Well, as you probably know now, I’ve decorated my site with some hopefully pertinent Google adsense adverts. I’ve tried to make them as non-intrusive as possible, but your feedback will be most appreciated. Gracias. 🙂 I’ve also decided to host my poems on this same place and in the process of painstakingly creating pages for all my old poems. It’s a task of love so don’t feel bad for me. lol. It just occurred to me that I should simply just publish all my stuff from WordPress. So, I’ll be hosting everything on this portal. No more of that pesky sub-domain nonsense till I have a concrete plan in mind. In other news, something really cool happened to us i.e. our hard work got rewarded. Now, all we can do is wait. As my people say, “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.” ‘Nuff said. No work yet on the job front although things look promising. Matt said something that struck me especially as I’ve levelled the same criticism at someone else. He said that I needed to let go of my stressors because my person was such that I would find something else to obsess or stress over. *sigh* He’s a tad too intuitive sometimes. Oh well, wish me luck in my jobhunt and
Nothing much
Well, I’ll be attending a seminar today on how to make money online. It should be interesting. Paul’s actually thinking of doing stuff like eBay power-selling because he’s got a ton of stuff that he could do without that’s of good quality. Me, I think I’ll stick to whatever my day job is, but I won’t mind some passive income. If (hopefully, it’s a when) I get this job I’m angling for, it’ll make for a nice pile of money at the end. In the meantime, I’m trying to figure out how in blazes I can get some adsense up on my blog! I’m $30 shy of payday and feel free to click away on ads you see anywhere on my site that are of interest/use to you.
Tinkering with WordPress themes
Okay, here’s the deal. My landlord’s a guru at graphic design. He’s taught me a few tips and tricks of working with Photoshop. I obtained a copy of Photoshop CS and it’s been lying pretty much unused on my computer. However, I got the chance to test it out when I downloaded this current theme. It came with a logo.psd file that I knew was editable. I just didn’t know how to do it. Then, I called in the big guns a.k.a. Paul (the landlord and friend). He showed me how it was a simple matter of removing/hiding unwanted layers and creating new layers. That’s how I was able to alter the logo to read my name and my site’s title. Then, I decided to do another logo in the same style as this current one albeit with a different color scheme. Check out my results:
I’ve obviously got a long way to go, but with Paul by my side, the ride won’t be so rough. 🙂 In the meantime, Paul and I will be attending some workship at the Holiday Inn Express in downtown Athens on how to make money via the web! He got a complimentary pass for another person so he figured since I’m on the pc so much, I’d be better off attending this seminar. We’ll be getting free food and a free planner. So, stay tuned. Also, Matt got 2 very important things taken care of today i.e. his updated e.v.l. and squared out some 401(k) stuff. So, my plan is to get maximum rest tomorrow and be ready for our big day.
waiting to exhale
So, I attended a job interview last week and received a request for things like my references, transcripts, etc. This hasn’t happened for me before (and I’ve attend 3 interviews prior to this one). I liked the environment and my interviewer was laidback, but insightful. We talked for a good bit (~ 1hr long interview) and then, I went to see the laboratory. I’m excited about the prospect of possibly being hired. This will be my first real job since I got done with school and whatnots. Please put me in your prayers for this job and for another big event coming up pretty soon.
My experience with the band, Pelican.
Artist/performer: Pelican
Price: $10
Begins: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 at 11:30 PM
Ends: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 at 1:30 PM
Location: 285 W Washington Street, Athens GA 30601
This band (Pelican) simply rocks! First of all, they don’t have a singer/lyricist. They make the music with their instruments consisting of a bass player, a drummer and two other guitar players. As you may or may not know, my husband is Caucasian and I’m Nigerian. We went downtown to a part of the city and to a club where my kind isn’t frequently seen. This place was the 40 Watt club and I’ve actually been there before with Matt (to see The Melvins). As expected, I had to wear earplugs, but I could hear fine although Matt kept mothering me. 🙂 There was about ~25 people in the club by Matt’s estimate and still, in his words, “they played their heart(s) out” Their sound is nothing like I’ve heard before and I’m frankly speaking. If their songs could have lyrics, they’d be almost melancholy. Matt pegs their styles as “emotional, dramatic and heavy.” He took the words right out of my mouth. They’ve got a hectic tour schedule so go listen to them while they’re in the US. Or check out their Myspace page for samples.
Going to church
church service
Begins: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 at 9:45 AM
Ends: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 at 12:30 PM
Location:
2390 W. Broad St.
Athens, Georgia 30606
USA
For the hell of it, I’ve created an event i.e. going to a Baptist church with my friends, P and J. I’ll hopefully go to lunch afterwards or I suspect I’ll be too tuckered out to do much. I stayed up till 5.35am reading a book by Ken Follett called “A Place called Freedom”. To say it moved me is saying the least. The fact that I refused to sleep till I’d consumed the whole book should tell you something. Go check the book out from your local library, now! The next book I’ll be feasting my eyes on is a book by a renowned ethnobiologist from Harvard who teased out the ingredients in Haitian voodoo that caused the phenomenon of zombie-ism. I can’t remember the title of the book right now, but it’s a must read for those who poo-poo the occult.
Simply blown away!
Holy crap! WPG2 is working with my WordPress installation!! I’m so thrilled. After much googling, I decided to post to the WPG2 forum with my problem and none other than the developer (ozgreg) responded to my posts with really helpful information. I didn’t have to do any “hacking” (as if I could). I’m as pleased as a bee and thus far, insertion of images into my posts works like a charm. This plugin is one that being developed constantly so that I know it won’t go the route of the coppermine gallery plugin that I used to use (when I was still with Coppermine). This rocks and I’ll tinker with me it some. Meanwhile, enjoy some cool shots after the jump.