Friday, March 07, 2008
Yay Friday!
Wouldn't you know? Mike and the clone have today off from school, so we could work outside a little...IF it wasn't snowing. TOMORROW will be in the 60s, but I will be gone all day. Typical.
And there I was all inspired by this story in the New York Times about a guy who spent a couple of decades drinking beer and then decorating his home with the cut-up cans. (Has someone told Dave Barry about this?) Best quote: "One good thing about not having any zoning is you can do stuff."
New scientific discovery: Last week Climber slipped out without us knowing and found some skunk smell to bring home. Not a direct spray, but it was still bad enough to get her banned from sleeping in the bedroom. As you may know, bathing really doesn't clear that stuff up much. But after a few nights I succumbed to her pleading eyes, and, as an experiment, sprayed her down with Mike's AXE deodorant. Guess what?!? It worked great!
Although then she smelled like a cheap gigolo instead of a skunk. But you take the improvements as you get them, eh?
In conclusion (for now) -- this is something I would totally do.
And there I was all inspired by this story in the New York Times about a guy who spent a couple of decades drinking beer and then decorating his home with the cut-up cans. (Has someone told Dave Barry about this?) Best quote: "One good thing about not having any zoning is you can do stuff."
New scientific discovery: Last week Climber slipped out without us knowing and found some skunk smell to bring home. Not a direct spray, but it was still bad enough to get her banned from sleeping in the bedroom. As you may know, bathing really doesn't clear that stuff up much. But after a few nights I succumbed to her pleading eyes, and, as an experiment, sprayed her down with Mike's AXE deodorant. Guess what?!? It worked great!
Although then she smelled like a cheap gigolo instead of a skunk. But you take the improvements as you get them, eh?
In conclusion (for now) -- this is something I would totally do.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Rockin' the techie stuff!
I can't help hopping on to celebrate the good day I'm having. Please bear with me while I get the "SQUEEEE!" out of my system.
As you may recall, the one thing I'd never really liked about the look of CodeNeonBlue.net was the gray color of the text and the double-spacing. I'd tried to adjust it when I set it up, but I couldn't figure out where to change those two attributes.
Then today I happened on a link to FireBug for Firefox. It's a tool for web designers that lets you do Many Fabulous Things. More things than *I* understand, for sure. BUT it was just intuitive enough that I was FINALLY able to change my textual areas to single-space with black lettering. As God intended.
The other cool thing was that I figured out how to combine two separate video clips I filmed last weekend, and then upload them to YouTube. They were shot in honor of TrainBoyMike, of course. So you needn't click through unless you have a serious hankering to see a couple of RTD light-rails go by the Denver Convention Center at about 10 on a Friday night.
Although it IS rather amazing how big and clear the picture is...I think I'm starting to get the hang of my new camera!
As you may recall, the one thing I'd never really liked about the look of CodeNeonBlue.net was the gray color of the text and the double-spacing. I'd tried to adjust it when I set it up, but I couldn't figure out where to change those two attributes.
Then today I happened on a link to FireBug for Firefox. It's a tool for web designers that lets you do Many Fabulous Things. More things than *I* understand, for sure. BUT it was just intuitive enough that I was FINALLY able to change my textual areas to single-space with black lettering. As God intended.
The other cool thing was that I figured out how to combine two separate video clips I filmed last weekend, and then upload them to YouTube. They were shot in honor of TrainBoyMike, of course. So you needn't click through unless you have a serious hankering to see a couple of RTD light-rails go by the Denver Convention Center at about 10 on a Friday night.
Although it IS rather amazing how big and clear the picture is...I think I'm starting to get the hang of my new camera!
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
O hai! A winner iz me!
Last April, the Colorado Dem Party had a training session for county committee people at a really neat facility in Georgetown. OF COURSE I took a bunch of pics. I was there and breathing, wasn't I?
Last week our local paper started a weekly photo contest. I decided to start with something I thought was sure-fire, wildlife. The Georgetown facility is not only a meeting and wedding site, but a mini wolf sanctuary, and I had scored this great shot:
I was totally chuffed to find out this morning that I won for this week!
Last week our local paper started a weekly photo contest. I decided to start with something I thought was sure-fire, wildlife. The Georgetown facility is not only a meeting and wedding site, but a mini wolf sanctuary, and I had scored this great shot:
I was totally chuffed to find out this morning that I won for this week!
