have so much talent that something big is going to happen for you...even in Columbus Ohio.

 

When you get back to Columbus, I'll buy you a beer.

 

Cheers,

Doug

 

 

Good luck on the move...

 

I'm sure you have plenty of connections in Columbus, but I know a great real estate agent if you need one. More of a buyer's market here in Columbus. Let me know if I can help.

 

MCM

 

 

wow! You're leaving?????????????

 

SM

 

 

Adam,

 

Wishing you and Jess and Shizzle and Roxie and the cats all the best for your move.

 

Sara Golden

Pet Orphans Fund volunteer

 

PS-will miss your live shows.........................

 

I wrote her back:

 

:-(

Now I feel bad. LOL.

April Fools.

 

Adam

 

Still didn't really register with her:

 

Glad to hear you LOL again. Don't ever underestimate the importance of happy and famiily...seems like you have a handle on it right now.

 

When you get relocated in Ohio, don't forget to let Pet Orphans Fund your new contact information. Roxie's database tag won't work without current information; and if she is microchipped, let Avid know, too. With the many stresses involved in moving, many people forget to do this. If you want to be anal about it, get Ohio tags as you are getting ready to travel there and put them, along with the current tags on the animals. Often dogs that get loose during the moving process end up back home because they have moving tags (put friend/family member info on Ohio end on these tags if you don't know where you are going to land)

 

I'll always be a fan.........................

 

I finally had to spell it out:

 

K - now i REALLY feel bad...

It's April 1st Sara. It's a joke. I do it every year on my site. I ain't goin' NOWHERE. And neither is Roxy.

;-)

Adam

 

SHIT!!!

 

At least you know that you pulled off an April 1st joke; I am the ultimate sucker............didn't even get it the first time you told me I must say, I was really surprised that you were giving in (notice, I did not say up) but accepted it because the rest of it went along with the man I see you to be.

 

I really should have known because I think I now remember your 2003 April entry doing the same thing; I really should pay better attention.

 

Well, let us know when the next show is........................and get ready for next April 1st when I fall for it again.

 

Sara

 

Pet Orphans Fund, I love you guys. Sorry for playing with your emotions there. Some newbies caught it pretty well:

 

Yo Dawg,

I checked your track record. Your wife left you, someone stole your trailer, you won the lottery, your dad's havin' heart problems, and now you're going home =( I think I'm gonna write a country song for you. Hit me back fool.

-Ezra

 

Not bad, except last year was the truth. Heh.

 

words that come to mind but won't be repeated.... so, yet another big, fat, April Fools joke?

 

The only bad thing about jokes, is that then you are open to retaliation.

 

TL

 

fucker.

dammit - you had me for about 2 hours. I almost bought it.

pc

 

Come ON Paddy! You know I ain't leavin'!

 

Adam,

When were you planning on letting me in on your little seacrest, I mean secret? I can help you in all areas of your planning stages. Seriously, let me help...it's what I do. I'm available for you guys anytime.

Best,

Remo

 

You may remember Remo as our realtor, and before that as the "Cigar Man". He realized it about 2 hours later...

 

Ok, fuck you and the cat you rode in on...twice, geeeeez oh man.

R

I called him today and he actually had a good point: he found out we were looking for a house through an entry so why not that we were selling it...classic.

 

Kontras, you gotta do something about your website. I think you were hacked this morning.

 

I'm emailing from work (web-based email is a good thing sometimes) and I hope they will excuse the semi-personal use. But this is an emergency. I was reading through #321 this morning, which echoed some of the things I felt I was going through visiting Ohio in March - it still feels like home to me too - but then I noticed my hard drive whacking away like a horny zoo chimp. So I checked my firewall's activity log (Tiny personal edition, better than nothing) and it showed a lot of repeated "GNUtella get" requests coming from 4tvs.com. As well as a lot of outbound TCP requests. From that one glance, I think they were all from the same IP address, but at this point I can't tell because the computer is now useless.

 

I immediately tried to close my browser, but it kept poppling back open. Then I tried to disconnect, but that didn't work either. So I figured, I'll just unplug the phone jack and that should do the trick.

 

And before you point the finger at me, I do run Norton antivirus in addition to the firewall and I do run a couple of additional products like AdAware to track down spyware that browsing might have dropped on the PC, and they're up-to-date as of Monday evening. And I do apply those Windows "critical updates" when they're available. So I'm paranoid. But in this case it seems like some competent hacker came up with something new, or some incompetent Microsoft programmer screwed up again, or maybe somebody built a website that encouraged exploiting known security flaws.

 

But any way, within five seconds of pulling the phone cord, my machine froze up. There was just no other way to shut down except to pull the plug. And now, it won't even boot up.

 

So at this point, I've got fairly new $899 paperweight on my desk at home, instead of a PC, and I'm stealing minutes from my employer (that's how they see this) to warn you.

 

I didn't have time to try booting up off the emergency floppy (which I have, being paranoid about this stuff) to see exactly what might work - but then it's not like the computer is even spinning up at this point. So for now, I'm going to leave it unplugged and see if some capicator just has to discharge today, and hope for the best this evening.

 

If not, I take a note every time I do something (including those security-related updates I mentioned) to the PC and I'll have whoever does the post-mortem on this thing let me know specifically what damage your website caused. I should say, IF it was your website. But IF - then you better get successful pretty quickly, at least to the several hundred dollar level. I don't care if you have to sell your pets to a Korean restaurant, you're gonna reimburse me for this (er...IF it was your website. But that was the only thing I checked this morning and the firewall did seem to say it was your domain that was put to malicious use.) I'm really sorry to have to do that, but I can't afford the money to replace the damn thing, and in California we live by the motto "SUE THE BASTARDS!" when this sort of stuff goes down.

 

Keep your fingers crossed, but you have been warned.

 

...and now, I have to ask, is it *just* "Ye Faithful Readers Of Ye Journey" who check the dates on communications the first day of April every year?