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Visitors from 1/30/05:

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Took a while, but I got some spammer names to share. Some seem familiar, so I might've posted them before.  But I wanted to clear them out. I dunno if I'll bother posting these anymore. They aren't as much fun as they used to be. I wish the spammers would get more creative.

• Choreographer J. Entombed
• Pillorying O. Permuted
• Territory H. Economist
• Euffi Lemmon
• Depravities P.Remission
• Peivin Highfill
• Preston R. Powers
• Glenda U. Numbers

So I could have something to post.

Latest Spammer Names:

• Denver McNeill
• Dewey Painter
• Booker Kline
• Hilario Levine
• Tamera Vann
• Florian Puruka
• Flossie Purvis

Haven't gotten back to the book yet. Been too busy. Got a bit obsessed with the work blog and spent most nights last week working on the template. And then there were all the photos to upload to flickr from a photoshoot with 2 flickr contacts.

I've been forced to skim my fl rather than read carefully, not because I fear spoilers for HP, but because I'm really not interested and 2 of every 3 entries on my Friends page the last few days have been about THE book. I might read them someday, or I might not. But I haven't been reading them and don't plan to anytime soon. I'm a slow reader and way behind on my reading as it is. HP was simply a bigger commitment than I felt ready to make and that's still true.

Figured I should just post these since I haven't found any others for a while that have entertained me. So, just a few spammer names of note:

• Berry Dickey
• Brigit Bobette
• Ezekiel Murphy

Meanwhile, I'm on Twitter, as ShellyS, and I discovered that David Hewlett of Stargate: Atlantis, is also a Twitter-er. How cool is that? I loved tonight's episode. Great cliffhanger. And Stargate: SG-1 ended on a nice note.

Made more icons. They're over on impish_writers. At this rate, I might have to remove some of the ones I added back. They aren't my best, but I added them out of sentimental attachment to them. I did redo 2 of the ones I had up, one old one and one new one.

I knew I wasn't going to get much done tonight with the 2 Stargates on, but at least I did something creative.

Another crop of spammer names, though some sound familiar.

• Okla S. Dabble
• Eslick E. Gage
• Sakamoto T. Montalvoos
• Pawlowicz V. Mayfield
• Boas D. Coursers
• Emory Benavides
• Alverta Hawkins (I like the name Alverta!)
• Demetrius Terry
• Imogene C. Gravitate

Some of these sound like perfect villains in a show like Man from UNCLE. And I love the inclusion of middle initials. Makes me wonder what they could stand for, ie Boas Detritus Coursers. ;)

I just pre-ordered these wonderful Stargate: Atlantis action figures. And Wizard  \says there will be 6 inch Battlestar Galactica figures coming, the current series: Six, the Chief, and Apollo. I'm jazzed. Can we say photo ops?

Meanwhile, here's the next batch of spammer names.

• Amandeep Foskey
• Border C. Engleman
• Valet A. Forecastle
• Bullard E. Shingleto
• Trooper B. Robustest

Lots of good ones this time.

• Dempsey D. Salish
• Swordplay K. Capri
• Gelled D. Painlessly
• Toufic Childress
• Epics V. Pooching
• Elwood Mccollum
• Trivialize K. Tales
• Filtration P. Talmud
• PeeWee Betters

The latest crop of spammer names, some usable as character names, to be sure.

• Hung Villalobos
• Walker Marin
• Dee'Tra Dandurand
• Brice U. Thronging
• Lens H. Ridiculousness
• Possibility F. Neglected
• Cheekbone K. Patrol
• Spectroscopy T. Witched

Latest crop of spammer names for your amusement.

• Difficulties L. Dormer
• Dominique Beasley
• Parallel A. Motivational
• Quentin Skaggs
• Graphic L. Meander
• Courier S. Permuted
• Leyla Porebski

And for the record, I have room for only 2 more icons. After that, I'll need to delete some. Oh, the pain.

