Scary Yankee Chick

The Adaptive Curmudgeon has a post up about pulling into a gas station and watching a truck pull away with no driver….

It reminded me of something that happened to me a while back.  I was pulling into one of these little awkward city parking lots that had been squished into an empty spot, and was greeted with the site of a seemingly driverless car moving forwards and backwards, about a foot at a time, repeatedly.  After watching for a moment I realized that whoever WAS in control of the car was attempting to turn around, everytime the car would change direction the front wheels would turn just a little bit.  After another minute I finally got a glimpse of the face of a tiny elderly old lady, tiny as in, could barely see over the steering wheel.  From what I saw she was barely able to turn her head the 90degrees required to look directly left or right, and was attempting to turn around so she could leave the lot after having pulled out of a parking space.  Since A: she wasn’t making any real progress since she wasn’t able to see and thus was only allowing the car to move the barest amount at a time, and B: I was pretty sure she hadn’t see ME and I didn’t want to get hit, I found a different place to park.  As I walked back to my car a half hour later I noticed that she’d finally gotten herself loose from the parking lot and had left.

In all honesty I’d have prefered a truely driverless car……

I’ve added a basic “word verification” (Only its math not words) to the comments form due to a rather startling amount of spam since I moved here (WP doesn’t do nearly as nice a job at catching it).    If its to hard to work with let me know, there are other choices I can play with.

That is my end table, please don’t ask me how he fits there, I have no idea…..

This was yesterday (and a couple days ago that I forgot to post), I expect something similer today as we’re going to be doing yard work since its supposed to be LOVELY (in mid march wtf??)

In the course of trying to make the blog look like I want I’ve picked up a few new tools.  I’ve had Dreamweaver for a while, and two little utilities for color, one called RGB to HEX, the other called Colorpic.  But managing this required some help, I also used the Firefox plugin called Firebug (oh gosh was this usefull) and this webpage that takes the color code you give it (whatever the format) and converts it to the five other formats used commonly.  Very very usefull.

The answer to the question of how long before the slightly funky background patterning of my RSS feed was going to annoy me (asked in my previous post):  Not very long.  Thankfully it ended up being easier to fix than the original background color problem.

Links are UNDERLINED!!!!

Take THAT originial “genius” programer whoever you are who decided that the Raindrops theme needed 8, thats right EIGHT, .CSS files.    Its probly a good thing I don’t know who you are……..

At any rate I’m now free to play with font color as I please, except I’m kinda liking this darker font color, anybody else have any input or thoughts (if its to hard to read for people I’ll change it, I don’t know how many blogs I’ve had to give up on reading cause they chose some painfull combination of background and font colors).

Edited:  Ok, font color lightened because I finally got the main body NOT BLACK.  Course, I’m going to have to remember WHAT I did next time the theme updates cause I’ve not managed to get the changes set up in a child theme that works…..

edited again: course, it did something funky to the looks of my RSS feed…..we’ll see how much it annoys me before I go digging to fix it.

Ok, so my broccoli seeds arrived today, my herbs should be arriving tomorrow (the rest is going to be plants).  Normally I’d not even consider being able to plant outside till the end of April at the earliest, probably not till mid-May or later being much more likely.  This year?  Who knows.  So, should I just go ahead and just start them?  The broccoli package says to start them up to 6 weeks ahead…..

Next question, seeds have expiration dates but I know of people who have used seeds the next year or to with reasonable success, so….whats the best way to store them?  Obviously they need to be kept dry…….