In November of 1993, I visited Japan for 2 weeks. It was a big adventure; my friend Debbie was living in Nagoya then and the original plan was that we’d take off for a few days together and then I’d be on my own. The plan changed when Debbie had a family emergency, and she left me in the hands of some friends of hers. I spent a lot of time at first getting used to living in a Japanese apartment, exploring Nagoya via subway, and watching a lot of Japanese TV. Then after a few days of culture shock…
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~xpapr~ For those stuck at home with no wrapping paper… create your own using images from Flickr! [tags]Flickr, Christmas, Xmas, funny, creative[/tags]
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This is an example of the kinds of things we're going to be moving from Holy Moly to St Nicholas. It's one of the Stations of the Cross that was made by one of our parishioners, and I think it represents Jesus falling the first time on the long walk to Calvary. If you look closely, you can see two honkin' big wood screws going right up His robe. Also, it's really battered and like all the rest, really dusty and cobwebby. The ladies from the Altar Guild no longer dust these, because they regularly got pulled from the wall…
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GCBME.COM Where You put the ME in MEdia I dropped by my Flickr page and noticed someone had put a comment on my photo of a juvenile Goa'uld caught in my homemade snakehead trap (it's cleverly disguised as a lava lamp): The comment was: WATCH IT HERE Please vote for my video HERE The contest COULD HELP to bring back SG1 for another season! Thanks, Angie Moriconi It's actually a pretty cute video, with a talking cat grumbling about how his obsessed "Tauri" has been spending all her time mailing boxes of Kleenex (inside joke) to the powers…
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So, the big visit today was a success. All the pictures are on a Flickr set here. We did go out into the neighborhood around St Nicholas to distribute shopping bags for a toy drive, and Bp. Scantlebury was a good sport about going door-to-door. We even had a couple of reporters there taking pictures for local papers. This picture shows the baptistry of St Nick’s, with their fancy running-water font. Originally, this was an altar that was cut down and refashioned, and the worship space is completely flexible. Today, for example, all the chairs had been re-arranged to face…
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Holy Innocents, Pentecost Sunday Just another test of ecto, so I used a picture from the Holy Moly site. This time, I actually completed the steps, instead of being stumped by Flickr’s “Oops” page. The trick is to disregard the error page, and to continue with the steps in authorizing ecto by clicking the “Finished” button. Duh, but also, not that intuitive. The answer from ecto was of the “you stupid n00b” variety, but hey, if I land on a page that says “Oops,” I expect that the process has failed, not that I should continue with the next step…
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Now it’s just a question of doing the main cutover from Movable Type to WordPress. Why? Because I was getting spam-hammered on my Holy Moly website, and MT just couldn’t deal with it, let alone get rid of it very well. I wasn’t getting as much here, but that’s because my installation here was newer and slightly more robust in the anti-spam arsenal. According to my husband David, WP is about impervious, and this particular theme, Tiga, is gravatar-ready. Soon enough, I’ll add in some dazzle via a plugin or three and fix up the header. The photo shows our…
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Did these guys call each other before they got dressed for their big day out going to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry? Here they are, purchasing transit cards, which probably means they’re tourists. Their caps are all perfect fits for their perfectly round heads – they looked like a set of bobbleheads that decided to go on a spree. I’d like to know why the guy onthe far left broke the fashion rules and isn’t wearing a white shirt though. He’s too matchy! And yes, I’ll probably regret trying to use yet another beta upgrade of ecto, because every…
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I started a really, really long post about our visit to the Museum of Science and Industry‘s Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, but then ecto and I had a parting of the ways and my post got totally messed up. I had a ton of links that were all formatted incorrectly, and then my attempts to add text got formatted all wrong because ecto does not play well if you switch between “Rich View” formatting and “HTML View” formatting. Plus, the backspace key behaves oddly in ecto, and I over-deleted a bunch of critical text. Bad, bad things happen. For instance,…
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I decided to take a photo of something I use every single workday – actually two things. That’s my handmade, wide-bottomed coffee mug, bought when we went on a road trip to Starved Rock State Park. Every weekday morning without fail, I fill the thing with coffee, at least twice. And the green folder underneath it is the hated group hotels file, one of my least favorite tasks. Still, I do it to the best of my abilities, and today I got an award at work – kind of the runner-up award to the big one, which involves travel to…