Local Readers
Today I FINALLY added the Google Analytics filter that discounts hits on my site from my own IP address. I have this solemn feeling all of those hits from local readers will turn out to be me. There goes my daily dose of self validation. Prove me wrong and say “hello” if you are reading [...]
NaNoWriMo and Remodel Mania
Casa MH has been hectic lately. We are still heavy into a remodel of the kitchen. The walls are pretty much done having achieved that Tuscan orange that I wanted…but I’m still stripping the trim. The home is 80 years old and I’m guessing that there is a layer of paint [...]
Halloween House
-Original Javacat Fiction
Martha grabbed her chipped pink mug filled with hot tea and pulled her old wool wrap tighter around her body. She slid her feet into her new shearling slippers and made her way outside to the old porch swing that had graced the faded wooden planks long before she had come [...]
How many years of counseling will result from my parenting?
Today I am tallying the number of years each of my kids will need after they survive my parenting. With today’s technology I wouldn’t be opposed to having a color sensitive bulb installed on each of their foreheads that glows whenever I have done something that will require counseling in their adulthood. [...]
My Latest YouTube Obsession
is all about Sesame Street. There is this song that I always sing to my kids called “Me and My Llama” that goes like this:
Me and my llama
Me and my llama
Are going to the dentist today!
The kids always ask if I made it up and I tell them, nah, I saw it on Sesame [...]
MP3 on the Indie test
This is a test for the Inline plugin installed. If it works you will hear Regina’s Samson.
You can find the Inline plugin in the plugin directory of your WordPress Account. Download the plugin and drop the file into your www/wpContent/wpPlugin directory. Make sure you go back to WordPress Plugins to activate the [...]
Google Analytics, Ads and Reader on Your Blog
A long ass tutorial dedicated to Kerri.
I’m in love…again…with Google. Yes, yes, I know that I’m fickle and that I proclaimed undying love for Yahoo! a mere two years ago, but really…what have they done for me lately? Not to be all Janet, but the fact is that Google is pimping out the [...]
Things I’ve Learned this week
1. Wordy people shouldn’t write tutorials. Who wants to read a tutorial infused with literary babble? I really don’t know, nor do I really give a shit but I’m going to post it anyway. You are all going to learn how to use Google Analytics, Ads and Reader if it kills me…and believe me, I [...]
Twelve going on twenty-two
If I keep comparing my 12th year to her 12th year too much, I know that I am going to put myself into a perpetual state of anxiety and contemplate something horrendous….like having her hormones scientifically altered so she cannot grow a day older. My new mantra these days is “she’s smart, [...]
Learning New Words
It’s getting easier for me to use the word “Dad”, but it has been a long road getting here. Having been raised by my grandfather, the word “dad” was something that was not intimate to me. Sure, I heard my aunts and uncles refer to my grandfather as “dad” and the [...]