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Harriet Approved

Shelly

Another keyword search that turned up was “turbocharged boxers.” My first thought was, “Of course they are turbocharged!”

And speaking of Miss Brown… I have mentioned before that she is kind of tweaky, and is generally afraid of men? She has decided that she really likes Scott. While he was over working on Mr. Computational Device, Harriet kept trying to crawl into his lap. She even wagged her nubbin at him, which was awfully cute. I don’t think she’s ever been that friendly with a guy, before, with the exception of my brothers.

Scott is Harriet Approved.

Ladybusiness, Meta

Statistics

Shelly

While perusing my stats, looking at what brings folks here, two things jump out at me. The first is that I sometimes wish it were possible to shout, “Hey, wait, I can answer your question!” to visitors as they wander off in search of a more helpful blog. Because I can tell, by how their query is formed, that the post they Googled up will not have properly answered their question. Ah well.

For example: To the person who wanted to know if you can flush tampon applicators or wrappers. Some cardboard applicators can be flushed. Do not flush plastic applicators. Wrappers can probably be flushed, in a pinch, especially if they are made of paper. When in doubt, throw it in the trash instead of flushing it.

Secondly, why, oh why, in the name of all that is good in this world, would someone go a-Googling for–I kid you not–“sanitary pad and tampon porn pictures.” Aieee! What the fuck?! I know menstrual kink is A Thing In This World, but you will not find it here. NOT EVAR.

Why, yes, it is Feminine Hygiene Product Blogging Day. Why do you ask?

Crankypantsing, Meta

Jeenyous

Shelly

Yahoo periodically tags mail from its own groups as “bulk.” This means that if you subscribe to any Yahoo groups, there is a non-negligible chance that some of your mail is getting snagged by your spam filter. This is not a new phenomenon, but I was reminded of it while doing a quick perusal of my trash bin prior to emptying it, and I thought I’d take a moment to complain to a bunch of folks who couldn’t care less and couldn’t fix the problem even if they wanted to. Why? Well, that’s the kind of day I’m having, so I thought I’d share the love.

Hugs n’ kisses,
Miss CrankyPants

Meta

Text Color

Shelly

Y’all will’ve noticed that the text color has changed. I got some complaints about the grey being difficult to read, so I darkened it up. It’s not quite black, but it’s very close. Hopefully, that will help. I could also increase the text size, but that’s easy to do on the viewer’s end (usually under your web browser’s View menu, plus there are keyboard and mouse shortcuts), so I’d rather not mess with it if I don’t have to.

Crankypantsing, Meta, Pets

Wake-up Calls

Shelly

I suddenly woke up at 2am and remembered that I had to renew my domain name. Oops! It expired yesterday. All is well, though. Those 2am reminders are a pain in the ass, but they usually make enough of an impression that they stick with me.

Still haven’t decided what to do about my computer. Also, still cranky as hell about it!

A cute Harriet story:

I’ve been letting her hang out on the patio, on a tie-out, while I’m in the living/dining room and can keep an eye/ear on her. This allows her to have time to mooch around, eat grass, lie in the sun, and watch the wee woodland critters, all of which she enjoys tremendously.

There are usually other dogs outside, most of them hanging out on upper balconies. Harriet knows she’s not supposed to bark (I bring her in as soon as she does), so when the other dogs bark at her, she’s taken to MOOOing back at them. She sounds *exactly* like a very small cow. It is crazy cute. You can actually see when she is getting ready to moo, because she stretches out her neck–just like a cow!–, lowers her head, and takes a deep breath. Then, she purses up her lips and MOOOOOOOs.

Crankypantsing, Meta

Mah Motherboard, She Go ‘Splodey!

Shelly

On the list of things you do not want to wake up to on a Saturday morning, I think I’d add “Dead Motherboard” somewhere near the top.

What that means is that I now have no computer at home, so any updating I do will have to be done before work. Hrmf! I had no idea just how much I used my computer, but lemme tell ya’, I nearly tore my hair out this weekend.

I think I’ve found a decent bare-bones kit, but “some assembly required” is an understatement. I’ve installed hardware before, but never a motherboard. Eeep!

Meta

Apparently, I Lied

Shelly

So I did suddenly decide that I had to change my blog template.  The really stupid thing is that I went looking for something clean and basic, but without freaking san-serif fonts.  (Ariel must diediedie!)  I had installed this theme ages ago, but never used it because the default fonts were san-serif.  Well, silly me!  The author created a utility that makes it easy peasy to change the fonts and font sizes.  Et voila, serifs!  That was a lot easier than screwing around with the style sheet.  I’ve had enough of that for the time being, thankyouverymuch.

Meta

Spring Cleaning

Shelly

After working on the new web pages yesterday, and coming up with something aesthetically different from the way the rest of the website looks, I decided to do a little revamping.  So far, it’s just some minor tweaking of the style sheet for the regular web pages, and some new graphics for the main pages.  I probably won’t touch the blog and gallery for awhile.

Mostly this was prompted by the fact that I have to move between two computers with different resolutions.  It’s been bugging me for a long time now that the banner graphics were all fubarred when viewed at higher than 1024 x 768 screen resolution.  Not enough to do anything about it, mind you, but still, it’s been nagging at me.  So I went with vertical, 1000px high images that are fixed, so when you scroll, the text moves, not the graphics.  One image for each main page, mostly taken from the Hemp Bound Journal, and cropped like nobody’s business.

Art, Crankypantsing, Doodles, Meta

A New Doodle

Shelly

Stonehenge Journal: Doodle
Doodle
gel pen on 90lb Stonehenge paper
5 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches

I tried uploading this file to Flickr, and boy was that ever an adventure! Apparently, though I had to dig to find the information, they had a brain hemorrhage yesterday. Everyone’s photos are all kinds of jumbled up. What fun! I didn’t have any trouble uploading the file, but when I tried to add it to a set, I saw that there were other people’s images intermingled with mine. When I clicked on them, I was either taken to the correct photo or to yet another incorrect photo.

I thought someone had hacked into my account, but I thought I’d check the main page for information, just in case there was something wrong on their end. Bupkis. I checked the Flickr blog. Bupkis. I had to go to their “help via e-mail” page, which directed me to a discussion about the problem. According to Flickr’s official statement, the problem should have been resolved Saturday. Yeah, right. Their advice was to clear your browser cache, and all would magically be restored to its natural order. Uh-huh. Go on, pull the other one. Anyway, the first thing I did was clear my browser cache, ya’ assberets. And then I tried IE, Opera, and Netscape. And then, Flickr implodiated completely.

Oh, and now I see that they’ve finally decided to post about the problem on the Flickr blog. Heckuva job, guys.