nothing edifying

I woke up at 11am on Sunday, and went downstairs to get a drink.  My mom’s response to my mumbled “G’morning Ma” was, “Eh, what are you doing up so early?!”

Yesterday I was in Maryland and it was 90 degrees and humid and I wore a t-shirt and sweated rivulets.  Today I’m in the Bay Area and it’s more like 60 something and I’m wearing a coat.  If I come down with something, I guess I’ll know why.

OMG, they totally did! It hasn’t been a month, and now there’s Wordpress 2.6! I know that continuously updating software to fix security flaws is actually a good thing, but it’s a pain! And also, after my previous post, I discovered a user I didn’t create in the users table in my database. So… I felt like I still had stuff to do and I didn’t feel good about posting until I fixed it, but I was lazy. And now I’m glad I didn’t cos I had to update to 2.6 anyways, so at least I did it together.

So… I think it’s pretty much cleaned up now, but I have to re-do all of my prettifying and figure out what plugins I want to use now. I’m too tired! And I know that most people thing that dark text on light background is best, but this default theme is way too glarey! Or I’m getting old. Or something. Gaaaaah, there needs to be 1 button upgrades, even easier than it is now! And I’m ranting but it’s my blog and it really was annoying, SO THERE! :p

Dooooood, so evidently sometime last weekend, or maybe before, I’m not really sure when, my poor little blog was hacked. Well, something happened to it anyways. I didn’t even realize until neb asked if my blog was ok… which it wasn’t! Anyways, so I’ve been backing up and updating things and I’ve a ways to go. Actually I barely know how much I have to do to clean it up. Or maybe it’s already cleaned up. Grr… Guess it serves me right for not keeping up with the updates, but there are so many! Actually Wordpress is relatively easy to upgrade, relatively being the operative word. And also, last night I fell asleep at like 8pm, right after dinner. (Yeah, I got all sorts of good habits. :p) Gawd, I know it’s good that the program gets updated, but at this point I would be mad if Wordpress 2.6 came out next month. >:(

Okay and since I’m doing this upgrade and all, I think I’m going to stop using Disqus. It’s not that I don’t like it, I do actually, but it’s like 1 more thing to think about and deal with and right now, I don’t wanna! So I’m not totally sure, but I don’t think I can import the comments back in, and they weren’t mirrored, so they are sort of lost. I mean I can still see them on disqus, but not you. Like you care!

This morning I woke up and I just kinda felt like azuki ice cream, so I had a big ol’ bowl for breakfast. Then for lunch I had a large smoothie. I have no idea why, but that’s what I felt like. It’s not even particularly hot today; it’s actually a really nice sunny day, perfect weather.

There’s a new Staples in town, and I guess they sent out little presents like, “come check us out” sorta thing, including a $25 coupon. Well this weekend was basically the last weekend to use it, so yesterday we spent over an hour walking up and down the aisle of Staples trying to figure out what to buy. Usually I’m good at buying things, especially tech gadgets, I love ‘em! But I dunno, we weren’t really looking for anything and it’s not like $25 is that significant when it comes to gadgety things. In the end, we bought some super glue (you never know when that stuff’ll come in handy), 2 pairs of scissors (we’ve been using the poor kitchen shears for everything), a 6 pack of pens (on sale for 50¢), and… toilet paper (you can’t really have too much toilet paper:p). Also it was Marcal toilet paper, which is one of the brands of 100% recycled paper toilet papers that I hadn’t tried yet. Still, at some point before we realized that Staples actually sells recycled fiber toilet paper, we were standing in front of the bucket of Red Vines trying to decide, no actually discussing, if we could finish them fast enough or if we even wanted to, or if we’d get sick of them, and after they hardened who would eat them. It was totally ridiculous — who knew that randomly trying to spend $25 could be so hard. In the end we paid about $8 something for all that junx, not bad, I guess, and now we really know our local Staples backwards and forwards. Erm, yay.

Okay, I believe in voting, but dooooooood!!! I’m voting again — this time in the California state primary election, as in the primaries for US Representatives, the State Senators, etcetc, state stuff. Why couldn’t they have bundled these votes in with the national primary election is beyond me, seems like a waste of time and money. They’re expecting really low turnout, but it would’ve been super high if they’d done this in February. It’s ridiculous! Gah! Erm, ok, end rant.

Wait! One more thing! Another annoying thing is that researching this stuff is hard! I’ve been checking the Sierra Club and California League of Conservation Voters and etcetc for endorsements, but they don’t mention everything that’s on the ballot, especially the people I haven’t heard of, of course. I have resorted to checking Facebook, for goodness’ sakes. Geez. Okay now I’m done, for real this time.

We spent all weekend barbecuing and watching Battlestar Galactica. Ah, the good life. BSG is our new obsession — I know, everyone else already knows how awesome it was, but we just figured it out recently. How was your holiday weekend?

We picked up the Wii Fit on Wednesday, at the local Gamestop (where they’re really knowledgeable and friendly). All I can say about it is that I’m sore, so it must be doing something. Or I dunno, not enough stretching of my (nonexistent) muscles, or something? :p But the freakiest thing was this:

HOW DID IT KNOW?!

Usually when I talk about the weather, it’s cos it’s cold and rainy and I don’t like it. Well today it’s hot and sunny, and I DON’T LIKE IT! It’s in the high 90s (like 97 or 98°F or like 36 to 37°C); walking to the water cooler makes me hot and sweaty. Around noon today, Leafy called me, and as we were talking, I had to continually switch the phone from one hand to the other because the arm holding the phone up would get sweaty at the inner elbow so I had to switch arms to give the other one a chance to dry. Gross, right?! Except I’m sure my face, hair, and clothing are no better. Also, I thought I was going to faint — I was trying to walk fast from one shady area to another, not that the shade helped all that much. Gaaaaah, I won’t even be able to go home until at least an hour after dark cos the apartment is an oven right now. I could’ve probably put tea in cold water this morning and when I get home I would have lukewarm tea, not that anyone would want warm tea on a day like today. I hope this is making sense, my brain feels all fried, like one of those “this is your brain on drugs” commercials from the 80s or 90s or whenever. Blech.

The sky is actually a more brilliant blue than this, but the sun is blazing about right, I think. :p