A Day In My Life

This is thought-provoking:

For those of us who also own vehicles besides our bikes, this might prove
to be a very interesting exercise…………………….

A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the
grocery store he pays 60 cents a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won’t last a
week he normally buys two dozen at a time.

One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to 72 cents.
The next time he buys groceries, eggs are .76 cents a dozen. When asked to
explain the price of eggs the store owner says, “the price has gone up and
I have to raise my price accordingly”.

I haven’t forgotten my blogs. It’s just that there are still only 24 hours in a day, and my job has been keeping me incredibly busy, not to mention worn out. For all that I work at home much of the time, there are still expectations to be met. On Wednesday I was in the office until 7:15 PM (my shift ends at 5:30 PM, but I had documentation to complete before I could leave.) At the end of a long day, the last thing I want to do is still more typing…so my blog entries have been less frequent. But I am still here.

Nope, BlogExplosion is not new. But in a sense, it’s new to me. I’ve just discovered how to use some of it’s features, and I can see huge potential for spending time there. I’ve figured out how to make my surfing “count”, and now I get credit for browsing, which I like to do anyway. (Note to self, for future reference: Read the FAQ!)

Time for a little Humor and Trivia. . .

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

We had Dylan over for the night last Sunday. He is a delight, but it does take both of us to keep up with him. He is not “hyper” active, but is very busy. So much to see, touch, hear, taste…and get into. He is beginning to form simple, two word sentences such as “shoes, bye-bye.” (When his mother and uncle were small, they would see me reach for my shoes — I hated shoes then, and hate them today — and they would say, “Mommy, I want to go…” because they knew I was going out. They generally went most places with me.) So, Dylan comes by his association of “shoes” and “bye-bye” honestly.

As has happened in the past, I have decided to create a new blog to contain a specific type of content that has outgrown this space. I have written tutorials here and elsewhere on the web (The Handicapped Computerist) for some time now. Rather than having to dig through an ever-growing list of posts on my several blogs searching for a particular tutorial, I’ve created The Teaching Tree, a blog whose focus is (naturally)focused on how-to’s, tutorials and related resources.

I’ve written before about my personal Start Pages. I use the plural specifically because I have several pages for different topics/purposes, and they are linked together. It’s my own website, stored in a folder on my hard drive.

My main page currently includes:

–> A site index (a list of all of my current and planned pages
–> Favorite Links, including several sections (Get Organized, Spiritual Resources, Favorite places I visit frequently, Computing links, Out and About on the Internet (Cool new sites and programs I’ve found), a section for my favorite Tag sites, Links for blog and Start Page tools, Coding resources, a list of other Start pages, Yahoo links, a collection of RSS readers, MapQuest links, blogging forum sites, a list of favorite software, and a calculator. (All of the items in this section are in the left sidebar.)

If you use De.licio.us (and if you don’t, what planet are you on?) for blogging and bookmarking, you could do a lot worse than check out ¡Delicioso!. What is it, you ask? Good question! ¡Delicioso! is a neat little freeware program that automates the process of submitting URLs to De.licio.us social bookmarking/tagging service. It takes only seconds, and you can submit URLs in batches. Fill in your De.licio.us username and password, enter your blog (or site’s) URL in the URL field, and click Quick Submit, or enter the URL plus the title of the post you want to submit, and click Get Info. the tags for your post will be automatically generated, then you can simply click “submit.” Done. What could be easier?

Blogger Hacks
Once you’ve worked with Blogger for a while and have become comfortable with it, you may wonder what else you can do with it. There are a number of Blogger Hacks you can implement to further customize your blog. Read and follow the provided instructions carefully, and do remember to backup your template before you begin.

Related information regarding editing your Blogger template: Learn to Create the Coding! There is a vast amount of free information online that will help you learn different types of coding. They range from very basic to advanced, so you will always find something to suit your particular needs. Here are just a few: