Wait. IT GETS BETTER.

The wonderful golfwidow left this news in my comments:

It CAN work for Diaryland, if you enter the link manually as follows:

http://chailife.diaryland.com/index.rss

replacing "chailife" with the name of the diarist in question.

You won't get the full entry, because the RSS file doesn't generate it right (thanks again, Andrew) but you don't have to log into Diaryland to read people's diaries.

The only problem is that RSS files are not generated for locked diaries, so you might still want to log into D'Land to see if they updated. Me, I just add locked diaries to my browser's Favorites and check them manually, since D'Land doesn't let me comment on them anyway.

SO THERE YA GO!

So now, I am adding dlanders to my brandy-new Google Reader page, which I have courtesy of bluesleepy telling us all what a good idea it is, and when I get to be brave enough -- maybe in a week? -- I will actually take everyone off my dland buddies list except the locked up people. I'll work that way for now, I think. For now, I'm still going to post a link there when I update here (so I'll be red on your buddies list), but I'm also looking into using Google Groups as a mailing list. The one or two of you who'll remember my notify list disaster know I need to make this as simple as possible for me, because when I tried a notify list, I just never remembered to send out whatever it was I had to send. I need something automatic, which that blogarithm thing that I have there is, sort of, except it only updates once a day, which is a pain in the neck.

Okay, so what else can I tell you today? I was busy at work, which is good, and I wasn't itchy, but I was very, very tired. I just can't fall asleep until midnight, which is great if you can sleep til 8.00, like on a Sunday, but sucky if your alarm goes off at 5.15. Three weeks to go.

I went to pick up some prescriptions today after school, and the lady who works there, whose kids were in school with my kids so I know her forever, asked if I had plans for the summer. And I said, I plan to practice for retirement. *sigh*

Okay. Diaries to add to Reader. Group to create. Food blog to bitch in. Check.

watching The Simpsons :: entry #1485

Google Reader as a Buddy LIst

All hail Bluesleepy!

Thank you!

She has figured out how we are all going to stay informed about who's updated, even for those of us who've left dland. In brief:

1. Go to google.com/reader.
2. Log in to your google (gmail) account, or create one, if you need to.
3. Click the Add Subscription button.
4. Put in the URL of one of your non-dland diaries that you read, like mine.
5. Wash, rinse, repeat.

You'll end up with a list of the diaries you read, and it will show you how many of the recent entries you haven't read yet. On this first day, you may want to click that you've read all the entries for each of the diaries. From now on, keep this page open in a separate tab or window, and whenever you refresh the page, you'll see which diary has a new post for you to read.

It won't work for dland, but we still have our red links on the buddy page for that.

Good luck! It took me a few minutes to figure it out, and I still have tinkering to do, but it looks like a good option. (I also like that I can check for updates at work without being logged in to dland!)

watching Batman :: entry #1483

A-Twitter

I'm a work in progress; please take a look at the right over there to make sure I've put you on my Buddies list the way you want to be. Let me know if you don't want to be there at all. I'm still working on it. I'm going to leave this up for awhile, and see if I can double-post for the immediate now.

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Okay, so, an entry. Two things on my mind. One, kids, do they ever grow up? Every day, I feel sorrier for what I put my mother through, almost until the end. I was sometimes just a snotty brat. And I love my kids and I love being with them, but sometimes, I wish I could just smack one. Had a moment with K before when she was suddenly affronted, if that's the right word, and said a hurtful thing, and I was .. well, hurt. Anyway, we're better now, all good, but it shook me up a little, that along with the fact that I've got to admit that these hearing aids are not up to snuff. I guess I'll deal with that when I see the audiologist on Wednesday. I hope this isn't the moment that he stops being on my side, because he has been wonderful so far.

And then, of all things, it looks like the sewer pipe is backing up into the basement. Know what that means? Water on the basement floor, of course! Does it never end? So I put in a call to the plumber and hopefully he can come after school tomorrow; I cannot take off more school time for this, and I can't take any school time any day this week, starting Tuesday, because I'll be going to the play every night, and I can't do that if I haven't been in school that day. Argh.

I could just scream. Instead, I had a piece of cake. I've gained about four pounds in the last two weeks. Swell.

So I'm just a little tense. This would be a good time to go to sleep. I might as well, since I just used up my dinner points on cake. (Just kidding.)

34 days of school to go, not counting the workshop day when I won't be there. Seven weeks. Boy.

watching Some tattoo show :: entry #003/1455

And Here's the Next Step

Hey, it's a good thing that tinkering around with webpages and blog sites is how I spend an enjoyable day. Some people have hobbies. Or do yard work, god forbid. But this is fun for me.

So I set up an account at something called blogarithm, which will, so it claims, email me whenever one of you updates. If that works, it will replace the red links at dland, but of course, I will miss that page. But there's also no law that says I have to stop going there, so. I've also put a little widget or whatever it is at the bottom of my page, and I think you can put in your email address when I update here and it will notify you. This is a big improvement over the old notify list I tried to do once before, because this doesn't require any input on my part. I would also forget to push the button there, or send the email, or whatever I had to do. This does it by itself. or so it claims.

Here's one of the things I really like about blogger so far: it has an HTML editor built into it. You can write your entry in HTML or in a more WYSIWYG mode, and you can switch back and forth between them. So that saves me a step in posting, since I always write in an HTML editing program (CuteHTML) first.

I like the way the page looks. I may add a picture to the template, but I haven't decided yet what to use. Although I wish I could use lower case in the titles. But I'm over it.

Okay, I'm posting (not double-posting, since this would make no sense over at dland) and then we'll see if I get notified, since I put myself on my own blogarithm list so I'd know if it works.

watching The History Channel :: entry #002

If You Would Be So Kind

I thought I would get a jump on things, since dland has been having its issues, and I'd like someplace to go in case I need to go there, so I've set up an alternate site at blogger. I'm not actually posting anything of substance here, and I don't know when and if I will, but I'm trying to get it set up, and I've put up a list of all the various diaries I read. (It may not be a complete list; it's a work in progress.) Anyway, if you would be so kind as to take a look over there on the right


and glance at the list and if you have no problem being there the way I listed you, then thanks, but if you want me to change your display name or not list you at all or indicate a locked diary or whatever works for you, please leave me a comment either here or at my real diary and let me know, and I'll tinker. I've got bugs to work out, but frankly, Lena jumped over here and her site just looks so good that it inspired me to see what I can do.

The biggest issue I can see so far is missing that buddy list on dland where the links turn red when you've posted, but I guess I don't have to give that up even if I switch. I don't know, it's late and I already took my pills and it's like hours past my bedtime.

Thanks.

WATCHING: Saturday Night Live