Domestic Geek

I think I've had "Complete Project 365" as one of the goals on my 101 in 1001 project since I first set it up over 8 years ago. I've also had a goal to fix DomesticGeek since an ExpressionEngine install that went awry (and subsequent server change that broke even more stuff) and get back to blogging on a regular basis. I used to chronicle everything on the old blog and once I got onto Facebook, that pretty much stopped. Someday Facebook could go away and I will have absolutely no record of the life I've lived. Well, I've been itching to get this thing workable again and really feeling the need to accomplish something in my life, so here we go! BTW, if my comments are still broken, I apologize. It's on my list of stuff I need to look at. I'm guessing that since I haven't had spam comments in forever, it probably is broken.

#1 - August 1, 2014 - New markers make this artsy gal extremely happy. I was bummed that they hadn't shown up when I got home from work, but the danged FedEx guy threw them up on the balcony instead of leaving them by the front door like the guy that delivered Marcus' stuff yesterday did. Then I was even more bummed when I went onto Amazon and saw the price had dropped $4 since I ordered them. Grrr! Oh, well...



#2 - August 2, 2014 - Yesterday I was sitting on the patio (at the condo Marcus bought in Aurora in March that was dubbed Homestead South) enjoying some time relaxing and knitting with Mr. T. That dog loves to sunbathe, so I always put his "Princess Pillow" in the sun so he can be comfy.



#3 - August 3, 2014 - It finally cooled off enough this evening that Marcus & I took Mr. T to the Jewell Wetlands for a walk. He got to chase plenty of bunnies.

I'm really wishing I hadn't done any paid blogging back in the bleak unemployment fiasco back in 2007.

Every few weeks, I get an email from somebody asking to have their link removed from my pathetic little blog. I did a little purging a while back. Some of the ones that remain are services that I would have actually used at some point. Like right now, there's a font site asking to have their link removed. They were on my list of resources for when I get back into design, but no longer. If these darned companies would worry more about their service or product and less what Google's most recent demands are, they wouldn't really need to care about where they rank on Google.

I'm so sick of this SEO game. Stop trying to game the system (that's why you and/or your company paid for all these lame links anyway) and stop giving Google all this power over you.

I'm especially irked when it isn't even a paid link in question, just some site I found and linked because I liked what they had to sell or wanted it for future reference. Some guy with a site selling old Hallmark ornaments asked to have his link removed. I told him why I had linked it and since he apparently cares more about Google than a customer, he's history. His stupid website still looked like something from a beginning HTML class. Good riddance.

I was going through some papers and found a list of all the paid posts I made back then and now I'm going to remove each and every one regardless. Some acquaintances that did paid blogging with me back then say they ask the companies to pay them to get the links removed, but I so don't want to deal with that. I'm just tired of seeing this crap in my inbox and reminding me of a period in my life that I would like to keep in the past.

STOP PLAYING GOOGLE'S GAME - NOBODY CARES!

Ok, not exactly food, but that is the closest category I have without creating a new one.

I made apple cider with mulling spices and Tuaca one year when I had my knitting friends over to the old mobile home.

At Whole Foods this year, I saw and end display with some organic mulling spices in a tea bag from R. W. Knudson, so I grabbed a box. A gallon of organic cider and a bottle of Tuaca (on sale).

SO DANGED GOOD!

Thank you, apartment-dwelling brat children, for thinking it would be cool to leave a little mound of rocks right in the middle of a dark sidewalk. I love twisting my ankle and tweaking my back during Mr. T's walk.

Not a long post today as I'm rather irked.

In an effort to multitask, I decided to do my laundry on site tonight while I watched the Bronco game, did dishes and worked on some computer stuff. When I went over earlier, all the washers were full. I got my stuff in around 8 finally, had it in the dryer a little before 9. As soon as the game was over, I went to get my clothes and the laundry room is locked. This would be my fault if say, I knew 10pm was the time they locked it; however, I have walked the dog at 1 in the morning and it was still open. Apparently closing time is whenever the asshole with the key decides it is time to lock it. There are no posted hours and the couple of times I have been in there babysitting my laundry on a Sunday evening, it was after 11 when the dude showed up.

I let laundry go too far and we were totally out of clothes, so everything is in there. With my luck, the guy won't be back at an early hour to open it, either.

We're also out of poop bags. They expect the residents to clean up after their pets, yet we haven't had bags in over a week. I carry my own, but the lawn is becoming a mine field out there.

Also, the 3 fountains in this place haven't worked in months and they're freaking disgusting.

I'm so glad they felt the need to raise everyone's rents $50 so we can live in a crappier place than it was when we moved in.