Wouldn’t you know it, as I was walking out the door to go to work the sun started breaking through the fog. Damn it!
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Day Eight – Natural World
Nature… that’s what they want. When I leave for work in the morning it’s dark. When I get home it’s dark. Not much chance for nature for me.
This was taken out of the back door. It’s a two second exposure. Pretty much the best I could hope for today. It would have been awesome if a deer had come by, but no luck today.
Day Seven – Keep Personalizing
SOL on this one. The challenge for today is as follows:
Today’s assignment: create and upload a simple header, background, or both. Already done? Try a widget.
I would if I could, but I can’t. My new theme does not support headers. My last theme did, and I would update it now and then. Not today though. No header for me.
I could add a background, but I don’t want to. I don’t like backgrounds. I feel that they get in the way. Especially when added by someone like me who is not a graphic designer and who just pulls in a picture that he likes. So no header and no background for me.
Widgets, however. I usually keep a bunch of them on the side bar. Unfortunately, when I changed themes the other day all of the widgets I had were inactivated. So, in the spirit of blogging 101, I went in and reactivated them. Do you see the menu on the left? Somewhere around there (depending on the dimensions of your screen) there will be a little folder icon. Click that puppy and enjoy widget bliss.
Google Domination
Google has come one step closer to World Domination!!!
Well, maybe not world domination, but definitely apps-on-my-iPhone domination.
They have released an iOS version of their Google Calendar app. Add it to the list of Google apps I chose to use over the native Apple apps. Calendar, Gmail, Chrome, Maps… And counting.
And no, I have absolutely no interest in switching to an Android phone. Zero. None.
Day Seven – Big & Point of View
I reserve the right to replace this with another post later on. It’s the best I’ve got so far today, but it’s not very good.
Day Six – Make an Irresistible “About” Page
The first challenge of week two is to write an About page. I had an about page already, but I did what the challenge asked of me.
The email with tomorrow’s challenge just came in. They come out at midnight Greenwich Mean Time. Which last week was 8:00pm Eastern time. Now it’s 9:00 Eastern time. Let’s go see what they want me to do tomorrow. Why do I fear it is not an actual blog post?
Day Six – Connect
Been a While
I did something this weekend that I hadn’t done in quite a while.
I watched two Bruins games, more or less all the way through. Well, that’s not true. I listened to the first two periods of yesterday’s game on the radio and then watched the third on the tube. Today I watched the whole bleedin’ thing.
Lo and behold, the two games were both wins! The wonders ne’er cease! The Bruins currently hold the final Eastern Conference playoff spot and they have a four point lead over Florida, and a seven point lead over Ottawa and Philadelphia. I would like to say that I am confident they will make the playoffs, but my mother told me not to tell lies.
I’m a tiny bit optimistic that they have another hot streak in them and that it will propel them into the playoffs and out of the first round. Unfortunately though, I’m also a realist and… well… they just aren’t that good this year.
Here’s hoping for the best in the coming weeks.
Go Bruins!
The Final RPM Post
Here’s one you’ve been waiting for. The Final Official RPM Challenge Post for 2015.
My project has been uploaded into the RPM Challenge Jukebox. The final step is complete!
There are still listening parties and stuff like that, including one in second life that I’ve always been curious about visiting, and a Portsmouth radio station is going to spend a full day playing nothing but RPM music from all over the world. That will stream online here. It’s scheduled to start at 12am on March 29th and run right straight through to midnight on the 30th. 24 hours of RPM music. Insane! I might check that out too.
Other than those things though, the annual craziness that is RPM is now officially finished.
Spring Ahead to Daylight Savings
Daylight savings began last night. At some point in the wee hours the clock jumped forward one hour. The upside is that the sun will still be up when I leave work, although it will still be a while before its up when I get home, stupid long commute. The downside for the short term is it will be darker when we leave to take the kids to school in the morning. The immediate downside of course is that we lost an hour of sleep last night.
It doesn’t make much difference to me because, as usual, I lost about four hours of sleep. For some reason my body revolts at the clock moving concept. Be it the fall or the spring, I just don’t sleep much on DST event nights. This year is no exception. At least there are a bunch of deer behind the house to keep me company.
