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42-year-old Atlanta Mom talks about raising a teen daughter while dealing with several invisible disabilities, keeping home and family together, going to college, and trying to maintain a sense of humor. The family are all avid readers and RPG gamers
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Whoops!
I’ve discovered that my blog posts stopped cross-posting over to my LiveJournal acccount at some point in September. Many of my more vocal friends actually read my posts over there, so anything I’ve said since then might as well have been tossed...
Victory!
Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Mood: HappyOn with the quotations obsession project. I swear, it’ll be useful for something other than keeping me busy. Someday! Anybody know php/MySQL well enough to help me do that? Anyway, one reason...
I missed what?
Current Mood: scatteredIt was National Grammar Day AND Gamemaster’s Day, and I didn’t realize either until the day was almost over! It was date night, though, and my favorite GM and I did play, so at least there’s that. I’ll...
Nerd Joy!
We’ve been scanner-deprived for many months now, because the multifunction printer gave up the ghost. We acquired an older model HP scanner via Freecycle a while back, but it wouldn’t work. The moving bit inside had been locked down for t...
New Addiction
Whoops! What have I done to myself? I was frustrated that there were a fair number of books on my “shelves” at Good Reads that had no associated cover image. I collected all but, I think, two of the cover images for the books I had listed...
Good Reads Migration Finished!
That was not painless at all. The import feature is tetchy, at best. I had to go through the entire list of 1300+ books and fix their “bookshelf” assignments, and add some that just didn’t import at all. I had over 1400 books in Now...
Switching to Good Reads
Well, I think I’m about done waiting for an update of Now Reading. I’m about 1/3 of the way through fixing the 158 broken links on this site caused by the plugin not working with the latest versions of WordPress, and I found a plugin that...
Sleepy!
I didn’t sleep very well last night, although I managed to stay up all day yesterday (unusual lately). Unfortunately, I ended up sleeping most of the day, today, and I’m still sleepy! So I hope I can sleep well again, tonight. I have a f...
ThinkExist.com?
Has anyone ever registered successfully at ThinkExist? I’ve tried many times, with different addresses, and never received even one confirmation message. I’ve also tried using their contact form many times, with no response. I finally tr...
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What’s the Opposite of Speed? Slowth?
We’re supposed to have the highest-speed residential service available from Comcast, darnit. I will say that the service is much faster than anything we ever got on DSL.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What’s the Opposite of Speed? Slowth?", ...
Books & Cute Photo
Totally unrelated to anything else: Squee! (Thanks, AMQ!) For some odd reason, I got this weird notion about tracking down as many of the books I’ve read as possible. No, I don’t know why. I’m not even going to try to remember all...
Singing the Joys of WordPress
I have to say, I do love the fact that WordPress allows me to write posts and schedule them to post themselves to cover days when I don’t feel up to blogging. I’ve been having a lot of trouble viewing the monitor lately–my eyes feel...
Amazon Weirdness
I’m tired. I spent entirely too much time over the last 48 hours futzing with the library part of this site. The software I use to create that, Now Reading, automatically pulls images of book covers from Amazon whenever I add a book to the lib...
School Happy
I finally got the grades from the first technical writing assignment I turned in last week, and the peer reviews I did on two of my classmates’ rough drafts. I got full points for all of them! I was worried about one of the peer reviews, becau...
Graphics. Gah!
There are times when being graphic-impaired really does annoy me. I’m finally moving forward with porting the Heartsong Handicrafts site to WordPress. It shouldn’t be a big deal. I’ve done the same many times before with other site...
Where are my Gravatars?
I obediently updated to WordPress 2.5.1, and lost my Gravatars. I’ve checked the settings, and they’re still enabled. They’re definitely still in my templates, but nobody gets anything but the default “no gravatar” pict...
TotD: Why is English spelling so odd?
From David Crystal, The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left, by way of Delancey Place. In spelling, the [English] language was assimilating the consequences of having a civil service of French scribes, who paid little attent...
Gravatars and Plugins and WordPress, Oh My!
Since WordPress 2.5 has Gravatar support, I’m attempting to add Gravatars to my blog template. Unfortunately, I just keep getting errors, or a the default “no Gravatars” image (even for comment authors who I know have Gravatars, li...
WordPress Upgrade Woes
Ack! I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (2.5) yesterday, and now one of my favorite plug-ins (Now Reading) isn’t working! You can see the books I’m reading at the moment over there in the sidebar, and I can get into the adminis...
Online Reputation Services
This didn’t really belong in that last post, especially after I added other stuff. So aren’t you lucky? You get another one! A while back, I noticed that an old post in which I had published my Opinity ID badge in order to claim this blog...
What Happened to Zooomr?
Does anybody know what happened to Zooomr? They started out as a promising competitor to Flickr, and I recall hearing good things about their API. Katie, Sam, and I joined back in 2006 when they were giving away free, lifetime Pro accounts. I had li...
Mouse-Mouse and WordPress Oddity
I will not provide a photo, but I figure this pointing device would be all-too popular with any felines or canines in your household. I wouldn’t ever imagined such a thing if the Instructables people hadn’t sent out an email plea to whoev...
I Will Try Not to Bore You
But tonight’s game was really, really good, and even though we retconned something and most GMs wouldn’t be as accommodating as Sam, he managed to make a new thing damn near as difficult (or more so than) the old thing, and how is it that...
