Not-bullets

1. Hey, it's poetry month! Hence the poems that have posted the past two days (oh, how I love post-dating!).



2. My Bloglines front page says I have "63 updated feeds" which include 367 unread posts. I also have 172 saved posts. I think this means I am officially buried.



3. I am caught up in tweets and Fb, though. Short Attention Span rules the day!



4. I am not loving Fb's 'update'. Just discovered that you can't do "less of/more of" individuals. People are either in your news feed, or not. That explains why I get RSS'd updates in Bloglines for Stephanie, Kyle, Kevin, et al., but never see 'em on Facebook; in the old incarnation they were "less of" but now they are invisible. Guess I'll create a 'group' of them so I can find them periodically. Stupid. How is this an upgrade, Fb??



5. Today I am meeting someone with whom I may be spending a great deal of time in the future, someone who may strongly influence my external happiness meter. Hope that goes well.



6. This weekend is crazy busy: local mission trip on Saturday (more on that, perhaps, later). On Sunday I'm playing in the bell choir at church which will be followed immediately by an Easter Egg hunt for the little kids. The youth group is going to hide the eggs, so as soon as worship is over, I have to go into supervision mode. Whee.



7. My mom's health is stable. That's all. I have not bought plane tickets. Not...quite...yet.



8. Found a shirt this morning in my closet I had forgotten about. It was with the summer shirts, but it's a long-sleeved T. Why, yes: I am wearing it today, as a matter of fact!



9. I'm nearly caught up in cataloging new materials at work, but suddenly feel absolutely swamped in projects. Graphic Novels, biogs, gifted videos and manga, calling STOOPUD publishers to cancel subscriptions (Dun&Bradsteet, you SUCK!) original cataloging, typos, fairy tales...the floodgates have opened.



10. Our system database manager at work needs to be punched in the face. This has nothing to do with anything else in this post. He just does. On principle.



11. Sparky has reverted to 100% teenager. Glad he's normal. Wish he'd pull his head out a little more often though.



12. The sun is out. This is a good thing, yo.

Mood: Good
Hair: Feh
Eyes: Some issues here again....
Listening to: "I Love the 70s!" on VH1

OK so Beast has been out of town for a couple of days. While he was gone I've gone from over 300 saved Bloglines posts, to 90! 'Course 154 of those are now in my Clippings file there....but I don't have to look at them everytime I look at the new posts. There are probably another 5 or 6 work-related ones I want to forward to people and then save. So I may get down close to 80 tomorrow.

I'm clearly a geekazoid. On the other hand, give me some slack: I was at a City-Wide Staff Meeting this afternoon which was beyond surreal.

Trully the highlight of the day came early when Schedule Nazi came up behind me while I was IMing about her being an idiot. Fuck. No clue if she saw it--I was madly trying to close the window while she talked to me about some random project she couldn't verbalize (as usual).

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Urban Word:

rut ro: "Uh oh" in Scooby Doo language.

Rut ro: I may have cooked my own goose today with Schedule Nazi.

Pushing the ball uphill

Mood: OK
Hair: Well, it was washed this morning, but at this point...
Eyes: Itchy, but ok
Listening to: The intro to the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movie

So, I've been trying to keep up with the feeds in the library part of my blogroll all weekend, at the same time I'm trying to figure out a way of keeping track of them for posterity. Thank God for Bloglines' "Clippings" feature!

Still, I was completely caught up this morning with new posts. There are 58 new posts in TWO feeds right now. Those people on Autocat--which is responsible for 44 of the new posts--really need to get a life. Obviously, I haven't read today's posts, but...shit, guys. Do you actually have jobs?! Or are you paid by the post? ...sigh... I guess I need to get a job as an academic librarian, or as a real management type.

{grumble}

OK, fine, then I'll go read 'em.

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Word Spy Word:

hectivity: n. Hectic activity.

Keeping ahead of these posts is certainly a lesson in hectivity.

Even-ing

Mood: OK
Hair: Not my crowning glory today, I'm afraid
Eyes: Really, officer, it's just allergies!
Listening to: The Chicagoland Speedway NASCAR race; would someone PLEASE take Kyle Busch OUT OF THE RACE?!?!?!

