Domestic Geek

Man, I couldn't go to sleep last night and it wasn't because of insomnia. First, I had taken a nap yesterday afternoon. I was not feeling well and I was really cold. Then I had waaaaaay too much caffeine right before bedtime. I had two large cokes with dinner, several glasses of iced tea when I got home, plus I drank a venti Green Tea Frappucino. I don't know if it had caffeine or not, but it definitely had sugar. I was WIRED! I took a shot of NyQuil to try and knock myself out at midnight and it was still a good hour before I could settle down enought to sleep. Argh! Not smart.

I finished watching season 1 of Veronica Mars on Saturday. Good stuff. I'm so glad they put a lot of television shows on DVD these days. It really makes it easy to catch up on stuff you missed or want to see again.

I will find a job this week. The unemployment money runs out at the end of the week. I still have a hard time believing it's been three months since I was laid off. Time flies when you're having fun. Yeah, right.

I need to run the steam cleaner here in a bit. I had a bottle of pet odor remover on the carpet where I was trying to remove a stain where Skippy peed. He ended up knocking it over and I didn't think anything about because I had put the lid back on. Later Marcus mentioned that the carpet was soaked. It turns out the bottle has a nice hole right in the center and half of the bottle leaked out. Geez, how stupid is that?

RADHOLE sent me one of the STS-666 Mission Patches and I need to complete the task set out for me as a minion. Marcus did his a few days ago. I need to come up with something clever, dang it. I think my clever bone is broken.

OK, I've got housework to do.

I don't know if we'll ever really know whether Landis really doped or if he was a victim of the French, but I know that his Tour de France ride is forever tarnsihed. Sad, really. Anyway, Mike sent this YouTube video link to Marcus and I just had to share it all with you. Video is in the extended.

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I just read on Colleen's site that Medium will be back on television starting Wednesday, November 15 instead of Sundays after football season is over as previously scheduled. Yay!!!!

If anybody from Blogger reads this (yeah, right) or you use Blogger: LISTEN UP!

I absolutely HATE commenting on Blogger blogs. Some of them have separate "view comment" links from "make comment" links. Dang it! When I have something to add, I don't want to figure out which I have to hit to actually start my comment. What's wrong with putting the comment entry fields right after the previous comments like normal people do? Also, have the comments open in a new window or have the entry, comments and comment field all in one like I do. I sometimes want to refer back to the original post (especially on Thursday Thirteen) and if I forget to open it in a new tab myself, I'm screwed.

If you do follow the maze and get your point out, then I always have to put in my blog info. Unless I want to use my blogger ID (which I don't), there is no mechanism to save the "other" info. I found this especially annoying during the Blogathon. There was so much I wanted to comment on, but refused to go through the whole proceedure each time.

If I have persevere long enough to get to this point and actually post the comment, I can't get back to original post easily. You have to hit the back button a couple of times and each time you get that annoying "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" message. Yes, I am sure, dammit! Just let me go away if I want. I've already posted my comment. Geez.

Of course, some of these gripes apply to other blog platforms, as well. Livejournal comes immediately to mind. Fortunately, I don't run across many LJ sites in my daily surfing. It seems like 2/3 of all the sites I go to are Blogger.

People complain that nobody ever comments on their blogs. Maybe it's time you take a look at the process your readers have to go through to leave one.

*sigh*

Once again Saturday is over. I didn't do squat, it seems. I looked for PPP puzzle pieces (I found a #192—damn, that's a lot of pieces to be found yet since I've only got 20).

I did manage to design and implement my default avatar, so yay for that. That's him/her over to the right there. Isn't she cute? It's an androgynous kind of little icon...kind of like Pat from SNL. Now my comments will work the way I had envisioned. I'll try and upload some more default avatars this week, but feel free to become a member so you can upload your very own for commenting. Just keep the files to 100px square or less, please.

Dad came by today. He was very sad. He went to visit an old friend/former coworker and the poor man is very ill and possibly suffering from Alzheimer's. The man is only in his mid-60s. The thought of getting old and feeble disturbs me. I'd almost rather go quickly in some kind of an accident that lose control of my senses.

Well, I'd better try to go back to bed. I was having a coughing fit earlier. I hope I'm not getting sick. I'm not sleeping again and when I do, it's filled with disturbing, physically draining dreams. Grrr.