A Day In My Life

We moved into our new home, as I’ve noted, on November 15. And we’ve had encounters with various sales people already: One man was selling furniture from an 18 wheeler (no thanks); one was selling meat packages from his truck(we bought one package); one was selling water treatment equipment. Whoa. Water treatment? Come in and let’s talk. The water here is very unpleasant to drink; it is heavily chlorinated, and also very hard, with calcium and other minerals in it. Since the home is new (so is the plumbing and our appliances), we want to do whatever we can to protect our investment. Last night, the man from the water treatment company came out and showed us with some simple demonstrations just how hard the water really is. So we bought a system, and it is being installed now. It will be about 3 days before we can drink the water, but for other uses it will be fine in the meantime. And we do have bottled water for drinking. We will save money in the long run, on soaps and cleaning agents, on plumbing, and even on appliance repairs. I say it is money well spent, plus we won’t have to worry about health problems like kidney stones, which can form when water is very hard.

before new templates and hacks became available for Blogger, since the update of the platform. I’m happy to say, I’ve found some new templates, and new hacks for later tinkering! I’ve never been the most patient of people, but these were well worth the wait. I like the new xml format for templates, and it’s an extra opportunity for learning. I may just jump in and see what it’s like…but I’m going to wait until I have a couple of days or so, because it looks more complex than html…although, come to think of it, there was a time that html looked like Greek to me…

Many changes to write about. I got tired of the old blue template for this blog, I made that one with an online template generator, but it did not work well with the new version of Blogger….so I waited for new templates to be created. I found this one today, and I like it well enough for now, so I’m all moved in…for a while, anyway. I tend to change templates fairly often. I may look into WordPress later. I haven’t blogged in a while, but I am back now.