Duck-Farm

I found some comments from Curtis that had been diverted into a spam holding folder that I didn’t know existed. So I released them and haven’t checked to see exactly where they landed. It might be worth scrolling back through the posts to consider his suggestions.

I have also been working on adding an events calendar. It took a little time for me to figure it out but the link is showing up reliably in the sidebar now. I am figuring out how to authorize people to add events. If you check it out, let me know if it won’t let you in without a password. I need to know that… I also need to know if you are able to add events, so try to add something.

I set up categories on the calendar of: “Chris”, “Curt”, and “Steve” so you can use it track your workouts or events. New members are welcome to use it as well if we get any more members.

Chris

I got the page working right again! Turned out there was just a glitch in the post I did right when it screwed itself up. I just had to strip all the formatiing out of that post. I’m happy about that because I was very frustrated by the screwed up page.

If the page on this thing suddenly looks screwed up, don’t ask me how it got that way. It’s the second time it has happened though. Last time wasin the very initial stages when there was nothing to loose. I trashed the whole blog and restarted it. Now we have a little to loose if I do that so it may stay screwed up until I figure out how to fix it. It’s really frsutrating because I didn’t make any changes at all. It just popped up like this. Even the fonts on the posts are somehow different…. that’s what you get for nearly free.

As to the training for the Tahoe relay, I trained up to an 11 mile run with substantially more climbing than my leg had, however all the training was at about 1000 feet elevation, in MUCH cooler weather. I didn’t wear sunscreen. I got pretty sunburned too even though I felt like I was already rather tan.

Good point about being over reliant upon supply at a certain point. This a valid and correct point. However, if it had been cooler, if I had accurately gauged the heat and its impact on my over weight body, I wouldn’t have bee so reliant upon resupply at tthat certain point either. It was multiple things combining.

I was the deparment media boy again today. It sucked.  An off-duty Sheriff Deputy got a bomb thrown through the window of his house and it exploded right beside where he was sleeping. He was unbelieveably lucky to survive. These links usually don’t last too long with the news sites, but you might watch an interview that I did by clicking on the video link to Pamela Wu’s Report on this page. There may be another video interview available at this page.

I lost the war on fat tonight. Erin made a pizza. She usually does something like that on Fridays.

Ok, I have been envisioning a website that would be a central place for stories and lies about family adventures and stuff for a long time, only I couldn’t figure out how to make it happen. My theory has been that we needed a place where everyone could read the story without having to email it around to everyone individually. I wanted something that would allow us to be like we always are, every just all talking at once!

So yesterday, I was summoned to the office of the Chief of Police. Although this has been happening more often lately, it still doesn’t happen very often, so I wondered what was up. When I got there, the Chief had assembled a small team of about six people and he had a big idea he wanted to announce: He wanted to start a “blog” that everyone in the community could read. (Since when does a 60+ year old man have the idea of a blog? He must have gotten the idea from his teenaged daughter.)

So I started researching what a blog is. Now that I think I have it roughly figured out, I think this might be the way to have the centralized discussion I envisioned.

I’m still figuring it out, but we may as well jump in and see how it goes. I chose the software that Yahoo listed as being for “intermediate” users, so that may create a learning curve for me. But if you have ideas for categories or whatever, let me know.

In order to respond, you have to be a registered with the site. In order to register with the site, I think you need to click on the “comments” link at the bottom of this post (or any post), and then select the “register” link when the new page pops up. The registration is case specific!  So make sure you pay attention to your registration name and password. I was unable to get in to the site for a while because I kept typing “chris” for my user name, when I had entered “Chris” at the original registration point.

After you register, you may be able to add coments at that time. If you are not immediately able to add comments, it is probably because I have to accept your registration. After I accept your registration, I believe you will be able to add new posts and add comments. I am unsure how to instruct you to post photos at this time, but we will figure that out too.

I believe I can put password protection on the whole thing so that you would have to enter a login just to view any part of the blog. This way we could keep our stuff completely private. But for now, lets just get it started and see if it is worth doing at all.

Chris