I lost my book
The one I was reading... it’s in the house somewhere. IT HAS TO BE. But where? I mean, there are only so many places it can be, and it seems to not be in any of those. I can’t remember the last time I lost a book. It’s driving me crazy. I don’t want to re-buy it. It will turn up. It must turn up. Make it so!
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Also, in the pursuit of proper procrastination, that I might have a more perfect union of not doing this thing that I really don’t want to do with also doing something else I’d rather do… I’ve started editing my second book … thus further delaying working on my synopsis. Go me.
Andrew, I swear to maggots.
And they swear to you. Look, circular fealty!
Maybe it’s in the crisper drawer in the fridge. That’s where I always looked when I had toddlers.
Hah! Luckily neither have figured out how to open the fridge on their own yet or I’m sure Z would be trying to set up his lego trains in there.
Also, in the pursuit of proper procrastination, that I might have a more perfect union of not doing this thing that I really don’t want to do with also doing something else I’d rather do…
I’m sorry, that may be the best sentence I’ve read in the blogosphere since the invention of the blogosphere.
And I both sympathize and empathize with your plight, my friend. That’s just not right. (Under the bed? Under the toys? On top of the fridge? On a high shelf near the phone? In a kid’s bed?)
I still haven’t found it and it’s driving me nuts. It’s like when you lose something … and you know it’s in the room you are in… but there is nothing in the room! I literally do not know where else it could possibly be. My children have not yet resorted to hiding daddy’s things… or maybe they have. O.O
Also, that is the best blog comment I’ve gotten that I can recall. !
PS Andy, I can’t figure out how to change my avatar on your site, and I weary of being a sallow, bespectacled, tongue-sticking-out commenter. I mean, as luck would have it, this actually is a fairly good reflection of how I look, but still….
It’s randomly assigned based on your IP. I think, the way to change it to something is to have a wordpress.com account (or perhaps some form of openid – I’ve never mastered openid, and it taunts me frequently) and set your image through there. You’ve got the wp account, so try going into the profile there and manually selecting someothing?
Just tried to change my avatar – testing here.
(I would have expected it to change in old comments, too, but alas, no!)
Shoot. Back to the cyber drawing board.
From your wordpress dashboard it should be under SETTINGS->GENERAL. You should be able to upload a pic from there.
All righty then. I thought that was precisely what I had done, but it turns out: I had done something else. Apparently one’s User Profile on WordPress is different from one’s Settings. I do not pretend to understand, but can only quote John Cole at Balloon Juice in saying “FYWP!”
So. I have now uploaded my standard intertubez avatar into my Settings. I have waited about an hour (because WordPress told me that it might take a little while). And now we’ll see if it worked (though, again, one would think that it would have changed in my earlier comments, if it had worked…).
PS Thanks for being patient with me as I use your blog as a guinea pig…!
Foiled again! Dad gummit!
I wouldn’t call that foiled – it looks different to me! Also, something you can do to test things like this is just go to a really old post of yours, comment, delete,etc. Then no one notices (like if you tried to make a new post just to test things it would hit the feed).
I finally figured it out after the “foiled again dad gummit” comment — you *do* have to go into your User profile (rather than Settings), but you change your Gravatar (as opposed to upload a picture, which is what I did the first go around). And I’ve finally gotten back to check and: YAY!
And sad to say, it never would have occurred to me that I could comment at my own place to figure stuff out…! As I believe I may have mentioned, I am occasionally a bear of very little brain indeed. Thank you! (And thank you for your patience, and feel free to delete all of the above!).
I AM VICTORIOUS! That’s all the matters to me nao.
Ah hah! Yeah, it looks like they changed things. Talk about a weird way to do it? But if I change my system to a non gravatar one?
I can only surmise that you would have a new problem, and I would be of even less use as you tried to solve it….
Jen just found my book. Woot!
It was under a pile of junk in the dressing bedroom. If anyone cares. O.O
I care. I am, indeed, very pleased for you!
Now, if Jen could only look for my copy of Beowulf, I’d be ever so grateful.