i don't know why exactly, but the last few days were relatively short. the burning smell this week is burning matches, which i guess is a little bit sulphur-y. i don't know...

maybe satan's hanging out, wants me to come up and say hi? somebody tell him to fuck off, or at least go take a shower. he reeks.

maybe it's the goat shit.

maybe i'm being silly.

as mentioned, i've been showering more frequently to get a handle on my hair and it might be part of what's making me sleepy - all of the hot water, all of the standing still. like falling asleep in a hot tub...

i'm guessing that my cyber-attacker/stalker (that's really what this is. stalking. actual stalking.) is reading this, and i don't want to hand out too much information. but, s/he's probably realized that i turned the firewall up another notch, and that it seems to be working. i've deleted some more cat files, to further frustrate the update process. the reboots seem to have stopped. for now.

but, i noticed this morning that word was listening over udp. what? was it connecting to a dns server? word listening when i have the updates dismantled is weird enough, but why udp?

it was listening on a local port, but still. see, they seem to be particularly focused on trying to get the writing by the undercover officers cleared out of the master document....

this kind of freaked me out, so i spent the night checking for data corruption on the files that were opened and have convinced myself of their integrity. i'm now ready to go to the next thing.

i'll have a tcpview window open as i go, and will check it periodically for odd connections.

so, let's hope i can get this done by the next sleep.