hello! yoshi

It’s monday, I’ve got nothing to say right now. I’ve not been paying attention to the news or the blogosphere in the past few weeks, so it’s slim pickings for me to blog. I apologize now for the sparse posts I’ve had and probably will have in the future.

I totally forgot about FFAF too, and that saddens me. I’m just totally out of touch!

Not that the days matter much nowadays for me being in recovery and all. I’m working since I work from home, but it’s not quite the same being drugged up on Percoset and programming. LOL Things just take longer because I have to quadruple check my work. Crazy but true.

Other than that, I was considering doing a Thursday Thirteen list, but honestly, you’d think it’d be easier to come up with 13 items to talk about. It’s just crazy, isn’t it? Katie gave me a good list theme, but I think I’ll save that for a rainy day when I decide to actually do the list.

Recovery is painful. But at least it’s recovery.

I was talking to Jules the other day and we were talking about RSS Feeds and Feedburner and all that crazy stuff that bloggers talk about. Then she says to me, “i hate this reader thing.  people should just comment and link like the old days.” I totally agree! I remember the old days when you would comment. Hell, I remember the days when there was no way of commenting on a post yet, and you just had a guestbook. Remember those days? Guestbooks were the bomb diggity back in the day.

But I digress.

But in the old days, you would just link to your favourite sites, and that’s how you expressed that you liked a site or you would just comment and that’s how people found your site and whatever. These are the days before SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and money making blogs and well when not just everyone had a blog. Nowadays, everyone has a blog. And there are different kind of bloggers too. I won’t list them all, since I don’t even know all of them that exist. But there are so many it’s not even funny. There are even Spamming bloggers, a.k.a. sploggers. Crazy isn’t it?

When I first started way back in whenever, it wasn’t even called blogging. It was just having a website, updating every now and then (sometimes weekly, sometimes daily) and just saying whatever. There were no such things as Blogger (which I started using way back in 2001 because everyone I talked to said I should use it), and wordpress or any other program that most people use nowadays. It was a website originally called “Psychodaisy’s Garden” where I put down my thoughts and links and had my guestbook (of course). Those were the old school days. Psychodaisy.com was finally created in 2001, but before that I was at the validus.com domain, which was sold for a pretty good amount of money. That domain was my first domain name, which I paid $100 for 2 years to register. That was when InterNIC was the only registrar. How times have changed!

Anyways, how long have you been blogging?

Also, today’s Mother’s day. Have you called your mom today? You better!

You may or may not have noticed that I’ve stopped publishing my Twitter feed at the bottom of the page. This is due for a few reasons, mostly because I want to start reducing the amount of “stuff” I am displaying on this site. I’m trying to get a redesign going for the upcoming Blogathon, and I want to streamline what’s going to be shown on the new design. It’s a lot of work you know. Yes, I am doing the Blogathon this year, and yes, I have some ideas. Apparently the organizers are changing. But that’s another post.

Regardless, I haven’t really been tweeting much either. It’s not because of Twitter, or because I am too bored of it. Honestly, it’s mainly been because I’ve just been forgetting to go to the website. Normally I use twhirl, and well, it’s been acting really strange as of late, and it’s not running well. It keeps acting all wonky, and I’m not sure if I should blame it on the app or blame it on Adobe AIR. Who knows, regardless, it’s not working well, and I just plain have not been using it at all, which makes me ignore Twitter. Perhaps I’ll start using it again and get back onto Twitter. Especially since Jules is back to using it.

What program (if any) do you use to keep track of your Twitter updates?

Ok, so Sodapop thought to give me an Excellence award. This is cool. So apparently I have to pass this on to 10 other sites. Holy crap, that’s a lot of sites! But I’ll go ahead and pass it on. Actually are 10 enough? LOL Probably not. I’d also go ahead and say this all started at Project Mommy. Why not give her some credit here? (Yes, I stole the idea from sodapop)

Without further ado, here are 10 sites that I’m rewarding the Excellence to (hopefully I didn’t repeat any):

Neptunebaby
Jenn
Katie
Kate
Melanie
cybr
Muse
Joz
Tiggerprr
Kailani
Luka
Pandora
Daniel
Colin

Oops, that might be more than 10. But that’s ok. They’re all excellent blogs. Oh, I’d probably have included some others, like Danalyn, but Danalyn needs to post more. :P

So yesterday, I went out to Beaverton, OR to visit Katie and to go to a book signing by Kim Harrison. The book signing was at Powell’s Bookstore, which I have to mention is HUGE. Katie was telling me that the big store (Powell’s CITY of books) is really a CITY of books. I can’t imagine the other stores being bigger.

The trip down there was pretty uneventful. I mean 2 hours driving on I-5… Boring! But I persevered, knowing that at the end of the 2 hour drive, I would be meeting Katie and Kim Harrison.

When I got there, I had to call Katie to let her know I was there, and meanwhile I had 2 hours to waste before the actual book signing. They had a place at that “mall” that the bookstore was in called “The Mac store” but it wasn’t a “real” Mac store, it was just a store that had Mac stuff. It had some great stuff in there, I just don’t have money to spend on such things right now!

When Katie got there, we ended up eating at Panera bread company, of where she has never been. I had to edumacate her that everything there was pretty much good, especially the French Onion soup. (I’m a regular Asiago Roast Beef / French Onion Soup person myself!) Of course, Katie doesn’t like onions (I never knew!) but she ordered the Tuna sammich and Tomato soup. She liked the tomato soup, and she remarked, “It reminds me of spaghetti… I have simple tastes.” LOL Ok, Katie, as long as you like it.

When we finally got to the book signing after spending much time yapping in Panera about nothing, we ended up sitting in the back. Which wasn’t exactly the greatest idea. When the book signing actually came, that’s right, we were the last to get our books signed. I’m sure Kim was tired and had carpal tunnel by the time we got to her. People had some great questions for her, some of which I’ll relay, the ones that I remember at least. I have a bad memory you know. Q&A with Kim Harrison after the bump.

All in all, it was a great day, we spent 2 hours in the signing, only because we were in the back. But it was fun, we got to yapper again, mainly about nothing. I did give Katie my address, so she’s now an “official” stalker. Cool! I told her, “Now you can stalk me!” She replied, “Like I’m not already?” LOL She’s so funny!

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This is a test post using flock. I’m just checking out my options on what I can use. So far Flock is pretty slick. You can add your various accounts to it like delicious, flickr, and even twitter. Although twitter appears to be out of reach to me (no surprise there) so I can’t set that one up.

Another thing I wanted to know is if anyone is using Magnolia?

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Tags: flock, browser, flickr, delicious, twitter, magnolia

Ok, superbowl today. I just want to say I’m rooting for the Giants this year, just because I don’t particularly care for the Patriots. That’s the only reason. The Hawks didn’t make it this year, so I’m downplaying the SuperBowl. I’ll just be looking forward to seeing the commercials.

I’ve undertaken a great responsibility today and went ahead and joined Blog 365. I saw that Pandora did it, so I might as well join, being the lemming that I am. So you should see a blog post everyday. If not, then a moblog post at the very least!

I do. So does Ryan. He’s currently recovering over an accident he had this last weekend. It’s quite amazing he’s still alive. Feel free to stop on over there and send him some love. The truck doesn’t look like it’s going to make it though. Too bad, he really loved that truck!

Ok, so I’ve been wanting to know, what are the wordpress plugins you can’t possibly live without? I know there are plenty of articles and posts about this, but I’d like to hear a fresh list of plugins that you must have in order for your wordpress site to rock.

So, give it to me please!