Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

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Describing my immediate surroundings towards the beginning and a twist to the tale or possible solutions to issues towards the end of some blogs and how they relate to my expectations of the world at large.

  • 20101210-Trying Theme

    This morning I’m trying yet another recently added WordPress.com theme:

    Toolbox by Automattic

    A semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of super-clean templates for your own WordPress theme development. Read more about Toolbox →

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    Dammit! It’s so clean! I love it! All I did was retain my paid CSS upgrade stylesheet and only changed the background color to the body element. It’s refreshing to have the text alignment “centered”. There will be lots of tweaking to do tonight.

    HOWEVER, where’s my time/date stamp! It’s critical to have the nice element. Why? Again, it’s because I blog on the go. Although t’s not quite like Twitter, at least those spooks, err, I meant, readers of “The Blogging Path” know what I’m up to and when my precious thoughts occurred!

  • Simon Says

    Last night while staring blankly at my computer monitor upstairs as usual during the night, I felt something touch my hair. The area in towards the back of the crown but more to the left. The sensation felt light as if something small went through the hair strands, almost patting it down with little feet of claws.

    I smiled slightly and said aloud: “Simon!” I slowly but almost immediately patted the top of my hair and tried to figure out if the hair was just misplaced and gravity brought it back down into place.

    I knew it was Simon greeting me or bidding goodbye. He was my little trinket head and the only parakeet that made the softest cooing sound when I tried to press my cheeks against the bars of the cage and that would bob his head up and down in synchronized motion to my fingers, cupped like a parakeet beak.

    Right now, the boy had called to speak with his Maw, who is now telling stories about the parakeets and their times together. The boy mentioned that the bird might have possibly experienced an aneurysm, again from the severe seizure, and the fact that overfeeding birds could pop their little innards.

  • 20101209-Tweaking Again

    Sorry, folks! I’m crazed creative, web designer! I’m an internet addict! I’ve switch back to theme Dusck by Beccary because the theme’s HTML hard-codes are stable for my purpose – one content element and one sidebar element! Bam! I still care about my other elements: custom menus, templates for “Archives” and “Links” and date/time stamps for both index and post pages.

    I couldn’t get the elements for the Theme Sandbox 1.6.2. to work for me. I was previewing and saving stylesheet many times over! I don’t understand CSS coding all that well.

    After upgrading my Typekit fonts late last night, I made use of my paid CSS upgrade here at WordPress.com. Now my weblog is still prettier with cursive, handwriting fonts: Mahalia for the headers and “Comic Sans MS, sans-serif” for the body element.

    The static “front/home page” now shows at most eight post entries on the left, along with the LONG sidebar on the right.

    This weblog has taken on many looks! Why? There are websites archiving my weblogs and each one will have a different appearance. So that should piss off the spooks who would dare “copy” my writings in that manner.

     

  • Big Icons 32

    I just noticed the big icons next to the activity within the WordPress.com dashboard. For example, I am at the “Add New Post” (or post-new.php), which has a big “push-pin” icon.

    Here is the link to view the twelve icons in gray and white:

    https://s-ssl.wordpress.com/wp-admin/images/icons32.png?ver=20100531

  • Interesting Food

    Sometimes I browse the FoodPress.com website. There are pretty pictures and descriptions of the delicious food, along with recipes and ideas. Many times I imagine eating those food pictured. My mouth waters everytime. Being a pauper means foregoing the healthier foods and swelling up from malnourishment as a result. I may even go vegan out of pity for animals who suffered prior to becoming our foodstuff. I like pita bread and beans.

    Here is more food for thought: My individual debt has been one of interest, mostly finance charges and other “hidden fees” in very small print. The funds were taken out of six credit cards as “cash advances”. Interestingly enough, the money went to feed the poor — out of pity, out of greed to be the would-be savior and out of charity to be generous and to act without thinking realistically. Ironically, the creditors continue to accure interest on food money and the debt has actually went legal.

    To TPTB: How can you fix this problem, whereby one’s generosity has been unsettled due to lack of employment, justice and hope? How can you serve your interest without adding more interest to servers of “good faith”?

  • Fuel Pump Replacement

    For Ford Mustangs, fuel pumps die out slowly. The symptoms experienced would be:

    • Hard to start (ignition) while cold and/or warm to hot.
    • Stalls while backing out/going reverse.
    • Makes gurgling noises under hood while idle.
    • Feels shakey while idle.
    • Smells like leaking fuel. (I love the smell, though. Getting high!)

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    Anyway, the last symptom is a clue. Get your car repaired at a Ford specialist, pronto. Stopping on the middle of the road means no power to the power steering and power brakes. That happened to the boy on Halloween night. It was scary!

    So at around 12:45pm today, the boy was kind enough to carpool me back to the auto repair up in Milpitas, CA. Duc D. couldn’t find anything wrong. And that’s fine. Clearly only when the car doesn’t work, he will work on the car. He did a good job replacing my crack gooseneck gasket for the fuel, where the gasoline goes in.

    Since mine still worked and before it’s too late, I’ll bring it to a hard-core Ford repair shop up in Santa Clara, CA next Monday. The guy knew the boy so well that he didn’t take down my name or number but simple referred to me as “Roger’s sister”. How cool is that? God bless you all and God bless the boy, too!

