Chicken Teriyaki Bowl #7

No water.

Power grid about to fail. 

Probably the best news we have to give the Iraqi people, is that there are less Iraqis to be affected by our help.

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Incessant hot weather, smoke from forest fires and weeks of blue skies give me the blues.  I could really use a big storm right now - with black clouds and lots of rain.

This week’s ennui can probably be traced to being sick for four days.  I might also be cycling somewhat moodwise, but I am one blue bunny right now.

One of the nice thing about working for oneself, however, is the ability to take a day off.  I take Fridays off.  All this means is that I don’t answer the phone and rarely answer emails.  I get a chance to clean off my desk, spend a couple of hours at the bookstore, clean house and start the laundry.  Sounds boring, but it is surprisingly refreshing.

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Rico 2.0’s Live Grid is perfect for a project I have coming up - learning how to implement it has been interesting.

Since there is no documentation, I’ve been taking the examples provided with the download and playing with them - so far I’ve been able to implement examples 3 and 8 with success - although I would like to add the filter feature of ex3 to the editing features of ex8 and am running into some barriers.

One nice thing about not having documentation (yup - there is a nice thing) - I’ve got a crash course in how Rico works and am learning it at a level I would never have learned it if I just had a 1 2 3 type of tutorial.

Of course, I also have the time for it right now - if I were in a crunch I’d be pulling my hair out at the roots.

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Today is my birthday, so I’m taking advantage of downtime (I never work on my birthday) by playing around with a bunch of plugins for various applications I use all the time.

ScribeFire is a plugin for Firefox, which is super-easy to install and configure.  It literally took me one minute to start posting to my blogs right from Firefox. 

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I quit blogging in March, closed my feed reader and have not opened it until today.  What shows is just the posts I’ve missed in the past few weeks - thankfully, it won’t update the entire four months.

Being slightly OCD, I am compelled to at least glance at all the posts.  In reality, I’m going to have to do some wholesale dumping.

This blog results from my need to blog and my unwillingness to go back to the world of corporate blogging. I’m only responsible to myself (first) and my readers (second). Some of you may recognize some things I do with this blog because they were first done by others. Or I’ve done them myself before.

All topics are open - politics, tech, humor. Anything I write about myself or this blog will be listed under the bio category.