Here it is Saturday morning, I've got a big paper due by midnight tomorrow, and what am I doing? checking out the entrants in the new blog showcase.
Since I'm not entered this week, I don't have to vote for three, and doesn't multiple voting dilute the power of your vote anyway? I mean, whenever I go to the polls, and it says to choose three candidates for City-Council-at-Large, I usually only vote for ONE because what if my second choice edged out my first choice by one vote?
So, I already voted for Romulus, and I'm not taking it back. But I have a second choice, and I'm really torn as to whether to link to it....
Ok, I will just link to the blog, Tales from a Yeti Suit. You can go find his entry and link to it if you want to dilute your vote.....
Let me preface this by saying, I am not at all superstitious.
Ok, not very superstitious. And Friday the 13th has never bothered me. In fact, today is the first ever Friday the 13th that I ever remember anything unlucky happening to me.
Guess what? No paychecks today. Lost in the mail or something. Then I find out from Victor that the tax cut kicks in today.
Personally, I blame the full moon. Nuke it.
Ok I was done blogging for today...really! But I just had to run through my blogroll and OMG poor John!!!
Just a quick note to tell all my Loyal Readers that I copied and pasted my old blogger posts to one long post dated June 1.
Just click on the June 1st on the calander, and scroll down to the date you want to read (if any).
I know--it's more labor intensive for you than for me, but I will do it right one of these days, once Steve is back from vacation and there are no huge projects due for class.
Now go read Frank. I'm sure he's more interesting than I am anyway!
LOL!
In a neverending effort to avoid working on my paper, I strayed from Jaboobie's through a link to Drumwaster's and read this:
And finally, I have just about had it with all the claims from the rabidly ranting rats on the Loony Left whinging (sic) about the lack of WMD in Iraq. After all, Saddam hasn't been found either, and so, by their logic, he must not have existed either, eh?
I'm still playing!!!!!
Thanks for the punctuation tip, Pixy...if I had known that two days ago, the whole pink thing might never have happened! :P
So I am fiddling around going "what's this do?" which means you may see some odd things as I experiment.
Notice the white border around the blog entries? I was trying to get the entries themselves to have a white background, but I kind of liked that so I left it (for now).
I have been playing almost ALL day!!! Not just on MT, but I actually went out to eat!!! (KFC has a terrific buffet for only $5.99... I blew the budget, but what the heck, I only get one day off in 12.....). I have also taken TWO naps today!!!!!
The down side is I've only gotten one page of my paper done today, which means I'll have to work on it during my blogging time over the weekend.
Could be worse...could be raining... (Marty Feldman to Gene Wilder, "Young Frankenstein").
Okey dokey, if you have any comments on the decor, please leave them on this post.
And if anyone knows how I can get rid of that annoyingly bright white behind my blog title, I would appreciate advice.
Thanks!
One of the reasons that the male/female equality issue is still ongoing is that the women came late to the party. (Ok, we pretty much crashed it, helped out by a few men who weren't total Neanderthals, but that's not the point.) See, God let Adam name everything, and we women have been stuck with guy-names for everything ever since.
Take tools. Is there a tool sensibly named "that pinching thingee"? Nope. It's called a pliers. How about that lifting-up thingee for the car when the tire is flat? A jack. What about one of those little baby nail thingees that hold pictures in their frames? A brad. Except for the fact I've never met anyone named "Pliers" you'd think guys were namimg all this stuff after themselves!
There is a tool we have at work that one of the girls calls an alum wrench, that I think was named by some man named Allen, which, had I been the one to name it, would have been called "that bent thingee we use to lock the doors." See how much more descriptive a name that is?
One of the little things that can make life seem too unfair sometimes is having to make coffee before you've had coffee.
Another is waking up early on your day off, just because your body is used to getting up early.
A third is a chilly drizzle too early on your day off before the coffee is brewed.
I could go on, but I think the coffee is done.....
Cool!!!!! I have colors!!!! Hurray!!!!!!
This is kinda fun, now that I know where to fiddle.
I have no idea what CSS even means, tho.
Now I need to figure out where to change the white background of the whole page.
I wish I had more time to play!
Ok, so I found webmonkey's list of color hex codes for html. I still don't know where to put them.
Maybe it's the sleep deprivation effecting my brain power.
Pixy!!!! Help!!!!!!
Hey...does this thing have spell check?
See, this is what I was afraid of...I am trying to read the online instructions for moveable type, and I can't find anything that tells me how to do what I want to do.
For example, while the fonts are perfect, I would like to change the font colors. I would also like to change the background color. But I cannot figure out WHERE this is supposed to be done. I'm assuming one of the templates, but which one? and where do make my alterations? and where do I find the color codes?
The manual also doesn't say where the links go. IP banning is very useful, I am sure, but I am technologically impaired!!!! I need that little button to put the italics tags in for me!!!!
On the other hand, it is WAY cool to have titles to the entries, and if I could just figure out how to do the basic stuff (like where to paste the site meter code etc) I think I could like this ....
But they need to get me a book...Moveable Type for Dummies would be just fine.....
Thanks, Pixy! I have no idea what the heck I am doing, as I just got home from another 12 hour day at the movies. So I am just typing in an attempt to see if I can make a coherent sentence. Now I think I will post this and see what it looks like.