About Fred

But I still don’t like Daylight Savings Time

I’ve been having some issues with WordPress lately, which I thought that I (or maybe just magic elves) had resolved, but which returned again this weekend. That meant the blog, this blog, was difficult to update or even read, with 30-second lags between every new page or refresh. Thirty seconds is a long time in Internetese.

But I contacted my hosting provider (Dreamhost) about it this morning, and they resolved the problem by this evening. Everything seems to be working much faster now, which is good.

I wish I could tell you that I spent the weekend doing something worth writing about here, but that would be a lie. It was an okay weekend, but I mostly just did some cleaning yesterday, which made me a little miserable allergy-wise overnight, and reading of Kaleidotrope submissions. I also watched Safety Not Guaranteed, and while I’m not 100% sure about the ending, I liked the movie in general.

My weekly writing group didn’t happen this week, so that’s about it, really.

Work out

It snowed last night, and well into this afternoon, but any hopes that it might lead to a snow day, a day off from work, were dashed pretty quick upon waking up. But it’s okay. The trains were running relatively on time — I think the LIRR officially considers six minutes late or under “on time” — and it wasn’t too difficult getting to work. It wasn’t exactly go-back-to-sleep easy, but at least it was Friday.

I had a training session planned for the second half of the day, one on workload management, but it was canceled. The irony that I was able to use that as an opportunity to actually get some work done is not at all lost on me. The session’s been rescheduled for later this month, and I wonder if that means we’ll get another free lunch out of it. (I’m guessing they’d already paid for the food when they canceled.)

Anyway, that and a lot of work was my Friday.

Random 10 3-8-13

Last week. This week:

  1. “No Dancing” by Elvis Costello
    Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks
  2. “Vow” by Garbage
    Like Joan of Arc coming back for more
  3. “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles, guessed by Clayton
    He buys her diamond rings, you know
  4. “Work It” by Missy Elliott
    I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
  5. “Pretty (Ugly Before)” by Elliott Smith
    Sunshine been keeping me up for days
  6. “Love You to Pieces” by Jeremy Messersmith
    I’ve made mistakes and I’ve blown second chances
  7. “Put Your Dreams Away” by Frank Sinatra
    Wishing on a star never got you far
  8. “Odalisque” by the Decemberists
    And what do we with ten baby shoes?
  9. “Love Is Everything” by Jane Siberry
    I can’t wait ’til you make the whole kingdom come
  10. “King of Spain” by Moxy Fruvous
    Let’s make Friday part of the weekend

As always, good luck!