No School due to hail and ice.
Happy Birthday, Scott! :love: :cake: :love:
I plan to take my brother out for a new PS3 game and a renewal to his subscription to Game Informer. You know, because he’s 12 years old, not 30. 😆
Tag Archives: Snow
What To Do With A Snow Day
We’ve had some snow, but not enough (I thought), for a snow day, but here we are. I’m always pleased to have the opportunity to sleep past 4:30am, but I think I might have been better suited (at least mentally) to get back to work.
I’ve spent the morning envying Obama and his inclusion into the club of American secrets (i.e. the Stargate) and wishing that I could have a glimpse of all the unknown facets of the world I call home. I’ve also wondered how hard it would be to knit my own sweaters.
Taking Half
As it turns out, I have to take only half a sick day today; no sooner had the students arrived at school they were heading right back home due to snow. I was busy getting Istar to the vet for his annual breathing treatment. More on that in a minute. I then had the pleasure of going to the dentist for a filling. Ugh. In my 36 years, this is my second filling and I highly doubt I’ll be wanting to repeat this day anytime soon. I had no pain or discomfort prior to today, but now my jaw is throbbing and all I want to do is rip all my teeth from the left side of my mouth. Ouch. The dentist gave me a real Dickens minute by charging me more than $100 LESS than what it was supposed to be. I seriously wanted to yell, “God bless us, every one!” on my way out.
Istar isn’t so lucky. His injection was fine, but he is so overweight (18.3 lbs) that the vet was panicked. I already feed him less than the recommended amount of diet food each day, but now he’s on an even more expensive diet than the one Hobbit was on. I can’t see continually paying $24 for an 8 lb. bag of food, but the vet made me buy it today before he would release Istar. The good news is that he’ll now get to eat more food than before, so maybe he won’t mind the change. We’ll see.
I’m Back
Sean Bean finally returned to Crusoe this week. I’m currently watching on Hulu, and I’m hoping it’s more than the cumulative 3.1 minutes we’ve had so far. The show’s alright, I suppose, but let’s face it–I only watch for Bean. SGA was another skip for me this week. I watched the teaser that showed Shep and Ronon going camping, realized it was the McKay/Keller ep, and promptly deleted it from the DVR. It still boggles my mind how this show managed to go from my #1 to an automatic delete. Wow. As usual, Merlin entertained, even though it was pretty much a filler episode. Some relationships were heightened slightly, so I guess the ep had its merits.
I’ve been using the new WP for a month or so now, and with this newer version, I can use widgets. I could never get them to work properly in the past, and to be honest, I didn’t care if they worked or not. Now, however, you can hardly get through the directory without people calling their code “Plugins” but actually meaning “Widget”. If you can’t run it as a plugin, you shouldn’t call it as such. I think WP needs a separate “Widget” listing. Luckily, some widget authors are willing to help you convert their code to standalone code, such as Peter from AVH Amazon, but most requests go unanswered. There’s a widget that allows you to execute any standalone code, so to be assured that you can use that dandy new thing you’ve found, you’re almost bound to the use of widgets. Grr, and OK. As for the theme, if it won’t load properly, hit the site with a ctrl-f5 and that should do it.
Tuesday and Friday were snow days. Hooray! :cold: