life: December 2007 Archives

As usual the time after the end of a semester seems to fly by too fast to do anything you want, but here's an attempt at a to do list:

1. My blog needs some serious help. I want to redesign, I want to actually post more (but I'll settle for a redesign if posting more falls through). I realized that del.icio.us posts have overtaken the blog. I've stopped them from posting to my blog, but moved them to my FeedBurner so you can still get them through there if you really like them. If you don't like them then you can still subscribe to the normal feed, I think it's somewhere on my blog. I love FeedBurner though so I encourage you to use it. Other improvements to the blog include adding a blogroll that will be updated through Google Reader and maybe even an about me page (although that one has been in the works since I started a blog eons ago).
2. I have a bunch of photos that need to be uploaded on Flickr. I have some on my camera, my new computer, and my old computer. This will continue to be an ongoing process, although I'm happy to say that I have a suitable organizational method for my pictures now. It's not as painful as a process that it used to be.
3. This weekend, Alex got all gung ho about getting our music collection to stream through our computers to the PS3 (it's actually pretty cool). That was easy, but now he's all gung ho about getting our music to our backup server so we can access all of our CDs from any computer at any time (we're not using a lot of space on the server so we might as well do something with it). I started a similar project using Rhapsody, but I'm the only one who uses it and apparently Rhapsody is not compatible with the PS3 (even though it finds my Rhapsody music, the PS3 won't read the files). At any rate, we're working together to reorganize our music, and I'm still trying to get the CDs out of the cases and into a CD binder instead of on shelves. I'm on a mission to downsize our possessions.
4. I want to do some networky type stuff with my old computer. Right now the computer is gathering dust, I think we can set it up so that we can print wirelessly and Alex wants to be able to access our music through it. He doesn't always bring his computer home and my computer usually kills the internet when I'm on the wireless. Oh yeah, if anybody has any idea why my wireless network dies every time I visit a profile on Facebook or Google Maps, please clue me in. I can sit on the Facebook news feed fine, or any other app page, but once I open a profile my internet dies. It drives me nuts!
5. I need to clean the apartment. I hate my apartment right now, but I think I hate cleaning more. It's a vicious cycle.
6. I stopped playing around in SecondLife because I got busy with school. I would like to play around with it more, I've still been reading through a couple of SL books that I got from the library.
7. We need to start planning a trip to Toronto in January. I can't wait for this trip because even though I've lived less than 2 hours from Canada most of my life, I've never been there. We're driving there, and we'll try to geocache along the way. We'll have one day together for sightseeing and then I will have one day by myself while Alex visits his potential future lab. I'm looking forward to all of those things. I'm also looking forward to the idea of living there someday. I have not talked to a single person who said they hated Toronto. Actually most people I've talked to said they were jealous that we're thinking of moving there.

This is hardly a complete to-do list. I seriously don't know when we're going to get anything done either. We're leaving for Illinois/Indiana this weekend, and I work all the rest of the days. I might have some time over New Year's but I will need to visit my family in Toledo since I won't be around for Christmas. All this holiday cheer stuff really puts me in a bad mood sometimes. What I really want to do is stay home, not visit anybody, not buy anything, and not go anywhere.