Happy Thursday, bitches! It's November! Mid-to-late November!
I don't really have much to say lately. I'm plugging along, just working, going home, working out (not as often as I should), getting into The Wire, enjoying the Trail Blazers, seeing the kids every couple days at the very least. All the divorce paperwork is done, the manditory "parenting after divorce" class taken, the paperwork refiled - TWICE - because the ex didn't bother to read her own lawyer's work.
Mistake one: they screwed up the child support. In my favor. Could have really helped the finances, but that's not how I roll. Not when the kids are involved. Mistake two: they put in a line to give the wife back her old name. Not a big deal to me. Except they moved to put her back to her LAST last name, which was the married name from go-round number 1. She didn't even catch it until I told her, a week after the papers were filed with the court.
"They wrote WHAT? And you knew? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I assumed you read the documents, and it's none of my business. It was your former professional name, so I figured you wanted to go back to it."
Oy.
So I should be divorced any time now. May even already be done. Yippee.
So anyway, I won a couple tickets to a show at Doug Fir for Saturday night. Just sent in an email off their weekly newsletter, not even sure who the band is. And I decided - well shit. I'm free to be a grown up without kids until Sunday evening. And I don't have plans. And it was the end of the workday. And the girl from work, she of the shit-eat dilemma, was walking by, heading home. So I said goodnight to her, then called her into my office. And the conversation went something like this:
So. So much for that. It may have been the fastest rejection in the history of the world."Hey, do you have plans this wee..."
"Yes"
But for the first time in 15-20 years I made an attempt at asking somebody out. And despite the crushing rejection and the body shot to my already-damaged ego I feel ok about it, because I fucking TRIED. And for me that's a huge step. I'm still going to die alone with no human contact for the last 5 or 6 decades of my life, but at least I will have tried.
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
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This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
May still see the old friend this weekend, but really isn't looking like a hookup at all.
I post this only for those of you charting my sex life with charts and graphs and powerpoint presentations. No need to make any adjustments to your calculations.
Trying to decide to and/or get up the courage to ask out somebody...in the workplace.
She's a medical assistant in the neighboring department, 29. Very perky, petite, frankly kind of bug-eyed but cute in an unusual way. Seems younger than her age, which could be good or bad. Intellectually perhaps not a match (but I don't know that for sure). Very girly, but more Suicide Girl than Barbie.
But she's fun, has a great body and is always coming into my office to shoot the shit and joke around. I think she's single, or at least she hasn't taken the opportunity to declare any boyfriends (and I've tried to give her chances to talk about things like that).
This could of course cause a shit/eat conflict, which I'm leery of. Oh, and I haven't actually asked somebody out on an honest-to-god date since - and this is not hyperbole - 1989, when I took a girl from Lombard to see Rain Man. I don't count asking people to dances, nor do I count the women I wound up with through natural progression or whatever. I'm talking about "Would you like to do something with me Saturday night? Maybe dinner, a movie?"
The prospect terrifies me.
But this girl is cute, and fun. And I could use some of that.
Attractive, interesting friend coming into town in a couple weeks. Possibly a hook up, maybe even probably.
Calendar check: it's a kid weekend.
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