reading: Hating Valentine’s Day.
I finished The Catcher in the Rye last night (I read it at some point in high school, by the way; this wasn’t my first reading). That Holden Caulfield sure does say “old” a lot. Old Phoebe. Old Jane. Old this, old that. It’d be almost charming if he wasn’t such a whiny little bitch.
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Hey, I made a
favicon using some site I wandered across, and now if you look up in the address bar next to the site address, you should see it. You might not, though – it doesn’t always show up, and I’m not sure why. I think it depends on what browser you’re using – it won’t show up in Internet Explorer for me, but it does in Firefox (which is what I usually use – I just keep Internet Explorer around for emergencies).
I used my
badass picture, if you can’t tell. And looking up there and seeing that itty bitty version of the badass picture just cracks me UP.
Oh, shut up. I’m easily amused, I’ll admit it.
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So, if you search this site regularly (using that “search this site” link over there in the sidebar), you might have noticed that I’ve switched from
PicoSearch to
Freefind; PicoSearch has a 1500-document limit for their free search engine, which I was rapidly approaching, and Freefind doesn’t seem to have a limit. Sure, there are some ads at the top of the result page, but they’re not overwhelming, so I think I’ll stick with Freefind for now.
I suggested to Fred that, with his big brain and his ability to whip out software without thinking twice, he could write me a search engine for my site. He agreed that he could – but I don’t think he particularly wants to. Besides, even if he did there are so many other things on the list of “Things to do for Robyn, computerly speaking” that writing me a search engine is pretty far down the list.
I’ve noticed, since I get to see what people are using the search engine to look for (but don’t worry, I don’t know who’s doing the searching) that there have been a ton of searches for “chick peas” and “pita”. Your best bet, if you’re looking for a recipe, is to click on the “recipes” link over there on the sidebar under
Other. The pita pizza recipe is listed under
The Red Auerbach Pizza (in
entrees) and the
roasted chickpeas recipe is in the
sides section.
Also, the carpet cleaner so many of you search for? It’s called
Axi-dent, and it does an excellent job of killing the smell of cat pee on contact. So many people search for that that I think I’m just going to link to it in the sidebar so it’ll be easier to find.
I’ll get around to that this week, hopefully.
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Last night, Fred and I spent a good half hour talking about opening a used book store. There’s space for rent within walking distance of our house, and really – running a used book store would be absolutely perfect for me.
The problem is that I’m sure the space we were talking about is pretty expensive – everything in this town is getting to be pretty expensive – and I’m not sure Madison can support a used book store. There was one a few years ago that went out of business pretty quickly. And I’m not willing to gamble our savings like that, you know?
At one point I said “We could make it a used book store and a used movie store, and name it ‘Couch Potato’!” And then I said “And we could get a store cat!”
Fred said “We couldn’t get a store cat!”
“Why?”
“Because what would we do with it if the store went out of business?”
Damn. He saw through my wily scheme!
Man. If we’d saved every book we’ve read instead of giving them away, we’d for sure have enough stock to open a used book store.
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What better way to spend a rainy, crappy day than snuggled up on The Momma’s bed?]]>
