Pat Rice

Life cycle of a swimming pool

• Memorial Day weekend: buy inflatable plastic swimming pool, $20 from Wal-Mart;
• Set up in back yard;
• Kids play in pool, once;
• Pool fills with dead bugs, dirt, slime, etc.;
• Empty pool, scrub, refill;
• Kids play in pool, once;
• Pool fills with dead bugs, dirt, slime, etc.;
• Empty pool, throw in corner to deal with later;
• Ignore pool until September;
• Throw pool away;
• Wait until June, start all over again.

Weary

I’ve been staying up too late, getting up too early, and not sleeping very well in between.

I don’t suppose the family schedule will settle down again until Jake’s back in school. That’s only three weeks away. (Summer vacation is shorter than it was when I was eight years old.)

Dilemma

I’ve had a LibraryThing membership for several years now. (Since September 29, 2005, according to my profile there.) I even paid $25 for a lifetime membership.

But I don’t use LibraryThing any more: I switched to GoodReads in January. LibraryThing struck me as a bit kludgy, and bit hacky (in a bad way); it offered no way to keep track of my reading.

GoodReads is well-designed, visually appealing, easy to use; and it keeps a very nice log of books I’ve read.

I really should delete my LibraryThing account. But, unlike most of the accounts I’ve purged in the last few days, I paid for this one - deleting it is like throwing away $25.

Neglecting my LibraryThing account is also like throwing away $25. What to do, what to do….

What year is it?

One mildly annoying thing about Tumblr: the post timestamps don’t include the year. I’m sure the year is in the database, somewhere, but it never shows up on the web page.

So when I look at older posts, it’s never quite clear how old they are.

On a rainy Friday night...

…I waste time on the computer, visiting web sites like tumblr. I’ve had an account here for a long time. (How long? I’m too lazy to look it up. Eighteen months, at least.)

I must think about where to keep my online blather. At present, it’s in Movable Type, and Twitter. And Plurk. And a little bit is even here on Tumblr.

That’s too many places.

I’m probably stuck with Movable Type, since that’s the one everybody knows about. But I haven’t given up on the others yet.

Tumblarity

Hm...nice API there, tumblr

I was thinking that I didn’t want to write anything on tumblr unless there’s a way I can get it back out again. But I couldn’t find any export function in the dashboard.

Silly tumblr, thought I. Data can check in, but it can’t check out.

But they have an API. I can write my own export function.

Hello?

Blah blah blah

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