My cousin Cat has a blog! Go see it. And for the record, my code name is “PartnerInCrime”. (I don’t know if I was supposed to reveal that or not, but she complimented me on her site, and dammit, I want people to know it’s me.)
Category Archives: Blog Stuff
grrr…
Ok, so Blogger sucks. I emailed them about my nuked template, and this is what they sent back to me:
“Hello Cindy,
I’m afraid you’ve fallen victim to a bug in our system which occasionally loses template data. Your posts are still safe, but unfortunately we were not able to recover your template for you. To use one of our default templates, you can click the Choose New Template tab on the Template page. This will let you publish your blog again while you recreate your old template. We apologize for the inconvenience and we are working on getting this problem fixed. However, it is always a good idea to save your own copy of a template if you make extensive customizations.
Sincerely, Steve
Blogger Support Team”
Needless to say, from here on out I will make sure to ALWAYS have a recent copy of my blog template saved somewhere. Silly me, I thought they might actually be able to recover data that’s hosted on their own damn servers.
Also, BlogBack – which used to provide my comments – doesn’t seem to work anymore, and I can’t log in to their web site to get the script again. I keep getting some kind of “invalid query” error. So I set up HaloScan (thanks, Carl!), and hopefully that’ll solve that. But that means that all of my old comments are gone, which makes me sad. Oh well.
Also, it looks like I get to leave CA on Thursday night this week, instead of Friday afternoon. Which would make me very happy, except that the only reason we’re getting an extra day off is because we’re going to have to work the weekend of the 17th. Which makes me very sad. Again.
Oh, and my sister’s kitty just had to have her leg amputated because she had a malignant tumor on it and they were afraid that the cancer had spread. That’s another thing to add to the list of sadness.
So there you have it. It’s just been a total crap day all the way around.
we are experiencing technical difficulties
So, I don’t know how many of you noticed that my site went kerplooey yesterday. I don’t know what happened, but somehow Blogger nuked over 3/4 of my template when I saved my last post. I have no idea how/why, since it said that everything updated successfully. So I think I got it mostly fixed (and for someone who’s not an expert in HTML, believe me, that was no fun), but my comment section is still messed up. Hopefully I’ll have that back & working later today. Hang in there.
sleep sweet sleep
Apparently Blogger has completely changed their format, which I think is kind of cool, although it may take me some time to get used to it.
The weekend recap: Friday night, I did absolutely nothing. I ordered a pizza (low carb be damned, but I’m back on the wagon today), lay on the futon and stuffed my face. Saturday I cleaned/unpacked (still not finished with that yet), and then that evening, I was supposed to have a date but I think I got stood up. It was very strange, I had one phone conversation with this guy, and he said he’d call me the next evening to go out, but he never called. Which was fine, I wasn’t really looking forward to it – just from the one phone chat, I thought he was kind of a jackass. And judging by the fact that he never called again, I’m guessing that he felt the same way about me. Oh well, what are you going to do? The only thing that bugged me about that was that I specifically stopped cleaning and started getting dressed up because I was planning for the time frame that he said he was going to call me. And then he never did call, so Saturday evening was essentially a waste of make-up. Instead, I went to the tattoo shop to meet with the artist who I want to do my tattoo. He’s a super-nice guy, and he had some really cool ideas for how we could do my design, so I think it’s going to turn out to be even more beautiful than I had originally imagined. I also got to look a bit more at his portfolio (only a fraction of it is on the shop’s website), and he’s done some amazing work. So I’m really, really excited about it now.
Oh, after the tattoo shop, since I had no date & nothing to do, I went to Blockbuster & rented “Le Divorce”. I liked it. Also over the weekend on my cable movie channels, I watched “Iris” and “Laurel Canyon”. Iris was depressing as hell, which I should’ve figured out 5 minutes into it, but for some reason I continued to watch it anyway. Bonus for guys: Kate Winslet gets naked more than once in it. Laurel Canyon was good, and if any of you boys have an interest in seeing Frances McDormand’s breasts, this movie is your chance (she’s much more flat-chested than I had imagined, kind of made me feel good about myself). LC also features Christian Bale with his shirt off, which is a good enough reason to watch any movie, if you ask me.
