Kevin's musings

Well, I think I am mostly packed up to head out to Santa Fe and ready to hit the road.
It used to be that I would be very anal and make up a detailed list of everything I should take on a trip and check them off, and so forth, but now I find myself more and more just thinking before I leave what I need and tossing it into the back of the vehicle. Hopefully it will all work out. Kurt and Merlin seem both very eager to hit the road. They love riding in the car.

I might do some posting from there depending on if I can find wireless, we will see.
Have a good weekend everyone…

I still haven’t uploaded pictures from last weekend at the ren faire.

My temp foster Fancy went back up north on wed. She was super easy to deal with, she mostly just slept. On the wed morning I think she just started to open up a bit and realize it was ok to play and have fun here. Just in time to head out. Oh well. Perhaps I will foster her again soon…

Tomorrow I head down to Santa Fe for T and J’s wedding gathering. Should be an excellent time. I don’t really have to be there any particular time tomorrow, so I am going to try and take it easy and stop and take the pups for walks and such on the way. Saturday is the gathering itself and then sunday is heading back home. Should be a nice whirlwind trip.

FYI, anyone in the area who is interested, I will be showing movies and playing video games saturday night at my house on the projector.
It’s a pretty nice setup. Anyone interested in dropping by for a low key evening, drop me an email.

Also, everyone should go see the Asylum Street spankers up at Trilogy in boulder tonight. I should be there.

Haven’t updated in a while for some reason.

This weekend was pretty delightfull. Saturday was the cocktail party I had here. There was a nice turnout and good conversation and food. The party broke up around 1:30am or so. Sunday was a day of slacking and relaxing and eating far too much leftovers from the party. Monday we had a company dinner gathering up in loveland which was nice.

Tonight might be wine making (not 100% sure we are scheduled), thursday will be Hackingsociety up in boulder, perhaps friday I can get up to the Walnut and sample this years Barleywine. It’s good stuff.

Saturday I will probibly be heading down to Los Alamos to spend xmas with some friends, then monday off to Tucson to finish up (hopefully) the last bits on my dad’s estate. Fun times.

Last time I upgraded wordpress I messed up my .htaccess and broke all my RSS feeds.

Should be fixed now. Sorry for those reading from the nirikrss livejournal feed that probibly got spammed with several posts at once.

One nice thing about wordpress is that there is a lot of people using it, so there are some clever plugins out there. I installed a few of them here without too much trouble:

• BA Stats lets you basically get all the stats that would be in the httpd access_log, but in your database, so it’s easy to search on anything you like over any time period you want.
• Acropop is a silly plugin that lets you setup a list of words and a link/image that should popup when someone moves their mouse over the word. I set one up for one of the greyhounds, can you find which one?
• Authimage lets you make people who don’t have an account have to type in the wacky
  word in the image thats displayed. I find those pretty anoying, but since they don’t appear if you are logged in, It seems an ok way to avoid spam.

Thats it for now, but there is a gigantic pile of plugins out there. Will have to look around some more.

Found the wordpress import-rss function and used it to pull in all the old posts from my journal. There were a few glitches, where it said posts were from 1969 or the like, but pretty easy to fix up. I guess I might look to swapping this in place of my journal link soon. I will need to figure out how to change the nirik-rss feed on livejournal that pulls from there however.

Guess I posted that last one as admin instead of as me.

Here’s a real account.