Three More Quick Things
(1.) I was doing a bit of house website cleaning and stumbled upon this photo that was never posted.
(2.) Welcome, welcome to any LJers who’ve ventured over here to my new-ish Internet abode. Make yourself comfortable, pull up a chair, have a spot of tea or hot chocolate, and do pardon the dog hair. If you’re reading this via the LJ feed, might I suggest taking a trip to the main website to have a look around. Note the vast linkage in the sidebar to all my favorite haunts and reads and, of course, the very newly added Twitter updates.
(3.) Saw this on Digg today and found it quite an interesting read: President-elect may have to give up his Blackberry. I daresay I don’t know what I’d do if I had to turn in my Blackberry, I’ve become quite dependent on and very fond of it. Honestly, these days I can’t be expected to remember any appointment or event — work-related or merely social — if I haven’t put it in my calendar!
And now I’m off for the night. Ta ta!
November 15, 2008
Still working on getting this new design complete. Among the nine hundred little things I tweaked today, I moved my blogroll onto the sidebar again. I think it’s been about four years now that it’s been on the links page, as I haven’t had sidebars in any of the designs since the purple lilacs days. (How many of you remember that, eh?)
Today was pretty lazy, even by my own standards. The plans I had fell through, which worked to my advantage given I was feeling decidedly lazy. I managed to accomplish pretty much nothing all day, except to putter around with this here website. Something I hardly ever get a chance to do these days. Honestly, it wasn’t as fun as I used to find it. Mostly it was frustrating, and I found myself having to walk away from the computer for hours at a time because I would have become so agitated I was fearful I might break things. How I ever sat here and wrote PHP code or painstakingly edited graphic files is beyond me.
Yara was in a crazy mood most of the day. She kept coming over and nuzzling me. Usually that’s an indication that she’s bored or wants some attention or even that she might need a trip outside. But there was nothing for it today, I’d pat her or try and play with her and she’d just walk away and lie down in the kitchen. It was totally random. At one point I’d given her a treat and she didn’t even take it at first, instead she went and got “the octopus” and deposited it in my lap and then she took the biscuit . . . into the kitchen and ate it.
Yara may also have finally gotten full! It took a grand total of nine days from the start of her treatment before she started going back to her old food ways wherein she’s not finishing all that I’ve given her, usually breakfast. I’m not surprised. I’d expected it sooner than that even. She was eating something around seven cups a day.¹ Wednesday and Thursday she begrudgingly finished her breakfast, but yesterday I decided to just give her one scoop in the morning. I did the same today, and she ate both meals without much issue.
And some big news! (Well, for those that don’t follow my Twitter or Facebook updates.) I got a call yesterday from Fidelco and they have informed me they’re going to supply the supplements Yara needs at discount cost (i.e., they’ll obtain the supplements and other treatment she might need via their vet at the reduced, no-markup price they get it and charge me exactly that). Really sensational news so far as I’m concerned. I’m so pleased they’re going to help me out. Robbie’s supposed to call me with all the specifics next week, but all the treatment details will have to wait until after Yara’s check up on the 2nd.
1. This is a rough estimate. The scoop I use to dish out her kibble isn’t a measuring cup like I was using prior to the “add a cup” suggestions. It holds something between 1.5 and 2 cups. And Yara was eating four scoops a day for those initial nine days.
Twitter & Facebook
Finally bit the bullet and added a widget in my sidebar for Twitter updates. I’m woefully sporadic about tweeting, but it is often times a more frequent update process than this blog. Twitter Tools is also sending updates to Twitter on blog posts here and I’ve also added another plugin that is sending updates to Facebook.
Most of the status updates are the same in both places (and other microblogs) since I generally update via Ping.fm, but since they’re the main places I check I figured I’d link everything together.
Rejaw — microblog + chat
I’ve been a semi-frequent on Twitter for awhile now and have seen various “wannabes” crop up to replace it. Honestly, I’m not big on any of them; they’re all mostly the same thing and more often than not are very lacking or even difficult to use (or in the case of Plurk, hard to navigate as a blind person).
But today I was introduced to Rejaw and like the Internet sheep I am, I had to try it out. And you know what? I really like it. It’s just as easy to use as Twitter and has an incredibly simple navigation. It also allows commenting. And since it’s AJAX based, everything updates instantly; so in essence you have an ability to chat on your microblog. Oh, and you don’t even have to register to comment!
Anyway, thought I’d share. If you’re looking for me there, you can find me here