I’m still here!
Yes, I’ve been away from blogging… but I have good excuses. One, I’m feeling uninspired. The only subject I can really think to write about is how unhappy I am at work, but who wants to read about that? Nobody, that’s who.
Second, I have a sick bunny. Hazel had surgery almost 3 years ago to open his floppy, loppy ear canals to combat recurring ear infections, but somehow he managed to develop one in the last month that caused some facial nerve damage, leaving him unable to chew properly. He got to the point where he would eat a soft mush on his own, but in the last few days he’s having a harder time with that so I’m syringe-feeding him again. He doesn’t mind it, but it’s just a lot of extra work. Life is much easier when he eats on his own, and fortunately he seems to be back to it as of yesterday.
Third, I’ve been landscaping! I started Thursday night by spreading 18 bags of topsoil on the flowerbed. Naturally it rained on Friday, so I spent the day driving around buying plants and more dirt. It doesn’t sound like I did much those two days, but when I think about the fact that I, personally, moved almost 2000 lbs. of dirt… it’s a wonder I’m still standing! Saturday I got up early and added cow manure and peat to the flowerbed, then turned it all under. The soil here is such heavy clay, it really needs a lot of work. I also bought mulch, and then spread some of it around some existing spots. Sunday was D-Day… I spent the entire day adding another 22 bags of topsoil to the flowerbed, raking it smooth, putting down landscape fabric, planting all but 5 plants, and mulching. I finished at 8:30… just 1/2 an hour before sunset. Phew! My goal was to get it done over the weekend, and it is mostly done. I have a few more plants coming from White Flower Farm, and I’ll be visiting Soules Garden in a couple of weeks to pick out some daylilies to fill in the big bare space. I’m planting all perennials, and most of them are not mature plants, so I’m excited to see how it looks in the next couple of years.
I may join NaBloPoMo for June… just waiting to hear what the theme is. I’m hoping it’s something I can be creative with, but I can say for certain that it’s a lot easier for me to post when I have to… it’s easier having a reminder of sorts.
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Well, not any more. I don’t know what I did yesterday — all I was trying to do was make some of the files needed for this blog to function writable, and I completely hosed the blog. Thankfully the database was intact, but after three reinstallations, including the themes and plugins, I JUST NOW got everything to work properly. Phew! It was really stressin’ me out! Goes to show you that even partially technically-savvy people shouldn’t mess with things they don’t fully understand. Unless it doesn’t bother them to completely blow away their blog, in which case I say have at it.
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I just spent the last hour trying desperately to fix the blog. After upgrading to WordPress 2.5 at the beginning of the month, I figured upgrading to 2.5.1 should be a piece of cake, right? WRONG. So wrong. I kept having this wonky problem with save and publish buttons and lots of flashing, and it took me forever and ever just to write last week’s Friday Foster post. I was not a happy camper. Of course, I work in an IT department and I’m used to logging help desk incidents and having them be resolved, or being the one that says “we can’t duplicate your error, so there’s nothing we can do to fix it”. I’d much rather be on that end. Ultimately I had to delete everything from my server and do a fresh installation, deactivating and reactivating each little thing until I was sure it wasn’t broken anymore. That seems to have fixed it, so now I can go back to my regularly scheduled posting… just in time for Foster Friday.
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