The Thinkulum

I haven’t gotten around to writing about the other things I wanted to write about, and I’ve been occupied with other things today, but I told Kaz I would blog.

I’m doing pretty well. Things at work are good, which is one of the things I want to tell you about, but I’ll get to it later. I felt a little sick last week, which I think was just some kind of allergies because I didn’t have a fever or feel achy or any of the usual overall symptoms; I just had a scratchy throat and then a runny nose. But the Theraflu thin strips I bought worked great for relieving the symptoms, and now I seem to have recovered. As you can see, my sleep schedule is out of whack right now. Feel free to take bets on when that will get back to what normal people call normal. There are other things to say, but I’ll talk about them in another entry.

Tonight one of my friends e-mailed me to tell me her dad died. I don’t think I’d ever met him, but she talked about him fairly often, so it was kind of a shock to me. I’ll post more details later if she gives me permission. Say a prayer for her family.

First, I want to say thank you to Googlebot for finally indexing my whole site!! For ages when I typed my URL into Google all I got was the front page. Now people will be able to find things on the rest of the site, assuming there’s anything there they want to find.

Second, if you can’t get out to watch fireworks tomorrow night, I’ve found just the screensaver for you. It’s Skyrocket from the collection at Really Slick Screensavers. Unlike all the other fireworks screensavers you’ve ever seen, this one is not cheesy. The fireworks are set off in a realistic 3-D landscape with clouds and a full moon, and the camera pans randomly around the scene to give you some great views of the show. It has stereo sound too. It’s free, and it’s mesmerizing, so just get it.

Third, we had communion tonight in our small group. Coincidentally, the X-Files episode I watched tonight was about vampires and contained some references to communion. Weird, huh?

Fourth, I hope I’m not getting sick. I woke up with a scratchy throat this morning that has lasted all day. I don’t have any other symptoms yet.

Finally, I have other things to talk about, but I don’t want this to become long, so I’ll save them for later.

I’m not very good at getting things done. You may have noticed this. It’s profoundly annoying. So, for my next experiment in living, I’m going to do what I was hoping to avoid when I started this site and give myself deadlines, and furthermore, share them with you. Maybe I’ll feel more pressure to meet them if I make them public, even if nobody in particular holds me to them.

For my first deadline, I’m going to give myself three weeks to accomplish my partial redesign of the site—one to work out the design and two to get it set up. It’ll probably take that long because I’ll most likely have to write some plugins for WordPress to get everything to work the way I want it. Or I might be lazy and impatient and settle for less. My due date for the redesign is July 13.