So I got our bathroom thoroughly cleaned today, as well as all the ceiling fan-blades in the house. Sparky & I went and ran some errands; he drove most of the way. I've spent several hours cleaning up Bloglines feeds and going through old posts on this blog. I probably deleted about 10 that had completely dead links and/or stupid stuff, and I rewrote several. Hey, it's my blog: I make the rules. ;-) I rediscovered a thing I used to do called "Snappy Comebacks" that I may resurrect once in awhile.

I'm really tired, but determined not to go to bed until later than usual so perhaps I'll sleep all night long finally. I stopped drinking caffeinated pop at about 5. Normally I can drink Dr. Pepper until I crawl into bed. My plan was to watch as much of SNL as I could stomach tonight, until the comedy just totally disappeared. However, then I discovered that Mariah Carey is on, so I will watch until she appears, and then go to bed and read or something.

Oh. And I loathe Kyle Busch. In case you didn't get that up above.

Also, Brett shouldn't come out of retirement. He's thinking with something other than his brain. Stop that, dude!

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Word Spy:

microboredom: n. Boredom caused by having nothing to do over a short period of time.

I think right now I'm experiencing a bit of microboredom in anticipation of work tomorrow.

Things Racing Through My Mind

• Last fall (winter?) Beast started painting the kitchen. I finally made a decision on whether I wanted the space above the cupboards enclosed (yes) and we decided on a design for the trim around the top of the cabinets on the soffits. (ooh) As of last weekend, it's all done: the soffits are in, the walls are all painted, the plate rail has been built and stained and installed (all by Beast), and the platters and plates I've collected over time are in place. It's lovely



• At the same time Beast was doing all this work, I had a sudden spurt of Homemaker-itis, so we now have a curtain in the kitchen window and also cafe curtains in the dining room. The shades in the windows aren't opaque, and I got tired of being on shadowy display as I ate (not that we eat at the table anymore, because I Am a Bad Mom--we use TV tables!)



• Today I need to dry mop the house. It's rather desperate, this need: allergies have booted up and I'm not having fun. I think I need to dust the fan blades everywhere too. And nightstands, and dressers, and tables...sigh. I really don't like dusting. Thank God for Swiffer, though, because at least dry-mopping is easier now!



• Last night I went through my Bloglines feeds and deleted several. I'm down to 122 of them. OK, some of you can stop sneering at me now. You know who you are. Of that 122, I can think of at least 15 that are updated no more than four times a year, 20 are friends' blogs and/or comment feeds (or my own), 18 are work-related (one is a consolidating site which 'reads' about 30 other blogs, though...), and 12 are purely for fun (cartoons, etc.). Local news accounts for 5, and since I don't read the paper, they are sort of important to me (otherwise, I wouldn't know things like the fact that there is some lunatic out here in Podunk who wants to start a library...in a building that he owns...and which was condemned two years ago!) Almost 40 of the feeds are meme sites. Gulp.



• I'm still cleaning up old blogposts from the Dark Ages--I'm all the way up to September 2004.



• I hate that I have to register to buy my allergy meds right now. Normally, I can just buy the Claritin from the shelf, but if I need Claritin-D, I have to ask at the pharmacy counter, produce ID, and register for my 10 pills at a time. Why? Because it has pseudoephedrine (i.e. Sudafed) in it, and can therefore be used to produce meth. I clearly fit the profile of your average tweaker, too. {eyeroll} Really, I'm just grumpy; I do see the purpose in all this; it is annoying, however.



• Beast's work situation changed this week. Actually, it didn't really change, but there was a noisy announcement of impending upheaval, which of course means everyone's spending time worrying about that rather than focusing on the job at hand. The good news? Beast spend the last two days taking apart equipment in the lab and cleaning it. Because his title is...Sales Guru and Product Manager. Yeah. That makes sense. Some guy making WELL over $20/hour taking apart the machinery. He does know what he's doing, but shouldn't someone from Maintenance be doing this? Oh, wait: there is no Maintenance; just us chickens. Hence, Beast doing a wonderful Mike Rowe impression.



• Am I procrastinating? Yup.
  
