April 20th, 2008
In the middle of ungreening this theme’s stylesheet to my preferred pastel-and-earth-tone palette, my macbook’s magsafe cord bit the dust. It kinda looked askew this morning and I had noticed it had gotten a short–typical of me; the cord I use to download my pictures from my now-five-year-old digital camera has the same problem. I’m slowly learning to pay better attention to whether I’m holding securely the connection part of the connection rather than pulling from the wire, but still, I thought I could buy more time with electrical tape, once I could motivate myself to get out of the house and up to Lowes to buy some. But just a few hours later, the crack was apparent, and no amount of jiggling or pinching seemed to restore the connection. So it’s over, macbook magsafe thingie. You’re being replaced just as soon as I can figure out where the closest apple store is, because for some god-knows-why reason, Fair Lakes is not a place you deigned to grace. The last time I was in an apple store, actually, was in Ardmore, Pa.
So anyhow, if you’ve stopped by tonight to read my latest on Podcamp DC, think of it this way: I never made it out of my workout sweats today, and neither did my blog template. While I could try to continue editing here on the pc, I know it would be frustrating as all get out, and besides, I do need to actually tend the house I own.
And a quick note on catching up with the A-list: I’m trying out utterz, but really appalled with how I sound. I think I’ll start talking in my southern accent just because at least then I can blame it on that.
Posted in About This Blog, Fail! by: Helen
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March 28th, 2008
Quoth the WWBot:
Weight Tracking Summary
| Your current weight : |
199 lbs |
| Weight change since your last recorded weight | |
-2 lbs |
| Total weight change to date | |
-19 lbs |
This was a slacker week for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that we traveled down to Central Virginia last weekend to visit my folks for Easter. It was a nice trip, and we stopped off at Williamsburg along the way. I packed us a picnic lunch, and we walked almost the entire day. So I ate rather “large” over the weekend, and decided I’d take the week off. Wound up in a pattern of sunflower seeds for breakfast, a fairly hearty lunch, and a minimal dinner for the rest of the week, and that seems to have worked even without tracking points. But the scale has been fickle and stubborn, and while the sunny side of that 200 seemed easily attainable last week, this week I think it’s just random chance that had the pointer on the scale just short of the mark.
But I’m not complaining.
At any rate; it’s also time for the monthly measure-in–last Friday of each month. Since I have a lot of new readers coming in from my recent twitter activity, I should point you to this page as to why I natter on about my weight loss quest every Friday, especially since I got several compliments on my latest user icon today. Measure-ins also tie in with pictures, which when there’s some demonstrable progress to show I’ll share.
Measure-in under this link: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Family, Weight Loss, Yay! by: Helen
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March 18th, 2008
So, my next alma mater, where I’m off to pursue something resembling a study of how new media plays a role in organizational positioning. They have this thing called Technology Across the Curriculum, and they’ve written a bit about it, and so off I go to read it and find (emphasis mine):
Because of the increasingly important role that blogs are playing in so many aspects of our lives it is important that students develop an active deep and critical understanding of how to blog, how blogs function, and what their impact is likely to be. With these goals in mind, the Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) program convened a cohort of faulty who elected to redesign their courses to include the use of blogs as a central feature of the undergraduate course assignments.
Spotted here.
Posted in Hunh?, Oops! by: Helen
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March 13th, 2008
When all else fails, have tea. I think it’s just been that kind of week. But finding this mug at a grocery store yesterday for $2 really just made things much better.
Even Hooter was impressed.
Posted in Pictures, Yay! by: Helen
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March 9th, 2008
Christ Announces Hiring Of Associate Christ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Overwhelmed by prayers,” Jesus Christ is urging folks to enlist the services of a customer service rep from Tacoma, Washington, who has promised the same level of service as people have come to expect from the Son of God himself, according to the Onion.
Posted in Humor, LOLZ!, Link of the Day, Religion by: Helen
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March 8th, 2008
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Tags: lolcats
Posted in LOLZ!, Pets, Pictures by: Helen
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March 6th, 2008
Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest!
And is that poker cats contest effective at stopping online poker spam, I wonder?
The amount of faith related LOLcats on I Can Has Cheezburger lately has been cracking me up. Feel the love. Click the picture and visit the blog.
And on that note: whatever soap the church is using over in Wagner Hall? My cat loves it. She keeps licking my hand, to a point that I’m reminded of what happens when you try to erase your hand in grade school. OW.
Posted in LOLZ! by: Helen
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