ATTENTION, Hummingbirds of Kenmore
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annathepiperOver the last few days I have found myself doing a lot of things which are neither writing nor editing, but which nevertheless have all rather needed to get done as they've been building up thanks to surgery, moving, and vacation. So it's been a fairly quiet weekend, but also a fairly productive one as well, at least in terms of random day-to-day stuff. And I even got a little social here and there as well, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird got a hummingbird feeder.
+0: Got the murkworks.net web page back up. And cleaned up a bit, and a few extra things added to it (like some basic sorts of FAQ's that keep getting winged at me in email). Related to this, withfleetfootmike's help, I got newmoon to send over all of its web traffic to lodestone, except the stuff it needs to run the Mailman web pages for mailing list management. Yay!
+/-1: Bills paid, checkbooks balanced. The good part of this is getting it done, the bad part is, lots of bills. A lot of which have been phone-related; we're getting phone bills from four different sources now. Oog.
+2: Went through most of the rest of the files I'd had sitting on my lodestone account, files which I had pulled off of Amiga disks while preparing to move here to the new place. Turns out most of them were things I'd salvaged already, except the mail files and a couple of TM-related things. One thing was a small archive of mail related to fiction efforts that had been written by assorted TM players, about various and sundry things. That was cool to stumble across.ysabel's hubby Joel has some stuff in this mail archive, too! Also out of this endeavor, I scarfed some old code from my Preservers that I'd thought was missing, and spliced that back onto the Preserver I have in the MurkMUSH database.
+3: Knocked a couple of minor TM-related tasks off my To Do list, stuff that has been pending for an annoyingly long period of time. This has so far involved clearing all the old +mail out of my character Oriolle's mailbox, and getting two new Timeline Events to post as a result; I've also deleted an unnecessary extra Rayek log I had sitting around.
-4: Investigated, without success, the issue of how to handle the password-protected parts of my web page while accounting for the fact that I'm mirroring the site from murkworks.net over to drizzle.com, and I have two different account ID's.traest clued me in regarding how to do authentication via PHP, which is pretty cool, except that many of the files I have living in the protected parts of my site aren't actually PHP files--just straight HTML or even text, and it would be annoying to have to convert everything to PHP just for the sake of individually checking authentication for those specific files. Which is how I'd have to do it. As opposed to using the .htaccess file, which just unilaterally says 'authenticate for anything living in this directory or below'. It's vexing, but I shall apparently have to remember to just update those .htaccess files manually if I want to make a change to them. And this also let me knock another item off my To Do list. So that part didn't suck, at least.
+5: Did a little bit of cleanup on old files of mine stored locally on my computer--mostly ones from PernMUSH, where I noted that I had a bunch of different copies of the same @decompiles of F'hlan's horde of firelizards. I got rid of the duplicates, just to be thorough.
+/-6: Went out today to run errands and was only partially successful. I acquired kitty medicine (only to realize that I had erred in my decision to go get the medication first, as it has to be refrigerated, so that meant that I had to drop the stuff back off at home before going out to do the rest of what I wanted to do), but was not able to acquire either an updated driver's license (to reflect my change of address) or poster frames for hanging the assortment of posters Dara and I possess. The first of these failures was due to the drivers' licensing office being closed; the latter, due to Target having a zillion poster frames, none of which were appropriately sized for our posters. Bah.
This also turned out to be my first solo excursion to the Woodinville shopping center, which turned into a bit of an adventure as I kept making wrong turns. But I never got myself seriously lost, and I stumbled across a secret ninja route into the backside of the shopping center. Which is cool. So.
Got cat food and cereal, and came on back when all that was done. And oh yes, I also purchased, for later reading, Vicki Lee Thompson's The Nerd Who Loved Me.
+7: Have tried to keep putting slow dents in my email backlog. I've knocked a few items out of there.
-8: Have investigated, without success, how to change the default font color on my frob. Right now it defaults to white regardless of what theme I put on there, which is annoying for any of the themes where a white font color on the Start Menu means those items are totally unreadable. There seems to be no way to change this in the obvious Settings stuff, and from what I have discovered so far in poking around the Web, the Pocket PC OS defaults to white for the menu font color regardless of what theme you put on it, even if the theme has been coded to change that color. Apparently you have to actually get into the registry on the device and change the default font color from there. What makes this extra annoying is that the OS does not ship with a pocket edition of Regedit.
+9: Reinstated my cron jobs to make selected portions of my web page go ahead and mirror themselves up to drizzle.com, and to do nightly dumps of my mySQL databases. This has resulted in my having to search through my directory up on the drizzle.com server to delete any files that are out of date up there, and having to change my mirror-generating cron job to bzip the tar file rather than gzip it, as I have started getting notices from Drizzle about going over quota on that account.
