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.

  • 20100513-Recently Added

    Okay! This is getting freaky! But today and for awhile, I’ve always wanted to browse WordPress.com themes by clicking on a link to show `Recently added` via Appearance > Themes. And what did I see a few minutes ago? Exactly! But the `showcase` doesn’t have the date when each theme was first made available.

    I guess my wishes do come true. I’ve a feeling WordPress.com (much like a conspiracy forum with dark color schemes) has special people on board. Only special people would know what I mean, in a cryptic sort of way.

    Bruhaha!

  • 20100513-Trying Theme

    While I like the `Enterprise Theme` by StudioPress, I like `Magazine Theme` by StudioPress better. This is EXACTLY the layout I want – a box-like, squared-off weblog:

    • Main highlight stuff somewhere in the middle.
    • More boxed-off highlights off the sides and bottom.
    • One side bar.
    • Search bar on top.
    • RSS feeds on top (and/or bottom).
    • Top navigation bar as tabs.
    • A return to top links somewhere on the bottom.
    • Credits nicely cornered off at the bottom.

    I just hope the Theme Team here at WordPress.com could find a theme with my much preferred TIME stamps, too. Waaahhh

  • 20100513-Weathery Ways

    This morning’s skies looked white washed. Then the skies became partly blue.

    As a matter of fact, it was hot enough to roll down the car window en route to the Voters of Registrar (for Santa Clara) during the mid-afternoon. Lots of big dandelion-like pollens flew around the area near the San Jose Municipal Golf Course. We got our political affiliations changed when it should have been done LAST YEAR! You friggin’ thugs are wasting our time and gasoline!

    Anyway, in the evening some smidgen of sylphs spotted the skies. Like yesterday, the sunshine came and went from behind some clouds. The winds blew gently. The air was cold.

  • 20100513-Gravatar Grrr!

    I cannot decide whether or not to show a photo of my face (from December 2009) or an illustration of the orange sun for my Gravatar. By showing my face, I put my ego out in front for the whole world to see. By hiding behind the sun, that is all the people should focus.

    Maybe I don’t see myself as beautiful enough to be seen in person, which explains why I prefer to stay indoors the whole day, not because of `agrophobia` but because of injury without health insurance. It’s no wonder blogging has taken most of my life.

    As mentioned in my previous blog entries, without blogging I’d go insane. It’s because there were lots of confidential data from long ago that prevents me from being a whistle-blower. Call it national security. Call it tests. Again, I don’t care anymore if TPTB offs me of not.

    Whatever God has in store for me and the rest of us, it’s all about lessons to learn and obstacles to overcome, which explains why I’ve not yet exercised two to three more options to boot. I should share my sentiments with my family. But as cousin Shill once said:

    `I fight my own fight.`

  • 20100513-More Spooks

    At 04:00pm. Maw hollered at me to check the door because she heard the doorbell ring and loud knockings. I got mad not realizing that my hearing was THAT bad! I ran to put on my pants and then I silently went down to check on the offending noise. I peered through the blinds.

    t 04:05pm, I saw four Hispanic boys in lime-green colored vests walking around from south on MY road and east on MY street. I’m thinking they are the Census people. Even after we mailed ours back the following day of receipt! Whatever!

    At the same friggin’ time, I saw a white-colored, four-door Honda sedan pull up on MY road. I see they look like darker-colored skinned Asians. Two girls are wearing scantily-clad outfits of spaghetti straps. Both have medium-length hair.Two boys are in normal shirts and jeans.

    They appear to be repairing their wheels. I peeked through the hole of our fence.

    To the SJPD, it’s getting interesting.

    Addendum-Last edited by Flynn on Thu, May 13, 2010 at 15:16:26 pm: After saying the rosary at 4:45pm, Paw reported that at 3:40pm, he was the one that answered the door. The two girls asked for help in changing a tire. Paw was slow and didn’t answer right away but said that there was no equipment to help in the repair. The twits said it was okay.

    Last edited by Flynn on Thu, May 13, 2010 at 15:16:26 pm

  • 20100513-Trying Theme

    Yippie! I’m trying the newest WordPress.com theme:

    Enterprise by StudioPress

    Enterprise is a 2-column Widget-ready theme with a clean, corporate look.

    PROs:

    • Widgets. One side bar and three footers! Eek!
    • Background. Custom background for images and display options (for colors, positions, repeats, and attachments).
    • Header. Images of exactly 960 x 80 pixels. I used one of the `Sample Pictures` called `Sunset` from Microsoft. It’s the darkest of the four.
    Sunset
    Sunset
    • Readability. Light colors of gray, black, white and blue. Normal-sized fonts.
    • Rounded corners for elements of:  header, wrapper and navigation bar.
    • Top navigation bar with drop-down menus!
    • Categories in top navigation bar, along with hover/mouse-over effect of descriptions!
    • Search bar within header.
    • Feeds for both posts and comments, located to the right and within the navigation bar.
    • Tagline underneath blog title. Both appear on and within the left side of the header.
    • Wider sidebar. Made avatars of `Recent Comments` widget LARGER. You could see the Matt meister there!

    CONs:

    • Width not automatically fitted when using ZOOM-IN feature of web pages/texts or smaller screen resolutions of 800 by 600 pixels.
    • Ack! No time stamp. Maybe I should just be happy without time stamps. Waaahhh!

