A few days ago, I mentioned that I had been receiving an inordinate amount of spam comments. Prior to last weekend, I'd receive one or two per week. Between 11pm yesterday and 7am this morning, I received 152.

Movable Type correctly identifies most of it as junk, so I don't get emailed, and they don't get published to the site. They still do, however, annoy the crap out of me, because I see them when I log into the admin section of my site.

For a fleeting moment, I recalled the day when I noticed I had been getting more Google search hits and realized that my page rank was increased from 3 to 4. I hurried like an 8-year old on Christmas morning to go check my page rank-- still 4. There is no silver lining.

Anyway, this spam maintenance has taken the wind out of my blog sails. I have a good post idea, log in, then get angry. I had this great post in my mind about how today is the 5th anniversary of me asking the girlfriend to become the wife. I was going to write about how I proposed, it was all sappy and sweet and it would have had you all filled with tears of joy.

Instead, I'm angry and my tooth hurts. Those who have been around a while know that when I'm angry, heads roll.