-10: Drizzle's tech support has not responded to my question about whether they can set me up a couple of cron jobs to untar my mirror tarball on that account and then delete it. So far I'm having to do this by hand, since I do not have access to edit my own crontab on that server. Grf. I know of no other ways besides doing a cron job to get that file up there and to extract the stuff out of it, and then delete it. Any recommendations folks might have on this are welcome.
+11: Hung out withkathrynt and Dara on Friday afternoon, as we went out for pho. There is, apparently, decent pho in Woodinville. Who knew? Not as good as Thanh Brothers in the University District, but this may well be due to the lack of those delicious little custard thingies they give you with every bowl. During this hanging out, Kathryn regaled Dara and me with the Tale of the Great Ensmackening of Fresno, and she also gave us a cute little salt-and-pepper-shaker set that looks like a pair of ghosts, one white, one black, hugging. It's excruciatingly cute.
+/-12:poodlgrl had a gathering over at her place on Saturday evening, but I opted out due to lameness and the need to curl up at home and get stuff done, in the wake of returning from vacation. I am informed that fun was had by all.
+13:spazzkat came over last night and had dinner with us, and hung out and watched Doctor Who.
+/-14: I have looked for jobs, and applied for a few as well. A guy sent me email this morning regarding one of them, but it was vaguely annoying--he's in L.A., and he wanted me to call him to "discuss possible opportunities". Long distance phone call. Grf. But I call him, and find out he's actually not in the office and is gone for the day. GRF. So I asked the guy I spoke with to please let him know I called, and sent an email reply asking for a time where I know I can talk to him. Otherwise, I'll keep it to email. I'm not interested in having to play long-distance phone tag.
+15: Saturday afternoon, I went with Dara over to the Lake Forest Park Town Center and deposited some rent and other checks, got a frappucino (which seems to be fast becoming my smoothie substitute for when I want a smoothie and don't feel like getting in the car), and waited while Dara got a nice little hummingbird feeder and a block of suet to set outside in the hopes of attracting birdies. So far, unfortunately, no sign of any hummingbirds.
ATTENTION, HUMMINGBIRDS OF KENMORE: We have sugar water. Repeat, we have sugar water. Please form a queue. No squabbling! This could be your lucky day!
solarbird got a hummingbird feeder.+0: Got the murkworks.net web page back up. And cleaned up a bit, and a few extra things added to it (like some basic sorts of FAQ's that keep getting winged at me in email). Related to this, with
fleetfootmike's help, I got newmoon to send over all of its web traffic to lodestone, except the stuff it needs to run the Mailman web pages for mailing list management. Yay!+/-1: Bills paid, checkbooks balanced. The good part of this is getting it done, the bad part is, lots of bills. A lot of which have been phone-related; we're getting phone bills from four different sources now. Oog.
+2: Went through most of the rest of the files I'd had sitting on my lodestone account, files which I had pulled off of Amiga disks while preparing to move here to the new place. Turns out most of them were things I'd salvaged already, except the mail files and a couple of TM-related things. One thing was a small archive of mail related to fiction efforts that had been written by assorted TM players, about various and sundry things. That was cool to stumble across.
ysabel's hubby Joel has some stuff in this mail archive, too! Also out of this endeavor, I scarfed some old code from my Preservers that I'd thought was missing, and spliced that back onto the Preserver I have in the MurkMUSH database.+3: Knocked a couple of minor TM-related tasks off my To Do list, stuff that has been pending for an annoyingly long period of time. This has so far involved clearing all the old +mail out of my character Oriolle's mailbox, and getting two new Timeline Events to post as a result; I've also deleted an unnecessary extra Rayek log I had sitting around.
-4: Investigated, without success, the issue of how to handle the password-protected parts of my web page while accounting for the fact that I'm mirroring the site from murkworks.net over to drizzle.com, and I have two different account ID's.
traest clued me in regarding how to do authentication via PHP, which is pretty cool, except that many of the files I have living in the protected parts of my site aren't actually PHP files--just straight HTML or even text, and it would be annoying to have to convert everything to PHP just for the sake of individually checking authentication for those specific files. Which is how I'd have to do it. As opposed to using the .htaccess file, which just unilaterally says 'authenticate for anything living in this directory or below'. It's vexing, but I shall apparently have to remember to just update those .htaccess files manually if I want to make a change to them. And this also let me knock another item off my To Do list. So that part didn't suck, at least.+5: Did a little bit of cleanup on old files of mine stored locally on my computer--mostly ones from PernMUSH, where I noted that I had a bunch of different copies of the same @decompiles of F'hlan's horde of firelizards. I got rid of the duplicates, just to be thorough.
