elizabeth grigg - the other fourth meal

This holiday season I have been the picture of restraint. Mind you, it is with one thing only, but it is a whopper. Yes, I bought a few things for myself. Just now. Online. And I drank a few nights in a row. Or maybe it was a whole month. I embraced my inner white loaf and consumed many things that color or marbled nicely in that way only a carnivore can appreciate. I sulked and read my book in the chair while the dogs quarreled (not my dogs) instead of "socializing" (yelling at the dogs.) I watched episode after episode of LOTR. I did no art or anything art-like, which was like my vow to pick up again or something. Speaking of vows, don't get me started about exercise. And to top it off I overworked, scurrying off to work every chance I got, becasue I do love it so, but too much is bad for me as I well know. Nevertheless, in the midst of all this I did show restraint with one thing.

COFFEE

I have given up coffee now in an exploratory quest into inner I don't know what. It has been since Dec 3 or 4 or so. I wanted to pull the plug before others asked me to. There were threats, insinuations, offhand mentions. I did not want anyone to insist. So I did it first. I think now the only thing keeping me off of it is the unholy hell I went through with 2 weeks of headaches. Not "owie owie" type of headaches. This is the nausea inducing kind where every morning I opened my eyes hoping it would all be over one way or another.

Nonetheless, stay posted, because who knows what may happen now that I have turned the corner. No more 2 o'clock slump. No more, well, beyond that I do not know. What I'd really like is to be more connected to the world. Not sure if that makes any sense, but in some way, I see that latte cup as a big baby pacifier. I also want one really bad. But I am all out of pain relievers from the last baby, so I had better not risk it.

What have you experimented with giving up, and what did you learn?

Posted by Elizabeth Grigg at 11:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The Internet (why we have to capitalize, still, as if it were a deity) completely horked on the day I was testing out the RSS feeds.

Here are the RSS feeds for this blog. They should have the same URL as the previous blog.

RSS2: http://egrigg9000.com/mtpub/index.xml

ATOM: http://egrigg9000.com/mtpub/atom.xml

One of many mysteries:

* I have stripped out the content of these files to only contain one entry, Yet, many entries appear in google reader. Many many entries. As if it had, you know, a "memory" of some kind. Miraculously, it still has the post from the other site, which was never migrated to this new location, and should have had just a temporary existence.

* Newsgator. One of the new fun things it did recently without me noticing is switching everyone to partial text feeds. So I had a coronary, thinking I was one of the great unwashed who had only partial text feeds, until I realized everyone had them.

* Anyway, Newsgator has a different interpretation of the content of the feeds. None of which is accurate. Also, it says each feed has only 1 subscriber (me) which either says

- I have the wrong feed URL

- While this blog was down, everyone unsubscribed

- While this blog was down, Newsgator dropped to 1/18th of the popularity it had. (Given that I had 18 readers and now have 1).

Anyway, it's worth another post, just to figure out what's happening. Obviously getting to pay attention to this whole mess is a bit of a holiday for me.

Posted by Elizabeth Grigg at 02:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Hey all,

This blog migration has taken forever. I won't bore you with the details, but obviously it took months. If you have any problems with the RSS or Atom feeds, let me know. There's a funky character in there I had to hand edit out.

I am continually amazed at what we geeks put up with.

Have a great holiday!

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