Embarrassed by how long it’s been since my last post (over 2 weeks!) and knowing that I absolutely MUST add some new photos, as well as update WordPress, I humbly offer a couple of worthy links for your consumption:
Another “presidential candidate match” thing and, a kind of funny, kind of useless, translation thingamajig.
Photos and upgrade to come soon, really!
Just a couple good things I found online this week, both from BoingBoing…
Crazy video, an excellent example of two very dissimilar pieces of media together raising the art of the mashup higher. This video is Burning Man caliber insane. If you’re impatient, ffwd to the 1 minute 10 second point.
I was going to wax poetic about how it’s starting to feel like fall has its foot in the door, brisk tingly mornings as I ride my scooter through the streets to work each morning, fewer dust-covered Burning Man cars passing through, and balloons in the skies. But Morgan beat me to the punch, so there you go. Other tidbits, we’re FINALLY taking possession of the Eurovan tonight, and Lola’s started pooping on the potty! Good times all around
In addition to the general updates above, I found a handful of cool things to share with you loyal readers, fun/neat/cool sites on this here world wide web. Most came from an article in PC Magazine of 100 best undiscovered websites. These are the ones I thought most share-worthy:
Top Secret Recipes – for recreating the yummy things you get when you eat out.
LumosIQ test – totally fun mind games (just 3 of ‘em) that give you a score of how smart you are. I got 140. Report back in the comments.
Another test – This one sent by Gigi, you have to think fast (8 seconds to pick an answer), it’s more a trivia test than IQ. Still fun. Can’t remember what I scored, 25 or something?
LikeBetter – Pick the picture you like better. Pick enough of them and the brain tries to tell you something about yourself.
DaFont – Mostly included here for me to refer back to another time, tons of free fonts for your computer. Good for posters, flyers, tattoos, etc.
Boomshine – Totally addictive, fun, simple, and relaxing game.
OK, that’s all I’ve got. Must….play…more….boomshine….
I just find it hard to believe some things despite strong evidence that they’re true.
Sorry, I’ve been remiss in posting, especially any new Lola pictures lately aside from the cookie thing recently. And sorry for using such huge files for that one. Hopefully I’ll figure out the thumbnail feature of WordPress next time. Speaking of learning new things, I did have a major score this week and figured out how to share the printer downstairs so we can print from the wireless laptop, as well as share files between the two computers. It’s really sweet.
Grandpa Dave is here (geez, I just found the photo gallery broken when I went create that link…why does this stuff keep happening?!?!?) for a visit and Madeleine and her mom should be here tomorrow. I’m lucky enough to have some time off, from 1pm tomorrow through next Tuesday. Hopefully will get some beer brewed, root beer made, and even swing a golf club a little bit at some point. Holiday weekend, woo-hoo! And speaking of fun stuff, we actually got to the movies last weekend, to see Spider Man 3. Good show, good fun, if you don’t try to take it too seriously and can appreciate some of the typical Raimi goofiness. And Michael Moore’s new movie looks promising.
Lola is really a firecracker these days. Her speech is to the point of having nearly normal conversations with her now, even if her statements aren’t always true or realistic. She’s also becoming quite the rough and tumble kid now that weather is improving and she likes to play outside so much. Scraped knees, stubbed toes, all of that is more or less commonplace around maison Tiar these days.
And, as long as I’m tossing out links willy nilly here, check out this newish online encyclopedia of all things Nevada. Really a nice site, if you find such things of interest.
And lastly, this odd blog claiming to be written by a man on the run from the law, with his adopted son. Could be fiction, could be delusion, could be a clever marketing idea for a movie or something. Found that somewhere, I thought Metafilter, but it wasn’t. But in searching Metafilter for the link, I was reminded how amazingly chock full of wonderous reading that site is. It’s also a massive timesuck, so proceed with caution. Also fun, Ask Metafilter, for giving or receiving (or just reading) oddball advice from the masses.
And that’s all for now.
Not only did I fix the problems I was having, but upgraded WordPress at the same time. Linkability and formatting is back!
Had a couple days of technical difficulties here. Couldn’t log in to post anything but from the outside, everything looked fine. Finally sorted things out last night and disabled the offending plugin.
And now I discovered the editor of these posts is goofed up…I have to remember HTML now to link to anything or format text. Rad. Well, I wanted to link to something but my HTML is too rusty and I’m too lazy to look it up. So here’s the link anyway, just a neat photo thing I saw. Hopefully I can fix things more completely later today…
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7
Happy Cinco de Mayo to one and all. The margaritas and cerveza will commence after work today, I believe.
