Stealing is NOT Cool

I got this email from Anonymous:
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Smackerel of FIRETHORN":

Hi, i think that i saw you visited my web site so i came
to “return the favor”.I'm trying to find things to improve my web site!I suppose its ok to use some of your ideas!!

(I removed the link because I don't want people going to your site from here and vice versa.)

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To Anonymous:
I've been getting a few comments on this blog that show up on my email from this site which don't register on the comments roll. They come complete with links to other sites.

If you want to improve your site, I suggest you improve the quality of the service you offer.
 
For you, the anonymous and cowardly person who told me it would be fine if you stole my content to use on your site, I ask you to cease and desist. It is NOT okay with me if you use my content. I am NOT going to go to your disgusting website and give myself a virus to tell you so. But if I ever find my content used without my express permission, I will hunt you down and prosecute. Yes. You read this correctly.

If you are only wanting to use the master template, that isn't mine to complain about. In that case you can contact the owner of the template like I did.

So far I have let you stay on this site because I haven't bothered to figure out how to oust you. But if you continue to steal from me, I'll MAKE the time. My writing is how I make money. It is my passion and my talent. You have no right whatsoever to jack writing content from this site. Get your own talent, hack.

Oh, and by the way, you are mistaken. I have not, nor will I ever, visit the site matching the link you left.

For those who aren't this person, have a WONDERFUL DAY!!! Can you tell I'm angry?
H. Linn Murphy

Boggling

I am STEAMED! My son's school demands that they buy a gym suit from them, which is over-priced but necessary. This year B. took weigh-lifting, so I was alright with buying the thing, happy that my son would finally be getting some exercise. 

The other day he wanted to do something, so as per my usual method, I went to his online grade report to check whether he had all his assignments in. To my horror, he had an F in weight lifting. "How does one flunk weights?" I wondered. You go, you pick the things up, you put them back down. Voila! So I wrote to his teacher.

Turns out my boy didn't have the right color of t-shirt one day. That's all the explanation I got. I nearly swallowed my tonsils. Who flunks a kid because his t-shirt is black? So I told the guy his grading methods were draconian and to give B. some extra homework to pull his grade back up.

Then today hit. B. came home smelling like a wet dog. I said, "What happened to deodorant?" 
"Mine got stolen," he said. "The same time they stole my gym suit and the locked lock from the locker."

I boggled. "You got everything stolen? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know. I forgot. That was the same day I got that F."
My eyebrows nearly climbed up off of my head. "Say what? You mean your gym clothes disappear out of your locked locker and you get an F because you aren't dressed out? Your teacher didn't even mention that when he was making excuses."
"Yep."

Did I say draconian? I meant something far beyond that. This calls for flaming bags of manure on his porch. And if I ever find the thief, more like a ton. Seriously! Who does that? What was the kid supposed to do? Dredge one up from thin air? Call the gym suit fairy? Even if he'd had a spare (which he doesn't since we aren't made of cash) that would have been ripped off as well. I am stinking sure that I'm never going to provide another juvenile delinquent with a gym suit again.

Now to remember to pick up a load of fresh muck the next time I take my other son to work (in a stable, luckily...:o).