June 27, 2004
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It’s 5:30am on Sunday, and I got up early to browse blogrings. So far this week I have set up a Gmail account at Google for my friendship group, Over the Hill2, and have added a header and navigation buttons to the Xanga Blog (although I want to decrease the width of the nav code.) I still have to get Cancerboy his modem, but he hasn’t gotten his puter yet, so it doesn’t matter until he does. I haven’t read anymore of Clinton’s book since I got it last week. The prospect that I don’t think he’s a very good writer, and yet there is over 900 pages to slog through and I haven’t read a book in a good three years makes it a daunting process. Perhaps today I’ll delve in and read a few chapters. Finished watching the latest “Salem’s Lot” mini on TNT on the Tivo in the media room yesterday, and Cancerboy knocks on my door and complains that the “sound went out” on the amplifier in the living room. I’ve had trouble with the big Kenwood receiver since I got it about eight years ago. I had to take it back and “get it fixed” right after I got it because the digital sound ”went out” on the thing early on. I looked at it this morning and all the hookups are okay. Can’t be a Power Supply because the sound can be heard when you increase the volume ALL THE WAY, but then very softly. My cordless headphones hooked to the preout connections was working, so I let Cancerboy “borrow” them, and told him to please be careful where they were superglued, so they didn’t break again. He probably ”passed out” with them on, and they broke. I didn’t get mad, merely told him I would have to go get some super glue today (the old tube got hard and is useless) and try to fix them again. I actually put them in the media room for a while. It’s getting tiring moving components back and forth, and since it doesn’t look like there will be a PVR manufactured anytime soon with the capability of recording the HD shows, I’ll probably just ask DirecTV, as planned, to install a “two room system” so I can have my TV capabilities again. I don’t mind not having them, but I’ve really got to start cutting down on expenses. Joel will want me to hook up my old receiver in the living room today, so he has TV, but I’ll probably leave the house early with my book and go to the beach or the park. I don’t want to have to hook up a stereo today, NO WAY. I’ve been constructing my first website parody in ages, a knockoff of the “Poetry Sweepstakes” website, Poetry.com.
I set up quite a few templates, and started to create some links, but like all my “ideas” for website parodies, there is a lot to do, and I will probably leave this webendeavor unfinished. I have plans to resurrect Hearsay.com too, but I am simply spending TOO MUCH TIME on the internet. Well, time to shower, get my finances done (a scary proposition, to say the least, as it’s almost the end of the month) and see if I can add a few words to some of my “internet books”. Perhaps I shall add another page to History, or to Half Centrury. Perhaps I should try to FINISH one of these endeavors before trying to start so many more, but that’s the way it has always been in cyberspace. Now to go back to reading entries and maybe post a few “eprops”, which I finally found out was a way to give “thumbs up” to the posts. Have to go see if any posts were made on ElectricPoetry too. Those guys can get busy posting a lot of poems at once. Like WORK, sort of. I always am faced with testing 6 or 8 panels at a time, or having 6 quotes dropped in my lap at once, and the posts on ElectricPoetry seem to come in “clumps” too, but I’m not complaining. Seems if I take a few hours “off” from the computer though, there is hardly any time to “catch up”. Gee, I wonder what it’s like for people who have responsibilities and children to have to raise. I’m so lucky to be single, with all my “toys”. If I had to raise children, all this computing power, the sports car, the two bigscreen TV’s and the thousands of Boops certainly wouldn’t all be in my possession. Something to think about, and I do daily.
