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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Jay: No Birthdays
Another day of no birthdays so soon? Well, it’s only the 4th of 6 during June. Seven, if you count as none the one where there was a birthday of an obscure relative, of unknown mortality, I barely saw fit to mention.
Presumably this is the longest day of the year, all 24 and a fraction hours of it. It’s all downhill from here, but I guess we can take solstice in it taking six months.
Actually, looks like the solstice was technically the 20th, but at a minute before midnight, so yeah.
This is a work day for Deb, so for me it’s a day being nibbled to death by ducks, in the form of a slew of kids, while trying to get something, anything done. As I get into a groove of more work that pays or generates money indirectly, I will definitely need cheap babysitting part of the time I am here alone with the gang of three. The great thing is even that will have flexibility. Even a day of it, in the absence of scheduled out of house work, would be helpful, and it shouldn’t matter which day, so if I have my mother come down, it needn’t interfere with the bit of sitting she still does for my brother.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Jay: Only 64?
My uncle, David Bryant Ellis, would have been 64 today. Assuming my year of birth data is accurate, anyway. That means he was but ten years older than my oldest brother, the same gulf between me and my youngest brother. Talk about generational blurring.
He has been gone now for many years, and even though I knew he was markedly younger than my father, he was very “old” by the time he died. It was unsurprising almost the way it would be for an octogenarian.
David was amazingly talented at drawing. I see Sadie’s distinctive drawing and think of him. He loved science fiction and comics, but mainly of the darker variety. The glum SF for which the sixties were known was just his thing. I remember him when I read something he might have enjoyed, or wonder what he’d have thought of something in the genre.
Funny how you can miss someone with whom you had such limited contact.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Katie the Mango.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Jaynee.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Kevin Aylward.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Jay: No Birthdays
This is one of those blank days for birthdays, a rarity in June.
Deb is home today, so it’ll be another day of my trying to do work, plus some errands and organizing what money there is. If I didn’t already, I may start some reposts/updates of particularly good, relevant or classic posts from my old blogs. We’ll see, but I sometimes have trouble creating content these days, and the content is important to making the blogs worthy of ads, and the ads help finance our continued existence.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger One Fine Jay, who recently asked a really good question.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Jory Des Jardins, who is 36 today.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Jim Treacher.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Doug Williams.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Kate of KateSpot.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Jay: No Birthdays
No birthdays I know of today, a rarity in June, so this’ll be my obligatory post for the day.
The car remains stranded in Sharon. I called my brother and left a message last night, as it was rumored he could help me with it today, which is possible because Deb is on all early shifts now. Meanwhile, I suppose I really ought to work on getting stuff for the yard sale ready, even if I have to drop it off and have it sold by others, or get a ride, or whatever. That all hinged on having the car, but I also needed to spend pretty serious time working toward preparing. If we can’t do much with this one, we may ask the landlord if he’d object to our having one here. Probably not, as he seems to object to little besides having a pool for kids. But then we’d feel like we had to ask the neighbors, too, see if they wanted to participate. Damn politeness!
I’m trying to organize the whole “do what I can to make money from home” thing better, with some explicit unfettered time allotted me evenings and Deb’s days off. Some things can be done in those minute or two or five interludes I get between kid demands, but I need to have them listed and planned out enough so the whole effort isn’t wasted on “so what did I need to do next?” There’s a lot more ad revenue available, and while we won’t live on that, not without serious content and traffic buildup at least, managing that is one of those little things, and boom, there’s the money for, say, utilities each month.
Posting more actively, even if it’s quick links to interesting stuff, makes the blogs more viable for ads, so you’ll see more of that. At least on the WordPress ones, since I can post so quickly via w.bloggar, which doesn’t work with Expression Engine. That’s about the only thing it doesn’t work with, and there’s even a version now that doesn’t use Internet Explorer in the background. It was always annoying, that links in preview in the editor would open in IE, and of course IE was used programatically for the HTML rendering in the editor. There’s now a version that uses Firefox instead.
One of the reasons Carnival of the Capitalists went on hiatus was the time it took me that was annoyingly uncompensated. I miss the structure it gave each week, with a publishing schedule, but TANSTAAFL needs to rule. I’m planning to revive it, starting with a fundraising edition, the success of which will help determine to what degree it continues, and the amount of advertising I deploy at that site. Another project, which isn’t impossible to do in small chunks so much as it’s annoying.
Anyway, off to it. Need more coffee, and a glass of water. Have to keep drinking to combat the gout, which seems to go hand in hand with some swelling and water retention, duh, from getting underhydrated.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
Actually, the birthday I have in Outlook for today, extracted from genealogy data at some point, is for Arthur Manuel DeArruda, born in 1937. I don’t have the relationship noted, or even know if he’s alive or what, but he’s probably my mother’s cousin.
It was a sufficiently crazy day that I just remembered birthdays now, while having a little while of alone time in my office to do something that isn’t catering to kids, cooking, cleaning, or being so inconsequential that the inevitable and frequent interruptions won’t matter.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To Melissa, my third oldest niece, who is 19 today.
Monday, June 09, 2008
Jay: Happy Birthday
To former blogger Exgaucho Ben.
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