I’m leaving the typo – it’s very LOLcats, don’t ya think? Anyway, this summer we have all our ducks in a row – THREE computers for the three of us. In past summers, the boys would hog them and play their video games and such, and I had no way to check the weather or my e-mail. (Really, that’s about all I do.) This year we are set up! Now if we could each just get our own pony!
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That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
Well, I would call our sheet experiment a grand success! Today we hit a high of 91 degrees, and the upstairs stayed quite cool. I took some pictures tonight to show the 4 – 5 degree gain (loss?) that a bit of cloth made! By the way, we upgraded to a flat sheet – more corner coverage.
(I think I get my ‘watching the temperature’ interest from my dad. I grew up in western Colorado where it was dry, and we didn’t have central air conditioning. We would open windows at night and close them the next morning in the summers, and in winter he would manually turn the heat down at night and up in the morning. Let’s hear it for programmable thermostats of today – it’s like having Dad around!)
Side one:
Side two:
It’s Summer
Brad’s back, let the fun begin.
Anyone need a place to stay for the 4th? We still have room, but beds are filling up fast.
Worst dinner, best dessert.
First of all – Happy Birthday, Charlie!!!! (One of my nephews in Alaska.)Â
I have a conference to go to on Wednesday, so home stuff is sliding a bit. We had a terrible dinner – it was going to be sausage and scrambled eggs – fast and easy. I’m not normally a fan of breakfast stuff for dinner, but what can you do? The bad part was that we actually only had two eggs. So it was a tiny little serving – one egg and one little sausage apiece.
But dessert was awesome! The cook at school can make some rocking ‘chocolate muffins’ that are really just cupcakes with no frosting. We had extras, so I brought one home. I usually don’t care for cake that much, but these bring me to my knees with delicious joy. I must find out the recipe!!! (Oh, and I was the only one who had dessert. There was just one cupcake.)
now with more searching goodness
I took the searchbox off of our theme when we first messed with the theme because (a) I didn’t like the way it looked and (b) I couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to search through this ‘waste of time’ of a website. Well, I needed to search for something today, and so I put one back up. I didn’t want to add another ‘thought bubble’ to the right hand side, so I fit one into the categories block. Here’s the code:
<br />
<i>
<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]; ?>”>>
<input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” size=”15″ value=”search ’em all” onFocus=”this.value=”” />
<input style=”display:none;” type=”submit” value=”<?php _e(‘Search’); ?>” />
</form>
</li>
Changes for the ‘Found’ category
Lauren wanted to add little ‘blurbs’ about things that she’s found on the internet that she’d like to share with anyone who’s interested in wasting more time, but she didn’t want to add them as real posts, because they don’t really have much to do with us.
Initially I thought she could do that with a single page that she updates when she wants to add stuff, but then I found something that I really wanted to share, but wasn’t really the sort of post that we’ve been doing, so I looked again into finding a plugin that would keep posts in certain categories off of the front page. My last attempt at a plugin like that broke something else (I don’t remember what). But this plugin by Rich Hamilton seems to work fine. And, as an added bonus, these ‘meta’ posts that no one is really interested in are not off the front page as well.
Part two is listing these posts somewhere. For that I’m going to try this plugin by Scott Reilly.
Here’s the function I’ll use with default:
function c2c_get_recent_posts ($num_posts = 5,
$format = “[li]%post_date%: %post_URL%[/li]”,
$categories = ”,
$orderby = ‘date’,
$order = ‘DESC’,
$offset = 0,
$date_format = ‘m/d/Y’,
$authors = ”,
$include_passworded_posts = false)
Here’s the snippet of code for the sidebar:
[li][h2]Found[/h2]
[ul]
[?php c2c_get_recent_posts(5,”[li]%post_date%: %post_URL%[/li]”,’Found’); ?]
[/ul]
[/li]
And here’s the complete lists of variables that work:
%comments_count% // Number of comments for post
%comments_fancy% // Fancy reporting of comments: (see get_recent_tagmap())
%comments_url% // URL to top of comments section for post
%comments_URL% // Post title linked to the top of the comments section on post’s permalink page
%last_comment_date% // Date of last comment for post
%last_comment_id% // ID for last comment for post
%last_comment_URL% // URL to most recent comment for post
%last_commenter% // Author of last comment for post
%last_commenter_URL // Linked (if author URL provided) of author of last comment for post
%post_author% // Author for post
%post_author_count% // Number of posts made by post author
%post_author_posts% // Link to page of all of post author’s posts
%post_author_url% // Linked (if URL provided) name of post author
%post_content% // Full content of the post
%post_date% // Date for post
%post_excerpt% // Excerpt for post
%post_excerpt_short% // Customizably shorter excerpt, suitable for sidebar usage
%post_id% // ID for post
%post_modified% // Last modified date for post
%post_title% // Title for post
%post_url% // URL for post
%post_URL% // Post title linked to post’s permalink page
Just to be complete, I also added a table to the ‘stuff’ sidebar so that I could have two collumns. I know, I should have used CSS for that. Tough.