Time for a change

Blogger has a lot of cool new templates, but they mostly look boring on my blog thanks to my complete lack of pictures or anything interesting on my blog.  Other than words.  I do have plenty of words.  So anyhow, I figured a new background was the least I could do.

So welcome to my new "travel-themed" blog.

I'll probably change it again next week.  Just so we're clear.

Summer couldn't last forever...

Well, I had a great summer. I was away from home from May to the end of August, basically, and it was swell. So why is it the end of September and I'm only just now writing? In short, I'm slothful. And sluggardly, actually. A friend and I were discussing the other day whether or not it was a sluggardly sloth, or a slothful sluggard. Suffice it to say, I usually put off until tomorrow what I could have done today. Of course, since I'm actually doing this now, and it's within the first hour of today, I think it's only fair to say that in this case, at least, I've very decidedly NOT put this off.

All that aside, it's good to be back.

If I were a good blogger, I'd write all about my multitudinous summer adventures (and they were many, my friend) but... well, I just don't feel inspired to do so. Which is terrible! I was just looking through some old journals of mine, and I actually feel vaguely cheated out of all the events I didn't bother writing about because of sheer laziness (what was I just saying about the sluggardly sloth? Yeah, I wasn't joking). For instance, one summer I traveled extensively out West, and forgot my journal. So when I got home I wrote a list of the places I went, and that was that, no funny stories, no anything. There's a whole summer of my teenage years I'll never remember. I run across stuff all the time in my journals that I'd totally forgotten about. Sometimes I wish I could have forgotten them forever (read: anything I ever wrote about the male species, ever), but in general, I like to have at least some sort of documentation of my life.

But... like I said, I won't be able to blog all the time. Also, I have a bunch of blog entries I wrote back in the day (uh, earlier this summer...) that are now vastly outdated, but I figure one day I'll just post a bunch, with the appropriate notes stating that these are old and maybe even boring, but words for those starving for copious amounts of verbiage. Ooh, for instance, I wrote a blog post about a book at my grandma's house that I LOVED, and then she died, and I inherited it. Talk about a swell deal: she's in Heaven (!!) and I got a sweet book. Clearly she came out the victor in this situation, but hey, I'm making the best of still being here on Earth. Which is fine, living is Christ, after all...

So, all this was to say, I'm back. For today, anyhow. We'll see how I do as time ticks by. I trust the Lord is coming soon enough to make this post superfluous, but if He tarries, and you happen to read then, well, welcome, and feel free to smack me if I forget to prepare wordy snacks for your eyes every once in a while. Well, maybe minus some actual smacking. I sure do sound violent. I don't try, I promise!

That's actually something I've been meaning to work on, but that's a whole separate story for a separate post...

Discoveries, of a sort

So last Friday, I guess it was, was when I realized Google Chrome was in existence, so I was like, "Oh hey, I don't want to forget about it" so I came to blogger here and typed a little sentence and apparently typed "Publish Post" instead of "Save Now" like I had thought.

Which is why, when I came back on Monday and turned it into an actual post instead of just a surprised phrase, it said the post was from Friday. How crazy is that? That's hilarious, if I had some crazy controversial blog (slash widely-read) it would be beautiful to post something on a subject one day, and then go back and change it to be the opposing view on the same subject, but it would still be marked from the day I originally posted it, so people would be all like "Oh yeah, I agreed with Friday's post," and someone else would be like "Are you crazy? It didn't even make sense!" and they'd be talking about two different things and not know it.

I was lying awake last night (if that's the correct lie/lay thing, I can never remember) pondering the difference between "O" and "Oh" and I came to the conclusion that it's "oh" when it's an exclamation or thought expressed (Oh my, what a funny-looking baby) but "o" when you're using it as a form of address (O postal carrier, what did I do to deserve this bill?) and it took my sleep-fogged brain about 45 minutes to come up with that, and when I woke up this morning I realized that I already knew that. Goes to show that those people who think up clever things in the middle of the night are made of sterner stuff than I.

Font weirdnes

For some reason all my font sizes and stuff are different every time I post. What did I ever do to this crazy thing to make my sizes all weird and different?

Anyhow, just thought I should note that I had nothing to do with it, it's all related to Blogger somehow.