pet peeves, pickle juice, and unbeige

Last night my bass lesson went swimmingly, and afterwards Marshall and I dined at Ipanema. So I’ve yet another blackened tofu salad under my belt, and all’s right with the world.

I came home to a lovely scene: Maddie embroidering and watching Fiddler on the Roof. I joined her, and then sang my way to bed after the Fruma Sarah scene.

Lately I’ve had the good fortune to find three different online items that echo my thoughts exactly about certain pet peeves:

1. Pet peeve: people who don’t know how to merge
   Blog entry that hits the nail on the head
2. Pet peeve: people who equate “love” with “butterflies”
   Blog entry that hits the nail on the head
3. Pet peeve: people who use Caps Lock
   Organization that hits the nail on the head

And as far as the usual ol’ links go…

• Still more t-shirt surgery tutorials.
• Spell anything with zombies.
• I love Viewmasters and I love this idea.
• There’s a Museum of Useful Things.
• Oooh. A recipe matcher. Maybe now we can get rid of some of the ingredients we have doing nothing in the refrigerator.
• The making of the new Depeche Mode video for “Suffer Well.”
• Yet another amazing zombiewalk.
• Bruce has some new paintings.
• I like Aaron Dyer’s art because (1) it’s clean and (2) it’s reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland.
• How did I miss goth day at Disneyland? Talk about right down my alley.
• Maddie will appreciate pickle juice, I’m just sure of it.
• I’m so glad there’s a blog called “Unbeige.” My thoughts exactly.

In other news, I’m liking it here at the new blog. I spent part of yesterday bulking up all the links on the right-hand side of the page, as well as adding descriptions to them. So when you roll the mouse over the links, little tooltips come up to tell you what each one is. Some are too long, but I’ll get to that later.

I can also moderate comments really easily with WordPress, and I have it set to where you have to have one approved comment before it’ll just let you comment immediately.

But the blog stats are the most interesting thing to me. Xanga had some really basic, rudimentary thing where you could see what state / search engine / time / etc. people were accessing your blog from, but WordPress has fancy charts and graphs and such. Very nice. Much to my surprise, way more people look at my blog every day than I thought. And many more people subscribe to my RSS feed than I thought.

So thanks for reading, everyone!