I did it again!
What a pusillanimous excuse.
I missed yesterday. I was busy. I woke from my Nap-fu practice to the smell of BBQ wafting through my bedroom window. After shaking myself awake, I followed my nose… and found myself amongst genial company, BBQ smoked pork ribs and beer; and that was the day gone. I took over a bottle of Argentine Malbec and some queijo coalho (grilling cheese) on sticks, and proceeded to get genial.
It was a good thing I didn’t have classes yesterday.
WordPress has done it again. They made a new ‘My Sites’ page that I began to use as my base. It was great. Then they ‘fixed’ it; it wasn’t broken. They made it a two column affair, which was okay, but they left out the ‘new post’ link which made it about as much use as tits on a bull. I haven’t opened it since, but have rather gone back to my previous method of opening the new post page. People will meddle! I went to the WP site to complain, and they had closed comments… Pffft!
I made a breakthough the other day. I finally, after years of mystery, managed to make a transparent background .gif image on CorelDraw. Now all I have to do is remember how I did it, so that I can do it again…
Today is Marilyn Munro Day. Why? Marilyn Munro was a screen whore; why have a day for her? I’d rather she was forgotten as the miserable example she was to women. Apparently it’s also Black Cat Day, I’d rather see a black cat than MM. So we finally have to double up days so we can give everyone and everything a shot at being famous/remembered for a day.
Tomorrow is the end of October. Halloween. Another month of 2014 will have bitten the dust and become relegated to history. Only two more months of this year left… where did it all go?
A Leonardo da Vinci selfie
Selfies have become the scourge of the internet.
Anybody with a digital camera or cellphone takes them with abandon.
But selfies are not a new idea, they’ve been around for centuries. Leonardo da Vinci, among many toher artists, took selfies. And they were a damned sight better than digital ones.
I finished the asparagus for a morning snack. My pee won’t smell funny anymore.
It’s lunch time, I’ve missed most of the news by posting this. Time just flies when you’re having fun.
Lunch today the last of the fish.
Tomorrow will have to be a supermarket day.
Hot hot day out there. The sun is very intense, so I’m staying inside under the fan with iced water.
Later.
Life is but a Labyrinth 
1. When I smelled barbecue wafting through my window, I took it as a sign from Jesus that I should skip class.
2. We generationXers are so not used to the camera pointed inward yet. I struggle with the selfie. Maybe Leo D could help.
3. October came quickly because when else can Walmart cram shelves with fall decor, Halloween decorations and Christmas stuff all at once?
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>Eli, food for thought… 🙂
I won’t go near Walmart, I hate the idea of these stores…
AV
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You’re not missing much, friend.
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The Sites page still has a “New Post” button. Go to https://wordpress.com/sites and at the top right is a pencil icon with a plus sign. This is the “New Post” button.
There are more changes coming I’m afraid as this change is a small part of an overall vision which is going to be fantastic but which might cause a few hiccups along the way. I don’t like change much either but the vision for where this is going is very exciting!
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>Rachel, nope, no good… just gives me the principle blog, this one. I can’t post to the other seven blogs. The original single colum was far superior. Or, each blog needs a new post link.
Look forward to see what else they fix… :-0
AV
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When you’ve reached the New Post screen (after the Beep Beep Boop), there should be a drop-down box at the top which will let you select which blog you want the post to publish to. Can you see that?
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Yes, got that now… but so many clicks. I’ll stick to the old way. They certainly didn’t make it obvious.
AV
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Oh, the smell of piddle after eating asparagus!
Here’s what causes it: our bodies convert asparagusic acid into sulfur-containing chemicals that stink (and how!)
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>Yvonne, and there are some lucky people who can’t smell it…
AV
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We saw someone yesterday use a ‘selfie stick’ – a sort of fold-out stick that they attached to their mobile so they could take a photo of themselves in front of a museum sign (exciting!) Truly bizarre…
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