The Gurly Life

Comments welcome

For you lovely people who read this blog but never comment, please know that your comments are welcome. Not required, so please don't get all weird and feel pressured, but know that I'm interested in your opinion. Even if you're wrong. Heh heh.

For my friend, the Urban Koda

Even though you posted this on your blog already, I'm reposting to acknowledge your courage and integrity. And it's a cool song.

An experiment

I am experimenting with ads on my blog. I have added a little badge top left, though as I write this there's no content. It might take a couple of days for something to appear. It took me several weeks to figure out how to place the badge on the blog, which is just dumb because there was a help thingy about it and if I'd just looked for that in the first place instead of trying to figure it out ... Well, you know the rest.

Theoretically, every time someone clicks on the ads from my site, I get a couple of cents. No, don't go clicking on it just because, only click on it if it's advertising a product you're interested in. Thank you.

Made some minor adjustments

As you can see, there are now 3 columns. This is so that my faithful readers don't have to scroll down so far for all the goodies in the side panel. Not that there are that many, but...

Also, I've reintroduced the Twitter updates. Some of you, I know, are not on Twitter but would like to see them. Well, ok, just Willow, but she may be the voice of many. I shouldn't have the weird problem with the password thing popping up anymore.

There is also a link to my Flickr stream at the top, and occasionally I'll add a link to a set if I think it's worth your time.

I'd like to know what you think of the new layout, if you can spare a moment to leave a comment.

A videoblog report on voting, in 2 parts

Here is my little video report of today's historic election. I'm a terrible videographer, by the way, but I have no aspirations at success in tv or the movies, so who cares? [If you have trouble seeing these, the links are at the bottom of the post]

And here is Part 2, in which I say "you know," and how exciting this is a bunch of times, and then when I get very inspired about the voter turnout, one of my cats walks into frame in the background and just ruins the mood. HAHAHA!

In case you need them, here are the links to the videos above: Part 1 and Part 2.

Comment issues?

I was alerted by a reader that whenever she tries to leave a comment, she gets the Twitter sign-in pop up at each stage of the proceedings, which is very annoying. Is anyone else getting this? If so, please brave the popup and let me know!

Edited to add: I removed the Twitter updates, so if you've been getting this problem it might be gone now, but I'd still like to know.

Wrapped up like a douchebag

Thanks to fellow blogger imaginarybinky for the link to this post, and the comments. Very entertaining, it's all about misheard lyrics.

And along those lines, a reminder of My Loony Bun Benny Lava!

A temporary shift

You might have noticed that I have had more posts addressing the upcoming election. My blog is not turning into a political blog, but the world kinda hangs in the balance here, folks. If you're in the U.S. and are not taking an interest, shame on you. If you're abroad, you probably are taking an interest and freaked out at the same time.

It is my intention to keep writing about my own stuff, and to post current affairs stuff to the extent possible, at least until the election. Just so you know.

A post about blogging and writing

Finally my friend Deirdre has moved her blog to a more accessible site. It is called Spiritual Dilettante, and I highly recommend it. Deirdre has been on a spiritual exploration for many years -- a couple of decades, perhaps -- and finds clarity and wisdom throughout the spectrum of spiritual disciplines. She also happens to be an excellent writer. I highly recommend that you check it out.

Travelvixen, as her name implies, is on the road to becoming a travel writer. She is taking a travel writing class and posting her assignments on her blog. She is very courageous to do so, this is important to her, and it takes guts to ask for authentic feedback. I love her travel writing, she is fun and informative and I always live the trip right along with her. She gives me the travelbug.

And if you like travel, you can also check out Chris and Susan's site about their year-long honeymoon trip around the world. You will probably be green with envy, but you will also enjoy their adventures.

Comments

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