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I found my GPS reciever, and had a couple of AA batteries sitting around. Unfortunately, it’d been so long that I had to reconfigure it. It took nearly 5 minutes to get a lock on 4 satellites, and get elevation data. Oh, well.
Maybe I’ll start geocaching again; that’s fun. I’ll just have to start getting up earlier (i.e., while the sun’s still up)
I think there’s a god out there somewhere, and that he (she, it, whatever) wants me to get out more. Case in point:
I woke up today at around noon (it was my day off). I spent 4 hours watching some episodes of Family Guy that I’d downloaded, and then went back to bed. I got up around 11:30, and began making preparations to leave for work. Make a salad, grab my bag, etc. Then my truck won’t start; the battery’s too low (although the dome light is on, kinda). I end up walking to work; it takes me an hour, and it’s uphill most of the way.
The irony is, if I’d gone outside today at any point, I would have started the truck (and it would have probably started again when I let for work), or it wouldn’t have started, but I’d have had enough time to get a new battery, or a jump start. As it is, I pretty much have to hope that as the battery warms up, it’ll magically develop more power and start. That, or I have to borrow a friend’s car and drive to NTB and get another battery. Either way, it’s a sucky day ahead.
I just realized that Mozilla Thunderbird also wraps plain-text messages at 74 characters per line. I guess it’ll be easier than I thought to identify those posts.
I really wish Mozilla Thunderbird had support for “mail templates”; then
I could automate this process (set subject line prefix, paste first 2
lines and closing line). Oh, well. At least now I can make posts from
web cafes (well, if there WERE any in Austin that I visited on a regular
basis).
Now my Lat/Lon values will be imported when I post via email (now that
I’ve divined, magically, the string to put on the second line)?
So I’m testing out posting via email. Let’s see if it works.
I’ve gone ahead & upgraded from b2 to wordpress. Yes, it’s an upgrade. From what I can tell, the authors of b2 made substantial changes to the product, and stopped development on b2 and cafelog (the commercial flavor of b2). Mainly, it just means that it’s a better product on the backend (the parts you’ll never really see). It also (unfortunately) means that I’ll have to rewrite my main template, since this one is the default that comes with WordPress, and isn’t really my style.
It also has a neat feature that I’m trying out with this post, where I can enter Latitude & Longitude on a post. I wonder what it does…
Update: It turns out the lat & long don’t do anything visible (yet). Oh, well.
Update 2: And now it does. The irritating part will now be keeping track of what my lat & long are. First, of course, I’ll need to get some more AA batteries for my GPS receiver.