1. Today is Angelic Daughter’s birthday. She is now officially a teenager, although she’s unofficially been 30 for about 6 years now…
2. Today is also MY birthday. I’m actually aging 2 years today because I somehow missed last year’s transition from 33 to 34. I haven’t purposely been lying about my age. If I was going to do that, I’d do it right and tell people I was 53 so they’d say, “Wow, you look REALLY GREAT!”
3. My local Barnes and Noble, in which I have not set foot since the douchebag-Chuck-E.-Cheese-patron-parked-behind-me-rather-than-find-an-actual-parking-place-and-I-had-to-go-into-Chuck-E.-Cheese-and-track-said-douchebag-down-and-said-douchebag-got-bitchy-with-ME-about-it-so-I-had-said-douchebag’s-car-motherhumping-towed-which-was-so-worth-the-wasted-hour-of-my-life incident, is opening in their new Chuck-E.-Cheese-free location today! I’ma gonna go fondle, smell, and maybe even buy some books to commemorate the occasion and see if I can score a free cookie and call it my birthday party.
4. I have a post at Romancing the Blog today, in which I attempt to illustrate in a frivolous manner that the virtuous hero isn’t for everyone, starting with the less-than-virtuous heroine and leading to the less-than-virtuous reader. I don’t begrudge Captain Hero’s existence—I support availability of options to satisfy everyone—but he bores the hell out of me. (What will he do next? Why, whatever is noble and virtuous, of course! To me, that’s one-dimensional, uninteresting, and inconsistent with the basic tenets of human nature. Pass, thanks.)
5. This is going to be my last RTB post. It’s not the same community it was when I found it 2 or 3 years ago, no longer a hang-out-around-the-water-cooler-and-chat-about-reading-and-writing place (for me—your mileage may vary). When more than half my visits to a site make my blood pressure spike, I stop visiting. I’ve reached that point with RTB. It’s unseemly for me to contribute content to a site I can no longer participate in as a reader, so I’ve asked to be taken off the roster.
6. Still working on cleaning up around here. No, I’m not wild about the forest detritus theme, but it required the least functionality tweaking of the available options. And I miss my smileys. BUT I’m tremendously enjoying having the site BE HERE when I visit, and it was fun to tell Former Host’s tech support when they deigned to respond to my last ticket that they don’t need to worry their pretty little heads about my silly ol’ problem anymore because they are now my FORMER host.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:21 AM
I miss the smileys too, but I’m glad to see I haven’t caused any more internal errors by clicking the link to your site.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I had no idea we were the exact same age but that’s pretty cool. I hope your day is wonderful.
Please tell Ang Dot HAPPY BIRTHDAY from me and welcome her to her teenage years. God help her. =D
March 18th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
The smileys shall return, but I have to hunt them at their source, download them, upload them, assign values to them… These things take time, of which I have SO MUCH to spare, as you know.
And what do you mean, God help HER? I’m the one who has to live with her. =p
March 18th, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Your house woiuld make a blind person nuts, no? With the constant rearranging?
March 18th, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Gracious no. If I rearrange the furniture, I have to vacuum regions that haven’t seen the light of day for three years. And the carpet dents! I don’t even want to think about it. Besides, I’m practically blind when I’m staggering around without my contact lenses at 3 a.m., so it helps to have the obstacles in familiar places.
Here, on the other hand… Until it’s the perfect home, home on the web, I’m going to be so fickle, it’ll make your head spin. (Seriously, there was an hour yesterday when if you’d refreshed the page every couple of minutes, you would have seen a completely different layout every time.)