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Archive for April, 2006

Decorating is fun!

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Steve and I have been running around town today. We’ve picked out our sofas and just need to order them, and we spent lots of time at the new house taping paint samples to walls. I never knew there were soooo many shades of white. Ugh, I am amazingly far over my head.
For now, we’re [...]

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house update

Friday, April 28th, 2006

We met with the sellers last night at the house. It was so sweet — they bought champagne and everything! We had a toast and they went over all the mundane stuff with us — user manuals, keys, trash pickup, the firebox, the alarm system … my head was reeling. We waved them off with [...]

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Tribal Bellydance Escapes

Friday, April 21st, 2006

A week at a spa in Costa Rica with Rachel Brice. Hey, I can wish, right? Wow. How insanely awesome would that be? It looks so dreamy …
Closer to home, Bahaia is hosting a Tribal Dance Camp this summer. Not sure I can afford that one, either. POOH.

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continuing the housecleaning

Friday, April 21st, 2006

As part of my ongoing web site housecleaning, I’ve updated the “reads” list with people who continue to post. Consider yourselves loved. I’ve also retired the miaou email address that I’ve had forever. So don’t send stuff there anymore. If you want to reach me through this site, I’ve created a new muse email [...]

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my talented friends

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

I have so many amazing friends with so many amazing talents. Today, so that I might bask in their reflected glory, I thought I’d list the photographers. You should really, really check them out.

Alex — Portfolio | Flickr
Cat — Cat Koehn Photography
Cecily — Flickr
Chris — Alpha Dog Photography
Stepan — Flickr

Wow. How cool is that?

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WordPress as a CMS

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

So I’m debating the possibilities of using WordPress as a CMS for a friend of mine, to make updating her site easier. Has anyone played with this? I found a thread on WordPress support. Maybe I just need to do some experimentation. The site needs a blog in one section, a photo gallery in another, [...]

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Road ID

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

If you’re a cyclist, jogger, or otherwise outdoors and active (or hell, if you work out at a gym) then a Road ID is a no-brainer thing to have. A co-worker just turned me on to it, since we’ve had two cyclists hit by cars in the last week here in Austin …

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Gallery update

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Okay, the gallery has been upgraded, with much pain. I got all the photos saved, but not all the captions. And it isn’t worth running another import to me because adding images takes friggin’ forever.
Which means London may be a long time coming. My apologies in advance. (What, like it wasn’t already?)

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house photos

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

In case you’re curious, here are some house photos. Not glamorous presentation on my part, but hey, they’re online. One of these days I’ll upgrade my gallery too, and post some London pics. Promises, promises.
Seriously though, these photos of the house are from the MLS listing, and they don’t really do it justice. But at [...]

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g’damn.

Monday, April 17th, 2006

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.2. Talk about a brave new world. It’s about time this poor old blog got some lovin’. Though I think I need to figure out how to hide the archives. No one REALLY needs to know how long I’ve been around …
And no, I didn’t design this. Which is a [...]

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