  • Employment Purposes

    Here are some legal text worth reading with regards to employment as temporary worker (aka dirt poor slave, err, I meant, “potential wage earner”):

    “to obtain and release “consumer reports” and/or “investigative consumer reports” to any client [before and during employment]…”

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    So this is one way to snoop into someone’s poor state of affairs. And if the findings are bad enough, what are the chances of someone getting a MINIMUM wage job to pay the bills and to feed, clothe and shelter the family?

  • Changing Fonts

    For whatever reason, my web browser kept trying to refresh the screen from the Typekit fonts to a more easily interpreted version, which I believe is “Comic Sans MS”. I guess I’ll keep browsing Typekit for fonts that my weblog likes in the meantime, I’ve made the font size medium; so they are big enough to read! Somehow, the refreshing has slowed down loading the pages. I didn’t like that slowness, much like my job and its workload, which is pretty much mindless and not worth fussing over during the upcoming holiday season and year end projects.

  • 20101208-More Spooks

    For whatever reason, Hoan is very troubled about JenJen taking an assumed role as leader of the three of us. He keeps emailing me of his complaint and in one of my response to him was to let the “boss” know.

    During lunch time together downstairs, the VERY inquisitive (or nosy) yet VERY informative turd just started to complain too much. And all I could tell him is to let the twit do whatever she wants because there is no “right or wrong”.

    He mentioned that she didn’t have working experience in a “large company” but I liked her style because she knows how to “butter up” people, like moi, and to get along with the guys with her sports and other normal social conversation.

    I went off loudly again about my background experience with auditing, how I was WELL vetted in a VERY large (federally contracted) company and my other thoughts about what I’m seeing. My working career did NOT involve being controversial but FAILING to speak up. Do you know why?

    It’s status quo. Workers are paid to do the job with little or no complaint what so ever. Employers like stupid people, like JenJen, but friendly and pretty enough to keep the mostly BOYS happy. Fundamentally, employers want to minimize the pay rate; so that’s where the both of us come in.

    Just sit there and process and look the part. I suggested to Hoan that I could tell Phan that I’m not interested in the position and recommend that Hoan work with his nemesis, JenJen. That would be a great punishment for the both of them for playing me with their method, a word they each used once in my air space.

    As for Hoan the temp agency told him his last day is in the middle of next month. So far my head hunter didn’t notify me of my demise, which means I may get to be converted to a full-time, back door wall flower earning MINIMUM wage (after deductions and taxes, of course). Whoo! Hoo!

    So you see folks. I’m playing deaf, dumb, blind and mute. Why? I’m here to observe and report back how I like Steve’s clear explanation of the processes to the auditors (two of whom I saw eating behind me during lunch from the reflection of the glass windows to the assembly area in front of me) and how I like to make mumbling and burping noises at my desk out of sheer friggin’ boredom.

    Even Tess cracked a feigned smile at me en route back to her desk from the printer nearby. Then a nice, tall, bald, older white chap conversed with me as my purse got caught in the door handle and how it could have meant to work harder but that I’m only temp and don’t think so! Neat!

  • Stuffy Poop

    For the past few days, Maw and I have been feeling constipated and probably from eating too much good food. Two days ago, I didn’t pack enough lunch and was crashing from lack of food. So that afternoon I was feeling VERY irritated and started typing VERY loudly at my workstation. The place got silent for whatever reason. I meant for the damn place to realize how stuffed up I was: I couldn’t poop. I then felt pain in my hip and lower back areas and tried to stretch while sitting. But I ended up crossing and uncrossing my legs, shifting my butt in my seat and slouching forward and sideways, just to get comfortable. And later on that evening I had to take a laxative and hardly anything came out, unlike Maw who report yesterday evening three big ones. I took another laxative a few hours ago and nothing is coming out.

    I’m thinking that Simon might have been eaten himself too death after stuffing himself last night while Maw hand fed him oat groats and shook hands with him. Our stuffy symptoms may have been sympathetic to his plight with him being possibly dehydrated too. But that night I saw him poop a dark-colored one. And yesterday morning he was scratching his beak vigorously against the back perch and playing too. So whatever has been happening to our diet and water intake may have something to do with how Simon might have felt during his last days with liver disease and severe seizures.

  • Happier Blog Now

    I believe this weblog has been created to my personal perfection with the recently added WordPress theme: Sandbox 1.6.2.! It’s got the colors by Dusk, the cursive handwriting by Typekit and other required elements, such as templates for “Archives” and “Links”, date/time stamps for both index and post pages and drop-down menus for the the top/navigation bar.

    The rest were made prettier with my paid CSS upgrade. Since my knowledge is limited in CSS codes, I couldn’t get the “wrapper” element to look like a one-column narrow theme. Instead, I split the sidebars into “primary” and “secondary” and made use of the “container” element. No matter what, I’ll never be satisfied and will keep trying newer WordPress.com themes.

  • Using Typekit Fonts

    In summary, Typekit fonts are great for weblogs. The fonts are best used for headers (h1, h2, h3, etc.) For those with lots of written materials, I would prefer staying with either the “Georgia” or “Arial”. Other popular fonts for ease of reading would be “Tahoma”, “Verdana”, “Time New Roman”, etc. Personally, I like “sans-serif” – less is better.