It's all the little things, and it's starting to get to me

The auction for JS ends in about a day, and if someone buys it and puts-up a site anything like the old JS -- I'm there.

While I'm enjoying the use of a standard tool that plays nicely with all the blogging tools out there, the lack of the social networking features are killing me.

I can't easily click on the list of viewers who have visited and go see their sites.

When I visit a blog, I have to leave a comment so the blogs that I visit know I read and care, instead of having the knowledge that they will see that I've visited in their statistics. I'm not good at quick comments, and it's slowing-down my blog reading something fierce. It would be faster if I just posted a reading list here. Hmmm, maybe I'll do that.

And finally, the inability to PM people. I didn't use it much, but when I did, it was a very nice way to communicate more openly and deeply within the JS community.

And so ends the first work week of 2008 2009

This evening is the first normal, nice evening we've had this week.

We're just sitting back and watching TV. Thing2 is a little manic and she's very chatty so we watch a few minutes of our show, pause TIVO, chat, and then resume the show.

And tomorrow will be more TV. With all the football playoff games happening this weekend, we're not going to get much done. But it will be fun!

Update: If you haven't seen the JS YouTube, go check it out at JadedJ's place.

Guide to Ocean Friendly Seafood

The Blue Ocean Institute has compiled a guide to help consumers make appropriate choices when eating fish. Full List of Seafood



The fish listed as 'red' are:
Atlantic Cod
Atlantic Halibut
Atlantic Salmon
Caviar from the Caspian Sea and wild-caught North American
Chilean Sea Bass
Fresh Water farmed Eel
Groupers
Orange Roughy
Oreos (the fish, not the cookie)
Imported Sharks
Farmed or wild-caught Imported Shrimp
Snappers
Japanese farmed Yellowtail

MSNBC's Chris Matthews won't run for Senate

MSNBC's Chris Matthews won't run for Senate

"He is now said to be mulling a contract renewal offer from MSNBC."

Translation: He opened his latest financial statement and saw that like most other millionaires, he's seen his net worth plummet about 40% and he needs to stay where the pay is highest if he wants to maintain his standard of living.

There's nothing better than extended family

I had dinner last night with my second cousins (or first cousins once removed... I forget how it works.)

It was a delightful and relaxing evening spent with people I've known all my life, but who don't have an overly strong sense of (what's the word I want here... something that infers the kind of baggage a parent or even a sibling might bring to the table...)*runs off to consult thesaurus* -- vested interest seems to be the closest I can get. I hope you get the idea.

In any case, whatever words are used, it was much needed and much appreciated.

Not a good day -- at all

I wish I could throw my blanket over my head and hide from the world like Linus in the Peanuts cartoons.

Google's ironic AdSense

When I checked the journalspace.com web page today, this is what I saw:

While this is certainly ironic, I would like to point-out to everyone that while Dylan's lack of complete backup did cause damage to many of us. I dare you to find anyone who hasn't experienced the loss of some electronic material. It's one of those things that happens. So this post isn't intended to heap on the ridicule.
Karma's a bitch, and I don't have everything of mine totally backed-up either. *knock on wood*, *runs-off to schedule a total backup*.