Another couple of day’s worth of journal entries from the September trip have gone up. They take a lot of time to fool with – aside from typing the entries in pretty much as I wrote them, but without the bad handwriting. That’s only the beginning – then there’s choosing the pictures, messing with them in Photoshop Lite to get them looking halfway presentable, cropping, etc. – and then I realize that I’ve copied the thumbnail size image from David’s photo album (where the original uncropped unmessed-with images reside) and have to do it all over again. And somewhere in…
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AP Wire | 01/31/2004 | Strangers’ lives intersected Feb. 1 and are forever altered Ahhh, God. Anniversary tomorrow. Ahhh, dammit.
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More freezing weather – it’s a bright day and we’re debating whether to go cross-country skiing or not. I’m holding out to tomorrow, when the temperature is supposed to climb up into the 20’s (Fahrenheit). Besides which, the snowbase is only about 4 inches, very light and powdery. Which means that it’s blown off anywhere that’s exposed and windy. So I think we need a bit more snow to not risk tearing the 5h1t out of our skis. Hi, Mom! Talked to Mom just now and tried to explain “blogging” to her. Aw, she’s so cute. She corrected numerous factual…
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Invision Power Board Database Error Ooops, looks like the Television Without Pity forums are hosed – at least this one is. Try again later. “We apologise for any inconvenience” I wonder if it’s virus related? DSLreports was down earlier too, but is back up now. Wonder what happens tomorrow on MyDoomsday? Virus Sighting – had Novarg briefly. Don’t anymore. Thanks, DGH! Phone News: we’re keeping the phones for now. The really loud tones on startup seem not to be changeable or muteable, but the shutdown tones are now turned down to the minimum level. The camera seems to work all…
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I ran across something that reminded me of an excellent book that went around and around my circle of online friends about 5 years ago. It was The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence, by Gavin De Becker It was originally recommended to me by someone who wrote for a television show that I liked. She felt that truly obsessed people could be dangerous, and she wanted the book and its message known far and wide in the online fan community. Online stalkers were a big fear and annoyance then, and the topic kept coming up…
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A word to the Episcopal Church… from the Presiding Bishop. The Chicago Tribune(subscription) notes that the statement “ignored a challenge to the denomination’s leadership.” And about the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes? – least said, soonest mended. And the “state of the parish?” Still looking for a new vicar/rector. Still not listed at the diocesan “clergy positions open” page as of this writing, which was supposed to happen by now, I think. Here’s my crappy Front Page website for the parish. I’ve been thinking about the possibility of switching the site over to Moveable Type. MT is just…
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I know the blog is messed up – something about the last post. Dammit, dammit, dammit. And by the way? -8 degrees below zero plus wind makes it -27 degrees below zero wind chill. That’s negative twenty-seven degees below zero. I’ve got layers on layers. I’m off to discover the Midwest Pole, wish me luck!
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Well, rats. We picked up the phones tonight – Audiovox 8900s, to be exact. It turns out that these phones have really loud, non-changeable, non-customizable musical tones for startup and shutdown. To me, they’re annoying but something I could maybe ignore, but to David, they’re a dealbreaker. Which is too bad, because otherwise they seem like nice phones aside from the non-changeable banner that gets in the way of Caller ID and the clock every 5 seconds whether you want it or not. And the really loud tones on startup and shutdown. Embarassingly, head-turningly “who the hell has such a…
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GREAT APE PRESS – simian poets need apples and cats, not typewriters Steve sent this in retaliation for my sending him a link to the Sidetalkin’ site. rock. sit rock. want apple. janet give apple. give apple janet. want apple. rock. want apple. baltar apple. want apple. janet give apple baltar. Dammit, these monkeys are making a monkey out of me, their stuff is much more lyrical than my craptabulous Blogon stanzas. Dammit dammit dammit. They write better mysteries than I can, too: The Mystery of the Missing Cat, by Chimko chimko find tree. need cat. where cat. chimko find…
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Steve called to tempt us: the nearby Verizon store had some new cell phones and our wireless contracts were up, or nearly up. So we made the rendezvous at the phone store, after stopping off at a huge new tile store and thinking evil thoughts about a future DIY tiled backsplash project. Evil! Evil! Projects are evil! But there were some very nice examples there, and a lot of selection. Even David was impressed, and he usually views the early warning signs of a new household project with scepticism.