For those of you who are unfamiliar with (or have forgotten, or never noticed) my blog-title shorthand: I post birthday notices with the celebrant’s age in the subject line. Jen turned 11 a week ago.
Here, we’ve dug up a few photos for comparison—a studio photo of Jen, flanked by a couple of relevant then-11-year-olds. I’m told he’s a fusion of the two.
Me, Jen, and KJ in (respectively) 1979, 2007, and 1983.
My point being: Happy birthday, Jen!
Can I have a quick roll call of readers, please? Who’s followed me here from the InkNoise blog?
Jen, 20 March 2007.
When I walked out of my house today, it was sleeting.
When I briefly opened my window at the gas station to slip my credit card to the attendant, I got sprinkled with a shower of little ice pellets. (Why did I pull all the way to the forewardmost pump, sticking out from under the canopy, when the other two pumps were sheltered? Habit, habit.)
A few miles from the office, I started to feel the traction decrease—30 in a 45.
Once parked, I stepped out onto, practically speaking, a sheet of ice. It’s lightly raining, sleeting, and snowing, all at once.
Two days ago, it was in the low 70s.
In other news, my latest fuel efficiency calculation for my ‘98 Saturn SW2 is over 33 MPG. Not bad. I recently got new front struts and had the rear power windows fixed; everything’s in working shape. Well, except for the rear window washer nozzle, which just plain popped off (or was accidentally scraped off after one of the recent icings), but I’ve got a replacement on order and should be able to install it myself. Uh anyway my point is that I’m pleased to have a serviceable, relatively fuel-efficient car. And it’s still one of the best-looking, IMO.
I’ve done a little work on the visual format of this here blog.
There’s still more to do, especially on the non-home pages—but it’s not a bad start, if I may say.
And yes, I’ll come up with new and better designs. Right now, styling this blog to match (and, in some ways, improve upon) the old InkNoise blog is, as I expected, proving to be a very good exercise in learning the ins and outs of customizing WordPress.
One more post here for testing.
Again, nothing to see here—move along.
If the appearance starts going bonkers here, it’s because I’m experimenting with WordPress themes and making some modifications of my own.
Please stand by.
This is a blockquoted paragraph—it’s here so I can experiment with the layout. Nothing to see here! Move along.
I wasn’t going to make this site public until I’d transferred all my old blog posts from InkNoise, copied the photos as well, and reformatted everything properly—but why wait? I haven’t erased the old site, and since I can’t post new entries there, I might as well get something running here.
So! Here it is! Idiozeitgeist, powered by WordPress. I’ll be customizing the hell out of this if I have my druthers. Meanwhile…uh…here it is!
And, until I migrate all the content (i.e., “move all my old stuff here”…sorry, been working in the web business a little too long), here’s where most of the idiozeitgeist you know and love still resides:
Previously, idiozeitgeist.com redirected to that site. No more! This is the real thing now.
(I got the spam blocker set up, so comments should now work normally.)