So, this is weird. I thought I was going nuts! I’ve not used any blogging package other than wordpress before, so I don’t know if this is “normal” or not, but it seems a trifle silly. By default (and by “by default” what I really mean is “you can’t change it easily”) wordpress will only show the date/time for a blog entry if it’s the first one for a given day. How annoying is that!?! Is there a reason for this, does anyone know?
I don’t know why movies affect me so much, but they really do. I’ve always been this way, as long as I can remember.
I still remember getting horribly freaked out by The Shaggy DA, watching it with my parents and siblings growing up. The Thing was another horrible one. *shiver*
I think it might be that my mind soaks up visual images so easily and simply refuses to let go of them. I think it also might be because my mind is predisposed to a suspension of disbelief. Whatever the reason, movies always affect me for longer than I’d like them to.
Sometimes they make me moody and no fun to be around (sorry honey). Sometimes they make me question reality and realize how fragile our grasp on it is (like A Beautiful Mind–now that one REALLY affected me!). Sometimes they make me appreciate my kids and wife even more (like The Patriot). And sometimes, they just stir up a whole bunch of amazing little emotions inside me that touch parts of my mind that aren’t used to getting touched.
Gladiator was like that. What an amazing, powerful movie. I need to go digest it some more. =:)
So, I’ve been a sickie for the last couple of days. Stayed home 2 days because of it. Some might call that being a weenie. I prefer to think of it as being smart and healthy. Wow, what a weird thought process this is.
You see, before I got the glamorous job that I currently enjoy, I was a retail store manager for a bad long spell. And when you’re employed thusly, you are simply not allowed to call in sick. See–there’s you and maybe another 2 people in your store (who are also employed similarly), so if you call in sick, there’s nobody to replace you who’s not already working 60+ hours a week. So what do you do, as an ill retail salaried employee? Why, you go in, work your 10+ hours like usual, all the while hoping that the day will end sooner than it normally would. Yuck. Oh–that and you don’t heal up, which means your cold/flu/thingey is going to be hanging on for the next few months.
There are not a lot of people, probably, who have this unique perspective. I suppose I should be thankful. It causes quite an inner struggle, though, whenever I (rarely) do get sick, as I have this past rule of “the only reason you don’t go to work is if you’ve died” conflicting with this new rule of “I feel like absolute dog poo-poo, and my body really needs to just stay home and rest it out.”
Long story short, the new rule won out over the old.
Here’s hoping my friend Mike feels better (and Liz and the cat). Here’s holding a symbolic loving thingey up in honor of all the salaried retail management peoples who don’t have a choice in rules. And here’s to being thankful that I do have a choice in rules.
*sniffle*
Groovy!! So, like tigert put it, “What happened to the site that never updates!?” =:)
I’ve been formatting my site like a blog for the last 4 years+. I’ve had content on individual pages, which I would update every, oh, year or so, and when I had the time to update them, instead of replacing the content on the page, I would prepend it with another entry, with the date listed as to when I posted that content.
You know… like a blog. =:D
The only problem with this nifty little model is that it was ridiculously hard to update the content. I had to open vmware, open dreamweaver, add content, ftp it up, etc., etc. (okay, well, that doesn’t sound all that difficult saying this now, but it was!). My point is that the method of updating my site was prohibitive to actually updating my site. And that’s no good for anyone, no sir. =:)
So, after some serious speaks with my good friend Mike, and a good week of investigations, I’ve decided on WordPress. It seems decent enough, and it’s free, as in beer, speech, and jello.
I guess my only concern is that instead of having all of my content in files that I can back up in CVS, I’m totally reliant on my web host to not crash and burn my database and all of my content. In other words, if they get cracked again, etc., my content is completely gone. I’m thinking I’ll want to take weekly backups of my MySQL database and copy them to my local filesystems and back them up that way, to be safe. Um, and the only problem with that is that I’ll most likely forget.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this concern, or how to solve it?