2004-06-10

* * * Okay, I’m printing this email from Kelly in it’s entirety, because I’m just not sure exactly what it means, but I’m pretty sure there are interested parties out there. Heh. You have two feeds at livejournal.com (essentially allowing LJ users to get updates of your site via their “friends page”) They are the xml feed and the rtf feed Both links go to the feed info pages. Clicking on the link next to “user” will take you to the main feed page. They are both essentially the same, as of now. If you ever change your settings, for say the XML to show full entries and not just a lead in, then LJ users would have the option to pick full entry vs. one line lead ins. I don’t use Movable Type so I am not sure how those settings are tweaked. (Maybe Fred knows?) Don’t worry about bandwidth, LJ grabs the feed once (the rtf and xml files are very small) and stores it for a short amount of time (I think a week? Not sure) So it wont ding you every time someone reloads their “friends” page on LJ. I just added them because I can read my friends page from my cell phone and it’s easier to check that than email notifications (and I’m a big dork). – Kelly PS: If you want to link it to allow others to easily add it to their LJ friends page, you can use these links: http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=bitchypoodotcom http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=bitchypoo_com Or you can use this HTML: [feed info]bitchypoodotcom Either one, it will add the feed to their list 🙂 I have only the vaguest idea of what all that means, but thank you, Pinky! 🙂 Hmmm. Should I add something in the sidebar for people?

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From my comments: i love your site and i’m always reading, but i stopped looking at the pet store kitties some time ago because it made me sad and i want to adopt all of the kitties. i wonder, is the pet store you work at no-kill and/or what happens to the kitties who aren’t adopted? The shelter I volunteer for (who provides the cats to the pet store) is a no-kill shelter. If the cats don’t get adopted after a few weeks at the pet store, they go back to the shelter. The shelter is a house converted into several big rooms (and some smaller ones) where cats have many places to lay and sleep, or hide, or chase other cats around. The lady who runs the shelter actually lives there and takes care of the cats. When we went to the shelter (and eventually adopted Stanley the Booger Bean), there were cats there that have been there for years. If they’re never adopted, they’ll stay at the shelter and be cared for with love for the rest of their lives. I don’t know that I could ever volunteer for a shelter where cats are put to sleep after a certain amount of time – it would just be too hard. Oh Robyn, I think I’ve been reading your site for too long. Last night I dreamt that you and Fred took my son with you to Gatlinburg, and I was very worried about him being on such a small plane. Not worried about him going on vacation with people I don’t know, no, worried about a plane. He had fun though, because you let him play Gameboy the entire flight. Um, okay. Clearly, I have lost my mind. But of COURSE we’d let him play with his Gameboy for the entire flight! It would take his mind off all those 100-foot drops when we go through the clouds. I just really need to know if TEX the pilot needs a girlfriend…I just soloed in a Cessna 172 and need me one of them there cowboy co-pilots. YEEEE HAW. Tex is a married man. A friend of mine found a brazilian wandering spider on a banana one time. She worked for a pet store so she actually kept it in a terrarium in her house. After she showed me THAT thing, I didn’t eat bananas for years. Everyone, check your bananas carefully before bringing them home… This reminds me – back last Fall when I was planting daffodil and lily bulbs and found a black widow, I was Googling around to see whether spiders breathe oxygen (shut up. It’s a valid question!), and I found a site where people were talking about their black widows THAT THEY KEPT AS PETS. Ugh. Ick. Bleh! beeeeeeeeeeechiesssss My sister posted that one. When I was little, I called bugs “Beechies” for some unknown reason, and I was scared to DEATH of anything remotely buglike. My mother tells the story of when I was three or four and we were stationed in Indiana. I ran out the door into the front yard, and a swarm of locusts flew up, and I levitated in the air and ran back through the door shrieking “Beechies! Beechies!” the entire way. Mom usually express mails me fiddleheads in the spring. She and Dad brave the black flies for a batch or two. I’ve never had canned. Any good? You know, I’ve only ever had fiddleheads once in my life, and I think they were fresh. I don’t know about the canned ones – don’t canned vegetables tend to be a wee bit slimier than fresh or frozen? It’d probably be worth a try, though! The Evanescence song is DEFINITELY “My Immortal,” I play it every morning in my car on the way to work. (You can tell I REALLY love my job eh?) I betcha you love the line, “And I realized I’ve been ALONEEEEEEEEE all ALONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!” At least that’s the one that makes me sob out loud! Heh. Yes, it’s “My Immortal”. And that IS my favorite part! The funny thing is that after I asked in my entry if anyone knew the name, I realized that I’d given the CD to the spud for Christmas, and it was sitting upstairs in her room! Furniture spray? I once threw cheese at a spider, for lack of any other means of defending myself. Oh, and I was crouching on the kitchen table at the time. Hence the cheese. But the important question is… was it on a salad? Because spiders LIKE cheese, just NOT on a salad. (Hee! I slay me!) I think you’d look good in a bathing suit! Don’t be ashamed! Are you going to sport one in Hawaii?! Come on!! ;o) and I have to agree with Heather! Oh, HELL no! If y’all want to put on a bathing suit and prance around in front of my mother, you just feel free to do so. I, on the other hand, will be sporting a pair of badass board shorts and a t-shirt. I may end up with a farmer tan, but I’ll be way more comfortable than I would in a bathing suit. I’ll leave the looking-cute-in-a-bathing-suit up to the spud and her cousin. I agree with you on the Boy t-shirt thing, but I have to wonder…Miz Poo may think boys are fine, but what about dogs? 😉 Miz Poo has no opinion on dogs. As long as they, too, worship her she’ll let them live. If they try to give her attitude or get in her fact, though, she’ll be forced to turn into kung-fu kitty. And no one wants THAT.
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The Beaniest Bean who ever Beaned. ]]>

24 thoughts on “2004-06-10”

  2. I just wanted to warn you not to read Shutter Island>. It is a good book, until the very last chapter, whereupon you will want to throw it across the room. Authors are NOT ALLOWED to pull that crap. Just in case you were thinking about it, or had it on your shelf or sumpin.
    Going swimming today?

