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November 25, 2004
Done Gone Home
A day in the life:
1. Wake up to three cats and dog in bed.
2. Shower, dress, and head down to favorite coffee shop in the world to get caffinated.
3. Trek with mother to drug store and then to yarn shop (also of favorite-in-world variety). Discover on drive that mother expects me to make entire T-giving day dinner. Have never done this before - not even remotely.
4. Head home, yank out Dad's old Fanny Farmer cookbook. Write down things I think I can make that sound Thanksgiving-ish. Yell and mother and brother to shut the hell up while I try to think.
5. Google 'How to cook turkey'.
6. Go with brother to grocery. Buy stuff.
7. Return home. Brother suggests an episode of Firefly, which I bought him on DVD in attempt to hook him in.
8. Watch not one but two episodes. Heh.
9. Run to barn to visit horse. Clean stall, chat with friends.
10. Drive by friends' place to say him. End up staying for dinner. Mmmm, pot roast. I never appreciated it properly when Dad was here to make it.
11. Home to try to thaw turkey in sink, seeing as how there's not enough time to thaw it in the fridge before T-giving. Must rotate water every 30 minutes.
12. Firefly
13. Firefly. Heh again. That's hook #2; should get new toaster in mail any day now.
14. From here through rest of night: thawing turkey.
Posted by Kristin at 12:05 AM
November 11, 2004
Fish and webpage annoyances
Is there anyway to annotate style sheets or other web publishing system templates? When I wrote more AML (Arc Macro Language - a GIS thing), I could add things like '/*This piece of code sends the map to the plotter. You'd think after years of doing this you'd remember that, wouldn't you?', but when I tried something like that for this page's style sheet so that I can remember just what bits things like '#content h2' modify, it freaked and hid under the bed until I took it out. Am I just using the wrong characters to start?
So I don't have my links back, and I've yet to generate photo albums (Mo, I like yours - are you using the same program you used when you were on MT?), but it's a start. I do really like that you can categorize posts, and once it's set up I know I'll like it better than Blogger. I'd like to figure out how to turn off commenting on the Live Journal feed so that all comments end up here (I'm not a paid LJ member - do I need to do that? Would that be an annoying thing to do? Have I asked enough questions yet this morning?), but it's a start.
Anyway, this is my fish, Ollie. Marie picked him out; Sue gave me the tank. I tried to get him to stay still for better photos, but he refused.
Posted by Kristin at 9:27 AM | Comments (1)
November 8, 2004
Starting From Scratch (sort of) - plea for feedback
In migrating from Blogger to Movable Type, I've run into a few problems, so I decided to backtrack to MT's basic template. If you have a moment to do so, please comment, and if you have problems, let me know at kristin at lostgeographer dot net (if you're viewing this through Live Journal, you're looking at the site via a syndication feed - instead of hitting the 'comment' link in LJ, please click on through to to the actual website at www.lostgeographer.net and comment there). If all works, then I'll start adding in the design elements again.
Thanks!
Posted by Kristin at 1:06 PM | Comments (6)