Do I look like I need Viagra?

Each morning I start my working routine by downloading, reading and responding to email. It never fails to amaze me how much junk email I am sent. Do people really think my sex life is so boring I require Viagra; as someone who works-at-home I am not in any need of the services of someone who tells me they can earn me $3,000 per week (yeah right!); I'm not requiring a loan or a mortgage, or a get-rich-quick-scheme, and I'm not in the market for a domain name as I already possess one! Yet, day after day, this rubbish piles into my in-box, cluttering up my email system. There are times I really want to respond and say something like "Sorry, I have no interest in learning my neighbor's credit rating. I have a life - please get one yourself!" but I control my impulse as I have been taught that replying, and thereby verifying your email address, is as good as volunteering for the heavy-treatment-junk-mail list! For some strange reason, I even get a large percentage of junk mail in Chinese or some similar language - it looks pretty but who knows what it's about, I've a hard enough time trying to learn Swedish to communicate with my in-laws! I've tried blocking these spammers so that the junk mail disappears into a cyber-void on my laptop, but that doesn't work because although they are lazy enough not to target their sales-pitch to people who might actually be interested in it, they are wise enough to use different addresses so that my net doesn't catch them! What I don't understand is how they get away with it. I sent out a targeted email to businesses I thought would be interested in my translation business, and received a warning from my service provider about spamming - go figure!

On a happier note, my health issues may be on their way to be solved! Oh Happy Day!! A visit to my Diabetes Controller revealed that my problems with fatigue are probably caused by a virus I had way back in February, and which would have thrown my blood sugar into chaos. I'm now on medication to regulate it and already am feeling the benefits of it. Unfortunately, this means that soon I will not be able to ignore the housework on health-grounds! On the bright side, I'll be back up to speed on my writing and will be able to accomplish my work on schedule. I hate getting behind, it makes me so depressed I work slower and get even further behind. Can someone explain the logic in that to me? 

Well, I have another assignment to write up this morning before my work time is over so I'd better get on with it, but before I leave you this week - I'll confess that I did actually respond to the Viagra spam. There are some temptations in life that are just too good to resist!

Katie-Anne 2001