  4. You know you’ve only made me want to read it now, don’t you? 🙂
    We’re going swimming if the stupid sun comes back out! And even if it doesn’t, maybe.

  7. I was just thinking… I’ve been reading your site for a few months, back before the Bean came into the picture. I’m not sure why this JUST NOW popped into my head. I used to have a gray kitty that looked very simliar to the Bean and he too had a messed up tail. It was crooked and looked like a lightning bolt. The vet told us his mother most likely bit it when he was born while trying to break the umbilical cord. Do you know what happened to Bean’s tail? I was just wondering.

  8. I love Netflix. You can only have three movies at a time though so if you watch everything in two days, you have to wait for new movies to arrive. As far as convenience goes though, it rocks!
    On-line banking rules too. Very quick, very easy.

  9. I actually LOVED Shutter Island but I like a good ‘wtf??’.. haha
    Thanks to Kelly for posting how link in LJ, that’s where I live and it’s great to go there and see if you’ve updated.. yay! can’t wait til I can get your entire text over there, course then I’ll miss all the great graphics here.. but I’ll figure it out.
    I was going to buy “All He Ever Wanted”, it’s on my wishlist but after your “2 poo review” I’ll remove it. At the moment I’m completely obsessed with all thing Mount Everest 1996 anyway, with 4 books down, 5 (or is that 6) to go.
    Come on, read DaVinci code will ye!

  10. You can rent more than three at a time through Netflix but it costs more. The more you rent the more you pay. But you pay no postage, no late fees, they have everything and they have it the day it comes out. I put things on my list before they come out, move them to #1 the night before and poof its in my mailbox!

  11. I lurve Netflix. That and my DVR have totally changed the way I watch TV. I don’t know what I did before.
    Also, they have upgraded memberships where you can get five or eight movies at a time–they just cost more. It all depends on how many you watch.
    I only do three, but I send them back as I watch them (no need to wait to send all three back at once), so I pretty much always have at least one new movie to view.
    Lisa

  13. I also think that I read your journal too often. The other day I was randomly putting the word “poo” into songs that I had stuck in my head. Then I would laugh out loud if it was particularly funny (i.e. “Stand by your Pooooo” sung to “Stand by your man..”). Then Robert would ask me what was so funny and not understand when I told him. Yep, I need a life.

  14. I heart Netflix a whole bunch, and have been using it for just about a month and have taken out about 10 movies–the turnaround time is great and it’s just overall a great service.
    So, thumbs up there. You DO have to put your credit card # in for the free trial, of course, so keep track of when you signed up so you can get out w/o paying if you don’t like it. they billed me w/o even a notice that my free trial ended. I’m staying on for the summer, though, definitely.

  15. Hee. Netflix rocks. I’ll email ya some buttons, but yus, you can use that last little bit of HTML in the email to link to the feed (LJ users will get it) and you can just link to your RSS feed for anyone who would want it. I’ll email some buttons and stuff.

  16. Watch for the special on the Netflix when I joined I got a $50 free for the K-mart store. You could pick I believe what store you wanted. I already got mine so I know that it is for real. I just love netflix. Good luck. I will see if I still have the special in my e-mail folder and will send it to you.

  17. Pinky, you are the best people! (Taking that from my daughter.) The LJ feed ROCKS! Now I can actually read Robyn from WORK! (Whoda thunk they would block “BITCHyPOO”? Weird!

  18. Except *I* seem to be the lamer who can’t figure out how to get the whole entry to show up on LJ without having a link to the journal itself. I’ll play with it more later.

  19. Robin do you read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King? I thought I remembered you saying you had read “The Wolves of Calla”..something like that. 🙂 Anyway…the 6th book came out yesterday and it’s called “Song of Susannah”. The final 7th book comes out in Sept. I am such a dork..I love that series! 🙂

  21. I have not yet read Shutter Island, but I hear the last chapter…
    You know, one of my favorite Bitchypoo entries is the one about the black widow. I laughed so hard I cried. Doesn’t matter what kind of spider is on a banana or in a shed. A spider is a spider is a spider and I will run away fast or have a heart attack in the process!
    I have loved the song My Immortal for many a moon. Haunting, it is. Used to make me cry, but now I could probably get through the whole song w/o shedding a tear.
    Take care,

  22. Two words for anyone curious now to taste fiddleheads. Food poisoning. Who knew you couldn’t eat them raw..like a salad? OMG. Seriously. Cook the crap out of them. Google it. I’m not making it up.lol I have never been that sick or in that much pain before (childbirth doesn’t count here). But they were yummy. 🙂

  23. The only thing I’ve run into with e-bill paying is that if it’s a super small business they get all stupid about checks from the bank that pay them. I have had a HORRIBLE time with the gymnastics group that my daughter goes to, despite the fact that the bank puts my daughter’s name and their account number RIGHT ON THE CHECK This is more than I do for scheiss’ sake, yet they credit my checks, but not the bank’s check — and frankly, the bank’s check is not going to bounce. 😉
    E-bill paying is awesome for credit cards and larger companies and I really like it because I can sit down in the wee hours when all those-noisy-people-I’m-related-to are asleep and pay all the bills. I can compare that against my excel sheet and make sure everyone’s paid, including the quarterly bills like trash, student loans, etc., which I would otherwise forget.

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