On our recent trip (the same one involving this poor experience), we had occasion to stay in another hotel - the Embassy Suites in Historic Charleston. Historic is right - the place was constructed in the shell of the old Citadel building, right in the middle of the Charleston peninsula. It might not be the exact center, but you get the idea.
Yesterday I worked the Wuzzles in the local paper for the first time in a good bit. This was incidentally the first time I had received a paper copy in a while, actually.
In light of recent events, Denise and I have been talking and we decided that something that I no longer do (or do often) is read the paper. Don't get me wrong. Denise and I talk quite often. I also read the contents of the paper pretty regularly. But I do so online. In fact, I do so in Bloglines because I'm an RSS junkie and don't like visiting web sites if I don't have to do so.
Okay, it's not really a typical goose-gander illustration. But I have to say that I side with Joe Horn when he says Jim Mora ought to be fined. Horn is understandably touchy about the subject, with his own huge fine for the ill-fated touchdown celebration. But really - the coaches really need to stick to the rules too.
I have to say that I don't spend a lot of time on comments. I tend to read all those that come through, as I am notified of their existence. But I don't do much digging other than that.
After the events of the year, Denise and I decided that it was time to take a break. So we looked into lodging where we could truly get away from it all. The good news is that we found it in the The Cottages at Spring House Farm. The bad news is that it wasn't quite as they advertise.
The local paper adopted a registration system some time ago. Strangely, using one of the other domains owned by this large media conglomerate, you may access the exact content without registration. While registration is free, this allows you to actually get to the content at times - like today - where the registration server is down. Meaning if I didn't do this, I wouldn't be able to read their links at all. Like that's a good idea...
If you suggest some registration-skipping site, don't bother. They all depend on the registration server at the destination site working. Otherwise there is no server to validate the pseudo-credentials being used to authenticate you.
Some of you may not have realized that I slipped in a comment the other day about having a seizure. Not your fault. I didn't really do so to intentionally minimize things, but I just wasn't thinking about it. So for those who have inquired: Both recoveries are going about as well as can be expected.
Today is shaping up to be a bit better than yesterday, but I'm still on the long road to recovery. The most challenging piece is perhaps that I had a seizure last night (more accurately, a few small ones back-to-back). Nothing quite equates to a few hours in the emergency room while you're trying to get some sleep.
In any case, I'm back on track now, at least for a bt, and have some updates. While progress is moving nicely towards being able to work as I normally would, I can actually get a pretty good deal done right now. The first thing that I had to do was resolve the keyboard and mouse issue.
This morning, as I went along my merry way, the hard drive on my laptop started making some seriously strange noises. Things that you wouldn't think should come from an electronic device of any sort. Ever. Then applications stopped responding altogether. Shortly thereafter, I decided to shut down the computer for a little while and visit my wife, who was working from home.
Recently we've seen the introduction of a couple new additions to the stable of Movable Type plugins, with the pre-release of the Structured Blogging plugin and the beta release of the RightFields plugin.
