Friday the 13th I drove my wife to a Doctor's appointment this morning... While she was in to see the doctor I pulled up Facebook on my phone and was just scrolling thru the posts. I came upon a tribute to Marie Freeman that sounded beautiful but sad... After following…
Is it just we or could this pass for art on someone's wall https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmXB61sZti/
https://youtu.be/zkQ-6LvbwdI I'm pm a weekend journey guided by Maria Popova and it's enlightening...
Chee... I got a little busy this morning and forgot to post this. Not that I had a lot to say. Spent most of the day reading. Doing chores. Just another Tuesday in paradise... oops I mean Texas. The day started out at 39°, it's now 75°. That's a bit…
Testing social media integration. I want to see how this populates.
Somehow my permalink structure ended up with some strange single quote marks buried in the structure... Hopefully Fixed...
Warm Sticky Start To A Saturday Morning Coffee Muses
Afternoon Backyard View.
Just testing the automatic sharing settings to see if I fixed a problem only I noticed.
The property behind mine lays along Mustang Bayou. With all of the rain we have had this summer, the grass had grown quite tall. This week my neighbor spent a day on his big green machine mowing the right of way visible from the back porch. Now, once again, the…
It must have made a sound... Right?
I walked out this morning for my morning coffee and the day slapped me in the face. Yesterday's cool had been replaced by our normal heat and humidity. But, sitting here reading my email and news, listening to the daily political news, I began to here another sound... in the…
Yesterday, while trolling through the many folders on my hard-drive, I stumbled across the xml WordPress export file that I used back in 2013 to move Coffee Muses to a new host... So thanks to that, I am only missing the few posts I put up in the past two…
I started reading Gene Logsdon by in my younger "hippie" days. I would bet I still have a few of his books on the bookshelf somewhere in the house. I still follow his blog. He just posted this piece... I have a hunch that the following scene happens only on…
Today at her blog write to done, Mary Jaksch has a conversation with Seth Godin... As you may know, I follow Seth and have for years. I think I discovered him through the early years of Fast Company...However I came across him though, I am glad I did. He has…
On Tuesday morning as I was running through my emails and feeds I lost connectivity with the internets...Not the way I wanted to start a day. After going to the equipment cabinet in the bedroom closet and trying the unplug all, replug all, hit reset, try three times...I called AT&T.…
This morning is a new experience for me. I brought the old laptop out on the back porch to start uninstalling old software...While working on that I was able to read email, listen to public radio, watch the hummingbirds fight over the feeders, and now...Write on this blog. This could…
A few weeks back my five-year old laptop began to show signs that it wouldn't be with us much longer. The images on the screen would develop a flicker... Then the lower third of the screen would lighten until it was impossible to see. A good whack would straighten it out, but I could…
When I pulled up my blog this afternoon I opened the stats tab just to see what's up. I don't do it all that often, but, when I do it always strikes me as funny what shows up as the top post... It's always the same. Every time it's my post from…
Set up a Google alerton your own name and have it emailed to yourself each day. Then you'll see how you make the news each day. You'll see arrest reports, obituaries, retirement notices, political reports...In other words, if your name is at all common, you'll see the full gamut of life…
Thinking creatively has been a goal in my life for as long as I can remember. Now I've run across this article...Who would've thought it could be this easy? Want to boost your creativity? Tomorrow morning, pour some milk into an empty bowl, and then add the cereal. That may sound,…
This is what I see every time I look up from the keyboard for the past couple of weeks. It's almost enough to have me singing along with the "Boss"... Listen to more Bruce Springsteen at Wolfgang's Vault.
Thanks to John Scalzi for the lead.
The "efficiency" of globalization is nothing but a cross-your-fingers fantasy.- Jim Hightower | JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKE JOLTS SHREVEPORT.
