It’s been really cold the last couple of mornings. It’s been in the mid-teens upon waking, so it’s good to have enough firewood to really heat up the fireplace all day\/evening. It’s what gets me happier to go through these still too dark days, even with sunny clear skies. Daylight is less than 11 hours a day, and my house isn’t very bright at any rate, and I don’t have a deck to go out on and get “what I need” standing in the morning Winter sun with my cup of coffee, as I used to do some years ago, before we tore out our horrible “french doors” to the deck, and walled that space up, to make room for the kitchen flipping it’s layout. We have a nice sliding door to put in on the other end, and no deck at all to stand on outside. Both projects are what I need done, a new deck, sliding door installed. Then I have my morning sun\/coffee thing going again.<\/p>\n
I haven’t been online a lot since many things happening here and there the past few years, but had a surge of more ability to get online when my last baby (June 2007) was small, but he’s been getting bigger, of course, and has been transitioning into a full fledged toddler for the past several months, which makes it fairly impossible to get onto any forums, to write posts there or on my blogs, to read much of anything. Not much ability to do much of anything on my computer, which is so needed, pictures, editing video as well, now that I have a nice video camera.<\/p>\n
And then what just happened, well, awhile ago, the baby came to me and insisted on climbing all over me, so I had to shut my computer.<\/p>\n
Now I’m back with it, but he’s close by again and liable to climb on me again if he notices that I am using my laptop.<\/p>\n
Nice thing though is that I had an idea a few weeks ago to make my Thunderbird and Firefox programs start-up with windows, and then stay in the system tray, and whenever I used them I’d double-click the icon in the system tray and there would be the program, and clicking “x” or “_” would minimize to tray, thus, just doing either of them in the middle of my post would mean I could get back to it easily later. It’s made a lot of my browsing and emailing much easier, since I don’t have worry about load time and my computer is strong enough to endure being on like this just fine.<\/p>\n
So I’m hoping to use my blogs more, and find something more valuable to do with them, if I can, write helpful things for other people more often. I used to do that on my blogs, and on some forums\/email lists, but I don’t do the forum\/email lists anymore, and haven’t had much time to consider things on my blogs, and have little inspiration for things to write at times, especially if I find the time to write. :rolleyes:<\/p>\n
Something to add to this post would be instructions for how I did my Thunderbird and Firefox idea. I’ll try to get that written as a separate post, and I’ll refer link it right here. —> (when I get around to it, it’s now 2\/5\/2009 2:43pm Eastern Time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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