Monthly Archives: February 2011

Tired, not sleepy

This past Saturday I was the very definition of a lazy bum. Work had been stressful for several weeks, all leading up a giant conference this past weekend that I wasn’t to attend, but for which I was to create … Continue reading

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Cowardice

Today someone I consider a “twitter friend” tweeted this: And to me this is a total no-brainer. If that’s what it would take, hell yeah, raise those taxes! Eleven cents per $10 if teachers can get raises! 15 cents per … Continue reading

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New toys!

Not in the sense of having actual toys, but in that hosting my own wordpress.org blog gives me lots of freedom to do things I’ve never thought of. (Also, things I can’t figure out, as evidenced by that fact that … Continue reading

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Test.

So I spent like 3 hours tonight reading and researching about my domain and hosting services. And then got my blog installed on my new hosting site in like 3 minutes. And I’m still making tweaks and seeing what new … Continue reading

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Learning.

Last week I got all excited that I was going to transfer my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosting thingamajig. And I was nervous and scared. And so I did it! I transferred the domain “la-florecita.com” to a non-wordpress … Continue reading

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Please hold.

On my life list, I have “one day take control of my blog, not let a website do it all for me.” I’m am in the middle of figuring out how to move this blog from WordPress.com to my own … Continue reading

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Typical Austin in February

8am: Read (past tense) the New York Times. (instead of setting it next to my bed with the intention of reading it later that day or that week or just the NYT Magazine, and then just recycling it without opening … Continue reading

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SNOW DAY!

Oh, rest of the country, how jealous of you I have been. With your snow days, and your… snow. That’s about it. I’m not really jealous of negative degree wind chills or having to scrape windshields or shovel ANYTHING. And … Continue reading

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