After only a month, I’ve become frustrated with Blogger and its limitations. Time to give Wordpress another try. Er, again.

Blogger’s like the AOL of blogging software - all you really need to know is click-and-go. Of course, that aspect of Blogger’s been really useful for getting this site - and my motivation - back up. But now that things are rolling again, it would be nice to have more control over certain aspects of this site.

So, reasons for moving back to Wordpress (again):

• Quicker rebuild times.
• Assigning categories to posts.
• All the cool people are doing it.

Basquiat
Houston Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH)
November 18, 2005 - February 16, 2006

(currently showing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art through June 5th)

Current weather in Houston: Blue skies. 79 degrees. Gorgeous.

It’s a beautiful, gorgeous weekend. A cool breeze and not a cloud in the sky. The weekend weather over the past month has been cold, rainy, gloomy and bleh….but today, glorious. Sunshine is a great serotonin booster - happy, happy, happy!

In celebration of the weather, I took a long bike ride along Braes Bayou from Hermann Park by my house to Gessner in SW Houston - 25 miles there and back. Terry Hershey Park is a much prettier ride, but I wanted maximum sunshine exposure. Saw lots of cyclers and runners out enjoying the weather as well. Everyone was smiling and waving hello. Good weather makes for good people.

Highlights of today’s ride:

• The ginormous sunflowers. Took pics with my cameraphone, but the pictures don’t do them justice. Along the bike trail, there were jungles of sunflower plants approx. 6.5 feet tall. Seriously.
• All the fish in the bayou. Lots of schools of fish, and some fish were so big, I mistook them for turtles.
• White herons eating the above mentioned fish.
• All the happy, smiling, waving people.
• Jack Johnson and Roddy Frame playing through my headphones.

Tonight: Sushi buffet.

 

• Gallery of photos/drawings. I’ve got the PHP gallery installed, but I can’t seem to upload any pics/graphics into it. I can’t tell if it’s an issue with my ISP or my web host. Both are, of course, blaming the other. I’m planning to resolve it this weekend.
• Sake Journal. Since the announcement of my intention to start a sake journal, I’ve been doing more sake-ing than journal-ing. I did set up a template for the site, though, so that’s a start. Or something. Let’s just say I’m readying my palate for the official journal activities.
• Video Gallery. I believe this issue may be tied to the Photogallery issue.
• I realize the “Previous Posts” are on the fritz. They seem to be having the same problem as the Archives did a while back - not linking properly to the stylesheets. Will fix late, late tonight or sometime this weekend. FIXED

On the morning of the RodeoRun, just before the race was scheduled to start, I had to pee. I really, really had to pee. It was, perhaps, due to the power of suggestion, since seeing 100s of people lined up to use the port-a-potties suddenly kicked my bladder into high gear.

With less than 5 minutes left before the race was scheduled to begin, I started to panic slightly. JP commented that the parking garage underground would probably be empty. I don’t know if he was joking, but I did consider it for a minute. In the end, I decided against it because the idea of squatting between two cars below downtown Houston was really, really unappealing. I think I mentioned something about how the ability to pee standing up would have been an extremely useful skill right about then.

The reason I’m sharing this is because JP sent this to me yesterday and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a looooong time. (Thanks, JP!)

• Pocket PC
• MP3 Player
• Digital Camera
• CD burner
• New Desktop computer
• Stereo system

Today is filled with super high gear-weanie excitement. Last night, I purchased a Creative Nomad Zen xTra 40G mp3 player for an insane price ($40!!) off someone who recently replaced it with an iPod. PLUS, I inherited all his excellent music on the Nomad with a healthy 20+gig to spare. Score! I was up till 2am organizing the mp3s, downloading music, fiddling with the hardware and generally basking in my high capacity happiness.

And if that wasn’t enough….as I was heading to work this morning, Gloria, the super awesome security guard for the complex, said she had a package for me. My Dell Axim x50v arrived! You know I picked that baby up immediately.

So, here I am at work, listening to zero 7, Roddy Frame and The Trashcan Sinatras on my new mp3 player and waiting for my new Pocket PC to charge up so I can start installing my software goodies onto it.

I’m getting a root canal at 1pm, but I don’t care. I’m a happy geekgirl today.

a brilliant link passed on to me by a brilliant friend:

kitty music