I used my "harvest table display" from FarmVille (in Facebook). I have too much fun in that little virtual world...lol.

Made by yours truly :)


(pics cuz tori04 likes food pics)

( Click for the crazy...(wide image) )

Note: apparently the URL redirection service has a particularly annoying popup that passes through Firefox 3.5's blocker (I find a lot do, sadly).

It just fits.

on "to do" list items. Last night I completed and crossed off an item that had been on my list for 3 years. Go, me!

The Hobbit House seems to have been visited by the Pumpkin fairy. I awoke this morning to find this on my front porch:

I've just set up a new business blog to use for web design-related issues, and anything else that doesn't fit in the hosting status blog. I try to keep the status one short, sweet, and only deal with hosting status issues there. There's at least one person here who will smirk when reading the title of the new blog, "My Muse." ;-)

I still need to customize the theme (and get rid of that crappy Blogger header, etc), as well as set up an LJ feed (and a 3rd one to combine both the design and hosting blog feeds, to give clients who are also on LJ an option, maybe...open to thoughts on that!)...but I thought I'd link my first post, since it's an offer (from Microsoft, not me!) that expires today:

Get a better browser and feed the hungry...and it won't cost YOU a penny! Seriously, it's true...go read!

And in other business news...there's a ton (a TON I tell you!) of new features we'll be rolling out soon, in the next month. Hoping to roll out the new site design, also, in the same time frame if not sooner.

But I really enjoy the fact that, if something has to be midnight marauding in my garden...that it's a deer. Considering the fact I'm up all hours of the day and night, and keep trying to catch her in the act but never do, I'd say I have a worthy opponent.

Saw more, fresh deer tracks in the garden yesterday. She's apparently both hungry, and happy that I removed all those pesky weeds out of her way!

I know, my "city girl" is showing....but I think it's pretty cool I have a deer who comes to visit. A squirrel or raccoon would just be annoying, but a deer, a deer is cool! And cripes, the way she hides from view yet appears almost out of nowhere, she might be a unicorn for all I know!

I'll have my camera handy...just in case.

Look close...closer....closer....

To provide more artistic inspiration that anything or anyone on earth ever could for me.

Looking at this makes me feel very important and connected, yet very small and insignificant...all at the same time. I can't name an earthly artist who can do the same for me.

I'm applying to be a BETA tester for some new (and potentially very cool) software, and they need to know the machine's specs. I've been having a lot of trouble with my laptop and have been "load balancing", running the more memory-intense programs (and anything I don't absolutely need on the laptop) on the desktop. Since I'm not "bonded" to the desktop like I am my laptop...I had to look up the CPU and such.

It's an AMD64, and apparently can run both 32-bit *AND* 64-bit programs! Is that cool, or what?!?!?! All I know is it can handle applications that would bring my laptop crashing to it's knees without even breaking a sweat.

Amazing that for as good as most of the guts of the machine are, HP really cheaped out on things like the DVD drive, which died after less than a year (and I understand that happens more than not), and the built-in card reader is dead, too.

Twitter has been down this morning, and LJ was also DDoS'd. Strange coincidence since last I checked they're on widely geographically disbursed networks.

Adding to the intrigue, my server didn't respond to a ping from one monitoring service...all at right about the same time. I use three different uptime monitoring services, so typically when just one reports a problem, it ends up being a problem with their network, not my server (as it was this morning, since I verified everything was up and running fine).

In other words, that's a whole lotta coincidences right there.

There are five mammals that purr: cats/felines, bear cubs, hyenas, raccoons and squirrels.

I don't think it's a cat living in the space above my bathroom...nor a hyena. A bear cub wouldn't fit.

That leaves two choices. I'm actually more at peace knowing it's probably a squirrel, rather than a giant BUG making the scratching sounds it makes when it's not purring.

I've been "a might busy" as my grandma would have said, and haven't been able to correspond with a couple friends as I'd like and as I used to. So I get this email from my friend who lives up in Georgetown, saying "I guess you've been busy...here, I've made it easy for you to reply":

(Please respond below):

1. I am very much OK Y/N
2. I am working harder than a Bird Dog trapped inside the duck pond at the zoo. Y/N
3. My current projects are exciting and I may even get paid! Y/N
4. I am building a Porno site for my next door neighbor who has been eyeing me. Y/N
5. I was baking bread the other day and the loaf fell out of the pan breaking my foot Y/N
6. I am hiding out at home because I have a big zit on the end of my nose. Y/N
7. I went to a midnight show last week and was attacked in the lodges. Y/N
(The lodges are part of the theatre, not me, dummy) Y/N
8. My great-great Aunt passed on and left me $15.21 and sixty-one horse blankets. Y/N
9. We had a terrible storm last night and I had to shovel my way out the front door. Y/N
10. I promise to write an email to Bill as soon as I find some spare time. Y/N


My answers will be:
1. Yes, busy is good. And btw, the Internetz and the roads flow both ways, mi'dear!
2. I was thinkin' more "busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs", but the bird dog analogy works, too!
3. Yes, yes, and YES!
4.*wince* Sadly, the shire hath no oogle-worthy denizens. But I keep the free samples ready, just in case.
5. Why, sir! Those are fighting words! I'll have you know my bread is always soft and fluffy!
6. *looks at you funny*
7. Lodges? Midnight show? Not in Hobbitt-ville! We roll our sidewalks up precisely at 9pm!
8. You know my family too well, don't you? :)
9. Luckily, being on a hillside, gravity works in my favor. Unless it's *me* sliding down the hill...
10. Amen!

TBS Radio "Challenge James" Segment from Jet Set Zero on Vimeo.

That's my brother, Robert, in Korea...he's the only guy I know who could make getting slapped look FUN!

In the first one...there's a brilliant blue...something in the tree above the orb, at the top. These photos haven't been retouched or filtered in any way, except for the feathering around the edges (I was going to make icons out them...then I saw the blue orb-y thing). It's in 2 of the set of photos I took a few nights ago (the night after that freak thunderstorm).

The color blue is striking, and not the color of anything else around it. It made me think of Heather's dreams...







Oh! And I haz Hollyhocks!

Over 1,422 1,515 lightning strikes in the last hour! I've NEVER seen lightning like this, so loud, so bright, so close. I swear you could read a book outside it was so bright! And kinda scary...the thunder literally shook the house.

Cripes, what an end to an "OMG-what-a-day" kind of day. Everyone wanted a piece of me.

ALL_AT_THE_SAME_TIME. Where is a clone army when you REALLY need one?

Never buy milk from "Grocery Outlet."

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