Day: January 31, 2007

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Should We Talk About The Weather?

Snow day!

After quite a few near-misses, we’ve finally gotten some winter weather here. It’s not half a foot of solid ice or anything like that…but it’s bad enough. Because of all the near-misses, the highway department completely blew this one off, and didn’t start sanding streets and highways until it was already bad. It took me nearly two hours to get home because highway traffic wasn’t moving any faster than 35mph.
Highway 71 North, which is already one of the most treacherous highways in the state, if not this part of the country, was worse than usual – just trying to go in a straight line at not-unreasonable speeds, I was fishtailing all over the place – and I even had my trusty camera running! Check out the mildly scary video here.
Winter weather - western Arkansas - January 31, 2007
This is what my car looked like when I closed down the office and went outside today – it was around 2 in the afternoon. … Read more

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Cooking With Code

Scribblings v4.0

After maybe a grand total of two and a half hours’ work, I’m pleased to introduce the new version of Scribblings, based on a WordPress theme called Fishy 1.0. As a certain Corellian smuggler captain once said, I’ve made a few modifications here and there. 😆
If anything doesn’t work, let me know. The thinking behind this latest template swap – seems like this is the third one in as many years – was to get the categories to show up correctly, and to escape some of the odd booboos that were creeping in with the WuCoco theme (though I quite liked that one). I’m not done with all of my souping-up just yet, but I kinda like the new skin. (Then again, I remember saying that before… 😉 )
Tuesday was a much-needed day of rest for me, so not much to report. I’m really thrilled about Wednesday’s 70% chance of sleet, ice and snow. 😯 Really thrilled.… Read more