Domestic Geek

I went to work at midnight last night to get two days' worth of dough done. I got it all done, amazingly enough. So, I went to bed at 9am, let the dog out to pee around 1 pm and just got up about a half hour ago. It has been sooooo long since I actually slept for one long stretch. It felt totally bizarre. I vaguely recall the screaming trampoline kids outside the window, but for the most part, I was totally out. It felt good. I just hope I can sleep this evening.

When I got home from work this morning, I sat down to do a quick run through the recently updated blogs on my blogroll and <sarcasm>SUPRISE!</sarcasm>, blogrolling was down. I had to give up because, even though most of the sites I visit are in my history, those that use blogrolling were talking forever to load. As soon as I get done here, I'm doing some more reasearch on how to create my own that shows recently updates sites. I'm tired of depending on things outside my own server that screw with my site. I already dumped my Netflix plugin because it slowed my site loading. I also decided that it is not fair to pull bandwidth from Netflix's site just to show pics on my site. It doesn't really matter for as few hits as I get, but a popular site must eat up large amounts of bandwidth. All subscribers end up paying for that, so I don't want to be a part of it, y'know?

My friend from school got a job! Yay!!! Everybody should go congratulate her (not that I have droves of readers or anything). Now, everybody focus the good vibes my way so that I can make the same announcement soon, K?

All right, I'm going blog-surfing then I'm going to call Marcus to see if he's going to be home soon or if I need to go scrounge something for dinner.

Excuse the wonkiness, I've totally broken something. It's a missing div somewhere, I'm sure of it. The comments are jacked, too. I'm going to walk away for a bit and hopefully fresh eyes will see the error.

Update: Thank goodness for the ability to save revisions in EE. It turned out that I put an extra div in when I put the new branica code in. D'oh!

Since one of my goals for this year is to try new recipes, I decided I want to try to make chili from scratch. My mom always did it and meant to teach me how, but it's one of those things we never got around to before she died. So, any good chili recipes? Thanks.

I'm sick of using Blogrolling. I paid for the service a year ago because I wanted more control over the styling of my links. After paying the fee, I couldn't get any decent answers out of them as to how their code is set up. I got "we don't do css support questions" from them. I wasn't asking css questions, jerkwad. Then there was the whole blogrolling outage last September where the news page says "the server migration went well" and then everybody goes on vacation or something. No news for 4 days as to the problem. I could've sworn I wrote about all of this on my blog, but it must've been in other's comments as I can't find mention of it anywhere on my site. Oh, well. I found some sites last night that describe how to set up a blogroll as another EE site. I just need to know how one could show the sites as recently updated or not. That's one of my favorite features. Worst case scenario, I'll just hand code them, y'know?

Here's links for future reference:
—Lisa-Jill EE Blogroll Tutorial
—Dave's Chalkboard EE Blogroll

OK, I'm really going to go nap now. Thinking I'm blowing off work this afternoon at this point.