And you are... ?

It's been so long I thought about shutting the blog down permanently. It's sort of like when you haven't talked to a friend for a long time, and you think, MAN, I need to get in touch with so-and-so, but I'm pretty embarrassed I haven't made contact in such a long time. So you just decide to not call them.

But I've decided I'm keeping it going for now. We've come this far together, we might as well stick it out.

Speaking of sticking it out... Regis was nearly ready to leave us about two weeks ago, but the vet decided we should give him half a treatment of chemo as a last-ditch effort, and WOW. His lymph nodes are completely normal, he's back to his old chipper self again and it looks like we'll have him around for at least a while longer. Thanks, Regis, for pulling through!

I gave in to temptation and bought a watch today. Actually I had some old jewelry lying around so I traded it in (and the jeweler gave me an almost 50 percent discount off the price) on a new Seiko Velatura, kenetic energy watch. Self-winding, it's actually a rechargable battery-powered watch that has a little generator inside that recharges it when you move your wrist.

Great timepiece, it's my second favorite to the Breitling, and it brings my collection to 13.

A real blogger's blogger

The guy who unwittingly swept me into blogging hysteria a few years ago* put a fine point on what it means to be a good blogger during his trip to Washington D.C. for the Obama inauguration.

He not only blogged, but Twittered as well. Check out Steve's work at Smays.com.

Today's 'everywhere' connectivity has inspired me to revise an age-old bathroom-stall limerick:

Here I sit upon the shitter,
Tried to blog but only Twittered.


*I have yet to do Steve proud. As the title says, he's a REAL blogger, I just flail my arms wildly hoping to hit something.

Sampling of stools

I get at least 2 or 3 hits per day on my blog Googling the term "firm stool." A while back, after a trip to Mexico, I openly discussed being in search of a firm stool, and apparently I'm not the only one.

I'm pretty sure I can help. For those of you finding my blog* by searching the term "firm stool," here are two links that may help:

WebMD

Barstools

You're welcome.



*I show up 5th on the list out of 2,600,000 results. Wow...

Sitemeter causing blogs to crash

Last night as I was trying to load my blog, it kept crashing Internet Explorer 7. I rebooted, figuring it was some kind of fluky thing. Nope, it's a big problem.

It appears IE 7 is the only browser affected, I had no problem loading it via Safari and Foxfire. I removed the Sitemeter link to my front page (had to do it through Safari) and I'm in business again via IE 7.

Sitemeter changed their code yesterday without an announcement or, apparently, any testing.

I can't even load Sitemeter's main page on IE 7. There are no notices of any kind or any acknowledgement of problems on their site... prompting me to rename the service:

Gotta love Photoshop!

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I'm in a blog funk. Maybe I just don't feel like talking today... I don't know. I just want to veg out and listen to Dave. Is that so wrong?

Another country heard from

In my email box this morning was a comment I almost deleted, supposedly from a fella in Nigeria.

As I was preparing to hit delete, I realized it wasn't spam, it was a pretty funny comment to a post I made in June. Check out "anonymous" at the bottom.

Sitemeter is a handy thing. I clicked and found out the comment came from someone in Boulder CO, after having found my blog via the term ass parchment, which is a term I used for toilet tissue in the post.

I'm not sure why he searched the term ass parchment, but I found out it's a term nobody has used in context on the internet prior to my entry. Another proud moment for me... (insert eye-roll emoticon here)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (and by Margaret, of course I mean Dave)

My blog has Junior High readability.



Click and test your own blog. Apparently, I write for 8th graders. (no reflection on you, of course) That puts me right up there with Carolyn Mackler, who wrote "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Round Things" and J. K. Rowling. Yeah, we're pretty much birds of a feather.

Via Steve.

I've officially "made it"

It's a quaint moment in any blog's history when you reach the top of the Google search list for "whale shaped spanking paddles."

I'm number ONE. Read it and weep, lesser bloggers.