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In case you didn’t hear, Stan’s got some new songs up over on his site. Registration is free (as are the downloads), so be sure to go and check them out once your done here. My personal favorite is the children’s The Flat Stanley Song he wrote for his brother’s third grade class. I still have yet to get that tune out of my head. I wonder as well how many stamps it would take to send something to the North Pole. I also hadn’t heard Less Than Words, which is a soft, floating melody that is perfect the way it is.

And I wish he’d written Know a year or two ago. That song really could have helped me out back then. I’m just sorry you had to go through the same situation as well bro. So yeah, go check out his site and download those three songs. The have the official Shyzer Stamp of Approval.

Last Sunday night witnessed the first all-nighter I pulled this semester as I attempted to finish the first draft of my senior thesis. I somehow downed two pots of coffee and didn’t even find myself remotely exhausted the next morning, which was a pleasant surprise. Needless to say, I took a nice four hour nap when I got home before doing some work for my uncle and moving on to the next task at hand. It’s right about then that I would normally be saying “I can’t wait until this semester is over and I finally have some time to relax in December, “but honestly, I’m enjoying life so much, I wouldn’t want to fast forward over any of it. Yeah, sure school work is overwhelming right now (I believe I’ve got 100 irregular Latin verbs to memorize by tomorrow or something. Man, if only I hadn’t given up cheating…), but there are so many things to look forward to in the coming weeks ahead, some of which will no doubt make their way onto Shyzer for the world to see and mull over.

Anyways, I would like to thank each and every person who voted for the Best of Shyzer that’s been going on for about three weeks now. I am still in the process of tallying all the results and weeding the nominations down to five for the final round. If you didn’t get a chance to vote during the first round, you’ll still be able to vote during the finals, which should be up and ready to go within a day or two!

But the real reason I’m making this post is to share with you all a general conversation I’ve had a few times recently. During various conversations, a few people recently brought up the topic of how they wished they could post on the tagboard or in the comments. I had no idea what they were talking about, but I soon figured out the misunderstanding and realized that there might be more people out there with the same confusion.

I just wanted to make sure everybody knows that in order to post on the tagboard or comments section, you do not need to have a website of your own.

If you want to write on the tagboard and don’t want to leave an e-mail or URL, you can leave that section completely blank and still leave a message. It’s not a required section whatsoever. Now for the comments section, like I said, leaving your mark is just as simple for those without a website as those with. However, I do have the security features jacked to the maximum setting, which is sadly the only way I can keep the spammers and computer bots from flooding my oh-so-precious posts with free offers for scantily clad women or chips for some on-line poker site. So what the means for you, the reader, is that all your information is required. Name, e-mail, website, and security code. But what if you don’t have an e-mail address or website? No worries! Just enter something random! Joe@aol.com works. So does neus93@inus.com It truly doesn’t matter. As far as the website goes, well all you have to do there is enter something random in! Or heck, I even give you permission to just put Shyzer.com if you want to.

And to ease the burden on my commenting visitors, I set up a nifty little feature. The first time you leave a comment, enter all the information into the boxes and select the option to the right to “remember your information.” Shyzer will immediately memorize the information you just typed in and so, the next time you go to comment using your computer, Shyzer will fill in your information for you! I honestly couldn’t make it any easier for you guys!

And with that, I’m off to sip some coffee, allow John Coltrane to sooth my soul, and memorize the Latin work for “to teach” among 99 other verbs…Till next time.