About Me

I am a “domestic engineer” as they called it in the late ’70s when my mom stayed at home with me. Call me housewife, call me stay-at-home mom, call me tired.

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Archive for March, 2008

WordPress Upgrade

Mar 30th, 2008 by CEO | 0

I am very excited to be testing the latest version of WordPress. I have it installed on a subdomain. Major changes have been made to the dashboard. It’s cleaner and easier to use.  I think I’ll wait a while longer before I start using 2.5 with my main site. I at least need to check [...]

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Google Calendar Embed

Mar 27th, 2008 by CEO | 4

I am in the very early planning stages of a church website redesign and will be using my own site to play around with some features. I hope to discover some great plugins and applications I can use on both. Here is my first attempt at embedding a Google calendar. I only added a [...]

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El Patron Mexican Restaurant

Mar 25th, 2008 by CEO | 5

Our book club is taking a hiatus from reading. We enjoy the social time we spend together on Monday nights, but we need something that requires no preparation for a while. Instead of reading, we’ll be eating! Last night was out first dinner out and we thought it would be fun to review the places [...]

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Let There Be Light

Mar 24th, 2008 by CEO | 0

I have just replaced bulbs in our home office. The overhead was dimly lit even at full bulb capacity, and my floor lamp has been recalled. Recalled as in discontinue use immediately and return to store for complete refund. It’s still standing there (unplugged) and I’ve had the notice for two months. But that’s another [...]

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Nothing But A Hound Dog

Mar 13th, 2008 by CEO | 0

We are not good at yard work. This spring, we’re not planting anything. We’re just going to see if we can even maintain a bed of mulch. My neighbor was talking about how bad her yard looked. I said “Hey, I’m here for you! Mine will always look worse!”
We did begin our attempt at weeding [...]

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