Joys of home ownership redux
I just discovered that I am (at the moment, at least) the number one google hit for “joys of home ownership” (and homeownership, which I’m pretty sure isn’t a word).
Of course I quit blogging a week ago…. (and all of three people bothered to comment on that post!)
That’s better
I’ve still got a lot of work to do, but at least the site’s back up.
If anybody wants to know, I had 95% of it done while the Bug was asleep, but then she woke up! And when that happened, I managed to bork something. So the site was down for a while because it broke at the wrong time and I was sitting here with a baby on my lap, reading about fairies and fairy dust.
Pardon the mess
I’m doing a little blog rearranging this afternoon. There will be hiccups.
Pardon the mess.
It’s hard to write when you’re bored
I suspect even lion tamers have an occasional boring day at the office. For me, the boring days are days like today, when I’ve spent 75% of my time entering asset information into the computer. Yawn.
When I have an extremely boring task to accomplish, I find that I spend more time trying to procrastinate. What’s odd, though, is my procrastination takes purely passive forms – reading the paper, for instance, or checking out a blog or two.
I can’t seem to string much of a sentence together when I’m truly bored. Let’s hope I finish here soon.
An interesting take on a blogroll
Glancing at some blogs today (vs using my feed reader), I noticed a rather cool way to do blogrolls. I’ve never liked the traditional blogroll, such as I have in one of the columns on the right, because it doesn’t really reflect what I’m reading now. It took me months, for instance, to get rid of the Nashville Is Talking link after it went aggregator. Chez Beziat‘s blogroll, instead of a list of links, is a running latest posts feed from his google feed reader.
It just makes more sense. I’ll have to figure out of it’s possible and worthwhile for me to switch to that method (esp since I don’t actually use the google feed reader or the google blogging platform).
Light blogging
Obviously, blogging will be a bit light this week, because we’re on vacation (insert obligatory note about having a house-sitter). I knew our beach house would have wifi (although it took us a good hour to get it working after we got here), but I didn’t realize how little time I’d be on the computer. Basically, I’ve turned it on to read my daily comics and to use pandora, and that’s about it.
But we’re having a blast – an absolute blast. This is what vacation’s all about.
If you commenters were wondering
By the way, last week I enabled gravatars on ye old blog. Gravatars (= globally recognized avatar) are a neat way of personalizing comments by associating your name (or email address, or some such) with a picture (a picture of anything). Personally, I think they’re really neat, but I am noticing that I’ve yet to have a commenter who uses them. So if you’re interested, go sign up for an account. It’s free and easy.
And if I can ever get Katie‘s blogs upgraded to WordPress 2.5 (luddite), I’ll activate gravatars there, too.
By the way
I just noticed that last post was post number one thousand since I started hosting my own blog. That’s a thousand posts since December 2006 – averaging more than fifty posts a month. Not too bad.
By the way – if anybody has any thoughts on the new theme, let me know in comments. I’m still working on some kinks, but it seems to look better in more browsers/monitors than the last theme.
Playing with a new theme
My other theme isn’t working like it should (eg the tag cloud is a list half of the time instead of a cloud, and I can’t get gravatars to work), so I’m going to try this look out for a bit. It definitely has some things I don’t like (why, oh why, is the tag cloud blue?), but it’ll do for now. I guess.
Looking forward to
I’m very much looking forward to having time to think about blogging again. Right now, every single bit of my energy is devoted to work, family, and house. Blogging more now would go something like this: “wow, I’m really busy at work,” “wow, my child is cute,” “dang, it was chilly at baseball practice last night,” or “man, I need to finish painting the fence.”
Soon.
Nashville is laming
Nashville is talking has apparently turned into little more than an aggregator … an aggregator that someone clearly put a lot of work into, but still just an aggregator.
Lame.