  • 20100513-More Spooks

    At around 09:50am, two spooks have left the scene. They were parked in front of our house with the other one in front of the house across from us. Both white-colored EVs are from the City of San Jose. I saw the emblem on the sides of the doors.

    One was a balding, gray-haired, red-faced white man. The other white man was taller with a crew-cut hair, Harley-Davidson type beard and dark, wrap-around like shades. There were talking for about half an hour or so before they left.

    Of all the places convenient, why could they not have parked on the long stretch of road where the road repair (courtesy of the taxpayers) near the railway intersection has been going on for the past few days???

  • 20100513-Crooked Ribs

    About an hour or so again, I tried stretching my back while sitting in front of this computer workstation. I felt my ribs. The ones on the front left felt different than on the front right.

    There is a decided `dent` on my left ribs. Across the front area of the `diaphram` area, there is horizontal line. This line marks the result of poor posturing over the years. Hence, the area of my left ribs above the `dent` is higher than the area below.

    The right ribs feel flatter than the left ribs. There is a thumb-sized dent towards the center of my sternum but right underneath the right breast. That area tends to spasm when I twist and turn in the wrong direction.

  • 20100512-Burping Blogs

    For a few minutes, the two most recent blog entries about `words` did NOT appear on the `front/home page`. Only the most recent blog about `vitamins` showed up. But the links to both `missing` blog entries worked. I wonder if Obama and pals know what I know. Yeah, they do. Now I could see the two blog entries.

  • 20100512-Conflicting Words

    On Mother’s Day, the conversation went on about life. This was in regards to destiny that can be created by the individual as opposed to faithfully believing in something that is conceptually invisible but everywhere, like `God`.

    Since the girl doesn’t have a `religion` and doesn’t attend mass or visit the temple but continues her lifestyle to improve her selfish image through proper diet and lots of exercise, Paw had bluntly said aloud to the stubborn one:

    `You have to believe in something`.

    Today, the boy came over for lunch. Like Maw, he has simple answers to life’s troubles. For example, I have a major problem with thugs. They are assholes. But they are teachers testing my limits. Once again, the boy emphasized the following:

    `You can create your own destiny.`

    `Take whatever course of action is necessary. At least you won’t regret trying.`

    `Don’t wait for a hand-out.`

    If my family only knew where all my hard work went, the oil companies won’t be spilling blood. I have two more options and those are based on online articles from long ago.

    I do not know which to believe – faith or destiny. Both sides sound valid. It’s confusing.

  • 20100512-Wise Words

    Tonight I asked Maw a simple question and she responded right on target. Amazing!

    Moi: What is your definition, interpretation or the meaning of a `lost soul`?

    Maw: Someone who needs guidance, help.

    I giggled in awe and got up to `Amen` her. I gave her a kiss on the right cheek, too.

    While still watching televised programming with Maw, I babbled on about issues with relationships due to stress from the credit card thugs who keep calling someone else’s phone number tonight! Is there a law to stop those banksters from bugging your tools, Obama? Get them, now!

    Anyway, she said with such clarity and simplicity about what I had to learn via a televised programming awhile ago:

    `Someone without knowledge cannot have wisdom.`

    In other words, if the person lacks understanding, there is no way to learn and therefore wisdom cannot be achieved when `lost` in a world full of disinformation, like those thugs I keep mentioning, Obama! What are you people doing?

  • 20100512-Trying Theme

    Once again, as Bill the Cat would vehementlly say:

    `Ack! Thbbft!`

    I’ve switch the WordPress.com theme again! This time it’s:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    A theme with powerful, semantic CSS selectors and the ability to add new skins.

    PROs:

    • Theme Options. Available skins of `One-Column`, `Two-Column` (one content, one sidebar), `Three-Column` (one content, two sidebars – either left or right).
    • Auto width for different screen resolutions and zooms for web pages.
    • Time/date stamp nicely located underneath the post entry!
    • Meta data displayed as hidden. I hate tags, categories and comments!

    CONs:

    • Too plain. Purchase CSS upgrade and have fun editing the layout of your weblog. Good luck!

    —

    I modeled the colors based on the `Vostok theme`. The nice orange color of the `header element` matches the orange colors of a 12-sun rays in my Gravatar. The color of the `links elements` is a cool blue, which I noticed appeared on certain cable news programming (i.e. FoxNews and conservative pals). The colors of the hover element are black for background and white for fonts.

    I hate sidebars! But I love balance, which TWO sidebars achieve with the Sandbox theme. I wanted to try the other Sandbox themes with top navigation bars. But I don’t have the patience or expertise to identify how to get TWO sidebars on either side of the `content element` or how to make the drop-down menu feature `vertical` instead of `horizontal`.

    —

    There were more tweaks that I couldn’t figure out in the past. Now I solved three tonight! What luck!

    • Links. The `unlisted element` for the `links categories` were TOO friggin’ close to the header for each `links categories`. I made the bottom margins for both the h2 and h3 `1em`. Now my `Links` page looks better!
    • Image. The `caption image element` was TOO narrow on top. I made the top margin 4 pixels. Now the `Image widget` in the sidebar looks better!
    • Hover. The `hover element` for the sidebars didn’t look like the push-button effects found on the `Solipsus theme`. I made the color of the background darker for the hover and switched the margins between the hover and active links.

    —

    Will I keep this new layout? Nah! You know me: I want perfection! Plus, there are some elements that are not part of this theme. Let’s see how long I’ll be satisfied this time around. But I really like the darker scheme because of an `rare sight` as mentioned in my previous blog entry.