Monthly Archive for October, 2007

spiderlings

today is what i call the “great spider migration” :)

spiderlings from the southeast were ballooning and riding the currents.  the webs floated through my yard and over my house as high as the eye could see.  i’ve only seen it like this one other time, when i was in high school.

orion whacks halley’s tail

The Orionids will peak this weekend.  It is believed that the meteors are composed of the dust of Halley’s Comet’s surface.  The meteors will be traveling at 42 mps, and at peak, there will be 20-25/hr. visible.

Where:  Between Betelgeuse & Mars (just behind Orion’s club)

When:  Peaks at 5:00am local time Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007

more…

phone

whee! I got my new phone!

google lang

How cool.  You can set your Google to display in “|-|4xx0|2″ language 8)

unsedated

seems that i am feeling better now
less fuzzy logic
kinetic energy has replaced some of the potential energy

down goes the treo

my treo 650 finally fell out on me. it got stuck in an endless loop (in the HotSync app, in firmware). maybe it got banged about one too many times. it has went through alot of hard drops over the past 2-3 years, and it worked great – up until yesterday. so i took it in to the sprint store today. they tried to fix it, but couldn’t. so they charged $35.00 to replace it – with a brand new Treo 755p! i liked the 700p better, but they insisted on giving me the newest one, ha. they said i should get it thursday. not a bad price, to replace a few years old $600 phone, with a new $600 phone, for $35.

i’m looking forward to playing with the new features: EV-DO, 3x more memory, mini-SD slot (with a cover!, my SD card would shoot out of my old Treo if i dropped it), blue-tooth that works much better, 1.3 mp camera instead of .3, voice memo, new proc (same speed), streaming media, etc, etc.

Expo

yesterday was the 2007 Texas Parks & Wildlife Expo.  this was my 4th, and it was great, although just as hot as the other ones.  hunter had lots of fun.  he caught 2 catfish this time.  and he tried out the bowfishing.  he hit the lizard right in the belly!  he played games and looked at animals, and by the time we left, he said “THAT was SO much fun!”.

christmas before halloween?

why is there sooo much christmas stuff for sale at the same time that halloween stuff is for sale?? some stores have several isles of christmas stuff and ONE isle of halloween stuff. it is just silly and irritates me…
(however, i did find a few more pieces for my halloween-town display, i’ll have to take a pic to post)

non-typical myers-briggs

me =

INFP: The Idealist

The INFP (introverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving) is a dreamy, imaginitive, idealist, capable of finding the good in anything or anyone, even something as foul as Newark, New Jersey. INFPs are sometimes dangerous to the well-being of society as a whole, as they are prone to adopting subversive and destructive ideologies like “The world should be fair,” “People should treat one another well,” and “You know, ‘Friends’ is a really, really stupid television show.”

These irrational thought patterns may sometimes cause INFPs to run off and join the circus, the Resistance, or the Rebellion, where they tend to do well in any position requiring excellent hand-eye coordination or mastery of the Force.

COMPATIBILITY: INFPs and ISTJs generally exhibit a natural predator/prey relationship, which, though it might appear harsh and cruel from the outside, is all part of the natural cycle of life. In fact, were it not for the predation of the ISTJ, the population of INFPs would soon grow to unsustainable levels, overwhelming the ability of their ecological niche to support them.

Famous idealists include that girl in your sixth-grade homeroom who got the teacher fired for saying that girls aren’t good at math; that guy in the cubicle next to yours who got the manager fired for saying that women don’t make good employees; and Anais Nin.

http://www.xeromag.com/fun/personality.html

random thoughts

  • well, i’m back home and doing ok. i spent last week with my mother and brother, and the rest of the family, so that was good. i’m not sure how being back here alone during the day will turn out, guess we will see.
  • my database got messed up while i was testing WP2.3RC1… i was trying out the new “tagging” feature. i chose to convert all categories to tags, so that i would have tags that matched my categories. this was how UTW handled the conversion… but no, WP changed all my categories to tags! with no way to convert my tags back to categories, nor to associate those back to the original posts, i will have to restore my db tables. i was spending a little time going through the latest posts and copying the tags to categories manually, but that is too much to do for all the posts. so now i will have to wait till my friend, that hosts my site, to restore my db. then i will have to redo these new posts/comments, ugh. i have posted feedback regarding this issue and my ideas on fixes.
  • also, my links template got knocked out by the new K2 beta i was using.. so my ‘blogroll’ and ’social profiles’ have not been working and i didn’t notice till today, ugh again. i got that imported and fixed.
  • i’m so proud of hunter; he is doing so good with his learning. he’s learning to recognize more and more of his friends names when written down. he knows all of his alphabet, and can pick out the letters randomly. and he can write the letters and the numbers. and we are working on phonics; he has several of the letter sounds down now. his addition and subtraction are still going great. and i am working with him to recognize words in books. he’s still doing great in soccer and music class too.
  • since i’ve got back home, i’ve tried to stay busy and have distractions. i setup a swingset for hunter this weekend. he loves to swing (and slide). and i’m working on some art, my book, and fooling around with my webpage. and not sleeping much. and cooking, cleaning, reorganizing the pantry (and everything else i get ahold of), so i am definitely in my “up” mood, just hoping the down is not bad. it’s been awhile since a bad ‘down’, so maybe everything will be ok, i just worry about it…



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