Monthly Archive for November, 2006

Sun
Nov, 26
2006

Starting a photoblog

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Now that I’ve got this blog as well as I can for the time being and that I decided to take photography a little more seriously, I decided to start a photoblog. The last 24 hours have been spent looking for the right photoblog opensource software. I use Menalto’s Gallery2 on my old site littledeath.net (gallery.littledeath.net) and it is a great great gallery but that site is going away soon and the gallery is moving to a new location. It’s for family, anyway, not so much this blog and displaying artistic photos like I think they should be. Gallery2 is not so good for a photoblog and posting photos so much as it’s great for creating albums so I decided to go with pixelpost.

Now the challenge is going to be finding a theme to start with and then modifying it to look like this blog so that I can make the trasition from one to the other and back look as seemless as possible. Too bad wordpress doesn’t have an easy way of integrating a photoblog the way I want it to be. That would have been easier with blogs like pivot or serendipity or even movable type. But I much prefer wordpress to those so I won’t go there.

I can’t wait to get it up but I’m not looking forward to spending the countless hours modifying the theme. :( I’m so anal when it comes to details that I can easily make a job like that stretch for weeks. But hopefully I’ll have it mostly done before my little online photography course begins. I’ll have to try hard to let details go and concentrate more on functionality.

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Sat
Nov, 25
2006

Pretend vacation day

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Well, here I am at work with two days off behind me and two days off ahead of me. I really hope things stay as slow as they’ve been over the last 2 hours. We have one major failure which, big surprise!, the boss just asked my coworker to fix it using the exact same method I told him.

Let’s see, if failing_server + all_new_hardware + five_days_problem = still_failing_server then failing_server = bad_filesystem = rebuild server from scratch

simple as that.

I’m so glad he’s the one dealing with it. I prefer not to have much to do today. I’m trying real hard to make this feel like just another day off and that I really had 5 days off straight. I already went to Einstein Bagle and to Starbucks to get my breakfast. They’re right next to eachother in this same complex.

I work in what used to be IBM’s headquarters and manufacturing plant in the 70’s. This place is huge! and they used to occupy every last square foot of it. Today they only have a small office and the rest is owned by someone else and leased to a couple dozen companies including mine and the post office. You know, the same post office where anthrax spores were found after an employee was diagnosed with pulonary anthrax. This all happened after 9/11. I’m also right across the street from the American Media building where the first anthrax fatality worked and where a second employee tested positive for exposure to anthrax.

Yeah, I feel safe.

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Fri
Nov, 24
2006

Giving Thanks

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I’m thankful for soap. Because it saves me from daily nasal assault and that final dive into an antisocial lifestyle.

I’m thankful for my bed. Thank you, 6 year old mattress, for putting up with my drool and farts night after night.

I’m thankful for my anus. Because when there’s nothing funny on comedy central it still provides comedy releif. I think my farts are hilarious. Ask my husband.

I’m thankful for my car windows, for taking the edge off that dreaded reggaeton music blasting from the car next to me at a red light.

I’m thankful for the forida turnpike. Because when I get on it at the Republic of Miami, it takes me back the United States just one hour later.. where people do follow the rules of the road.

I’m thankful for my home. Because I can make it whatever the fuck I want - dog hair, vomit and all.

I’m thankful for my father in law, because with each visit he brings a new minced meat pie to remind me how much I hate the stuff.

I’m thankful for my crotch, because it produces and incesent burning itch I find much joy in scratching.

I’m thankful for webrings, because they take me to sites run by crunchy christian women who remind me how much I’m not them.

I’m thankful for my right hand, because when my husband isn’t around during those rare horny moments it steps up to the plate.

I’m thankful for cranberry sauce. Because without it I wouldn’t be able to down that dried out turkey breast.

And lastly, I’m thankful for Thanksgiving Day. Because it’s there to remind me that it’s the little things in life that make a difference.

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Wed
Nov, 22
2006

What a concept

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at November 22, 2006
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How does that saying go again? Don’t put the cart before the horse? Makes total sense, right? I mean, you can still ride a horse without a cart, but you can’t travel around in a cart without something to pull it. How genius. And all this time I had it wrong.

I’ve bought the $2000 treadmill without having started an exercise routine.

I’ve bought the uber expensive camera without having learned how to use any digital camera.

I’ve built the 3rd and 4th computer without having put the first two to good use.

I’ve bought the uber expensive pda to help me with a plan I still haven’t created.

I’ve bought theory lesson books #2,3,4,5,6 without having read through the first one.

And every time I do this I say to myself “next time, I’ll just wait until I complete x and y, before I buy z”.

So now, as much as I want that new camera, dammit, I decided this time I better learn how to use the first two I have. Sigh… But I still really want that damned camera. It’s just so darned cute!

Shit, it’s hard to say no to myself. :(
As an aside, here’s a riddle. How low does the temperature have to go before this former new yorker floridian turns on her heater?
46°F! yeah baby!

(well, the thermostat only said 70°F so maybe I am still a wuss)

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Tue
Nov, 21
2006

Tackle it Tuesday

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I want to confess right away that the following is not something I tackled this week. I didn’t tackle much of anything this week so I wanted to post an old tackle. This one took me weeks and weeks of hard labor and it was two years ago. I’m still so proud of it today even tho our lawn has suffered some damage thanks to hurricanes and a broken sprinkler system. But it’s still looking green - close to it anyway. Just a little “crunchy”.This is our yard after 12 months of neglect since buying it (not that it looked all that great when we first bought the place anyway…

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Mon
Nov, 20
2006

A nice change of pace

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at November 20, 2006
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For a family living in south florida, we sure spend an aweful lot of time indoors in a closed house breathing stale air. If I had to guess how many days we actually stepped foot in our yard since moving in four years ago for purposes other than walking our dog after the fence blew down I’d have say maybe 20 times.

But today, since the weather has been cool, we shut off the A/C and openned up our windows & doors and let the kids out to play. After getting a caramel machiatto I got my laptop and sat in our patio with them. It’s so nice out here but it’s hard to read under such bright conditions when you’re not used to it. My eyes are tired! But I’m not complaining. Not really. It’s rare that I sit out here like this. This might have been the 10th time. Yep, I think that’s a good guess.

Maya has been in her exersaucer gazing at different objects and babbling and Jada has been all over the yard picking little flowers, dried sticks, playing with dirt, and picking green oranges off the trees. I had to ask her to stop after about the 12th orange, tho. Our yard is a good size but it rarely gets used. After hurricane Wilma it hadn’t been very pretty anymore but I want to get it back into shape and make it more child friendly too. We need a swing, a slide and some flowering plants again. Our old bouganvellias were so pretty too But my favorite was that Plumeria tree. Too bad they’re all gone now. I’m glad I took all those pictures of them, though. I still like looking at those old photos.

Here’s a few of them (damn hurricanes!)

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