And just so you know, I think Heroes rocked tonight. I was breathless when it ended.

New boss started today. I've known him for 25 years, and he's a good guy, so this should work out nicely.

Mohammed Sparks
Coffeehouse A. Kidnaper
Zillion U. Nary
Injury K. Airman
Cramped S. Sentenced
Brittney V. Bathhouse

This was the subject and first line that showed on a spam mail in my gmail account:

"Thank Ya. And hour then, my good comfortable, well digestion fellow, use your daggers in any less..."

Really makes you want to read the rest, doesn't it?

Nice bunch today.

• Folant Peskin
• Jefferson I. Painter
• Theiler C. Wannest
• Elroy Boozer
• November Legally
• Castration V. Cobalt
• Longfellow R. Romania

Finally got enough of these to post. Yes, it's Spammer Names!

• Anesthesiology E. Loboto (This one sounds oddly familiar; might be repeat.)
• Topi Iler
• Arnaud Malige
• Bautista Wade
• Oily U. Hanker
• Coleman Cervantes
• Ekaitz Earnshaw

Yes, the first batch of the new year. What a thrill.

• Dewey Rainwater
• Devika Peer
• Delante Hodge
• Pansy Moyer
• Helmfrid Mor
• Berm P. Preemption

After spending a half hour searching usernames for something I liked that was available (and that was harder than I'd thought), I found a name that worked for me. I wish I had a defining character I could've used that wouldn't sound like someone's actual name or a name for my fictional realm that wasn't so common as "Mars," but I don't. I wanted to keep it fairly short and not use an underscore. So, I did the deed and am now nycshelly. Everything, including friends, should have carried over. I hated paying to do this, but I feel such a weight lifted off my shoulders. Prestoimp is the mascot, so to speak, of the amateur press jersey_lion and I share. It's not me. Finally, this LJ will feel like mine. I think I'll have to make a new, appropriate default icon. heh. Any excuse.

And to celebrate, some spammer names. For a while, I feared I would never get any more good ones, but the last couple of days brought a batch of goodies. Here are the most entertaining ones.

• Feofilakt Sasser
• Eckenrode S.Tollesonle
• Amadeo Ocheltree
• Wigwagged L. Matter

Yup, more spammer names for your amusement, or to use if you'd like.
Proctor F. Bess
Vanmeter C. Hendry
Helix Drip
Tims O. Wroblewsk
Greek D. Huddlesto
Archimedes Bechtold

And one innocuous name, when I hovered the cursor over it, showed this lovely name: Convinced Penetentiary.

Time to clean out the best of the spam names again. Spam's been coming in at an amazing rate, even for spam, so the pickings have been more entertaining than usual. Tho a couple of these have a familiar sound to them.

• Tomer Lauritzen
• Millard Palacios
• Breckenridge C. Skiddadle
• Communicated H. Enthusia
• Padmavati Hickman
• Zonal S. Reconciles
• Madams A. Syndrome
• Lucarelli D. Nader
• Sender Lederman
• Pickrell V. Warlick

Time to clear out the spammer names.

• Firdos Creager
• Whilda Wheeler
• Bianca Wray
• Robinetta Celestyna
• Lalawethika Doig
• Shin Murray
• Pet Stephens
• Hengist Hummer

Leaving for home in about 2 hours, thought I'd post these because they've been piling up. Lovely names, all.

• Layla Abernathy
• Jehoshaphat Heurtas
• Nerieda Erben
• Geophysical U. Concierge
• Swine J. Softwood
• Horowitz A. Rapper
• Clover H. Pliny
• William J. Bubbers

Spam names that caught my eye over the last few days:

• Olga Crowder
• Ahmed Hamm
• Francka Gunder
• Gwil Stalnaker
• Harry Potty (made me giggle, at least)
• Braelyn Galusha
• Prong M. Maharaja

And now, the reason I'll probably never do NaNoWriMo: I'm headed out tomorrow to visit jersey_lion and we'll be taking in Philadelphia Miniaturia over the weekend. Every first weekend in November, I lose 5 days on vacation visiting J and spending money, followed by more vacation during which I have my annual mammogram. I've added in an eye doctor appointment next week and I have to buy a gown to wear to my niece's bat mitzvah in December because my sister has made the party Black Tie. Which means my dressy, but shortish skirts won't cut it. Then, it's back to work. Not nearly enough time in November to write 50,000 words. I can do that, but it would take me probably 6 months of fairly steady writing.

