Free Tarot Reading from Jen: Nipps Conflict in the Bud!

By Sam on November 20, 2008

Last night on Plurk, I got an offer I couldn’t pass up. It was from Jenifer Nipps, one of my Plurk buddies. She offered me, and her other Plurk friends, a free three-card tarot reading.I’ve been questioning certain things, lately, so when Jen asked what the reading should be about, I told her “career/finance”. I didn’t give any other details, because — despite being somewhat of a believer in stuff like card readings (sometimes) — I also like to know whether the reading really worked. I can’t know that, if I tip my hat too much.

Within minutes, Jen gave me the results via a private Plurk. And the cards had outlined the exact conflict (and it’s a neck-up conflict, on my part, not just a case of too many expenses and not enough money), I’ve been struggling with for weeks, now.

The cards showed that the problem (lack of money) could be resolved, once that specific internal conflict was taken care of. And they gave me a loose guideline on how to resolve the conflict.

Here’s the part that concerns you: Jen has extended the free three-card reading offer beyond Plurk. She’s offering the same sort of reading from her blog. If you’re a believer in that sort of thing — or even just open-minded and curious — it would be worth your time to swing by Tarot & Pendulum Practice to see what Jen and the cards can reveal for you.

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There WILL Be Screaming

By Sam on November 20, 2008

It may even wake my neighbors.

I’m completely freaked out, right now. My televsion dies a couple of days ago, so I can’t use it as a night light, or to drown out the noises.

“Noises?” you say, “What noises?”

The noises coming from under the kitchen sink! That’s what noises! There’s something moving around inside the cabinet, and by the sound of it, it’s something big. With claws!

No way in hell am I going in there and opening the cabinet doors to have a look. No way in hell am I going to bed, leaving it to meander in the quiet and the dark.

But when I make a loud noise, it goes quiet. My last “loud noise” was a controlled grunt. I don’t see that control lasting for the duration of the night.

If you live near me, please accept my apologies in advance. And for both our sakes, get over here and help me find out what’s in my kitchen!

You might want to bring a bat!

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Plurk: Borked. Twitter: Borked. TV: Dead.

By Sam on November 18, 2008

What’s an inept social butterfly and longtime recluse to do???

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Holiday Season PSA

By Sam on November 17, 2008

Eat Ham

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Comic Tools Gets Primitive!

By Sam on November 16, 2008

The search for better drawing tools is never-ending. This is especially true for folks like me, who live in towns so small you’re lucky to be able to find a decent rollerball pen, nevermind technical or brush pens.

I’ve gotten innovative a time or two. I’ve tried burning the ends of toothpicks to make my own charcoal, and even gave making my own paintbrush a shot, but it never, ever crossed my mind to try drawing with bamboo skewers.

That’s just what the author of Comic Tools has been up to, though, and the results are fantastic! I’m going to try to pick up some skewers, myself, as soon as I’m forced to go to the grocery store. If I’m lucky, the skewers they sell will be a tad more tangible than the imaginary tofu.

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The Downside of Cooking for My Dog

By Sam on November 16, 2008

Cooking for My Dog

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WordPress 2.7, Hybrid, and Things I’m not Cut Out For

By Sam on November 15, 2008

There are lots of things I’m not cut out for. One of those things is resisting something new and shiny, like WordPress 2.7 Beta 2. Unfortunately, some of the others include CSS, PHP, patience, and remembering changes that I’ve already made. Due to that first thing I’m not cut out for, I decided to upgrade my WordPress to the beta, today, despite the long list of other things.

And, boy, was that fun! I managed to backup my database without killing anything, thank God, but my first attempt at an upgrade resulted in my blog showing as simply a list of errors. I reverted back to 2.6.3, and again, got a page full of errors. At that point, my impatience kicked in, I deleted the whole damned thing, and did a nice, clean upload of 2.7B2. And was met again with — you guessed it — errors!

This is where the last item in that list of things I’m not cut out for comes into play: I forgot about having to edit my index.php because of the way my blog is set up.

Once that was fixed, my blog was functioning, but I discovered the biggest problem with the WordPress beta: lack of themes. Oh sure, you can get plenty of them to work, but even some of the few that claim to be WordPress 2.7-compatible don’t offer a way to utilize WordPress’ nifty new threaded commenting system. And, by damnit, I wanted my threaded comments!

Which led me to Justin Tadlock’s Hybrid Theme Framework. It allows for threaded comments. It allows for lots of stuff that I’m not quite clear on, because I’m an outta-the-box kinda girl. It’s designed for the development of child themes, which really is a good direction for theme development, in general. It means that when we not-cut-out-for-CSS folks screw up, we aren’t completely screwed.

Naturally, I edited the theme, itself, anyway. It’s a nice dark theme, and, at the moment, dark webpages make my entire screen take on a lovely green tinge. So, for now — just now — you, dear reader, will be subjected to very simple blocks of white and a blue so soft and sweet it could sicken cotton candy.

It’ll get better soon, I promise. But in the meantime, resistance is for self-flagellants. I plan to take a mental break, play with my dog, and spend some time just looking at my new and shiny WordPress admin.

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