+/-6: Went out today to run errands and was only partially successful. I acquired kitty medicine (only to realize that I had erred in my decision to go get the medication first, as it has to be refrigerated, so that meant that I had to drop the stuff back off at home before going out to do the rest of what I wanted to do), but was not able to acquire either an updated driver's license (to reflect my change of address) or poster frames for hanging the assortment of posters Dara and I possess. The first of these failures was due to the drivers' licensing office being closed; the latter, due to Target having a zillion poster frames, none of which were appropriately sized for our posters. Bah.
This also turned out to be my first solo excursion to the Woodinville shopping center, which turned into a bit of an adventure as I kept making wrong turns. But I never got myself seriously lost, and I stumbled across a secret ninja route into the backside of the shopping center. Which is cool. So.
Got cat food and cereal, and came on back when all that was done. And oh yes, I also purchased, for later reading, Vicki Lee Thompson's The Nerd Who Loved Me.
+7: Have tried to keep putting slow dents in my email backlog. I've knocked a few items out of there.
-8: Have investigated, without success, how to change the default font color on my frob. Right now it defaults to white regardless of what theme I put on there, which is annoying for any of the themes where a white font color on the Start Menu means those items are totally unreadable. There seems to be no way to change this in the obvious Settings stuff, and from what I have discovered so far in poking around the Web, the Pocket PC OS defaults to white for the menu font color regardless of what theme you put on it, even if the theme has been coded to change that color. Apparently you have to actually get into the registry on the device and change the default font color from there. What makes this extra annoying is that the OS does not ship with a pocket edition of Regedit.
+9: Reinstated my cron jobs to make selected portions of my web page go ahead and mirror themselves up to drizzle.com, and to do nightly dumps of my mySQL databases. This has resulted in my having to search through my directory up on the drizzle.com server to delete any files that are out of date up there, and having to change my mirror-generating cron job to bzip the tar file rather than gzip it, as I have started getting notices from Drizzle about going over quota on that account.
-10: Drizzle's tech support has not responded to my question about whether they can set me up a couple of cron jobs to untar my mirror tarball on that account and then delete it. So far I'm having to do this by hand, since I do not have access to edit my own crontab on that server. Grf. I know of no other ways besides doing a cron job to get that file up there and to extract the stuff out of it, and then delete it. Any recommendations folks might have on this are welcome.
+11: Hung out with
kathrynt and Dara on Friday afternoon, as we went out for pho. There is, apparently, decent pho in Woodinville. Who knew? Not as good as Thanh Brothers in the University District, but this may well be due to the lack of those delicious little custard thingies they give you with every bowl. During this hanging out, Kathryn regaled Dara and me with the Tale of the Great Ensmackening of Fresno, and she also gave us a cute little salt-and-pepper-shaker set that looks like a pair of ghosts, one white, one black, hugging. It's excruciatingly cute.+/-12:
poodlgrl had a gathering over at her place on Saturday evening, but I opted out due to lameness and the need to curl up at home and get stuff done, in the wake of returning from vacation. I am informed that fun was had by all.+13:
spazzkat came over last night and had dinner with us, and hung out and watched Doctor Who.+/-14: I have looked for jobs, and applied for a few as well. A guy sent me email this morning regarding one of them, but it was vaguely annoying--he's in L.A., and he wanted me to call him to "discuss possible opportunities". Long distance phone call. Grf. But I call him, and find out he's actually not in the office and is gone for the day. GRF. So I asked the guy I spoke with to please let him know I called, and sent an email reply asking for a time where I know I can talk to him. Otherwise, I'll keep it to email. I'm not interested in having to play long-distance phone tag.
+15: Saturday afternoon, I went with Dara over to the Lake Forest Park Town Center and deposited some rent and other checks, got a frappucino (which seems to be fast becoming my smoothie substitute for when I want a smoothie and don't feel like getting in the car), and waited while Dara got a nice little hummingbird feeder and a block of suet to set outside in the hopes of attracting birdies. So far, unfortunately, no sign of any hummingbirds.
ATTENTION, HUMMINGBIRDS OF KENMORE: We have sugar water. Repeat, we have sugar water. Please form a queue. No squabbling! This could be your lucky day!
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-15 06:43 pm (UTC)There's not-horrible pho in Everett, but really good pho in Edmonds. And all but once, they've had the little cream puffs - extreme yumminess. (The one time they didn't give me a cream puff, they gave us fortune cookies. They must've run out of puffs.)
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Date: 2004-09-15 06:51 pm (UTC)What is the name of the pho place you frequent? We have historically gone to Thanh Brothers, and to the best of my knowledge they have only three locations--the one in the U-district, the one on Capitol Hill, and the one over on Aurora, all of which are Seattle. I wonder if this means that more than one pho place does the tasty cream puffs. ^_^
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 09:48 pm (UTC)