My Little Tribe

Changing the scope of this blog

I'm going to overhaul this blog and change a lot of things..
mostly the scope of what I blog about here, but also the look and feel. I've let my typepad blog sit completely idle (while still paying for it!) for far too long, as I more "seriously" blogged about the things I'm passionate about over at MLT. Unfortunately letting all the webby capital I had going here (rankings and so on) go down the toilet.

Time to resurrect this puppy and put it to use!

MOVING

I'm moved in, but still tweaking. Please update your feeds and bookmarks to http://www.mylittletribe.com

Announcement: Preparing for a move

No, not our family,.. my blog.
I finally was able to install WordPress on my hosted domain (I was up until 4AM, but hey.. its working) I have tons of work left to do though, and I'm not particularly happy with typepad at the moment.  Importing all of my posts over the last few years was an easy task (after I played with some scripting, and got the import to work.. that only took 2 hours to figure out.) But there is no method by which to import the massive amount of images I have stored in my typepad file folders (not just photo albums, but images used in posts over.the.last.two.years)
Typepad tells you to "back up" your images by right clicking each image individually, and saving to file since they do not allow ftp access. Can you say time sucking tedium? Really, I've been at it for a few hours now and I'm not even halfway through.
Currently they do show up on the new blog, but they are all linked to the typepad file system. Each file must be moved. Each link must be edited to the new path. More time sucking tedium.

Anyway, I will be closing my typepad account probably sometime in October, but will start blogging immediately at My Little Tribe via my existing hosted domain, so please update your bookmarks and feed links. If you've been visiting me via the redirect from mylittletribe.com nothing will change except that you will no longer be redirected to my typepad blog.
Pardon the dust over there since I only installed a temporary theme. Once I get my images and file structures worked out over the next few days, I can get busy with customizing the look and feel, which was my major gripe with typepad to begin with (little customization and coding allowed unless you upgraded to the pro version) My cost for my domain hosting is half the price of typepad but with email, a whole lot more space, and freedom to be more creative. All these months I've been paying for both, time to get rid of the more expensive choice with less features and freedoms!
So with that said. If anyone who currently blogs on typepad, has ever entertained the idea of moving, start backing up your images now.. Typepad doesn't make it easy for you to move.

Might As Well Face it

Although I had seen the "short version" last night when I went to abc.com for something else, Vicki posted this morning about it. Sure enough, there is a LONG version! "Addicted To Lost" , just be sure to sit through the one or two short advertisements before the video.

And congrats Steelers! I wasn't cheering for you despite being a native Pennsylvanian. I was a fan when I was a kid though. My policy is that if it aint the Packers or the Iggles playing, I'll root for any other NFC team, because we all know, the AFC sucks ;)
The ONLY time I cheer on the AFC team is if the Dallas Cowboys are the NFC champions. Because another thing we all know, is that the Dallas Cowboys suck even worse than the AFC.

Too bad I'm a city girl

Yikes, what a transition! See, I grew up a country girl, just 10 miles from our new place. But what a difference 10 miles makes! This is boondocks.
We cannot get cable television up here, and that was sort of expected. But we thought maybe we could get in some of the local channels with an antenna. Um..nope. So our only alternatives are a super duper big antenna, or a dish. I really don't want a dish (yeah I'm one of those people that prefers cable over the dish.) So last night, because we couldn't get anything but snow on the tv, I missed a new episode of LOST. My dad, my savior was going to try to record it for me. But we also don't have a vcr (only dvd) so once I do get my hands on that tape, I'll have to watch it either at mom's or dad's house.
The kids registration for school should be complete tomorrow and with any luck they can start back on Monday. But I'm also not happy about that. We're about 13 miles from their school, again not my first choice for schools. The kids are excited to go back to school though.
I've come down the stress high of the move, and encountered new stresses. Like the night I made my last post from my sister's house, we came home, jumped in bed, and woke up at 1AM with no heat. Apparently there was some air in the fuel line and the furnace wouldnt fire. We tried everything we could but had no luck getting it to kick on. We bundled everyone up for a cold night (below zero wind chills) with lots of blankets, then woke up at 6AM and made calls. The furnace guy was on the way when we found the reset button. It worked for all of that morning, then shut off again. Furnace guy came to the rescue, fixed "loose bolt" and it ran fine since then. UNTIL last night when it started again. OY! So, I'll be calling him again this morning.

Amdist all of this, I did manage to finish Dad's Irish Hiking scarf. It just needs to be blocked, and I'll be giving it to Dad this weekend. And my Jaywalkers....again, need to be ripped and restart. I got as far as halfway through the first foot, slipped it on my own foot, and alas, just way too small, with absolutely no stretch. I re-cast on last night on US2s and got as far as the cuff, and about 5 repeats. I'll work on that some more today. And I'll try to get a picture of it with our wonky camera to prove the Jaywalker status for the knitalong ;)

Some good news to end with, Richard got called back for a second interview at a college he initially interviewed with back in November. And the serendipitous job possibility that some of you know about, has come full circle and he has a meeting today with them. Think good thoughts y'all!

Update at 12:30PM: Richard called me from the cell. Serendipitous meeting went very well. We shall see!

Hey!

Dear friends, family, and random blog surfers....
See I check my site stats daily. I can see who comes here, where they are located and what search words they use if they come here via say google or yahoo. A lot of you, I can tell by your location, who you are (picture me waving at GEF 2, the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison in general, Shawano, the suburbs of Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, southern North Carolina, Boston, Lansing and even Germany!)
But there are others who come here from cities where I don't know anyone, and come here several times a day sometimes, but never comment.
So how do I put this gently?  I've had a few incidents in the past few months where some real freaks have happened along my blog via some pretty sick search words. ( I'm just a TAD paranoid as Richard says)  So do me a favor folks... every once in a while, just comment, or drop me an email. Introduce yourself, say hi...just let me know your not a freak.
Really, sounds weird, but I'll definitely sleep better at night.

Its LOST day!

Most of you that know me pretty well, also know I'm a LOST fanatic. 
Funny how this show has turned into something I might not have normally picked up (science fiction-ish) But I'm completely hooked!

Anyway, I read a spoiler last week, where Damon Lindelof says that the book The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien will play a big role in Season 2, Episode 3 (next week) So being the fan I am, I ordered it right away. I have to admit, the book is a boring read. Its reviews at amazon said it was quite funny and a quick read. I guess its my lack of science-fiction attraction that is making this a really dull investment of time. Or the fact that Flann O'Brien's native language is traditional Irish rather than good ol' English.
I'll keep reading as I can find time, but unless it picks up, or draws a really good conclusion to where this has anything to do with LOST, I'll have to give it a big zero.