But, for those of you participating this year, GOOD LUCK!

So, while I'm sitting here, trying to not bite off my nails in the bottom of the 8th of a 1-1 tie between the Mets and the Cards, I figured I might as well post the next crop of spammer names.

• Kitty Oconor
• Pizarro V. Ratified
• Final H. Legibility
• Aileen Fowleru
• Sigrun Farley
• Liv Wise
• Delhiora Basiling

These spammer names piled up quickly this time.

• Volodya Demar
• Tomos Bickett
• Surmises K. Tantalus
• Rosie Kariotta
• Ariadne McWhirt
• Petrina Mihelich

Meanwhile, it still feels odd working on the laptop. And I keep looking over to the PC, to the dead montior and now, to the empty space where the dead monitor once dwelled. Did get the outlet replaced today. It was a bit loose.

And since I was stuck in waiting for the maintenance guy to show up -- and he did come in the morning -- I continued with my sporadic decluttering project. Today I tossed some movie reference books that are hopelessly out of date. IMDB will suffice. So nice that so much of what I might need to look up in online now. Still, there are some old textbooks and beloved reference books I don't think I'll ever be able to part with,

Coming up with titles is hard, especially for posts. I'd rather save my title energies for fiction. The water portion of this post refers to the lack of hot water at work and currently, the lack of cold water (and therefore lack of flushing toiets) at home. The spam portion refers to the latest batch of spam names.

• Ermentraud Leland
• McKayla Finklea
• Aspen Budd
• Drago Ducharme
• Pedro Sheets
• Godfrey Slaughter

Nuclear stress test normal, so that's not the answer to my shortness of breath, feel like crap (or carp, as I typed over on Cyber Chocolate earlier before I caught the typo). Doctor guy thinks it's stress. Well, I sure do have stress, so maybe he's right.

Just a few for now because I felt the need to actually post something here. I've iconed myself into oblivion, I've been feeling crappy (shortness of breath, queasiness, pounding heart despite a perfectly lovely pulse and equally delightful blood pressure readings), and I've been writing on my little spy series and wondering if I'm ever going to have the energy and the urge to get back to the Mars books. I keep pushing my start date for it back and back. I'm thinking January 2007 now. *sigh* Nuclear stress test next week is what's on my mind right now. My doctor thinks I'm suffering from a combination of stress, an IBS flare-up, and perimenopausal hormone craziness. I'm actually hoping he's right.

So, for now, I present this paltry collection of spammer names:

• Sumayya Chappel
• Arethusa Trivett
• Macy Minta

In lieu of an actual post, I present the latest spammer names.

• Parker Rucker
• Sioned Salvo
• Primula Nuss
• Basia Wimbash
• Seachnall Squire
• Venus Carlota
• Sibyl Pacheco
• Blessing Soke

I blogged about the 9/11 anniversary on both Cyber Chocolate and The View from Here, if anyone cares to read what I have to say on the subject.

In the interests of posting here every now and then, the latest batch of spammer names.

• Gib Bucholtz
• Dixie Acosta
• Amparo Jarvis
• Columned D. Attributes
• Merletta Crothers

I put a new photo up on themalcontents and added some icons to impish_writers. If you have action figures and want to take photos of them acting up, join and post your photos.

Some spammer names:

• Nonie Alverson
• Forbes Farmer
• Rex Tripp
• Maled Wellington
• Dragomir Bagdon