Where does my time go?

kasper — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:00:25 +0000

I was planning on blogging yesterday and putting up my Weekend Snapshot, but I did a whole lot of little things and managed to get next to nothing accomplished. I suppose since I did nothing but watch movies all weekend I will forgo the snapshot and hope that this coming weekend will bring something more interesting to photograph.
I swear I am so ADD. I seem to spend hours upon hours at my computer and still feel like I don’t do anything or at least get anything finished. For instance, last night when I was about to blog about my day I thought about how to get the most out of PayPerPost. I surfed over to Technorati and joined, then proceeded to see how to maximize my rankings there. One of the suggestions made was to make sure that your css & html are optimized. So off I went to try to validate my coding. There’s the difficulty though. My coding would be fine, but when you get into 3rd party widgets and such there’s really no way of altering the code much if at all. One of the errors that appeared on this site was in reference to the YouTube video I embedded in a previous post. Off I went again to see if anyone else has had this same issue and whether or not they were able to fix it. With the help of this site I found exactly what I was looking for and was able to fix the validation error. I was able to completely validate my other site queenb.ca, but gave up for the time being on this one.
If fact in writing this entry I’ve found myself drifting away from what I’m doing. With the outside links I’ve added I remember reading somewhere that ...target="_blank"> is not xhtml standards-compliant and that there was another way to accomplish what I wanted. Sure enough, I had to hunt down my answer. Then in doing so I remembered that I have a barely used Del.icio.us account that I could save that page for later reference. Well since it’s been so long since I’ve been there I am fighting the urge to sort through all my old bookmarks. If you can believe it I actually started this entry at 19:20. Though in my defense I ate dinner and watched The Biggest Loser since then.
In the last couple of days I have managed to install 6 new plugins. I’m sure there won’t be anything noticeable as they’re all backend stuff. But I now have a Maintenance Mode, and Theme Tester plugin as I am toying with getting a new layout up. If you actually read the above then you’ll imagine that it won’t be up anytime soon, but when I get my shit together I certainly would like to see something I created here instead of a canned theme.

Lazy, lazy, lazy

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Starting all over again

kasper — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:10:08 +0000

Looks like I got bit by the the blog bug again. I longed to have my old domain back but found that my registrar didn’t want to let it expire and now uses it for ads. So I now have me a .com. I prefer .orgs but what can you do? I lost my old domain all because a male co-worker decided to take it as a challenge to find my blog (after I stupidly mentioned that I had one). He didn’t have the address (I wasn’t that stupid), but after much digging managed to find it which totally spooked me. Somehow there’s a big difference in telling other bloggers what’s going on in my life and having people I know in “real life” read my thoughts. So I abandoned the domain in terror and disgust. It really pissed me off since I loved the name, but better safe than sorry. I’m hoping that at this point there has been more than enough time past that it won’t be an issue again.

So monumental things have happened since I’ve last blogged. I moved into a house with my Dad who lives in the basement. I have the upstairs 2 Â½ floors – living room, dining room, kitchen, Â½ bath and laundry room on the first floor, family room on the Â½ floor, then upstairs there are 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths (1 is the master ensuite). I am truly blessed, and I know it. If it weren’t for my Dad we would not have been able to afford it. I believe it’s mostly for my son, since I kept complaining that I wanted him to have a backyard to play in. Apartment living just isn’t how I wanted to raise my kids. So with the house we have tons of green space behind the house and a park a couple of doors down at the end of the court. I still have to pinch myself every once in a while to make sure I didn’t dream this all up. So the house was since Halloween…

The bigger news (IMO) is my son. He is 9 months old today and the love of my life. I know, all mothers say that, but I truly never believed that I could feel this way about anyone or anything. He’s such a good baby too. He really only cries when he’s tired which I really don’t let him get when we’re home because I can just get him down for his nap before he gets upset. We’ve had a few bumps in the road along the way: serious difficulties breastfeeding (but I persevered and am happy to say am still managing to nurse), lack of bowel movements, torticollis, and a high-pitched screech which is his new annoying trick. Hope it’s been a happy 9 months buddy. Night night.

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