Onward and Upward/ These are “the days of our lives”
Table of contents for 14/ Writing
- How Do You Feel?/ Need A Lift?/ Dynalifter Soon Will Fly
- Bear Running Around City Of Richmond
- Onward and Upward/ These are “the days of our lives”
- Save Money On Gas/ Dealing With The High Cost Of Gasoline
- One Year Anniversary/ Wordpress Blogging Adventures
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Th’ first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr’m time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th’ shelf is th’ main thing. ~Finley Peter Dunne
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Sometimes you just have to become motivated and make things happen. And around here that means cleaning my room. All the book shelves reach a point where they are stuffed full of papers, folders, gloves, hats, computer cords, old newspapers, empty software boxes, notebooks, towels, a bottle of Murphy Wood Cleaner, tape measures, a box of screws and assorted other stuff. Cleaning stuff up. These are “the days of our lives”.
Basically there are just supposed to be books in there and they should be in a vertical position instead of sideways on top of other books. So I cleaned that up and nearly gave myself some sort of dust disease by stirring up a half inch of wispy particles that fall all over the place like snow over a period of time.
And this room is very warm after about March so I bought a small AC unit and installed it in the second floor window next to the book shelves without dropping it out the window. Beth was sure that was going to happen and kept Sparky and Malarky our sharp toothed German Shepherds in the house while I was doing this.
They enjoyed themselves watching me from the other side of the room and occasionally growling in my direction. They probably think that I am afraid of them but the jokes on them because I know they are harmless as long as they are well fed . So I feed them four or five hours early when they start with the tough dog act.
Boy are they dumb.
I also bought a small digital tape recorder so I won’t forget these great blogging ideas I have while I am driving around. There’s hardly any chance I will remember them otherwise. I am just happy that when I went to the store to buy the AC unit I remembered to buy a digital tape recorder too.
But then I lost it. So after going through all the trash and all the boxes in the room I happened to look in one of the book shelves above the books.
And low and behold there it was and still in its little package too! Losing something before it is even opened would have really been a bummer.
The other thing I did was make a decision about my photoblog PhotoLink Love dot com. The photoblog plugin didn’t work out as you probably noticed if you went over there. The Yet Another Photoblog Plugin just quit working. So then I decided to use one of Sadish’s themes and make some of the photos 650 pixels across.
Because big photos are enjoyable. I think. Nobody has ever told me otherwise. Maybe everyone is humoring me.
Whatever. But then I found another theme by Sadish that has the light box capacity. Virginia Breeze has this and it’s very nice ( I am not sure if these are officially called light boxes or not). But you can’t have both as far as I know. Big photos vs. light box. Hmmm.
Such difficult decisions. So I have decided on smaller photos and the light box. And I had to redo a lot of photos to make them 500 pixels across. So I did it so many times it started taking about thirty seconds per post (And I still need to fix the ugly little line that you see under some of the photos).
And finally I hired someone to fix the code that has not really worked well since the time my domain stopped working completely last fall. For about a month I was forced to post on my Wordpress.com blog and nobody could fix the .org blog!
What a helpless feeling that was! But then it started working again one day on its own. But it still does screwy things and has been especially screwed up since Wordpress 2.5 came out. Someday they will figure all this stuff out and our grandchildren won’t have these problems. Blogs will work fine all the time and we will have time to worry about other stuff.
This will probably happen some time after I depart this vale of tears and frustration however.
But at least the vale isn’t hot anymore. This AC unit is putting out some serious cold air.
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