Ladies and gentlemen, the days of unlimited broadband may be numbered in the United States, and we're not talking wireless this time -- AT&T says it will implement a 150GB monthly cap on landline DSL customers and a 250GB cap on subscribers to U-Verse high speed internet starting on May…
I wandered over to Amazon this morning looking to see if they had anyone offering a product out of Australia that takes humidity from the air in your home and creates clean drinking water from it. The product is called the Skywater® 14 Water Making Machine and, while it looks…
It's Sunday morning and we are sitting here with the back door wide open. Listening to a light rain fall outside as the cool outside air filters in. It feels more like spring than the middle of winter. The low last night must not have fallen below 60°. The last half of…
I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend Nor will I even bother to open an email without a subject line. OK, in fairness, I don’t use communications in general the way the 20-somethings (or less!) Facebook is trying to cultivate do; even with actual friends, my messages are more along…
I didn't post anything after Friday morning because most of the time since was spent driving from place to place and then home...All with the beginnings of a nasty touch of a bug. A Floyd Friday Friday morning I relearned a lesson I learn every trip to the mountains. It always takes…
When I first saw the subject of this years Blog Action Day I was a little dismayed. What could I, a blogger, say that hadn't been said already by better authors than I. I signed up anyway...I haven't missed a Blog Action Day since the concept was dreamed up. So I…
...Just have someone with your name hit the Today Show. I was checking my email a few minutes ago and I saw I had a couple of comments over at Gary-Boyd.com that had eluded the spam filter. So off I went to see what was said and to make sure…
After a couple of days of semi-sunny, completely muggy, stay inside weekend days followed by a clear hot Monday we went straight to more rainy muggy days. Tropical moisture has flowed up over the coast to our south now for days. The puddles from last week hadn't even drained to mud, much less dried,…
Hurricane Alex may have missed us but it's been raining all week. I have discovered that if I plug my computer feed into the plasma in the kitchen where I sit at the table all day working on my sites, that I can keep the Wundermap from the Weather Underground…
The Yard The rains last week had me cruising around on Monday for most of the day. I was flying formation with squadrons of dragonflies as I made my rounds on the Deere...The summer numbers are here at last. There must have been a couple of thousand of the flying…
Thunderstorms and Heat The week started off with thunderstorms rolling through the area...Lights were blinking, internet connectivity was problematic at best but we kept on keeping on. Wednesday's storms missed us and by Thursday we were into the "Heat" part of the week. What I mean by heat is that…
The past couple of weeks have found me spending more time outside with my 18 month old grandson and less time living online. Of course the weather has made it easier to be outside enjoying spring than inside adding to a blog. These spring days are rapidly feeling more and…
[ti_billboard name="test"] Boy talk about killing time in a hurry...I was perusing Google Reader this morning and ran across a video from WordCamp New York (WordCamp NYC Session Video Posted « Tierra Innovation: Wordpress CMS Project)...In the presentation you had some guys from Tierra and WNET talking about the project…
For some reason this year my wife has spring break off. It makes no sense, she could never get spring break off when we, you know, actually had kids off on spring break. But this year she has spring break off. Guess what? Grandson #2 is all ours each and…
Talk about getting your head in a spin...Today I went through my daily routine of reading email as I listen to yesterdays "news" via podcasts downloaded to iTunes. I do this every morning, without fail...Coffee, email, podcasts. All of a sudden, it hit me...The incongruousness of what I was doing.…
The Weather Yesterday, when I went through my daily email, this is what I saw from the weather gurus at My-Cast.com... Currently (on Fri 6:22AM CST from Pearland Regional Airport) Thunderstorm Temp: 70° Dewpoint: 64° Wind: S 10 MPH Today's email brought this... Currently (on Sat 6:06AM CST from Pearland Regional…
Image via Wikipedia Have you ever Googled your own name? No you say...Go ahead do it now I'll wait... For those of you who answered yes...Did you find yourself? On what page? How many times was there a link to your information. You know you've been online too long and…
Over the past few days I noticed all of my Google AdSence blocks had disappeared. Also missing were some other blocks of code I had used a Wordpress Plugin to place in my sidebars and footer areas. I do not think the problem was wholly in the one plugin as…
The computer lets us approach in a startling demonstration of general-to-specific. The world becomes a continent becomes a region; a particular city surrounded by mountains; a set of streets; a house on a certain corner, with a brick walk and a tree in the backyard: someone’s home, someone’s place in…
NOTE: AS USUAL BACK UP EVERYTHING BEFORE PROCEEDING! (Only takes a couple of minutes!) Here’s how. Login as “Admin” user. Pull down the “Users” menu in administration page. Click on “Add New” Add a new user, set your permissions to “Administrator” Save the changes, and log out. Log back in…
It has been a misty, rainy, quiet day today. Nothing spectacular in the weather, just a slow drizzly, yukky looking winters day. It's been quiet because number two grandson and number two daughter went off to stay with hubby for a few days...Don't ask. I've been lost in the muse…
Coffee Muses require solitude...Having a non-blogging significant other across the table from you as you wander through your morning routine tends to put you in a different place. Not a wandering the web, not a reading email with an open mind, not a "oh yea" that's neat kind of place.…
