The trip over to Spokane Friday was fine, and we caught the tail end of a birthday party when we got there. We stayed up entirely too late with Gweekers and Mikey back at their place, talking a lot and eventually watching the Heath Ledger Casanova (meh) on the big plasma screen (cool).
Saturday held homemade lattes and more visiting and pizza for lunch and a new wallet for me at Boo Radley's (the Inland Empire equivalent of Archie McPhee's) and browsing at Auntie's Books (the Inland Empire equivalent of Third Place) and an afternoon nap. That left us fresh as daisies for watching an night game of the local Single-A ball club, the Indians. The game was full of excitement: a newspaper throw contest, a sack races, a stack-the-paint-cans competition, the throw-the-ball-at-the-block-of-ice event -- and many more! Otis got her picture take with Otto, the spokanasaurus mascot of the club. We even got to see love in bloom as a mulleted guy at our little picnic table put threw a tentative pass at a healthy, leather-vested young woman sitting nearby; she responded fervently and avidly, and by game's end they were holding hands and probably sucking face out in the smoking area. Oh yeah, Spokane lost to Eugene 7-3.
We had breakfast today at Huckleberries, a crunchy grocery store that also has a cafe, and then made the long haul back. The haul was longer because we ran into a few accidents along the way and didn't make very good time. We also stopped at the Ellensburg fruit stand and got twenty-four pounds of nectarines, among other goodies. Yowza!
Geek Note!
I updated my comics blog to Blogger Beta. Here are some notes:
1. The Beta invite shows up as an ad-looking thing in the right sidebar of the dashboard.
2. You have to create a Google login/password and log in with that to get to BB. No big deal.
3. The migration of the old blog is as easy as pie.
4. To access the new features easily, you have to update your template. It saves a copy of the old html file, so you don't risk anything. Everything on mine ported over except the CCA seal.
5. Once you update your template, you switch to the "layout" interface. This limits (but does not eliminate) the raw html tinkering you can do and adds a lot of drag & drop and point & click functionality.
6. The "labels" tags are swelleriffic, but you do need to manually back-label prior posts. My comix blog only had weekly updates, so it was a small matter to do this. They work great.
Go check it out!
2 comments:
Bitter, moi? Apparently, we are all to be migrated to this service eventually so I guess I must wait in line like the lowly peasant that I am.
I imagine it is because I do not have a cached version of the comix blog (and I am still on 56k dial-up) but I gave up trying to load the page after about 15 minutes of 21 items out of 62 - it seemed to be a combination of blogger elements and flickr images that were in the queue.
Just realized my sitemeter didn't port over. Oops!
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