Sunday Seven:
[with apologies to the [Friday Five>
1. First weblog? 11/12/1998.
2. What was that about? Working through a Gemini //issue//.
3. Haven’t changed the name much, I switched to finally calling it **xenon**, named after a pinball game I once owned – and loved.
4. CMS? When I set up the first journal/weblog arrangement, and for the longest time, I kept it super simple, like, a code that I could do by hand, hacking the html code myself and then uploading the raw files. This year, after trial and error, I moved everything over to Greymatter. I did that because I was stuck a couple of time in places where I could access a browser but I couldn’t upload my own files. [not enough European phone jacks>
5. Online journals and weblogs run together in my mind. I’ve found that I read other journals/weblogs around three times a week, just not every day.
6. What was curious to me, was all the recent folks starting to write web information. In fact, I’ve always liked the way my scopes, going back to their “dark ages” had links in them. Weblog style.
7. Just when the day can’t get weirder –
Sex Toys and airlines. Or airport security
Anyway, Friday afternoon, after I got out of Barton Springs’ Pool, walking along the trail, I began to get a little bit of an earache. Been a strange summer, that’s for sure. Swimmer’s Ear. Haven’t had that in a long, long time. Here at home, like any good medicine cabinet, I’ve got a bottle half-full of rubbing alcohol. I poured a capful of alcohol into my ear Friday night, did it again Saturday morning, just to be safe, and decided to stay out of the water.
My redheaded cap friend called me up and took me out Saturday night. “Dude,” she was saying, “you’ve got to come to the lake with me.” We dinned on garlic and Italian food at Romero’s, then scooted around town.
“Today’s average home has 2.5 TV sets,” it says in this article. Solid proof I’m 2.5 times \\**below**\\ average.
