I’ve been using Firefox exclusively, and I hate what IE does when I run it so much that I haven’t been bothering to check my templates for IE backwards-compatibility. Which means I didn’t even know until just now that several of my WordPress templates render improperly in IE! Why didn’t anybody tell me! Ack! I […]
When I drive to work in the morning, this is what I look at. Miles and miles of green Iowa farmland. I suppose it’s idyllic, but I’ve lived out in the country long enough that I have to deliberately enjoy my surroundings to notice them at all. Below is the stop sign at the end […]
Last year, my home box would stall and go to a blue screen that bitched about its core dump status, which was ‘interesting’ enough. But now the box hard boots itself at random intervals, at least once a day. (Yes, I’m running AC. I thought it was a heat problem too.) It’s so exciting when […]
There is a clutch of baby chicks living in the air conditioner in our bedroom window. Why birds would decide to lay eggs in a window unit AC is beyond me, but the babies have been cheeping their little hearts out for two days now. And yes, the unit has been running 24/7 since Brett […]
Hattie came out Sunday to visit. She’s so cool. We hung out and admired my felted lamb, talked and talked and talked, and drank half a bottle of wine. I also fed her dinner, since she was still there at dinner time and her curiosity about the Pepsi pot roast got the better of her. […]
Remember the Briefcase function on Windows 95 that would synchronize the contents of a folder? It was handy if you had a file you wanted to maintain on more than one computer. Now there’s FolderShare.com – file sync, folder syncing, file transfer, share files, web download, access files anywhere. It’s close to what I want, […]
Yesterday I napped. A lot. (Why must I have yet another fucking cold?) I also waxed the kitchen floor, and it looks pretty cool. I still have never cleaned the top of the fridge, and we’ve lived there for four years. (The way I figure, if something’s above my head and I can’t see it, […]
Remember that tree that fell on one of Brett’s trucks during a recent storm? Well, now it’s bark dust. The branches, anyway. The trunk is now firewood. Brett rented a chipper from 1-Stop yesterday, and I helped him shove enough wood through it to fill the entire back of his full-sized pickup’s bed. That is […]
Since my phone hasn’t been holding a charge for more than three hours at a time, and Brett’s has been rather sketchy in the functioning department for lo these many moons now, we stopped by the kiosk at Walmart in Ottumwa today and got new phones. It took well over an hour. You can get […]
I’ve migrated my good ol’ blog to WordPress. Why? Why not. Seemed like something to do. Actually, that’s a lie. I did it because WP has more and cooler style templates, and because – unlike MT – it’s free. I’ll probably migrate the whole site to WP since it was so blessedly easy. Off to […]
