Posted: 12:24 pm and last modified on January 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
As I write this I’ve been awake for over 28 hours. Let me explain…
Yesterday was one of the coldest days of the year, with temperatures in the teens. My ten-year-old son Andy and I worked outside, he doing “poop duty”—cleaning up the yard after our three dogs—and I brought in several loads of firewood. Afterwards we came in and I worked on getting this journal and my blog set up. That evening Gail and I went out for dinner and drinks with some friends from band.
When we got home close to midnight I resumed working on my blogs, including looking through all 545 themes on the WordPress site. I had already selected the theme for this journal (called GlossyBlue) but I was having a difficult time finding just the “right” theme for my blog. I wanted something somewhat techy with a clean layout and a fairly wide area for content. Let me tell you—the task sounds easier than it was. Many themes just didn’t have the right layout or had problems with the typography but I finally downloaded seven themes to try out and eventually settled on a theme called Librio. That was sometime around 3am. Then I decided to tweak both themes, including adding and formatting the info in the footers. And as usually happens, time magically accelerated and before I knew it it was 8am. So I figured I might as well stay up. I went downstairs and fed the dogs, made a cup of tea for Gail and Dianna and a cup of coffee for me and built a fire in the fireplace. Then I took a shower then came back downstairs with the laptop to sit by the fire and write up my initial posts for both blogs. Now we’re watching a movie, and this will pretty much be the pattern for the rest of the day. Figures that today is relatively warm (in the 30′s) and I’m sitting by the fire when yesterday I was out working in the frigid cold.
Tomorrow I have the day off and Andy and I plan to go see the movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop and then have lunch at McDonald’s. Andy wants to try his first Big Mac. Until then I’m going to try to stay awake until bedtime tonight so I can get a normal night’s sleep.
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