This morning, the Universe played a joke on us, and it wasn’t funny. Every four weeks, we get B’s pension paid into a bank account; this morning was pension payout day. So we drove three miles to the nearest cash machine, at Dalry. Get to the cash machine, check the balance – according to the […]
Archive:
General
Yes, both of us are hard at work on our computers. B is laying out the Elfin Desk Diary for 2006. He thought he had done it all, and sent off the proofs to Caroline – who discovered that he had used the 2005 Diary data for most of it! So he’s having to redo […]
I’ve spent the last couple of afternoons trying to make WordPress work as a CMS for the Oakleaf Circle site but the instructions for creating separate category pages that would work as directory lists don’t seem to work for me. So I’ve spent all this afternoon looking at free CMSs. Gahhhhhh…. PostNuke, Drupel, e107, Etomise….. […]
Saw the doc today, told him about my continuing tiredness and breathlessness. He gave me a higher-dose version of one of my pills, reassured me that my blood pressure was fine, my blood test hadn’t shown anything amiss and that he’d write to that dammed hospital cardiologist to get more tests for me. So I […]
Well, got this new blog up and running. Wasn’t too difficult; like The Man says, installation really is a five-minute job. Haven’t worked out how to transfer all my old posts and links over yet. I could just copy ‘n’ paste, but that’s going to take forever. It’s getting late and I’ve faffed with this […]
Went walking down to the village this morning. It was raining, but only a little, and surprisingly warm. I got some milk and a paper, got B’s pills from the surgery, bought an electricity token, started back. I was going slowly, as usual, but getting hotter and hotter. I unzipped both my jackets; after a […]
Phew! Just finished writing an email to some woman telling her all about Chinese astrology. She’d contacted the Astrological Association because she’d had her Chinese horoscope done, notice that there were 12 animal signs in the Chines zodiac and wondered if we’d noticed that Jupiter had a 12-year cycle and that there might be some […]
That’s the transit I’ve got right now. Ho hum, another bummer time to deal with. Don’t feel up to explaining about it, except I’m not handling stress at all well. Anyway, at least I’ve got some chance to relax. The Elfin stuff is nearly wrapped up – just got to wait for Caro to send […]
Got a phone call from Wendy Stacey at the Astrological Association on Saturday. They are keeping the online Transit – and want me to produce a hard-copy version as well, starting with the May edition. The entire layout and design of the magazine, as well as the content, will be my responsibility. Whee! My inner […]
Tonight, there’s a glorious sky. Inky velvety black studded with diamond stars. Orion spread across the east, the Pleiades overhead, Pegasus dipping behind the trees in the west. The Milky Way is visible – a fine cloudy spray across the arch of the firmament. I stood outside for about 15 minutes. One car passed by, […]