jenrevenant

Tomorrow is the big day. A big chunk of the internet will go dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA. I can’t want to see how it goes. My website is tiny, but every one counts. (I also changed my domain name registrar away from GoDaddy to NameCheap in protest of GoDaddy’s support of SOPA.)

In good news related to SOPA, according to Forbes.com: Obama says no to SOPA.

While this is a temporary victory, you know just as well as I that the entertainment and software industries are not going to let this go. Keep protesting, keep contacting your representatives, keep fighting the good fight. We can’t let this happen to the internet, and not just for the sake of the USA, but for the world. That may sound a little melodramatic, but look at China’s internet. Oh wait, they probably can’t see any of this anyway…

So, tomorrow, hit up Twitter, use the hash tag: #SOPASTRIKE to see what’s going on. Google and Wikipedia aren’t going to be there for you.

http://sopastrike.com/strike/

So, 2012.
How about that…

My credit card got jacked on Thursday. Some fragging ass tried to charge over three thousand in merchandise (fortunately, I don’t have that much available). Only 2 charges actually went through. What I presume to be a test charge of $10 to the National Health Council of DC and an almost $700 for a joint named SIRS Electronics. I was contacted by card services and they stopped my card. I love Purdue Federal Credit Union.

In addition to contacting the bank, I also immediately contacted SIRS Electronics Friday evening. The manager emailed me back Friday night saying that they would look into it. On Saturday, after filing the paperwork at the bank for the $10 charge that did go through, I received another email from the store stating that they voided the transaction.

Because I was able to contact them so quickly (and because it was a holiday weekend), they hadn’t shipped the merchandise and were able to save me from having to deal with more paperwork. Otherwise, they would have been out of $700 in sales. Which would totally suck.

So, because they are awesome, I’m going to pimp out the websites of both the bank and this store:

SIRS ELECTRONICS
&
Purdue Federal Credit Union

This is what I posted on the forums tonight:

So this is the first NaNo in 8 years that I won’t be finishing. I’ve been having a lot of health issues (both mental and physical) and I’m having to make hard decisions about what’s best for me right now. It feels bad that I’m quitting, but I have to choose myself and my health. I’m having to prepare for the first real surgery of my life as well as quitting one of my maintenance meds and I’m in a lot of physical pain.

I’m not going to quit the story, I just don’t have it in me to push on through as quickly as NaNo requires. I’m only really posting this in the hopes that it will be cathartic for me and maybe relieve some of the guilt I’m feeling over quitting.

I love NaNo, and I’ll be back next year, but for now, I wish all the rest of you the best of word luck! Maybe I’ll see you at camp!

managed 694 words, up to 8340 for now