Monthly Archives: November 2007

Moving the furniture and About the Big Lake

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Taking a break and doing some housekeeping, dusting and moving the bits and pieces around a bit. Be back with it in a few.

Update: Man! Now that was quite a move and I’m bushed! What ever posses ed me to change the theme entirely is beyond me but since I put so much work into it, I guess it needed changing.

The scene at the top is of Lake Memphremagog (Memphre-who?) on which Newport, VT resides on the southern end. The lake is over 27 miles long and around 25 and a half of those miles reside in Canada. So any of the fish you might catch over the border only bite lures made in Canada and they generally only speak French Canadian type fish lingo so most American fisherman have to have not only a fish finder along with them but one that understands French Canadian as well…

And with that, I’m going to bed. G’night…

What the Heck Have I Been Doing?

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Well…I’ll tell you.

I’ve been spending the last few days wrestling a new WordPress install into something that resembles a shopping cart. This shopping cart will eventually be attached to my lady’s business website (Long Meadow Farms Quilts) so folks can buy directly from her as well as going through one of the craft malls that she currently has her products on.

Sounds like a deal huh? They even have a plugin called WP eCommerce that will help you do this and I guess that there are a lot of folks out there using this little gem to power their own small miniature type, online business effort. I wonder how long it took these people to get their WordPress powered shopping cart up and running?

Took me long enough I can tell you that!

After a half a dozen corrupted installs and screwed up databases, after a half a dozen wipe outs and reinstalls of WordPress, the theme, plugins, more tests than I care to remember, a heck of a lot of constructive cursing……I actually think it’s setup. Nothing’s loaded on it yet, no products at all except for one poor lone quilt that’s been transported through so many tests and email notifications and purchasing reports that it’s getting threadbare and fraying at the edges. It’s been whimpering lately also so I think I’ll take pity on the poor thing and let it go.

So that’s where I’ve been hiding of late; learning how to completely corrupt an entire WordPress install in several rather easy ways. Just goes to prove once again that the more powerful and complicated something is, the easier it is to break it. Hopefully this will be the last time and I can spend the afternoons slowly loading up all items and patting them gently into place.

I hope.

No link just yet since it’s currently off-line but as soon as we think it’s ready I’ll let you all know. Just don’t try to break it please. :0

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I Want My Own Missile Silo!

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After reading reading over at , I’ve decided that this is my new goal in life. To own an abandoned abandoned missile silo. Man! Talk about the ultimate basement! Hell, all I’d need is a hatch opening onto a front porch topside and the rest could be all underground.

Nope, not a hatch…an elevator!

Turn This…

Into this…

I just gotta have me one!

I just wonder how you’d heat the thing. Heck, if I could actually afford something like this then I’m sure I accomplish such a small thing as getting central heating and air into an entire missile silo complex, wouldn’t you think?

I Need a Schedule!

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So now that I have "medically retired" so to speak I now have the entire day to myself to do whatever I wish. Okay, not so it’s not exactly like that since I can take on the household chores which is something I’m certainly not unfamiliar with in the least but there is also my blogging, helping out other WordPress-ers with their upgrading and fixing of problems and finding new topics to write about.

Oh yeah…I need to take care of my health also. Can’t  forget that.

I gotta get me a schedule!

I suppose I could also include worrying about where the money’s going to come from until if-and-when I’m granted that increase in disability. But worrying never got anybody anywhere and it’s a waste of what energy I do have so I believe I’ll skip that part of it. Sounds a lot healthier.

I have other projects I’d like to start as well for which is my honey’s long time business in fact, I’m currently working on building up a WordPress platform that can hook to her website for E-Commerce purposes which is a heck of a lot easier to work with in this respect than a standard type website. Guaranteed to be a learning experience that’s for sure.

Yup, I’m definitely going to have to work up a schedule which is yet another thing I’ll have to add to the schedule…once I work one up…but then I won’t have to include it…help??!? :P

1st Writings-One Possible Explanation

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A dissertation of men and women. Everybody has one and now here’s my effort that I wrote during the first year after my first divorce.

This piece, purely by coincidence, is dedicated to my beloved wife who took the time to type all these old writings of mine into her PC and then surprised me with the copy. Something I could not have done myself. All my love to you my Lady.

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One Possible Explanation

Let’s start this off by taking two mammal types. Now we’re not going to take them anywhere in particular, we’re just going to look at them awhile to see what we can see. Both, although somewhat similar looking, are of different species and to be quite honest about the whole thing, don’t get along particularly well. In fact they down right despise each other and life in their particular neck of the woods would actually be much better if the other one would just decide to pack up and move somewhere far away. Any chance meeting of these two creatures usually ends up with a lot of hissing, spitting, screaming, fur munching and other such violent pastimes that I would rather not get into right now.

Now let’s bring into the picture some type of Supreme Being with a slightly perverted but good natured sense of humor and have this Supreme Being add to these two occasionally violent but innocent creatures, a deep seated attraction for each other, one hell of a sex drive, the ability to procreate and leave all the rest unchanged. Add to this confusion a little evolution, food, water, several good hard shakes, a few millennia and you eventually come up with what passes for the human race or to be more precise, men and women and the never ending soap opera that always seems to follow them around like it actually had nothing better to do.

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