  I guess I really should close this down and get some chores done.

It's Saturday!

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Urban Word:

daddy badge: Vomit or snot from a baby found around the upper chest or shoulders of their father which shows the world that they are a parent.

I'm so pleased to live in a world where we had to invent a word for this concept. I'm pretty sure my dad rarely--if ever--had a daddy badge.

Sports of varying types

Go PACK! I mean really: I never expected the Packers to be 4-0 at this point in this year's season. It's like a "pinch-me" season so far, a bonus added to the records Favre is setting.

Plus, the Browns won. AND the Bears lost.

If the Broncos could have gotten their act together, that would have been a 100% perfect football day for us. On the other hand, I just found out--ironically, from my British nephew's Facebook posting--that the Rockies have made it to the MLB playoffs.

This was a good intro to a busy week kicked off by a nuts day tomorrow: I have a ton of stuff to prep, last-minute, for a scrapbooking program I'm doing at the library in the evening, and I need to get the Session minutes all caught up so I can take them to a meeting and have them examined this month. Oh, and a mailing has to be made to go out this week to the youth group members.

I'd rather watch football games. Or sleep.

However, the afternoon wasn't a dead loss: I finally cleaned out ALL of my saved Bloglines posts. Instead of having something like 80 of them saved, I'm down to about 25, 16 of which are memes. The rest are personal-interest things to examine more closely. Soon.

My list of favorite authors is current through books published up to 2007.

And, in case you hadn't noticed, my eyes are no longer giving me giant nightmares. They aren't perfect, but they are functional and way more manageable. To celebrate, yesterday I went out and bought a heated mattress pad for our bed, a blanket for Sparky's bed, HUGE bath towels for Beast and me (with bamboo...why?), and very very cute shoes.They're called "Poptart" in brown houndstooth. I will giggle whenever I think of that!

Library Blogging Meme

In the library blogosphere, this meme has been going around for a couple of months. I found it during the midst of Lent, and hung on to it to post when I was able to. Yes, I actually do read (a lot) of other stuff besides library blogs and friends' blogs (and memes!) Most of my blogroll is posted over there at the left, but I'm going to highlight some of my favorites here:

Separated by a Common Language. Lynneguist (ahem) discusses differences between the way Americans use English and the way English (et al.) use it. Fascinating, funny, erudite.

Innings. Not a lot of explanation needed here. Funny, or interesting, or bizarre, or stop-and-think photos from all over the place. That's it.

The Malt Shop. I love the design of this site, and it's one of the first meme-y places I visited regularly that I still visit. Tiny cheat: Shelly is a librarian too. But she doesn't talk books...too much...at the malt shop.

Correct Me If I'm Wrong. Technically, this is a podcast, but I 'read' books with my ears, so I guess I can 'read' blogs that way too, right. Anyway, this is the San Francisco Chronicle's complaint line. Just the crazies. Kinda like the reference desk.

Decently and In Order. This is sort of a Digg just for Presbyterian "stuff." The joy is that it's not always churchy (only about 80%) and not just Presby (only about 50%), and anyone can submit a story.

I did this at my meme site too, because I have 156 feeds, and it's really hard to narrow my choices down to just 5. So, yeah, cheating. Deal. But I only picked one library-related one, so hey, at least I was kinda draconian!

Sitemeter, and Stuff

Since I've been staring at them all week, vacillating between panic and hysteria...I figured I'd share some of the semi-interesting (to me, anyway) site stats:

Searches:

• Lots of you get here via Bloglines. L-O-T-S of you. I'm starting to recognize your subscription numbers....


• MORE people, however, find me by doing Next Blog inside Blogger. You come from some really weird places, too, mostly ones I have no intention of publicizing.


• Thanks for checking out other people's Deep Thoughts today :-)


• A convicted sex criminal whose story I posted over 2 years ago. I'm clearing his name, and not posting it again here.


• Palmistry? I took the picture out of the post. So sorry...go away. All of you that keep looking for it. Go. SCAT!


• Middle short hair. This is a regular search that I've questioned in the past. Go to a freakin' hair website, not a blog...especially not one on the second page of your search results!