In neighborhood news, our long-under-construction corner Starbucks finally opened yesterday. And there was a line in the drive-through today. Hopefully this won’t mean the demise of our friends at the Purple Bean, but if the quality of their drinks continues along the lines of our last two visits, they’re in trouble. Don’t get me wrong, I love my little Purple Bean, but S’bux makes some good java and that last Americano from PB was nasty.
Not really our neighborhood, but I’m pretty sure I saw a dead body in the Eldorado parking lot yesterday on my way to work. Police were there and there was a sheet over it so it wasn’t gory or anything, just a bit unusual. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a corpse out in public like that before. Haven’t seen anything in the news about it.
Also of note, our wacky weather continues. Looks like it might be back on track today, but we had snow yesterday. I’m ready for warm weather, my facial hair is gone, let’s get on with it already, ‘k?
More breaking news at work: we’re finally a wireless hotspot at the library! It’s been a long time coming and we’re WAY behind the curve in the library world, but if you need a connection, come on down and say hello. And what a perfect time for our old laptop to lose all ability to power up, so I guess I won’t be trying out the wifi anytime soon.
OK, well, I feel like my threshold for what is interesting/significant enough to merit writing about here has lowered to an unacceptably dull level, so I’ll wrap it up and try to refrain from such mundane news in the future. With any luck, my next post will be about the selling of the house, fun times with Grandpa Dave later this month, and the move into a new (as yet unfound) house.
Just a couple things worth a click:
Let’s start with the “more”…seems like ages since I’ve written. Life’s been busy. Attempts to find a new house have been going full steam, we’ve visited about 15 now, and found at least three that we wouldn’t object to living in. But now, we’ve retreated – the cold hard truth is that we can’t do anything in terms of buying until we’re selling. Can’t do it without the big equity cashout. So, the plan is to spruce up around here and try to get it listed at the beginning of April. Wanna buy a house? This whole process is already a bit overwhelming and the stress of trying to put our house in order to sell, juggle the process of showing, selling, searching, buying, packing, moving, all while pregnant (oh yeah, we found our our OB is moving away so we had to pick a new one…) and carrying on our usual whirlwind life….I thought I vowed never to move again. I would have been perfectly content to grow old and die on Novelly Drive. Oh yeah, kids. Oh well.
Also, if you need a realtor, Jack is a good friend and good guy who won’t do you wrong. We’re also on good terms with our loan officer. Let me know if you need his name.
Besides my lack of blogging lately, I was also prompted to post by new photos, taken this morning. Our dear little princess is just too adorable wrapped in a towel after her bath, and it was too hard to pick just one, so I posted the whole series in the gallery. Enjoy! Just a couple others besides that, a lipstick shot and a one from our recent park day on her bike (yet another fabulous garage sale find by Morgan – five bucks!).
So, back to the aforementioned library events. Just two, but worthy of mention…our annual NCAA basketball tournament pool is underway so get in touch asap if you’re in, and possibly of a bit broader appeal, there’s a library booksale coming up soon, so if you’re here in Reno and need books, get ready.
In other news, we got a few minor repairs done to the Vanagon. I’ll take a moment to plug that shop too – a good, honest mechanic is a pretty good thing to have, so if you need any VW work, J’s Vans is worth recommendation. Took a quick dip into the Linux pool last week with Turi…kinda scary, kinda exciting. He went full bore, formatted his drive and went for full install of Ubuntu. I just took a few versions for a test drive and quietly backed away. Maybe later.
Getting late so I’ll leave you laughing…a couple jokes I had lingering in my email that I enjoyed. One risque and funny, one just funny. OK, now I’m done.
Just read a post on one of the RGJ blogs, so shocking I have to share. Dog meets porcupine. Speaking of blogs, for you readers who are just dying to start their own and are wondering where to do it, I’ve been hearing many great things about Vox. Blogging, photo sharing, videos, the whole nine yards. I’d do it if I didn’t already have this site.
Starting a new book, Alternadad, and enjoying it so far. Reviews have been mixed, but it sounds so straight down my alley, I feel like I’m predisposed to like it.
Maggie comes for a visit tonight, Andrew’s birthday, new carpet comes on Monday, we’re rethinking the timing of moving to a new house (sooner rather than later?), Costco tires for the Vue are ordered, and we’re officially half-way through pregnancy. Life continues careening along at a rapid pace.
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