Singin' the CPU Blues

My replacement computer fell through. I had already returned the rental (277% interest--ppfftttt) Going into complete computer withdrawal, I rented another CPU (I have the rest of the stuff) and am back online, at least until the 29th.

If you aren't sure what Complete Computer Withdrawal is like at my house, looky here:

I began crocheting a scarf.

Yes, crocheting.

I took this pic about an hour ago (EST), so sorry for the dark, but I did place a poodle in the field for scale.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Yep, he's pissed. I woke him up for THAT. Anyway, I was crocheting and chain smoking and I'm happy to say that I'm doing neither since my rental CPU arrived.

In other Dog's Life news--I'm in the process of setting up a blog that will actually render some income . I've met a lovely Canadian lady named Heather who is a WAHM (work at home mom) who is holding my hand through this arduous process.Here's her site, ya'll go say hi and offer condolences to the poor woman having volunteered to work with me! Heather At Home

It's interesting, trying to separate out all the information out there--I know how to blog, but the ins and outs of affiliate networking, Google In General, and brushing up on HTML coding has had me very close to tears on more than one occasion. Thank heavens for Heather is all I have to say!

There is something interesting called the sandbox effect, where newly registered domain names, or several other factors deemed flag-worthy by Google will be sent to "the sandbox" to play nicely with others for an undisclosed period of time. There's a lot of debate about it, even down to whether the effect even exists or not. Who knew? Another factor is the age of your blog--some ad sites require a preset number of posts, in addition to the number of days you've been in existence. Since I can't do anything about the age of the blog, I've discovered that my efforts in JLand have borne a nice little treasure trove of posts for me to delve into. I've been going through, editing for content and grammar, leaving out some of the more personal information and adding the Technorati tags that will be necessary later to get me found out there! Man-o-man, I thought I knew how good we have it here in JLand, as far as HTML, but (in the words of Miss Spears) DANG YA'LL! There are also nice little sites out there that actually BUY content for the folks who either don't care to, or don't know how to write, on everything under the sun, so I'll be submitting a good chunk of material in that direction too.

My new blog will be along the lines of chronic pain, chronic back pain, or fibromyalgia, all topics I feel I have a pretty good working knowledge of, and hopefully I can put something out there that will help that one poor schmoe that just got back from the doctor's office with a handful of scrips and a body full of hurt.When we're up and running I'll drop a link, in the meantime (really) ya'll drop in on HeatheratHome and leave her a comment, if only to leave your condolences at what she now has on her hands (me).

The Gerbies are fine-Moe's back is holding out and Mr Scribbles is holding steadfast to his resolution to totally ignore Kudzu--our newest addition. Yesterday I was stretched out watching the news, and Kudzu decided that Poodle CurlyQ's looked much more interesting than mine, and launched himself (think flying brick due to clipped wings) onto Scrib's back. Thank heavens he's more afraid of me that he is of that bird--he didn't move a muscle, and I scooped Kudzu up and off, PDQ too! My efforts were rewarded with a glare of sheer disgust that you won't find just anywhere-- ROLF(rotten dog) but he got over it, and Kudzu lived through it, so I'm happy.

I've been walking almost every morning for the past three weeks or so, and have the blisters to prove it. I actually had to take a few days off this week to let them heal (nasty), but they are healed, for the most part, and I better get my butt out there before it gets too hot. Thanks for the comments and emails regarding my silence and sorry I couldn't get ya'll a message that I was okay. If it looks like I can't get a permanent replacement by the 29th and have to go offline again, I'll be sure to leave a message!






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