subscribeAug 29, 2008
oh dear god, not a fucking list post
Hell yeah, this is a fucking list post.
Why? Because someone (who I won’t name but three guesses as to who it is) says I need to post. I do everything that someone tells me to do. So let’s do this.
- I dislike my site host. They can take the invisible ***** hanging from my invisible **** and suck on the hairy things as if they were designer candies. I don’t mean to be graphic (OK, I do), but my site host has left me no choice. They have been completely unresponsive to my requests to fix the server that my site is hosted on, or at least force the hosed-up site or sites that are also on my server to shape up because those hosed-up sites are affecting my site as well as Postal Poetry. And that gets my invisible **** in a twist, as if I were one of those two dudes in Puppetry of the Penis.
- I dislike this blog template. It’s proving to be inflexible and downright annoying. I thought I could make it work, but apparently not. Sometimes you just have to learn when to walk away from an unsalvageable relationship. And sometimes you have to learn how to spell the word “unsalvageable” without misspelling it seven times first.
- I had a boil most of the week. Furuncle is a better term. If you squint hard enough, the word “furuncle” looks like “funnelcake,” and everyone knows Mrs. Funnelcake and I like the word funnelcake.
- My hamster ran off tonight. I found her. She was acting all cute and innocent when she waddled out from behind some crap I’ve amassed in a closet near her cage. But she screwed up my planned three-day vow of silence, that she did, since I ran all over the house screaming her name like this: “Trudy!!! Trudy!!! Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudy!!! Trudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!!”
- About that vow of silence: I decided to have a three-day vow of silence. Vocal silence, to be precise. I wanted to resist my impulse to speak, since working against impulses is
alwayssometimesoccasionallyrarely a good thing. I wanted to verbally communicate only what was necessary which, in the case of a vow of silence, is nothing at all. I wanted to settle myself down, since I’ve been feeling fragile for the past few days for various reasons. And not allowing my body to reverberate with my own voice seemed like as good a way as any. Until Trudy got loose and loused it all up. - Someone I used to work with closely died yesterday. He was a good man, an outstanding employee, and a true visionary when it came to technology and communication.
- Oh no! LoveShack just came home with some weird news. Sigh. Gotta jet.
Boo, hiss… pocks on you, bluehost, and on your children and your children’s children.
So so glad Ms Trudy is OK.
Oh and I loved that new look too … but at least the writing is still just the same : Great! Trudy is a superb name for a hamster.
Blythe, yes. Shame on Bluehost. And I see I’ve awoken to a very slow-loading site again today. And that Bluehost *still* has not replied to my last ticket asking them to resolve the problem. If Bluehost were a school kid, I’d hold it back for a year or two until it got the hang of things.
I will give them until Tuesday and then I am moving to another host.
Kay, yes. But it’s a pain in the hiney. It really is. I have to get things just right on the main page every time I post so that it all looks pretty. And I don’t know that people coming to the main page think to click through to other posts. It’s just not that intuitive. My bad for picking it because it was pretty.
Have you found a new template?
Deb, nope. I am grappling with all kinds of issues about this one. I love the pages on this site, the archives layout, and the look of the main page when it’s basically preserved in its original form. But I don’t like the lack of flexibility or the fact that people have to click through to see all my posts. Sigh. What to do? What to do?
Wasn’t there another post after this one? Did you take it down or is it just another of your issues with the template?
Yes, it is a very pretty look, but I do find it a little irritating (just a little) to click through to read the other posts, and to get to the sidebar links
Catherine, there was totally another post up after this one in which I’d detailed how my site host is finally taking responsibility for my loused up connectivity (or, in their terms, my “sub par load times”).
I took that post down after someone e-mailed me and let me know my site host reserves the right to terminate people’s accounts without any warning, which is precisely what happened last year to the person e-mailing me.
There’s actually a “vulgarity” clause in the terms of agreement as well. This upsets me greatly because, as you know, a lot of art can be considered vulgar. I don’t like the idea of my site host telling me that my writing and poetry are vulgar or their reserving the right to unplug my blog without notice for that reason.
Anyway, yes. I pulled that post. And I am currently shopping for a new site host.
Catherine, if you don’t want to click through from my main page, bookmark this link instead: http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/category/blog/
Or put me in your google reader and just click on the individual posts you want to read.
Actually, you are in my google reader, I just keep forgetting to use it
After all, I can type your address in off the top of my head, since I come here more often than anywhere else.
Catherine, that is so sweet of you. And it’s a long URL, too. I can barely remember it.
I have photos of your crows that I keep meaning to post. I’ve been a little absorbed in making and tweaking blogs. And in writing collaborative poems. When are you going to write with me?
When I start writing at all, then I’ll write with you. I waas going to take most of this week off work, then it didn’t quite work out and I will only have Friday off. When I’ll be at the Writer’s Festival. I volunteered to help usher so I could score free tickets.
Actually, I don’t have to remember the whole URL, because as soon as I start typing it in my computer remembers the rest for me
Catherine, oh have fun at the festival! If you can score handouts from that blogging session from someone that would be cool. But I bet there won’t be any handouts. I’d really love to know what they have to say.