This is another photo from the house where I’m cat sitting. The shell is half buried in the ground, so in order to get a halfway decent shot of it, you either have to lie on the ground (which is crawling with little spiders, so I do not recommend it!) or you have to set your camera on auto focus and set it on the ground and hope for the best. I went with option B.
Three new letters. It’s been awhile since I’ve done any new letters, but I had to wait until I got a new scanner. Which I have. And which is zippy and super neato-nifty! It may, in fact, be too much scanner for me.
September 22, 1921 from Bertha
September 22, 1921 from Luella Glendening
September 24, 1921 from Mrs. Craig to Miss Hiatt
The letter from Luella is long, but there is an interesting (to me, anyway) bit toward the end about evangelical preachers and how they seem to always target women. A nice little bit of patriarchy blaming.
Also! And this is way more exciting to me than new scanners. I had to upgrade the Esther blog, onna counta some of the files were corrupted (or it was hacked?). So, I took a deep breath, bit the bullet, and upgraded. It did not take the five minutes promised by the good, delusional folks at WordPress, but at about 20 minutes, the ordeal was not so much of an ordeal. In fact, it was downright easy, with no broken databases! This means that I may (may!) soon feel up to the challenge of upgrading this blog. Not today, though. I have a headache and that might actually cause my brain to implodiate.
ETA 13 Jul 2009:
Well scratch that! It seems like the Esther blog has mysteriously gone dead (“Error establishing a database connection”). I looked at the database, and it has the same error that this one did (duplicate key in the comments_approved table). I don’t know enough about MySQL databases or about interpreting error logs to know whether or not that’s the problem, and right now, it’s not a priority, so I’m not going to waste a lot of time messing with it. But, what I am is worried about that the fact that it was working fine after upgrading, and then it became corrupted. Does this mean that, if I do succeed in upgrading the main blog, that it will then become corrupted, too? What a pain in the ass!
ETA 18 Jul 2009:
I went ahead and ditched the Esther blog, and just pointed all the “What’s New” links to the Esther category here. I don’t know why on earth I didn’t think of that in the first place!
I made rice last night. After putting the leftovers away and rinsing out the dishes, I noticed there was a rainbow pattern on the bottom of the stainless steel sauce pan. The large ring is from the electric burner coil. I’m not sure what, exactly, caused the design to form, though.
The dentist actually managed to make the novocain shots not hurt! That is a new experience for me. Always, always, always, they hurt like hell. It’s by far the worst part of any dental procedure, as far as I’m concerned. But not this time. My upper jaw aches though, now that the numbness has worn off. Hopefully that’ll go away soon.
I’m cat sitting again this week (and pretty much every weekend for the next month or so), so I took my camera along with me. There are a few flowering shrubs on the property, along with all sorts of teeny-tiny wildflowers, which means there’s usually something interesting to take a picture of there. I got one photo taken, and then my camera battery died. Stupid me. I knew the battery was getting low, and I even have a fully charged spare, but did I bring it with me? Of course not! I R D-U-M-M.
The green peppers and tomatoes are coming along. Slowly.
More Lensbaby shots, with +4 macro attachment. I like the way these turned out.
I was late leaving for work this morning, otherwise I would have missed the festivities. Henry, Polly, and Harriet all hurtled themselves at the patio door at the same time. Aieee! I went to see what the uproar was about, and was greeted with this sight. Well, almost this sight. I’ll spare you the first couple of photos, which were of the doe squatting to pee.
And now, I’m off to see if there is anything not-Michael Jackson-related on the teevee. After, that is, I see if there is anything mushy to eat. I had no idea it was possible to get sick of mashed potatoes, mac n’ cheese, and tomato soup. Who knew?! Friday’s dental appointment from hell cannot come quickly enough.
My across-the-aisle cube neighbor has had this horrible fake ivy plant for a few years. I think she said that her mother gave it to her, and she didn’t feel like she could throw it away, so she brought it to work. WTF?! Anyway, last week was “clean your cube” week, so when I came in to work this morning, the fakety fake ivy plant was sitting in my cubicle. Apparently, “clean your cube” means “stuff the crap you don’t want into Shelly’s cube.” Again, WTF?! So, I immediately put it in someone else’s cube, on top of a really tall bookcase. Hopefully, it’ll take the new owner awhile to notice it.
It rained a lot this weekend. In fact, folks were setting off fireworks during the rain on Saturday.
I’m back-dating some of these, because, while I’ve been a bad blogger, I have been taking daily photos.
red paper boat 