For me, one of the worst, unforgivable human acts is deliberate cruelty. Consequently, I bend over backwards to never be mean. Sure, there are plenty of times when my insensitivity results in hurting someone. That's the nature of the egotist. But, I've never consciously, intentionally, done anything to cause distress to another living thing ...save cockroaches; I'll go out of my way to kill a cockroach. I hate cockroaches. But that's a whole 'nother story.

What's prompting this post is [her] inability to get the hint, to realize I don't wont to continue this dialogue. You see, I got this email, in response to one of my sites, asking for some additional information, which I was glad to give. In fact, I listed my email address for that specific purpose. However, [she's] turned this into an ongoing epistolary discussion that's gotten much too personal ...and I can't seem to turn her off.

I've been negative, unsympathetic, and in every other "subtle" way tried to be discouraging by indicating a disinterest in continuing the dialogue, but she just doesn't get the hint. I'm gonna have to put it into hard words ..."leave me the fuck alone". I don't want to do it but it's my only recourse.

I hate people like this. I sometimes think that's it's not their being obtuse, but their taking advantage of your unwillingness to be rude or harsh ...a passive aggressive tool for manipulation. Well, hurt feelings or no, I've had enough, and it stops here.

I've been pre-occupied playing with blogger's new format. They haven't finished tweaking it yet, but in converting my 'Production Log' to this format, I can avail myself of the way cool labeling feature. I'm glad they decided not to interfere with the format of those blogs already in existence ...that would've been a real drag.

Actually, even if I could've used this feature with my other blogs, the posts aren't the kind that could be sorted by category.

I've really been "in" the soap box this month, having made both liquid and cream soap stocks. While I'm in this frame of mind, I might tackle that transparent soap again. Although, I still have finish using up the results of my last attempt.