Travel
My trip is finally catching up with me and I am really tired. This morning I cleaned up the kitchen and then made a big pot of minestrone-style vegetable soup, but this afternoon I sat down with a glass of wine to look at a magazine and fell asleep for an hour. I must have needed the rest. The soup turned out to be very good. I think I'll save my dessert for a couple hours from now.
I need to tackle the header picture - get a different picture and hope it fits. I fooled with this one for a long time and just gave up trying to make it smaller. I used to have no problem doing that until Blogger "improved" and "updated" their program, and now I can't figure out the simplest things.
I'm also noticing way more spam than before - mostly spam comments to my blog. It seems like the traffic peaks and then dies down a bit, and then goes back up again. The irritating thing is that comments come to me in individual emails, so I have to look at them to see if it is truly an anonymous reader, then mark it as spam if it isn't, and then go back once in a while and delete all the spam. And I have to go to the spam comments section of the blog and remove them. No, it isn't difficult but it sure is annoying, especially when I'm getting about 10 of them a day, minimum. Do the writers of this crap actually think anyone is going to check out their link or answer their dumb question? I wish I knew what makes people do that - it must be for the sole purpose of being a jerk.
I feel like going back to sleep, but that would be a big mistake. I'll catch up to myself sooner or later.
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Travel
Catching up
My trip is finally catching up with me and I am really tired. This morning I cleaned up the kitchen and then made a big pot of minestrone-style vegetable soup, but this afternoon I sat down with a glass of wine to look at a magazine and fell asleep for an hour. I must have needed the rest. The soup turned out to be very good. I think I'll save my dessert for a couple hours from now.
I need to tackle the header picture - get a different picture and hope it fits. I fooled with this one for a long time and just gave up trying to make it smaller. I used to have no problem doing that until Blogger "improved" and "updated" their program, and now I can't figure out the simplest things.
I'm also noticing way more spam than before - mostly spam comments to my blog. It seems like the traffic peaks and then dies down a bit, and then goes back up again. The irritating thing is that comments come to me in individual emails, so I have to look at them to see if it is truly an anonymous reader, then mark it as spam if it isn't, and then go back once in a while and delete all the spam. And I have to go to the spam comments section of the blog and remove them. No, it isn't difficult but it sure is annoying, especially when I'm getting about 10 of them a day, minimum. Do the writers of this crap actually think anyone is going to check out their link or answer their dumb question? I wish I knew what makes people do that - it must be for the sole purpose of being a jerk.
I feel like going back to sleep, but that would be a big mistake. I'll catch up to myself sooner or later.
- Who Can Figure?
I have about one week left until my cable tv is cancelled, and lo and behold I again have the Science Channel. DirecTV removed it from my service, then told me it was in another package and I would have to pay additional to get it. So I get...
- Saturday Morning
Thanks to readers who have commented on my problems with spam. My blog currently allows anyone to comment, and I can deal with a couple of spams a day. You may remember a few months back I received close to 100 spams in about two days. ...
- Comments And Spam
A couple of days ago I changed my settings so that anyone could comment, and hoped the spammers would leave me alone. I immediately got a couple of spams and the number is growing. Blogger catches them, fortunately, but I do have to go back...
- Time Warp
I went to a Hallmark store today trying to find a Welcome Home card and wrapping paper with a patriotic theme. They had a whole display of greeting cards, but not one sheet of suitable wrapping paper. I went up to a clerk and showed her the...
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Thanks to all who have responded to my dilemma with blogging. I can only think it is something to do with my computer and the way it is set up - Blogger doesn't work correctly when I use Firefox, but it does when I use Safari. I'm...