I thought, since it was so cold this morning and I am therefore moving very slowly, I would spend my early morning hours trying to solve the problem of sending photo posts using MMS to my blog. It appears to be possible only if I want to jump through a thousand hoops and hack my phone. The whole process made my head hurt. Not easy enough, so maybe that won’t be happening any time soon, at least not until I am employed and earning more than $6.99 a month and can pay Lin to add web access to our phone account. Seems like a lot to spend just so I can send photos to my blog, because I can’t really imagine surfing the web on my cell phone much.

I did try to do it with the built-in AIM service on my phone, but it apparently won’t let me send photos from my phone, though you can send photos when chatting on a computer. Maybe I just don’t know how to do it. Perhaps there is some code or whatnot I need to know. Thinking about it makes my head hurt worse, so I am going to stop thinking about it for a while.

Speaking of which, if you happen to use AIM to chat and want to add me, my screen name is IMJustOrb. This is no guarantee you will ever actually hear from me, but since I have it on my phone now (free too), there is always the possibility I will find myself stuck somewhere and bored to tears and decide to open it and chat. You never know.

Karma is biting me in the ass a little at the moment as I attempt to post the story about Second Life. I am going to get it sorted out, because Karma, in this instance, owes me this one.

Just a reminder: I have a Livejournal, upon which I make audio posts when I feel like it … or when I can’t make posts at my web site. My back is really, really, really fully screwed up in a really, really, really bad way. I will likely not be sitting at the computer today. If I have anything to say, it will be over there in audio format, which isn’t to say I will have anything other to say than this:

There are no comfortable positions. Of all the physical pains I have ever felt in my entire life, and there have been some doozies of injuries, this back pain I am feeling now is by far the worst pain I have ever experienced.

A lot of you don’t read my posts through my web site, so you won’t have noticed I added a new thingamabob to the sidebar. I finally found a use for Twitter. It allows me to say whatever stupid little thing I want to say at that moment without allowing me the space to babble at length … which keeps me from wasting time talking about whatever stupid little things pop into my mind all day long.

You can see my latest Twitter Tweet on my web site, or over at my Twitter page, where you can read all of them.

Now that I use Twitter, am I officially one of the cool kids?

I updated the previous post about my previous audio post with a transcript which you can read either on Just Orb or at the original Livejournal audio post.

That might be all you guys get out of me today, but could you ask for more?! I mean, really … an audio post AND a video post all in the same day?! What the hell got into me???!!!

Bored. Bored out of my skull. Oh so very bored. I miss my oven.

Oh, let’s see:

I slept most of the day away, because I was awake all night. What little time I did spend awake was spent outside, because it is a very lovely day today. I made an audio post (transcription behind the cut), and then I made a short video post to test doing so with my digital camera. That didn’t turn out great, but it’s uploading to YouTube now, and I’ll post a link when it’s ready. It’s been uploaded and is ready to watch now.

I wish Lin would hurry and get home, because I am bored out of my mind and starting to get hungry. Bad combination. Could lead to more audio and video posts.

Maybe more later. Maybe not. Depends of what’s on TV. I’ve been a real couch potato the last few days.
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I added a new section to the sidebar at Just Orb: Upcoming Austin. I found myself having a bunch of things I plan to go and do, thing I want other people to go and do too, and I needed a way to remind myself of them … and get the word out. Now there’s a nice little list of things I am planning (or at least hoping) to attend the next few weeks in my sidebar. Maybe this will help Lin and I to not get confused about when we are going where.

OK, it probably won’t help too much with that, but at least I can get the word out on some fun events to look forward to in the Austin area.

Has my web site been inaccessible the last few days? The reason I ask, see, is because a) there hasn’t been much commenting or email responses and b) the stats are saying there have been about 55 visitors a day the last two days … which is incredibly smaller than average. I mean, I don’t care if people comment or not, but it seems like maybe people have been having problems getting to my web site.

Or maybe I finally pissed everyone off and no one is coming ’round anymore.

Just, you know, curious about whether I should be griping at my host or not.

Oh look. Internet service. I didn’t expect it to work, seeing as it hasn’t been working all day and I haven’t been able to get tech support on the telephone. Of course, now I am in the middle of full-on pizza preparation and don’t have time to babble or read. It figures.

While bored and going crazy without my internet fix this afternoon, I made two audio posts over on my LJ … post one and post two.

Brief update: Obviously my internet is finally working again. The Insane Neighbors have removed the truck from my front yard. The kitties are awake after sleeping all day and are now set on driving me the rest of the way to insane. Lin has gone out with friends for happy hour, and I am eating the pizza at 8 pm whether he is here or not … because I can’t wait to dig into the apple cobbler and ice cream. I think that about sums it up for a brief update. I would, of course, like to babble at length about all manner of things, but it will have to wait until after dinner, after our TV shows, and probably until after I get some sleep (and also likely until after I go to market in the morning).

Back to the kitchen! There are veggies waiting to be chopped!

Has anyone else had any problems the last week or so getting my web site to load? Has it been timing out on you or taking forever and a day to load, even though you aren’t on dial-up (which it shouldn’t anyway, the front page is pretty lean)?

I keep getting reports from my web site about 15 minutes of down time here and there, and every time I come to my web site it is a pain in the butt to get it to load. I thought it might be Firefox, since I’d been having problems with it since the last upgrade, but no … it happens just as badly in Opera and Safari.

So do let me know if you’ve had problems with my site being slow to load or requiring refreshing to get it to load or it just not loading at all. I am about to take it to my web host, because it has finally annoyed me completely. I’d just like to be sure it isn’t just me for some reason, though I don’t see how it could be seeing as the entire rest of the internet loads just fine for me.