Heather Martin Reporting News

the only reason I mention it is because no one ever calls me at work even for work-related things so it was funny to get a call from baby Greg all the way from London. Not sure why he decided to call me, normally email is just fine but it was nice to get a phone call for a change. Besides, I don't think I've heard his voice since my graduation party Summer 2006. You still sound the same, older than me :0)

(I love being scared but have a hard time finding scary situations.)

About 1am this morning I was looking for something on the telly to fall asleep to. Paranormal State was on so I thought I'd tune in; there was nothing else on. It's a new show on A&E. I saw the commercial for it when I was in MI w/ my brother. My brother is a big baby! and when we were younger I'd purposely try to scare him. I loved the movie 'The Exorcist' and my brother could not watch it because he was too scared. So I'd sneak in his room late at night when he was sleeping and in my best Linda Blair exorcist voice say things about 'your cunting daughter'.

If I bring it up now he gets mad. So I told him I would teach his 2 year old to tell him that she sees dead people. She repeats everything I say so I'd be very easy to do. He didn't appreciate that!

So anyway I'm watching this show very early this morning and this little kid says he sees dead people, specifically this guy Timmy who turns out was found dead near this little kids house but the little kid knows nothing about it. This is a reality-type show by the way, real people, real stories. Anyway I get bored w/ it so turn over to fall asleep. I sleep in a very tiny bed w/ my hound and we basically sleep right next to each other, head to head, last night she even had her legs stretched out over me, paws in my face basically, not the most comfortable.

At one point I guess she flinched or something, kinda like her panniculus reflex fired, and her arms moved and it felt like someone came up behind me and started choking me. I was totally freaked out and scared!!! I woke right up and quickly figured out what happened though I still turned around to make sure no one was behind me.

Thanks Beaky for scaring Mommy! It was awesome!

I deleted a large portion of my blog late Thursday night. I was trying to update the Amazon links in my sidebar and ended up accidentally deleting a ton of the blog. I was freaking out because I wasn't sure if it was gone forever and I've been blogging all this crap since Aug 2002 so that's a big portion of my life's history gone plus all the hard work RR has put into it. I thought he was going to be furious w/ me.

I was trying to delete one of the Amazon images from the server because I wanted to change the size of it and I didn't realize that the main folder for my weblog was also highlighted so when I hit Delete it started deleting everything in my weblog folder. It took me a bit to respond because I didn't expect that to happen and then finally I hit stop but it was too late. When I first went to check the site to see how it looked, it looked the same so for some reason I thought maybe the computer decided to have my back and didn't really delete all that stuff because why the hell would anyone do that? But then I ended up reloading the site and it was a mess.

I wanted to contact RR ASAP so first I tried emailing but only had the patience to wait a minute w/out a response. My cell phone doesn't work at my mom's so then I had to go downstairs and call RR from her phone but no one answered. (Jenn, when will you ever switch your cell phone to voicemail and not the office main line???) I repeatedly called until I got an answer and talked to RR.

I told him I did something really bad and he started to freak out. He thought it was something like I screwed him over somehow so when I told him what I did he didn't really seem worried. He said we should have a backup and it would be fine. So now she's back up w/out losing any data. Now I'm afraid to mess w/ things so I'll take some time off. That works out anyway because I'm at my brother's and he doesn't have wireless so I can't use my laptop. I'll just use his once in awhile like I am right now.

Thank TimeMachine for backing the server up properly!