This WordPress plugin displays statistics for your www.myminicity.com town. It also provides links to the various URLs associated with your MiniCity as they are needed. I spent a while looking for a plugin that would do this, and finally decided that this would be a good chance for me to learn how to write WordPress plugins. So this is my first plugin, and it could probably use some work. But it wouldn’t be working at all if not for the Ronald Huereca’s How to Write a WordPress Plugin article.
Archives for January 2008
Ice Cream Review
I’m not such an ice cream fan, meaning that it’s not something I crave every day, or even every week. But every so often, I feel a deep need to have a bit. I’m even a little snobby about it. I prefer Bryers, since all five ingredients in their vanilla ice cream are actually food items, instead of chemicals that are one step away from being a plastic (Thank you, Charles Gebhardt). Milk, cream, sugar, vanilla, and ….ice. I think. Whatever.
Anyway, if you are in the mood to try a Strawberry Cheesecake variety, do NOT buy the Bryers! Can you believe I’m saying it? I think the problem is that it’s ‘lite’ – but regardless - it’s too soft, too… not like cheesecake. Go for the Ben & Jerry’s. It costs the same for half as much, but it’s worth it. Great flavor, great texture and it’s got a solid, crunchy ripple of graham cracker. Do it.
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Delightfully Slow Sunday
Not much happened around the Sommerer’s today. We made our weekly pilgrimage to Wal-Mart after church, discovering on the way that I left my purse under the pew. (Thank you, Beth, for rescuing it.) We bought our normal stuff, but this time – a pomegranate, which is really hard to spell.
We’ve eaten these before, but have ruined our clothes with all the squirting. I was going to try the “cut it in half and whack it with a spoon” method, but then I found an interesting method on the internet. You cut off the top skin like a jack-o-lantern, then cut where you see the five membranes. (I just guessed where they were, that’s why I have six.) Then you peel it open – that was cool! I ended up whacking the seeds out anyway, but this was much less messy than before.
Lloyd spent the ENTIRE DAY sitting in front of the computer writing a program that does something with the ‘Laurenburg’ thing. I believe you’ll see it to the right, and it would be nice if you looked at it and oohed and ahhed. Thanks. Also, tell him that he needs to exercise a little to keep his blood from pooling in his butt and feet.
Seven hours in this position. Seven hours. (so far.)
*Sigh*
You guys (except for Brad and Beth), might not know how hard it is to come up with something everyday. It’s not like I live the most exciting life, y’know. This website is really about the mundane. I was pretty desperate for something to write about on Saturday, and for this post – I actually had to invent something. (It was that or show you peeled wallpaper again, and nobody needs that right now.) And I apologize in advance, but it involved bread dough again.
Let’s begin with the premise, “What if I want some homemade bread right now, not in an hour and fifteen minutes?” (That’s about how long it takes from plastic container in the fridge to in my mouth.) What could we use? Something that gets hot quickly. How about a waffle maker?
1. Break off a little hunk of dough. Speed up the warming process (usually 45 minutes the regular way), by popping it in the microwave on low for half a minute. Worry that God may not want you to try this experiment because at the exact moment you took this picture, a fuse blew and the microwave died.
2. Spread it on the waffle iron. Close. Wait. Worry that it’s not steam pouring out – maybe it’s smoke. Watch in wonder as it pushes the lid up much more than regular waffles.
Leave in for a few minutes. I want this thing crispy, not soggy. After the steam stops, open it up. Hmm. Not the most appetizing color.
But it’s good! Crispy enough for me, and it tasted normal. It was better dunked in butter, and I didn’t look at it. In a bread emergency, I might do it again.
One more post down.
Sauturday
I was tired last night and didn’t get around to posting. I can’t think of anything interesting to say this morning, so I’ll tell you about Bejeweled. It is a terrible little game that will take over your life. Brad introduced it to us last week, and we sat around for many an hour saying, “Just one more game.” My best game happened before church on Sunday, when I just kept getting good turns over and over and over. I was literally sweating, because my hair wasn’t dry and we had to leave in twenty minutes. (“Just one more minute….”)
Anyway, if you want to try to line up three sparkly jewels in a row to make them disappear, try this. Don’t blame me if you lose your job because you forgot to go. Click the pic.
Committed
January 4th – Happy Baptismal Birthday to me!
Tonight was the beginning of what will surely be a months-long, if not years-long, project. I’m ditching the kitchen grapes. If you’ll recall, the border in the dining room had grapes on it, and that theme continued to the kitchen. I was alright with it for eleven years, but it’s time for a change. I’m not sure what the change will be, so feel free to suggest something!
The things up there were so very, very filthy that I was too ashamed to take pictures of them. See that brown-ish glass in the middle? It’s supposed to be sparkling crystal. Everything’s covered in dust and sticky, greasy residue. I’ve said it before – I burn food. Greasy, greasy food. I tried my best to wash those things tonight, and now I can’t get the sticky off my hands. *jibblie*
Here’s tonight’s progress. I’m just doing this much at a time. Think of the movie the pictures will make!