Today I spotted a turkey walking on the sidewalk as I was pulling out of the gas station. I also bought a really nice lawn chair, the kind you can lay down on. Bunky says she needs it to get a tan.
Old Blogger | Kabitzin 4/21/2004 | 
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Forgive the pun, but it seems I’ve happened upon a rather common problem: Sea Slugs! has become so popular that I’m running out of bandwidth! I host the caps that I use in my summaries on the same webspace that I use for my art site, and I figured that the 1 GB of bandwidth I had would be enough for both sites. However, a quick peek at my bandwidth usage revealed that my estimated usage for April is 0.94 GB, which is much too close for my tastes (I have high aversion to risk). It’s only been about 3 months, but the site regularly gets 150+ visitors a day, and the page itself is quite image heavy. So I guess the anime blog is quickly becoming a victim of its own success. I’ve put in (very) temporary measures to slow the bleeding, such as cutting down the number of summaries displayed on the main page, but I’m certain now that I’ll have to get some web space completely dedicated to Sea Slugs! with at least 3 GB of bandwidth/month. My fellow bloggers on the site (Ender and Kungfucius) host their own caps on their college space, so that needs to moved over as well since college usually dump you like a bad blind date as soon as you’ve graduated. I suppose it will be killing two birds with one stone, but I’m not looking forward to re-archiving everything. I’m getting tempted to splurge for CGI capability too, so I don’t have to do all the archiving myself, but we’ll see about that. I don’t particularly want to have to learn how to use MT, since Blogger is so easy.
Today’s weather forecast on the radio predicted 1-2 inches of…. pollen. Elsewhere, Claritin executives are jumping for joy.
Old Blogger | Kabitzin 4/20/2004 | Comments (0)
Phil was completely correct in that the battery was to blame. It wasn’t just near the end of its life, though. This thing was more like near the end of its afterlife. Jumping the thing didn’t even make a difference until battery crud was laboriously cleaned off the threads of the exposed screws, and water was placed in the battery. Even then the car barely made it to the car shop, but at least it didn’t take long to pop in a new battery.
I found a new way to bike to work today. By cutting through the historic area, I can actually get to work on my bike faster than I can get there by driving my car (when there is traffic). The new way is shorter, safer, and flatter (the way I used to go had tons of horrible hills). However, no one seemed impressed by my discovery; in fact everyone I bragged about it to simply said they were surprised I hadn’t always gone through the historic area. WTF, if everyone knew there was an easy route through the historic area, why didn’t anyone bother telling me?! Today’s ride wasn’t miserable like the winter rides, but I like the A/C too much to bike to work in this oppressive heat. The morning ride was actually fun, but the ride home in the afternoon was terrible. When it’s cool outside, a bike through the historic area is a welcome diversion; when it’s 90° F, I get to work all sweaty and gross.
Everything seems to be coated in a yellow film of pollen. Even the water in the birdbath was coated with pollen. Bleh.
Old Blogger | Kabitzin 4/19/2004 | Comments (0)
I get back to find out that the battery/battery cable in the car are caput. Fabulous, more biking to work. It’s supposed to get up to 90° F today.
