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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
My school books arrived a couple days ago for 2 classes that start in mid-February. I’ve been debating with myself ever since they arrived – do I start reading ahead in preparation for the upcoming classes or do I take advantage of my dwindling free time and wait until the classes actually start before starting to read the school books?
So far, my desire to keep doing fun things with my time has won out and I have not picked up the books and started studying ahead of time. I fully realize that I’m going to have significantly less free time once classes start, so I may as well enjoy myself while I can. To that end, I’m trying to finish up my gluten-free dining reviews from our recent trip to Disney. I posted the review tonight for the Whispering Canyon Cafe, but still have a few to go.
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
I’m in the process of moving my blog to my website, but the technology behind how to do that is way beyond my capabilities. Fortunately, I have a live-in guru for this type of thing. Whew!
I’m coming over to WordPress from Blogger….there are a lot more options and choices! So much so that I sometimes feel overwhelmed. What I really want to do is write, write, write….but I feel like I’m getting hung up on the details. I love that there are so many choices on themes and widgets, but I’m beginning to feel like Monk in that with the more choices I have to make, the harder it is to make the decision.
And widgets… I thought that was just the term used in my college Econ classes. You know….the supply and demand of the “widget”. I didn’t do well in Econ, probably because I spent too much time wondering what the heck a “widget” was.
I’ve spent the last two weeks playing with the website and built in blog (powered by WordPress). It didn’t seem like I had many choices for themes and gadgets. I later found out from my guru that my website was using a very old version of WordPress. Great.
Then I spent valuable time looking through the dummies books for setting up websites and blogs. The instructions and terminology at the website did not match the instructions and terminology in the books I was reading. I was getting more and more frustrated! I felt like I was trying to learn how to speak Spanish from a book that was written in German…and I speak no German.
Fortunately, my guru stepped in and figured it out. I wonder if he found the age-old definition of the word “widget”, too?