• basenji revolution--WTF...not here. If the basenjis are staging a revolution, it hasn't made it to my little town.


• Yesterday's discovery of Beast's aunt's family name preceded by John (not a known relative, but probably on the tree somewhere), and Beast's aunt's name in full (yipes!). Apparently, I missed an earlier occurrence of John from a few days ago, too. Bummer.


• simply red i know much is true sun of my soul--uhm, well, I'll give this a pass since it came from Russia, but yow....


• spaghetti dinner disgusting--wrong! My spaghetti dinners are NOT disgusting!


• Lyrics to Moe's "Spine of a Dog" (which were typed in as a search string I'm too lazy to copy)


• monster m8O energy drink. OK, here's the thing: I looked for 5 pages and didn't find myself in this search. I don't drink quote-energy drinks-quote. Go hang with the palmistry people somewhere else!


• OK, who is forwarding my URL in your Yahoo email? Cut it out! You're making me nervous. Also, those of you using Comcast email.


• fingertips hurt with cold symptoms--perhaps you should go to WebMD and do this search....?


• Meebo, from Technorati. Yes, I'm using it. Right now, even.


• Also from Technorati, a search for "men's vogue" heh. Here is probably not where you want to be.


• illiberal schmucks--ditto. You're needed somewhere else.


• Handsful or handfuls? Well, clearly, in the snip in Google, I don't know!


• "mother's revenge" preggo....very proud to see that I am the only hit for this in Google.... Someone in Scappoose, Oregon is weird.


• DinnerbyDesign. They rock. And they've saved my sanity.


• vice versa vicey versey Get. A. Life.


• Black Sabbath. Yeah. My favorite band. ROCKANDROLL! Or, yeah, maybe not. Kinda goes with this next one, though....


• The ever popular he@dsh0ps in Denver. I must be the best non-source website for this information on the internet. I'm so proud. This makes me double over with laughter whenever it shows up. The kicker is that this time the searcher was in my home town. ;-)

Based on the past month's traffic, I should have over 550 visitors in the next month.

More people visit my site from "unknown" locations than from South American locations

71% of you visit using various incarnations of IE

The average visit length is just under 90 seconds. You guys read fast!

I'm tireder than I've been in a long time. Tomorrow I'm going to my very first Presbytery Meeting. The thrill, the joy. Here's the docket:

9:00 a.m. Registration and Networks and Partnerships Center

10:00 a.m. Opening Activities : Convening Prayer / Adoption of Docket / Stated Clerk’s Report / Approval of Minutes / Orientation to the Meeting / New Elders & Pastors Introduced

10:15 a.m. Worship

11:15 a.m. Report from Task Force on Configuration of the Stated Clerk / Treasurer Offices

11:25 a.m. BAC-Part 1

11:30 a.m. Lunch and Networks & Partnerships Center

12:30 p.m. [. . .] learning opportunity with Rev. [. . .]

2:00 p.m. Life Together (Business Plenary Session) : Business brought before the Presbytery for action -- BAC COM NOMINATING MSRB TRUSTEES

2:45 p.m. Kenya Partnership Report

3:05 p.m. New and Unfinished Business

3:10 p.m. Adjourn with Prayer

It's a two-hour round-trip drive to the meeting location. I will be gone approximately 9 hours. Don't ask me what the acronyms and abbreviations mean; I have no clue. I really think doing this should exempt me from church on Sunday, especially with the time change Sat night/Sun morning.

I'm going to bed. It's not even 9, I've already taken a lengthy bath. All I need to do is take my pills, set the alarm and sleep.

Beast is watching "Jackass." I have never understood what the attraction is with that show.

Good night.

Bloglines

The last time I checked, I had about 8 subscribers in Bloglines to this blog. I now have 13. Only three are 'public', and one of those is someone who has recently died. That is just weird.

Of the other ten, I can guess who two or three of you are. Maybe even five of you.

So, whoever you new readers are, I sure wish you'd delurk and say hi (unless you already have via email...as I think one or maybe two of you have). I admit: I'm one of the 'private' subscribers, so I'm not complaining about anyone being unwilling to list themselves. Just curious as to what has brought you here.