Hi gang, you'll notice that there's a banner for ads now present on my site. I just want to put up the usual disclaimer that the ads are generated based on content by Blogger's AdSense so I may or may not endorse the establishments or entities that appear.

If I can manage to generate enough revenue to pay for the annual hosting cost of this site I will consider myself successful. I hope it's not too intrusive to you all.

Thanks, carry on!

Labels: blogkeeping

Posted by Laura at 8:42 AM | Permalink | Comments

I want to move this site to Moveable Type. Blogger has been a royal pain in the ass lately. But because I FTP my entries and store them on Dreamhost instead of using Blogger as my domain, I can't just import my entries to Moveable Type. Anybody have any suggestions, advice, recommendations? I want to use this domain URL instead of changing locations yet *again* (I'm sure you all have had enough of that nonsense, and I'm spread out enough over the internet with four different locations). I really like the features that MT has to offer. Sigh. The conundrums of a webmistress.

I left work today at 11:30, came home and ate lunch while watching "Private Practice", then got gas, got the truck washed, picked up some goodies at BevMo, and went to Pets Inc. to get critters for the critters. Then I took a nap, woke up in time to greet Calvin, and now we're sitting on the couch watching nature take its course in the form of the Discovery Channel, and Kali making short work of the rat we dropped in her vivarium (I won't feed the rat to her, so it was languishing in its box until Calvin could perform the necessary). He's got a 2 Below and I've got a Snakebite.

Not a bad way to start my vacation.

Jen is rather put out that I have abandoned her to work alone next week (all two days, and one TC day for her, so she should just hush I think), so I need to ensure that I'm on Google IM and updating on this site often enough to keep her entertained. Since she's one of the only things allowing me to keep my sanity at work, it would be well of me to keep her happy. (She took my picture today. I suspect things.)

Instead of having our own Thanksgiving at home this year, we are going to the Grandparents for dinner. So my Massive Menu From Hell is reduced to two pies and a batch of four bean salad. Easy peasy. I still intend to cook new dinner dishes and dessert dishes throughout the week; I am perhaps more interested in cooking now that I have less to do.

Tonight is Friday, though, so that means fast food. Time enough to get ambitious tomorrow.


_{Momentary Thought: I poured my Snakebite incorrectly. For the next glass I will pour the Guinness first and then the Strongbow.
High: I'm on vacation until the 26th, and the first day back to work is my telecommute day.
Low: I'm not skinny. See also, "Momentary Thought".
Obsession: The last two discs of season two of "Bones" that's waiting for me from Netflix in the mailbox.
Grin: See "High".
Playing: The Discovery Channel.
Location: Living room.}

Labels: blogkeeping, home, misc, vacation

Posted by Laura at 4:34 PM | Permalink | Comments

Stability results were high which suggests you are very relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic..

Orderliness results were high which suggests you are overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense too often of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.

Extraversion results were high which suggests you are overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense too often of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

trait snapshot:

clean, likes large parties, outgoing, makes friends easily, optimistic, positive, social, high self control, traditional, assertive, rarely irritated, self revealing, open, finisher, high self concept, controlling, rarely worries, tough, likes to stand out, does not like to be alone, semi neat freak, fearless, dominant, trusting, organized, resolute, strong, practical, craves attention, adventurous, hard working, respects authority, brutally honest, realist, altruistic

Labels: blogkeeping, meme

Posted by Laura at 11:26 AM | Permalink | Comments

I'm starting to make some administrative changes to the Snerkology domain. One necessary change was a Gmail account, so my new e-mail address is snerkology@gmail.com. I can't figure out how to auto-forward messages sent to my hotmail account into my gmail account, if there is such an ability. So the old hotmail account will stay active for a while, though I'll be changing the links on the website (except for the archived main journal entries).

Someday I'll be moving from Blogger to WordPress, or maybe Movable Type, but I need to figure out how to move everything over from Blogger and keep my domain name so that the change is (more or less, aside from some funky template weirdness) seamless to you guys.

Edited to add: So I transferred (manually) all of my Waking Mind entries to WordPress to mess around with it and assess the usability. So far, it isn't as flexible as I'd like, but maybe it's just because I'm not used to it yet.

Labels: blogkeeping

Posted by Laura at 5:03 PM | Permalink | Comments