Sunday was errand day – Home Depot, drug store, and groceries. I bought plants for my balcony at Home Depot. This is my first attempt at horticulture since the time I killed a cactus in high school (which is extremely difficult to do, I might add), so we’ll see how they do. I got petunias because they’re purple & cute, and I bought catnip so Teenie can have the kitty equivalent of home-grown angel dust. I pinched off a twig for her yesterday and she completely flipped out. But hopefully now that I have plants out there, my stupid upstairs neighbors will realize that someone lives in my apartment and they’ll stop throwing their f***ing cigarette butts on my balcony.
I think the highlight of my weekend was that I finally got to sleep – I’ve been averaging about 5 hours a night for the past month. Combining Friday & Saturday nights, I think I slept 19-20 hours total. It was lovely, I need to do that more often.
the story
Just because I noticed the link on Carl’s site about “what’s a poobou”, and because I’m getting tired of answering that question so much, I created a page that explains exactly what PooBou means, for those of you who are curious. I’m even adding a link to it on my sidebar. Hope that helps.
Oh, and Carl, we comment on each other’s blogs often enough that you’re getting added to my links section too. I hope you feel suitably honored.
ARGH!!!!
This weekend has been just the teensiest bit frustrating. Here’s a tip: If you find a web host that offers you unlimited storage space & unlimited bandwidth for only $5 a year, it’s a pretty safe bet that you’ll get what you pay for. Lesson learned. My web hosting company apparently disappeared sometime on Wednesday night or Thursday morning — their emails bounce back, the phone number has been disconnected, the whole bit. Fun! I signed up with a new web hosting company, needless to say, which is still relatively cheap ($7.50/month), but I Googled them & they’ve gotten some pretty good ratings from their users. I’m very happy with them so far because they got my domain name transferred in less than 24 hours, even though they said it would take 48-72 hours. So yay.
Of course, I didn’t have a local backup of my web site — I had some things saved on my pc, but not all of it — so now I have to rebuild a lot of my pages & links, which is going to be a pain. Blogger saved most of it, so I think it’s mostly the photo section that isn’t working, and I’ll just have to get to that later. Bah!
And on a not-griping note: happy birthday to my dad.
is it Friday yet?
My web site has been freaking out and I have no idea why. I suppose I should probably get a more reliable web host. Perhaps someone who actually answers my phone calls & emails when I have problems, but I just got the cheapest guys possible. Probably not the wisest move on my part.
I’m really liking my new job so far. It’s been kind of exhausting, as I suppose transitions often are, but it’s fun. The people that I work with are all really nice, and I have a feeling that I’m going to like it there. So yay, that’s all happy.
In other news, I have a date tomorrow with Miata-boy that I am dreading because I don’t know how to tell him that I am just not feeling it for him. He’s a perfectly nice guy, there’s just no spark. I think it’s probably easiest to lie & say that things have started getting serious with someone else that I’ve been seeing — which is totally not true, but he knows that I’m dating a lot, and I think it might be a little less ego-bruising if it’s just timing/circumstance and not because I think he’s sort of dull. So I’m working on a way to bring that up. I’m almost wondering if I should tell him over the phone & just cancel the date. It’s not like I’m looking forward to it, I think movies are typically a bad date idea because it doesn’t allow for much interaction, and we don’t have the same taste in movies at all. He wants to go see that new Tom Hanks flick, and just the commercials make me nauseous. (Sorry, the whole Colonel Sanders thing does NOT look amusing to me whatsoever.) And for some reason I really want to see Dawn of the Dead — I don’t usually do horror flicks, but Ebert & Roeper gave it 2 thumbs up, and it’s got Mekhi Phifer in it, who’s just… yum. In any case, I think I need to just get some nerve & give this guy his walking papers.
And on the topic of me not being spineless, I actually broke down & called the former co-worker who asked me out on my last day. It’s been almost a week, and he hasn’t called. Ordinarily I would just blow that off, but I figured that if he was too shy to ask me out before the absolute last minute, he might be too shy to pick up the phone & call me. So I made the first move, which I hate doing. I got his voicemail. I left a very short message, and now it’s his turn. If he doesn’t call me back within the next couple of days, I guess I’ll write him off. We’ll see.
Oh, and my favorite quote of the day, which I got from Scott’s blog, and I am so stealing it:
“Yo momma’s so lost, Google can’t find her.”