900 Posts

Out of nine hundred plus posts I've marked 53 of them as "pretty good". I think that's fair. Out of more than 900 posts, 53 doen't seem like so many. That leaves a large number that may stink on ice, like this one, but I'm not going to address that! I know, don't you wish I had something good to say? I sort of wish it myself. If I gave you a goose, would you give me a kiss? How would that be? Might be pleasant...

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Song Lyric Test

Who knows where the lyrics, "Why must you bore me to tears?" come from? I do, but I'm just checking. It was never Number One with a bullet.

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What's So Unpleasant?

Lillian Hellman: "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

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Peanut Gallery

Until I came back to the computer this morning, I'd forgotten all about Blogger Beta. Reading the questions in Blogger Help Group I see that all the new questions are being voiced by people in collision with Beta. Who are these idiots at Blogger, I wonder? I mean the programmers, not the clients! I don't think I really want to know, either the programmers or the new program. Is that a threat of some kind? No, just another whimpering observation from the peanut gallery.

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Cry Baby Cry

I admit I sometimes say "fuck it" and break all my own rules. That's why you catch me here creating in Blogger edit. If it flips its' wig, I'll just be getting what I deserve. If things go wrong, well, I'm old enough to know better. So, cry, baby, cry! I'm sitting around counting up all the business I'm declining and delaying. If I fet them, I guess they'll run over me like a locomotive. Certainly, I'm loco enough, and I do need some motive! Like an actor in a film, I need some "motivation" just to be me! Doesn't sound sensible, does it? I've neve been very sensible. So, no great loss. Firefox is a great irritation to me. I guess I'd like to beat it down with a spatula like it was a bug who'd strayed into the kitchen. I wouldn't mind stepping on it when it hit the floor. I could always get it out with a broom or a shovel. Then a mop.

Blogger is going to give me a shit fit, I think, with their new improved Blogger Beta. I wonder if all the trouble with regular Blogger will clear up now or just be explained by this Beta version? It's a thing that computer programmers never take into account; the last thing that computer users want is stuff THAT DOESN'T WORK! And that's what beta means in its modern incarnation; stuff that doesn't work yet. I'm going to decline signing up for anything until some others go first. I don't want to be a guinea pig. I don't want to find that signing in is also signing out of something else. I don't give a shit how much right they have to say, "Oh, didn't you understand that?"

And I don't want to be standing there hollering, "No, dammit, you didn't explain that!"

"So sorry," they'll say.

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Milestones

Now it's 20,008. Passed 20 thousand sometime during the night or morning. I almost forgot to check it. I don't know who to give the golden ring to, but that's all right, the gold would have been pretty much phony! Oh me, oh my, no more milestones for a while. Unless they're sexual ones, in which case, it's none of your business!

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Well, it could be your business if you meant to help me with the Most Beautiful Bloggers Boinked contest this year. Hmm...?

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Golfer Over My Fire Place

I forget all the exact numbers. Somewhere in all these screens it informs me that my posts now number more than 900. And that my visitors are about to exceed 20 thousand! Boy, am I impressed. Watch out I don't faint. Somebody gimme one of those dollar-ninety-eight gold trophies. I won't even mind if it has a golfer on it. Just so it isn't chipped. It should at least be solid gold Paint, dammit!

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Fornicating In Mid-Air

I'm struggling toward 20,000 hits. Huff, puff! If you're reading it, I guess you're doing your part! I guess I can do it. It's less trouble than eagles have fornicating in mid-air!

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More Sidebar Squiggles And Antiquities

I don’t know it, but I suspect my sidebar has become too long for new visitors to pay much attention to it. Maybe old visitors don’t pay it much mind, either. But that’s what I assume, that familiar visitors know whether after reading the newest post they have any use for the 10 “Most Recent Posts” or for the color bars or for the “Categories List” or for “The Pretty Good Ones”. It’s hard to imagine that anyone is interested in all my “stuff”, and certainly not if they’re new to my blog. Like many blogs I’ve seen, mine demands a good deal of attention on your part to see it all and you might be tempted to blur your eyes and shake your head when you encounter my sidebar. I won’t say it’s not colorful, nor that it’s not full of Yippity-yap. Guilty on both counts. I’ve got everything but blinking lights! But I think I have some of those on Southern Exposure!

I used to try every HTML trick I could find. Now I’m a slouch. One reason I’ll never become a Real expert about blogger questions is that I don’t care for some of the topics and thus don’t much want to know how they work. It’s a terrible fault, but that’s the way it goes. My Help blog will never be complete. But hopefully it’ll still do a lot for the new bloggers.

One thing I didn’t figure out or even notice until lately: The 10 Most Recent Posts does keep working itself backwards if I select one of the 10. Not only is the post I select to read on a different page, but that new page's sidebar lists the NEXT set of 10. I never did really use this feature, but I guess I may like it and keep it!

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American Ammunition

We've got more than you do.