Procrastinatory Dollar-Making Wins
Well, my mind was made up for me. Do I pack today or drum up a little business?
I started packing - And I hear my e-mail’s audible indicator go off. Come check - Repeat customers are my best customers! Got a former customer asking for some WordPress help today, so that’s the main thing I’ll be doing. It’s actually not that big of a job, so then I can get back to packing unless more work rolls in.
Yay! I’d rather do WordPress than pack (or just about anything else) any day.
Good Morning, World!
I have a large-scale WordPress job I thought I would be starting today, but it turns out I won’t be getting the artwork until Wednesday. I was so gung-ho to start on this job, because I want to finish it by the end of this week and just spend the rest of my time packing and getting ready for my move to Seattle.
I will just have to adjust and do some packing today. I’m tempted to see if I can drum up some small jobs for a little extra money for my trip. But the packing really needs to get done, so I guess that’s what I will do. (If I can stop procrastinating here on my blog and get to it!)
Oh, Charlie’s tooth fell out over the weekend, and he swallowed it! He was eating strawberries at the time. The tooth fairy brought him two dollars. I will take him to the dollar store to pick something out. I’m hoping he starts to understand money this way. Then I can start giving him a chore or two and an allowance and teach him about work and saving money.
He’s so cute with his little missing tooth! I’ll have to post a picture later.
My Love Affair With WordPress Continues
The more I learn about WordPress, the more I love it. It’s so simple and can do SO much. One of its biggest strengths is that it’s powered by a community of extremely talented people who truly love it. People just like you and me who simply contribute something from their particular talent pool.
So you have an endless resource there of ingenuity, ambition, ability and creative ways of coming up with solutions to anything a blog might need. Plug-Ins for CMS (Content Management Systems), image galleries, contact forms, emoticons, Twitter-updating, social network sharing, video embedding and more.
Which reminds me, the thing that started me on this post, was this video I found with the founder/creator of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. Very enjoyable interview and very interesting! Here it is:
Hello, Nicky;
I haven’t mentioned Nicholas here by name in a long time. But he is still very much a part of my life and an extremely good friend. He sees what is good in me and draws it out. He’s the reason my business is the success it is and a big part of the reason that I can be a mother to Charlie all on my own. Even with his challenges.
Thank you Nicholas.
“He’d kill us if he got the chance….”
So much can be revealed by inflection. If you haven’t seen a movie called ‘The Conversation’ I highly recommend it.
And even more, the soundtrack. I’ve been looking for it for YEARS. Turns out it’s out of print. But I found it on YouTube here:
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Soundtrack to the movie, “The Conversation” by David Shire. God Bless YouTube.
You’re Right, I Don’t Have Time To Be Doing This
But it’s only “one word.” How long can it take? Got this from Naomi.
One word answers…
1.Where is your mobile phone? desk
2.Your significant other? Complicated
3.Your hair? Eclectic
4.Your father? Arkansas
5.Your mother? Dead
6.Your favorite thing? tilt
7.Your dream last night? unrecollectable
8.Your favorite drink? mocha
9.Your dream/goal? Travel
10.The room you’re in? bedroom
11.Your ex? Divorced
12.Your fear? tornadoes
13.Where do you want to be in 6 years? Sustainable
14.Where were you last night? Here
15.What you’re not? Me
16.Muffins? Streusel
17.One of your wish list items? Flash
18.Where you grew up? California
19.The last thing you did? Listen
20.What are you wearing? Robe
21.Your TV? Off
22.Your pets? None
23.Your computer? Old
24.Your life? Frenetic
25.Your mood? Focused
26.Missing someone? yes
27.Your car? Reliable
28.Something you’re not wearing? Pants
29.Favorite Store? Brighton
30.Your summer? Seattle
31.Like someone? Ues
32.Your favorite color? Blue
33.When is the last time you laughed? Tonight
34.Last time you cried? Today
Wow, weird way to end, but there you have it……..
Here’s A Riddle For You
What do you call 9 boxes packed and sitting by the front door?
A GOOD START!
The packing has been started. The lease papers have been signed (Donna found a nice townhome for me already!). The utilities have been set up. The contract with the movers has been signed. The route has been planned!
There’s still so much to do, though. I have lot’s of work, which is good. But it has to be juggled with making hotel reservations, finishing packing, getting Charlie finished up at school, etc.
I leave here in 17 days! Oh my gosh! I’m freaking out! LOL Not really. But I basically have to be working and moving and doing every minute I am awake. That’s really not that much different than normal life. Except that I occasionally have time to watch a rented movie a couple of times a week. I won’t be doing that for awhile now.
Which reminds me, I need to suspend NetFlix and TiVo, cancel my utilities here, inform Charlie’s school we’re leaving…..
Yeah, I don’t have time to be blogging just now! Later!
Technorati Wants You to Upgrade to WordPress 2.5
Technorati has been important to a blog’s popularity for quite awhile now, but just how important is being illustrated in an unlikely way. WordPress released version 2.5 recently, and some chose to stick with 2.3.3 for the time being. Upgrading isn’t ALWAYS, but CAN be, a major underaking depending on the circumstances. So between that and the fact that there were some plug-ins not working on 2.5 and a few other things, it was very reasonable for a lot of WordPress users to just hold off for a bit.
Then suddenly Technorati made this announcement, “…we’ve noticed that a large number of blogs remain vulnerable to the security issue addressed by the 2.3.3 release.” So they stopped pinging blogs on the stand-alone WordPress platform that did not upgrade. This is confusing to me because of the wording. If the issue was addressed in version 2.3.3, doesn’t that mean that 2.3.3 is secure and anything below that is not?
I answered my own question by going to the “Ping” area on Technorati and noticed the blog that I had upgraded to 2.5 had been recently pinged, but that the blog I still had on 2.3.3 had not been pinged for 15 days! I had upgraded to 2.5 on some blogs but stayed at 2.3.3 on others so that I could keep in practice on both. (Yes, 2.5 is just THAT different.) This was important to me so that I could be in “top form” when helping clients no matter which version they were using.
Well, now I didn’t have a choice. I guess you learn how powerful something has become when you realize it has a huge affect on your Google ranking. We’ve all learned the power of Google. But now we are just coming to understand the power of Technorati! I didn’t want to lose ranking either place, so I upgraded.
It’s not so bad. The dashboard takes some getting used to. And I guess everyone will be upgrading now, so I don’t have to be worried about being in practice for helping those who kept 2.3.3. They also saved me some money. I was planning to purchase “WordPress For Dummies” for reference for some of the more esoteric stuff, which is only up-to-date to 2.3.3. And then purchasing the one that covers 2.5 when it comes out. Now I’ll just be needing the one. So I guess they saved me $15+
Did They Change Earth Day And Nobody Told Me?
I always thought Earth Day was the third Sunday of April. Thus my post today entitled, “Happy Earth day, April 20, 2008.” Now I hear it’s on April 22nd? Why the 22nd? Weird.
Happy Earth Day, April 20, 2008
To celebrate Earth Day, allow me to share a picture of my son Charlie hugging a tree! He just started doing this at the park last week. To my knowledge, he has never heard the word “treehugger” before. I guess he just felt moved to share the love with our Druish friends!
And here’s a video someone put together with beautiful images of nature, very inspirational. The music is by Dramarama, and the song is “What Are We Gonna Do?” by Joe Easdale. I’ve always loved this song!
Happy Earth Day!