One last thing before I get to an early bed so I can get up and go to the hospital again... I'm not real happy with the look of this temp blog either, but it was the least loathesome of the various templates available on short notice, and since I set this up in just an hour or so late Monday night, knowing I'd be off to the airport again Tuesday morning, I didn't worry about appearance that much. I did edit the template a bit to add the temp blog notice on the right, but thought that I'd be doing more tweaking with the look once I had time in San Diego.
Unfortunately, as the last post spelled out in rather tedious detail, I've had virtually zero computer time thus far here, and I don't know when that will be changing. I'm supposed to be spending my computer time here editing my last chapter anyway, so you'll probably have to put up with this look for the duration of my week here. I should have some more content posts tomorrow, at least. I wrote some on the laptop last night, but tonight I'm pecking away on my dad's old standard keyboard, and entering these words directly into the blogger posting script and not bothering with much/any links or HTML stuff since his computer set up and especially the AOL browser is such a complete piece of shit that I just can't stand surfing with it.
Huge top and bottom tabs and bars and control panels, 800x600 resolution on a 17" monitor forcing me to side to side scroll, crappy old mouse without side click buttons for surfing, none of my bookmarks, and weird anti-virus and pop up blocking software that has kept me from accessing about 1/4 of the sites I've tried to hit. I can see why some people don't surf much; it's just not worth the trouble with such technical obstacles, and that's not even mentioning the viruses and spyware dad's computer gets nailed by on a regular basis.
Then again, perhaps I should inflict just this sort of technology upon myself at home; it couldn't help but force me to spend more time writing. Or perhaps learning to use the abacus.
