Now that I’ve gotten in touch with the important people (who should’ve, in turn, gotten in touch with the other important people) I can make this announcement:

As of 7/1/09 I will no longer be at this address.

We received a letter from our landlord about a week and a half ago stating that, after 18 years, he would not be renewing our lease.

I’ve already sent in an application with the Housing Corp. of Arlington. They have limited units but we mightget lucky. Other than that it’s been Craig’s List. If there’s anything at all listed in the newpaper classifieds, it’s all through realtors. With Craig’s List I can find units for rent by the owners. It makes it easier to find the places that will allow the cats (purr!), too. I am awaiting a return phone call from the boys’ doctor. With a letter from her I can push for a 3 bedroom, which we really need because of the boys don’t kill each other first I’m going to kill them both.

In other news, I’m still tweaking this site. Added Twitter Tools. You can see my latest tweet at the bottom of the page. I did this, and set it up to post a daily archive of my tweets, for those times when I have something to say but writing an entire blog post is more effort than it’s worth. 🙂 I’ve also put back some of the ads I used to have when I first resurrected the site. I’m trying to figure out how to tweak how they’re displayed, so bear with me.

Still tweaking the site.

I changed the settings on WP Greet Box. If you find them annoying let me know.

I’ve been watching the RSS subscriptions jump up and down. *scratches head* I decided to add the ability to subscribe to receive updates via email. This apparently overrides FireFox’s default setting to make the feed a live bookmark, so if you want to do that, just click the feed icon in the URL box. I’m not too concerned about it, as I know I’m more likely to catch feed updates via Thunderbird’s reader than my live bookmarks. 😛

I’ve “claimed” my blog via Technorati. What with spam blogs becoming all the rage, and my finding much of my content ending up on these blogs, I figured I’d at least make some effort to let folks know that mine is a legitimate blog. I also installed a plugin so that if these blogs continue to auto-post my shit, at least my URL will be provided so readers will know it was harvested.

I will still  continue to crosspost the links to updates until the end of the month to give everyone time to switch over.

In an effort to streamline my life and (hopefully) make this site a little more constructive, I’ve been making some changes around here.

The first would most likely be the theme. I’ve had a few friends mention that some of the pages backgrounds are headache producing so I switched to one that is more subdued. This one will most likely be temporary, however. While, as a writer, I am a big fan of fluid width themes, the author of this one (Arclite) is in the middle of creating another (fixed width) theme that I found to be absolutely hilarious. He said it was close to being done, so maybe within the next few days…

The other big thing that you may have noticed is the “WP Greetbox” which sometimes pops up at the top of the first page/post you visit, dpending on how you came to the site. It’ll ask you to consider subscribing to the RSS feed and may also suggest you make use of the “Share This” link at the bottom of each post. The former is part of the streamlining I’m doing. As much as I want to I can’t keep up with every web community that I belong to. No, this does not mean I will be leaving speed_fic but you guys have to promise to write more Racercest. I’m going through major withdrawal, here. 🙂

It does mean that I will be cutting back on where I’ll be posting links to my posts. So, yeah. Subscribing to the feed is good. The default for FF users is to bookmark the feed, but if you have the CoLT add-on you should be able to snag it by right clicking the link  and pop it into another client (I’ve been using Thunderbird’s reader). Otherwise you’ll have to go through the bookmark’s properties. IE users (boo! hiss!) will have to deal with Feedburner. I have no idea about Opera, Safari and Google Chrome users.

I’ve also added a popular posts section, as well as a widget that offers suggestions for further reads. And for the LJ fanatics, I’ve added the ability to subscribe to each  post’s’ comments. Like LiveJournal you’ll be able to read (via email) all new comments to a post. Unlike LJ it’s optional and you can change the settings at a later time.  Those, along with “Share This,” should help draw in more visitors and strike up some conversation.

Until I see the final version of the other theme I’m interested in I’m not going to mess with the fonts. If you are having trouble reading (and it’s likely as I am), you can enlarge the text via your browser and resize your browser window so the lines are a readable length for you. This is why I love fluid width themes: they can be tweaked by the end user for their own optimal use.

So. If anyone is having any issues with the changes I’ve made, please let me know. That way I can fix them ASAP.

I’m testing out a new plug in for WordPress. Since WP has made commenting on another’s comment possible the only thing really missing was the icons. This plug in should take care of that.

I’ve uploaded a few icons that I had been using at IJ/LJ and added a few more. So, does anyone know of software/a place that I can make icons for free?

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Just a quickie to let everyone know that the chili recipe I used for the Super Bowl is now up at “Babs Get’s Cooking”. It came out really yummy. In fact Ben enjoyed it so much I was only able to get one bowl of it before he devoured it all. Damn teenagers!

I also wanted to pass along a tidbit of info to my fellow WordPress users: Avoid the “Multiple Category Selection Widget.” And if you have it, don’t upgrade to 1.0.  I had planned on using this widget for the recipe site — had even installed and activated it — however I never quite got around to actually placing the widget in the site’s sidebar. Even so, a recent update of the widget still resulted in it interfering with the links on the site. Every link would take me to the most recent post. 😛 As soon as I deativated it everything worked fine again. The same thing is happening over at The Pinkish Pages, where I do have it in use. *sighs* I guess I have some work to do.

ETA: I’ve just been informed that if you go to the widget’s page at WordPress and click the link for “Other Versions” you can download 1.1, which fixes the issue.