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To vent and to rant is arguably a universal need. But griping just for the sake of griping gets old. People tune you out or avoid you like the plague. You throw a Whine and Geez party, but the A-listers refuse to come and your friends don’t even bother to RSVP. If your motto is “when life hands you lemons, pucker up and kiss its sour puss,” then this should make you smile. It never fails to cheer me up when I’m in a snarky mood. Hope it brings a smile and a chuckle your way, too! more…

About the Author Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri has decades of experience in tech writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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I shot an Arrow into the air
It fell to earth I know not where,
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight. more…

About the Author Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri has decades of experience in tech writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

Jason Cook of Ampersand Books is my latest Patron at PatronQuo.com. I must admit, it’s nice to have someone who isn’t a relative or a friend choose to lavish money on my writing. Out of all the short stories in all the world, he chose to plunk his $10 down on The Trouble with Oliver.

Thank you, Jason Cook. I’m honored.

About the Author Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri has decades of experience in tech writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

That’s right.

I have been doing battle with 3.0 brain-eating zombies. First, they infected my blog and made it shamble along like one of them. “Braaaaaaaaains…” moaned the blog. I knew something was desperately wrong. I tried to do the Time Warp, but only succeeded in getting all the clocks in my house to blink at annoyingly different rates while displaying an insane range of numbers that reflected the time zones of all my blogging friends.

“Braaaaaaaaaains…” intoned the microwave.

“I need a bendy straw,” squeaked the VCR.

“All your base are belong to us!” cried the blog.

“I quit!” I yelled, and pulled the plug. A little too literally, as it turns out. A Bic and a bottle of 151 would’ve shown more finesse. What was it my dad used to say? “Don’t force brute thugs?” Oh, wait… “Don’t force mechanical parts.” That’s it. Well, the zombies looked pretty mechanical as they advanced mindlessly across the screen. I figured deleting their hidey hole and uninstalling WordPress ought to do the trick – after all, I’d just moved everything a week ago, so how hard could it be to reconstruct?

Turns out it was more like resurrecting the dead, and for that – I had to call in the Voodoo Zombie Killer, himself. Jaypee of JaypeeOnline.net.

Dang, that man’s good. He fixed my world and banished those 3.0 evil zombies while I sat in a corner sucking down the 151 and flicking my Bic. (I was convinced I looked oh-so-menacing, at the time, but it turns out zombies are just too mindless to be menaced. Who knew?) Anyway, thanks to Jaypee, I still have a blog. And the weirdest sense of deja vu.

About the Author Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri has decades of experience in tech writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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Well, not so much, really – but a few of you tried, and I do appreciate the added effort. Your creativity and vague flattery are making it just a smidge harder to hit the delete button, some days. Until you repeat yourselves, verbatim, five or ten times on the same post. This, for instance: “Wow, this was a really high quality post. In theory I’d like to write like this too – taking time and actual effort to make a good post… but what can I say… I procrastinate alot and never appear to get something done.”

Wow, what can I say? Thank you? In theory, you could write like this – you could even leave thoughtful, insightful, or – hey, I’d settle for “mildly amusing” – comments, comments that could serve as tangible evidence you actually took two minutes out of your day to read the thing. Work on that whole sincerity thing.

And “alot” is two words, unless it refers to an imaginary creature that is far less prone to procrastination than you. In fact, the Alot is better than you at everything.

One of you spammers passed the human test and got to place your links in my comments. I won’t say which one; that would give too many clues to the rest. Pat yourself on the back, and keep up the good work. The rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves.

About the Author Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri has decades of experience in tech writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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