Misc.

Blog Amnesty Day – I will play

First to understand this post read this at Brass and Ivory. Nothing original here what I am gonna do is past my blogroll here

  • odd time signatures —
    odd time signatures
  • Thumper Thinks Out Loud —
    Thumper Thinks Out Loud
  • Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection —
    Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection
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    Tim’s Nameless Blog
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    halt stop forget and relax
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    A Stellar Life
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    Brass and Ivory
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    My Journey With MS
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    Blindbeard’s Multiple Sclerosis Blog
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    Access denied – living with ms
  • Merely Me’s Writing to Survive

And for your link juice I will trackback.

In the spirit of it all I will add a brand new blog about Lost and Imac the dog.

And one from my old blogroll Donkey Path that I still drop by to once and again.

That being said and done on to the link bait yes it is link bait brah ha ha ha . …write  something that s attract links  back to  blog  by getting people  blogging about it  and posting it on del.icio.us Technorati, etc. and linking to it from their sites and putting it in their google readers . It can attract lot of visitors to your blog.

Not on the A list? on the Z list eh? Well join and write a post about blogroll amnesty day. Obviously, if you read this I would appreciate, in the spirit of Blogroll AmnestyDay that you link to this article. Reality is that cleaning ones blogroll up is a nasty thing to do but sometimes neccessary. I like to think that a blogroll is a representation of blogs a blogger actually reads on a daily basis.

Jon Swift will add you to his post: “All weekend I will be updating this post with links from other bloggers who are recognizing Blogroll Amnesty Day and skippy will be doing the same. Blue Gal is encouraging bloggers to link to a few of their favorite blogs with traffic less than their own.”

But if you want to add me to your roll oh please please do! Your suppose to link to lesser blogs and this one sure qualifies.

Hey there Atrios of Eschaton I am with you.

It’s the Popcorn

Not much new around and about here. Rather boring actually.  Until dinner time that is. Cooking chicken in the dutch oven atop the stove and the dang stove wires started melting, melting. Unlike the wicked witch water was not the culprit.  It is just 20yrs old. The oven element went out a few weeks ago and we have been in a dilemma  of sorts as to whether it was worth $150.00 for a new one. Guess the gods have spoken. Now to find the funds to purchase a new drop in.

imgp0474_2006_03_29_2269_I have been spending my evenings laying in bed reading and eating popcorn. I am on a popcorn binge. Each night as a come upstairs Mr. Catfish is right there.  I read to him sometimes changing the characters names to his and Annie’s. Yeah, it is strange.  We head up with book and popcorn – now a nightly ritual. He is usually so good about not begging or snitching it. Until this evening that is.

Downtrodden about the stove debacle upstairs we went with our bag of microwave popcorn, book, and Mr. Catfish’s stuffed toys.  I set the bag down and headed to the throne room muttering to myself and Catfish that I had at least remained calm enough to pull the circuit breaker.  Now I ask you does this dog look innocent?

Mr. Catfish eats the popcorn

I think not.

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What In Your Cell Phone

I decided to clean out the photos from my cell phone.

It is kind of a log of where I have been. Who knows what possessed me to shoot some of these pics. There are all the standard pics of friends to use on the caller ID so I can look down and see whose calling.

There are pics like this one taken when we brought the boat home after my buddy won it on Ebay for me Click on it to hear one of my ring tones

boat and fishing in the dark song

And then there is this shot taken when I got stuck in the middle of some police action zone and could not go foward, backward, so I just had to sit the bored and curious at the same time. I bet you can guess the ring tone for this one.

police and bad boys song clip

gauge snowroad
road1 snow

I do remember the temp gauge. I finally got my truck doors un-frozen enough to actually get inside. That is what the gauge showed after it had been running for about five minuets – it seemed like forever as  I was dang cold.  This California gal so does not do snow storms well – burr . …

Well those are a few of the 500mb of photos on my cell phone.

Ring tones are a whole different deal. I have more ring tones than stored phone numbers. I don’t have a good reason for any of this. Just so you know I don’t (oh gasp) have internet access activated on my phone. I don’t use it as an ipod because it kill the battery too fasts rendering it useless for its primary purpose – a phone.  But when I am bored or decide some moment must be noted I do snap away and I will confess that I do have a video on it from Happy Feet because it cracks me up.

It is amazing what I have stored on the flash card of my cell phone, useful and useless. Cleaning out my cell phone is way easier than cleaning the closet. But it is just as cluttered.

I remember when you actually dialed a number.  I suppose I could have taped a photo of something to the phone and listened to the radio . …

Me, Multiple Sclerosis, and WordPress

Sometimes the cognitive function – read lack of function -that comes along with multiple sclerosis really gets to me. I have always been fairly good with the coding, code was poetry, but now I find that it can turn to gibberish.

Then there is the clumsy part where my freeking fingers hit the wrong spot on the keyboard or loose control of the mouse at the very wrong time. This sometimes sends parts of the php file to oblivion or saves something at the wrong time.

Ok, yes, backing up all said files before even thinking about touching them helps but, and here is the cog fog again, more than once I have overwritten the original file on accident with the new file, that in turn of course does not work and stuff stops functioning.
I then find myself staring wonderingly at my WordPress files with a comprehension level of an ant.

WordPress is awesome but sometimes a plugin gone bad can drive me nuts. Especially after deactivating it and ending up with a persistent problem. After checking all the files in WordPress and my theme with no joy I start to suspect that something evil has been written to my database. Checking mysql databases is not my favorite thing in the best of times.

So, for your enjoyment and you had better think hey how cool at least she got something done after all the plugin errors.

Please notice that the header image I added to the theme is now click able and is set for home.


and that these cool boxes work although I have not a clue as to why I wanted them


with niffty colors and all I am ready for Easter

And they wrap like this right now all though I might come up with some more after I get over my plugin debacle. I still need to come up with some styles for blockquotes but I think I will wait a bit and make sure this theme renders well in all browsers and that I am ok with it. I liked the other one a lot but it showed bad behavior in IE plus the comments would never line up right in the side bar. The widget worked with other themes so it was the theme problem and I got tired of messing with.

So now you know one way multiple sclerosis effects me and I in turn bungle WordPress. And, how there is one plugin author out there that I would like to see . …


and that my comments pages are now threaded and you can request an notice that an update to any comment you make have a notice emailed to you.

So, get with the comments already -alright!!!

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