Domestic Geek

Sorry I've been away so long. I wish my absence meant that I was working on lots of crafting, but sadly, it hasn't. Work and unexpected gall bladder surgery (you'd think a week in the hospital and recuperation time would've allowed for it, but no! Damned IVs and drugs that made me sleepy) really put a crimp in my crafting. I think I've finally got my work issues ironed out (for now) and I'm healing nicely from the surgery, so watch out — heaving duty crafting to come!

Tonight I'm bringing Dad along to the Colorado Rockies Stitch N' Pitch℠ event. We've had some heavy duty rain this week, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the rains hold off and the skies remain clear this evening. I need to pick Dad up in an hour and a half and still haven't decided what project to bring yet! LOL

I joined the Summer KAL-CAL in hopes of getting my butt in gear to learn to knit socks. Once again, the aforementioned events put a crimp in that plan, too. I'll at least have a couple of bags done by the September 2nd deadline (I hope). I'm jumping on the bandwagon, I know, but I'm making market bags so that I can reduce the amount of plastic bags I use and help reduce trash, as well. I hate how much trash Marcus and I generate. If nothing else, less trips to the trash dumpster would be a definite plus.

Well, I'd better get my butt in gear and get stuff ready to go. Go Rockies!

Even though I'm still kind of upset that 101.5 FM here in Denver changed its music format from the likes of Sinatra and The Brian Setzer Orchestra, I'm finding that I'm listening to it more and more because they really do have an extremely diverse playlist (especially compared to the likes of Alice 105.9 or KPBI 106.7). It's the station where I first heard my previous fav: Panic at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon". My most favorite tune at the moment is "Love Me Dead" by the band LUDO. Even though the lyrics are kind of sad (guy has love/hate relationship with his ex), I love the enthusiasm and melody. After seeing the video, I was even more hooked. The video from their YouTube Podcast in the extended in you want to see it.

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So, today is the first day that I got to look at my site in that piece of crap Internet Explorer. Yeah, this is why I don't do web design for a living. My site blows in IE (a tiny apology to those of you using IE, but then again, upgrade to a real standards compliant browser and your Internet world will look so much better). Part of me says screw it. IE sucks and don't waste my time getting perfectly valid code to work in a POS browser. Another part of me wants to figure out why it's broken in IE. I'm not sure which part will win, but the battle won't be fought today. I'm going to go surf Ravelry and knit instead. So there, IE. Suck it.

Since I've been kind of out of the loop the last few weeks due to the surgery, I was excited when a fellow Ravelry member informed us of Amazon's new Universal Wish List feature.

Rather than try to explain, I'll just post the blurb from Amazon's site:

Adding Items to Your Wish List from Other Websites

Sometimes you'll find things you want to add to your Wish List when you aren't browsing the Amazon.com website. That's OK, you can still add those items to your Amazon.com Wish List with the Universal Wish List Button!

The Universal Wish List Button is a browser button that will let you add items to your Wish List even if they aren't listed on the Amazon.com website. Click here to get the button!

To get the button, all you need to do is click on the image for the button and drag it to your browser's tool bar as instructed. It should only take a few seconds for the button be added and appear in your browser's tool bar.

Once you see the button, it's available for you to use immediately. When you're browsing a website and you see something you want, just click the "Add to Wish List" button in your tool bar. You'll see a confirmation screen, and the item will be added to your Amazon.com Wish List.

Check it out in action at my Amazon Wish List. As my circle of friends rely heavily on our Amazon Wish Lists for gift-giving occasions, it's so cool that we can now include other items we want that are not available through Amazon itself. It's well-timed as not only is Christmas going to be here before we know it, but my birthday is a little over a month away as well.

The only problem I have had with it so far is not being able to link the right picture of a t-shirt I want. That's not Amazon's fault, it was just the way this particular site was pulling in the product images from their database. It would be cool if you could add your own picture. Still, not a deal breaker for the whole feature in any way.

So why would Amazon add this feature? I'm guessing the answer is twofold. First, they can gather data about what people are wanting that they do not currently offer. Second, even if they do lose some sales to other sites, a person still has to go to Amazon to view your list and may ultimately purchase something else anyway. Just my thoughts. Still, a very cool feature!

Heh, I've got my dad addicted to Wii Bowling.