After fighting through the issues this week after upgrading WordPress I decided it was time to speed up the opening of these pages...At least as much as I can living here on GoDaddy with all of the other websites. Gone are the picture badges for my other sites. Gone are…
After staying up late watching "Australia" last night, I woke up early thanks to an alarm clock reset to wake my wife on Saturday that I forgot to set back to a normal wakeup call. I started reactivating plugins this morning until the "white screen of death" as Cali called…
I deactivated all of the plugins on this site and things seem to be working again...I haven't figured out which of the plugins I had installed were causing the problem. But, enough of this for this day...I'm gonna go veg with a movie and hit this again tomorrow. For anyone…
Is it time to move my blog hosting to another provider? Intermittent problems with pulling up back-end pages in my blogs is beginning to get to me. For months I have had problems with getting the "Add New Post" page to open over at North Carolina Mountain Dreams...Sometimes it opened…
It is beginning to be an everyday thing. A DM from someone on Twitter that's not...Leading to a fake login page... Another day, another phishing or malware scam on Twitter. It seems like these are happening entirely too often, and the reason is that people continue to ignore common sense.…
Two years ago we were planning our first fall trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia...Life has conspired since then to keep me from the mountains I love. I look forward to next year and a visit to the mountains to beat all of our past…
A second blogger being sued by the mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith is set to spend a weekend behind bars for failing to do what a local judge asked. Teresa Stephens, accused in a civil lawsuit of defaming Smith's mother, was arrested Thursday in the Fort Worth area…
For many years, if anyone asked what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'd say I wanted to "build websites". As I kept reinventing the job I did for the company I spent my adult life with, my coworkers would kid me on occasion. I would tell them…
It was time for a bug fix upgrade yesterday. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have so many places to run the "automatic upgrade". And every upgrade of WP brings with it a number of rolling plugin upgrade. It seems that each upgrade causes an unforeseen problem with…
I haven't vanished from the face of the earth...I haven't taken ill from the heat and lack of rain...I haven't been shipped off for failing to amuse my wife (though I'm sure see is thinking about it)...What I am doing is exploring the idiosyncrasies of a new theme for WordPress…
I spent almost all day Tuesday installing a new database and reinstalling WordPress and importing the old posts over at North Carolina Mountain Dreams. I am still working at putting all of the pieces back together over there...You know, side bars and widgets and all of that bloggy stuff. Next…
It seems the culprit in my WordPress upgrade problems was a plugin called "Events Manager" Version 2.0rc1. Once I disabled this plugin my menu problems went away on my North Carolina Mountain Dreams Blog. Now this cannot be the only problem because Virginia Mountain Dreams still works fine...Both blogs use…
It looks like the recent round of upgrades to both WordPress and Advertising Manager has screwed up the layouts of my blogs totally. Originally, I was using Adsence Manager as a Widget Control Panel. Paste any code into an add, give it a name, it showed up in your widget…
Everybody following everybody isn’t a networked community; it’s a madhouse. Enough of the madhouse. Let’s build something truly powerful and show the world all the beauty we can bring about with that power! via Why I Unfollowed 45,000 People On Twitter. I wondered when I first heard of Twitter what…
I started down a path I am still walking today. Inventing the Myth as I Go Where am I heading and how will I get there? You are welcome to come along for the ride. Try not to fall off as we round the curves… I have tried to do…
One of the things I like most about this thing we call Blogging is number 2 on Patry Francis' list. And she ranks up there at the top of my amazing people list. Patry published this list back around Thanksgiving in Twenty O'Six. I stumbled across it again today as…
Today has been a little stranger than usual...I seem to be in the doldrums. Held inside by the heat, humidity, and the biting insects when I really want to be outside. Not that being inside today has been tough. It's just been quieter than I am used to...Everyone is out,…
I seem to enjoy finding blogs written by authors. One of the latest I've wandered across is by Fiona Robyn. She posted an article yesterday that popped up via my feed reader today. The title of the piece was How To Slow Down. I found this section in particular spoke…
Some quick observations of no importance to anyone but me... ++++++++++ Living for a week or so on a laptop belonging to someone else is frustrating to say the least. Even a laptop that you set up for that someone else. Even with admin rights and my own profile, even…
The topic of the night here in the US is a rumored deal in the works between Google and Twitter. Michael Arrington reported tonight that acquisition talks are in late stages, then revised his report with another source close to at least one company saying that the talks were in…
Waking up...wandering into the kitchen for that first cup of coffee...firing up the laptop...opening up the morning email...checking the overnight blog stats...checking the weather forecast both here and in the mountains... It always hits me as a little odd when I check the weather and the temperature here is lower…
I was cleaning up my bookmark list this morning and what usually happens when I try happened. I followed an old link that crashed. Then in trying to find a new clean link to the site I found a article that has more relevance to me now than when it…
This post was first published on a Blogger.com site then moved over and over until it arrived here... Inventing the Myth as I Go Where am I heading and how will I get there? You are welcome to come along for the ride. Try not to fall off as we…