Today I do battle once again with my drip irrigation system. It's still leaky; everytime I teflon-tape one part or crescent-wrench another, two more leaks pop up. I'm down to one leak, but it's not on a thread, so I'm going to have to use caulk or something. It'll be worth it at the end; a timed system that I can leave on and it will do all the watering for me, while using much less water than I do.
I've found some interesting links lately:
I'm sure I found the first three of those links at librarian.net, but I'm not sure where I got the rest, so an unspecified thank you to those sources as well.
I stand by my earlier raves about The Library of America. I'm currently reading their "Writing Los Angeles" anthology, and it's terrific. The selection of fiction and non-fiction works and excerpts evokes the history of the basin from desert scrubbrush to gated communities and the concretization of "public" space.
So what's on my ideal webpage? A place for entries. An easy way to include simple graphics in those entries. A photo gallery. An infopage for events, including Game Night, accessible only to Game Night invitees. A links page. My resume. Beer labels. Beer recipes. A webcam showing either the front of my place or the view of the park from inside. Anything else that Tina might want. No email address this time, so I don't start a new flood of spam.
Well, here I go again. After tooling around with Geocities and Blogger, I have finally arrived at a webspace that will let me include the design elements I want, while at the same time give me the use of powerful editing tools; in this case, Movable Type. Thanks to Phil Kim for letting me piggyback on his server; I hope to make this spot interesting enough that he finds it worth the trouble.