The most frustrating thing about this blog — other than the WordPress blank screen of death — is the spam. Of the 140 messages that have been posted to the Roff Home blog since October, 111 have been spam. Here’s a smattering of the best of the worst, and my spam smack-down rules for dealing with them:
This summer, as floors were being redone and windows repainted, we took out the cast iron steam radiators from the first floor of the Roff Home, hauled them to a guy in Stockland, Illinois. He sandblasted the radiators, and then I repainted them, first with a couple of base coats of primer and then two or three coats of a silver metallic paint.
Over the summer and fall, we took on the task of plaster restoration at the Roff Home.
The Victorian flooring of the front parlor of the Roff Home is finished!
“Can we scream?” asked one teenage girl when she and her friends enterred the home. “Of course,” we responded. “That’s what Halloween is for.”
“Click here to upgrade automatically,” it states so plainly and unassumingly. It might as well have said, “Click here to waste the next two hours of your life.”