Technonerdgirl

Above: My post for Illustration Friday. This week's topic: "Run."

Thanks so much to everyone who posted birthday greetings to my father in Livejournal! I've forwarded the list as well as a brief description of who each of you are; he knows some of you in person (like Andy & David), but is probably not familiar with some of your LJ nicknames. :-)

The Pegasus Final Ballot has been posted. Thanks to those who nominated "Sex and Chocolate" in the Best Torch Song category! For those of you not familiar with filk, I strongly urge you to listen to some of the MP3 soundclips on the final ballot page...it's a great way to get a sampling of what's out there. And thanks so much to the Pegasus Committee for all their hard work! Note: Please don't vote if you're not part of the filk community. I'm posting this info to encourage people to listen to the samples, not to solicit votes. Thanks.

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My CSS education is progressing at a decent pace. I'm coming across so many interesting tips and tools and other resources that I've decided to start keeping track of them in a temporary blog, Technonerdgirl, which I'll also be using to try out CSS stuff. If you're at all interested in learning CSS, feel free to visit.



I've learned how to modify the header graphics in Wordpress themes, which was one of my goals. It was dead simple once I knew where to look, of course. I'm learning about background graphics now in my Lynda.com lessons. Thanks so much to Scott Schumacher for his CSS and Wordpress tips and to Chris Pearson for helping get my header permalinks working properly.

A short while back, I complained that there was no one administrative interface that I could use for multiple Wordpress blogs. Scott S. told me about Ecto, a desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows. I'm going to try it out.

Writer's Digest has commissioned me for another article -- this one is an overview of magazine and book industry publishing news for their annual Writer's Yearbook issue. I love writing this kind of article because it gives me an excuse to go over Market Watch listings and look for overall trends and highlights of the year. I'd do it anyway for myself, but it's nice to be paid for the effort. :-)

One of my goals this summer was to get back into a regular exercise schedule, and I'm very happy to be running again. It's been nearly two years since we threw out our bathroom scale, and I'm happy we did. I used to obsess about small weight changes. Now I just judge how I'm doing by how I'm feeling overall, and how snug my clothes are.

It's also been nearly two years since Jeff and I gave up cable tv, and we haven't regretted that, either. We still rent DVDs, but the amount of time we spend in front of the television has dropped considerably.

My Hashimoto report is coming soon.

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