Spring break wordpress update
I updated my wordpress late last night to 2.5 and so far so good. One of the smoothest upgrades I’ve done in a long time. I was worried how it would go considering my head was still a bit fuzzy and I overdid it for Cody’s birthday, but it only took about 10 minutes. It was a big update with an admin interface overhaul. It’s taken me a bit to get used to that aspect but so far I like what I see. If you notice anything amiss, please do contact me!
This week starts the kids’ spring break from school. I so wish I could start it healthy and chipper. Instead I’m already cranky and headachy wishing they’d keep the noise down. (I can’t believe how this cold lingers.) Cody got this lights and gears building set as well as an electronic word game. And my mom got him a spiderman utility belt that shoots stuff. Who knew how loud this stuff was going to be? When he and his brother are playing with it all at the same time, it’s like having loud air tools going off inside the house. Me + sick + work + loud noise = grumpy! Lets hope tomorrow is better because it may not look so good on me if my kids go back to school telling their friends and teachers, “my spring break sucked because we spent the whole break duct taped to the wall”.
Cody-Man turned 7 yesterday
I can’t believe my little guy is 7 years old. I remember vividly being that age. What a wonderful time. The world was still full of magic, but you were JUST starting to figure some of it out. We had a great day of playing Halo and Godzilla games on the XBox and some other random fun. It was a very tiring day 
Grandma Carolyn came over for his birthday too! That was quite a treat. She bought him the coolest Spiderman utility-wrist thing. It was like some kind of Batman utility belt. It had a web shooter that shot silly string (Grrr!), a Water gun, a rubber web shooter, a 6 shot missile launcher and a nerf dart shooter! We got him some cool learning toys. A motorized gear set where you can build all sorts of gizmos out of gears and pulleys and power it with a battery operated motor, and a Veterinarian playset where you can take X-Rays of dogs and perform all sorts of puppy medicine. He loved that.
We’re also picking him up a GOOD bike for once. We’ve gotten him a few bikes from the local stores only to have the fall to pieces within a week. (His last bike had BOTH tires literally explode the next day while it was just sitting in the back yard.. not even in direct sunlight, then the seat broke off after we replaced the tires. We went to Battleground Bicycle shop but they were closed on Sunday, in spite of advertising that they were OPEN in the yellow pages. (We’ll get it this weekend, on Saturday.)
We then went to Chuck-E-Cheeses and gamed our butts off and ate cake and ice cream. I love the simple times.
7 years ago today…
Cody came into our lives. Can you believe my baby is seven???
Happy Birthday, Cody!!
Back from Oakland
Spent this week in Oakland, CA. (Concord actually) at some training for Email Security. It was an interesting class, but since I was all by myself it made for a rather boring trip. There wasn’t much to see in Concord, but it was sunny and 65-70 most of the time.
I now know how to filter corporate Email and configure a compliance server to catch sensitive material in Email automatically. Oh, and I can setup an image scanning program that checks image attachments for pornographic images. This won’t catch something like the Demi Moore tastefully naked and pregnant Vanity Faire cover, but it will stop this picture of Johnny Vegas posing as Demi Moore naked and pregnant on the Vanity Faire cover. (The porn engine is also expert at catching naked mole rats and oddly enough, laminate flooring…. so Bob Villa beware.)
One interesting thing I saw was a pair of Canadian geese perched on the side of a building like doves, only bigger. I hadn’t thought about WHAT it was that geese did when they flew south for the winter, but now I know. They hang out on the sides of buildings in sunny California!
While I was gone Tracie came down with a horrible stuffy-nose coughing cold and was a miserable lil’ sickie the whole time! It was very sad. They even had snow for like two days! No accumulation however, but it was beautiful.
Second post of the day and it’s about… zits.
Two posts in one day. How exciting! I know this blog is so fun to read lately, right? I mean.. I know how much you all love hearing about how I have the plague. I’m sure it’s just a joy to stop by and read this drivel. So why not share the best part? (That was sarcasm in case you hadn’t noticed..)
As I just looked in the mirror to try to make myself look halfway decent for my man, the shiny, fluorescent, neon zits I have on my cheek screamed at me. Seriously, they said, “woman, get yourself some acne treatment and fast.” I’m past my mid thirties barely 29 and I have zits. WTF. There’s three of them all in a neat little patch. I tried to take a picture for proof but the man has my camera and my cell phone takes crappy pictures. This is the best I could do (which is really OK because you probably don’t want to see my zits anyway) and it only looks like one zit in the picture. It’s a patch of three:
I’ll be amazed if he’ll even want to kiss me. I wouldn’t blame him if he put up his hands in the figure of the cross as he backed away saying, “back freaky lady, BACK!”
