Life and State of the Blog cold 8:11 am
I am, after all, still alive. Barely. I have a cold that may have leveled several medium sized cities in a previous life. But moving is done. Baptism is Saturday. Huge meal, none of which will taste right because I’m sick is today, including three pies.
This move and attending insanity may even rival BC’s.
Right now though, I’m going to go curl up on the couch and sneeze. More posts when I don’t feel like my sinuses are attempting a hostile takeover.
State of the Blog 12:57 pm
I am determined to get a post up today. (This one doesn’t count.)
GeekBaby wants to be held all the time… and screams bloody murder when he realizes I’ve put him down. Truth be told, I don’t want to put him down, but the laundry and dishes, at bare minimum, need to be done. Plus he’s very heavy and has grown out of all my babywearing devices at the moment, so it would be a relief to put him down… but he won’t permit it.
This makes typing difficult, thus the lack of posts. There’s so much running around in my brain that I want to write about, but haven’t gotten around to writing. It’s one thing to hunt and peck out a tweet with one hand, another to try and write something profound here.
Profundity has never been my strong point anyway. I do like using big words, though.
State of the Blog and Technology 8:23 am
We had a lightening storm roll through on Friday night/Saturday morning. Computers are fine, but the cable modem is fried and Comcast swears they can see it on the network, so they won’t fix it unless we pay for a site visit. Here’s a hint, Comcast, when annoyed customers call because they haven’t had internet access all day and want to know if the storm damage is fixed yet, telling them their modem isn’t broken and so you won’t fix it, this is bad customer service.
So we’re waiting for a home phone line to get installed so OpLink can start providing us with DSL. This will take about 10 days, unfortunately, and my only internet access will be via work. Posting will be rare, new comment approvals will take time (sorry HBM), and my twitter frequency will be about the same, very slow because I’m still boring.
And Comcast… there are certain aspects of pregnancy that even I find noxious. You can kiss’em.
Pregnancy and State of the Blog and Technology 5:56 pm
WordPress has gotten off its collective butt and fixed the posting engine in Safari. I am a very happy nerd at the moment, because I hated posting in HTML. Hadn’t we moved beyond that, honestly? Not until a few days ago, apparently.
Apparently the whole backend of WordPress has had some cosmetic and functional changes. I have to relearn my way around things, edit categories and tags, et cetera, ad infinitum, yada yada yada. It is, however, better than cleaning my living room, and I can’t touch my embroidery because my nailpolish is drying. Okay, it’s clear nailpolish, but I still don’t want it smeared around on the latest project. The project that has only 12 weeks to get done, yes it has to be done just like everything else baby-related… and I don’t have the time or money to begin again.
No, apparently I don’t care about getting nailpolish on my long suffering keyboard. Occupational hazard of being a keyboard.
It’s funny, but I’m not as intensely interested in traditionally geeky stuff at the moment. 3G iPhone? Cool, but feh, I couldn’t afford justify the 2G version even before Podling showed up. I certainly can’t now. I don’t like talking about everything at my job to all and sundry, and found out yesterday that it squicked out my OB. You’d think a guy that got through gross anatomy in medical school could cope, but apparently not, poor guy. I’m not even twittering as much anymore.
This is all much to my dad’s disgust. He says I have baby on the brain, but that’s not strictly true. I have baby in the uterus, who kicks me soundly whenever he thinks I’m not obsessing enough about him. Usually this is somewhere unpleasant, like a kidney. So it’s kind of hard to not be constantly aware, and consequently stressed about how much is left to do.
I’ve just noticed WordPress thinks it’s 11:56 pm. I should go fix that, overhaul my categories, add tags, instead of sitting here yammering about it.
State of the Blog 8:35 am
I have a new title! It bears very little relation to the Babylon 5 episode of the same name, other than strife. There are no giant, nuclear, intelligent life-threatening alien probes to be found here. Move along now.
It is, actually, the title of the never-actually-published-even-online comics that I occasionally draw. I’ve never been happy enough with my art to let anyone except The Husband see them. He thinks they’re funny. But then again, he told me last night that I am unintentionally coercive with him, so his judgement is not what I would call unimpaired.
I was also going to weed out my blog tags, but I find there aren’t many I feel like I could do without. So they shall remain cluttered and comfortable, like my bookshelves. Perhaps with a few additions.
Speaking of bookshelves, we babysat our niece* overnight: she was standing in our bedroom saying something to The Husband that he couldn’t quite grasp, the gist of which was that she thought we had lots of books, but hadn’t seen any. So he told her to look behind her, at the two 6.5′x3′ bookcases that are stacked 2 deep in places, that she had somehow missed. Her response?
“Wow.”
* She isn’t actually related to us, but Hispanic family relationships are complicated and not particularly bothered by the lack of an actual blood or marriage tie. Niece is the best description available.
