Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: prose

A literal technique ‘opposite’ to verse (e.g. poetry).

  • 20090911-Friggin Warm

    Today’s sunny, sylph-filled skies & other high-altitude clouds. Been mostly warm & groggy humid, a first for awhile or maybe effects of niacin. Sweating sucks..

  • 20090910-Collections Calling

    Got call from 623-492-6031 @ 1119 amtoday for unpaid CC still owed by TPTB. Amazing how much poorer we get daily. Got no money or job!

  • 20090910-Collections Calling

    Got generic voice recorded message American Express card from 623-492-6031 @ 0907am today for unpaid CC still owed by TPTB. Amazing how much poorer we get daily

  • 20090909-Collections Calling

    Got text alert today @ 1532pm from Bankster Of America to call prior to 2100pm. Don’t have job or money. Alas, it is God’s will for me to go legal & die POOR!!!

  • 20090909-Tweaked Widget

    Finished editing ‘Recommended Reading’ widget to ‘Uwantsun! Orgone & Books’ prior to tonite’s speech. Found that products page is 404! Linked to mirror site,eg!

  • 20090909-Friggin’ Bored

    Up late at night: listening to CoastToCoastAM.com with George Noory and people calling in about ghost story; been trying free themes here at WordPress.com and tweaking paid CSS stylesheet upgrade and went back to current `Solipsus` theme of dark brown and black colors.

    Made the `Home` page, which appeared redundant to the `Welcome` page, as a sidebar `text` widget containing usual humor, an image of Dante’s Satan in Inferno and subscription links to my weblog site.

    Made `Front page display` as `[My] latest posts` with `Blog pages show at most as three (3) posts`. Bored.

  • 20090907-New Theme

    Sorry, folks! I’m trying yet another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Solipsus by Tiffany Nguyen (Rikkye)

    A black and brown two-column design with flowers, clouds and a sun.

    Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, dark, rtl-language-support, left-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post

    PROs:

    • Header is closer to the top, unlike theme`Dusk`, which has a header that pushes my content and sidebars too low into the middle of the screen.
    • Instead of dark blue color of the former, this latter is dark brown and black.
    • It has a left sidebar unlike most other themes, which uses right sidebars.
    • It also has flowers, one sun, one cloud and one frowning face.
    • The date/time stamp, along with comments meta, is located underneath POST titles.
    • No meta appears underneath PAGES.
    • This theme features the < hr > element as a flowery design. Neat!

    CONs:

    • It’s dark but not too dark to hurt the eyes with contrasting, brightly-colored fonts.
    • The letters appear too small but editing my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade helps to increase the font-size to 84% (via the `body` element).
    • There is no custom header.
    • There is no navigation bar with drop-down menu feature.
    • There is no tagline: see reason below.

    Since I still wanted to RETAIN the image of Dante’s Satan in Inferno and the brief welcome message to describe what to do with this weblog, I removed a parent`home` page, which had the same greeting as shown on the `text widget` (which is currently located uppermost left hand portion of the sidebar):

    `God’s goal: be sunny life`. (This is my blog’s tagline).

    Having a left sidebars means I could set my `Front page display` to latest posts instead of setting the `Front page` to `Home` and the `Post page` to `Archives`. My purpose is to allow a short introduction when viewing my weblog through the `front page` via a mobile, cellphone.

    The sidebars may change as I continue to tweak the appearance of my IMPERFECT weblog site.

  • 20090906-Tweaked CSS

    Due to technical difficulties with previous themes and the face that I ain’t got NO satisfaction with just ONE theme, I’m back with the free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Dusk by Becca Wei

    A dark blue and grey two-column theme adorned with flowers.

    Tags: dark, fixed-width, two-columns, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post, rtl-language-support

    In addition, I’ve tweaked my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade to include the original flowery images:

    • bg.gif – background:##556777 url(‘images/bg.gif’) repeat-x;
    • wrapper.gif – background:##EEEAE8 url(‘images/wrapper.gif’) repeat-y;
    • header.gif – background:# url(‘images/header.gif’) no-repeat;
    • content.gif – background:# url(‘images/content.gif’) no-repeat and
    • sidebar.gif – background:# url(‘images/sidebar.gif’) no-repeat top right;.

    TIP: Add an extra pound sign (#) before the `url` section of each `background` images. This will bring up the original flowery designs without having to upload, copy and paste each one.

  • 20090905-Old Theme

    Well, out of sheer ANGER at TPTB and frustration of unemployment and since no-one reads my most recent post entries and as a result my weblog is predominately page driven, I’m trying a free theme (AGAIN) here at WordPress.com:

    Unsleepable by Ben Gray

    A simple two-column theme that appeals to the monochrome amongst us.

    Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, right-sidebar, white, light, widgets, sticky-post, rtl-language-support

    PROs:

    • Sub-pages listed on the right sidebar for each parent page. Neat!
    • Side-bars disappear when viewing not from the home/front page.
    • Bright pink color for the links for easier clicking.
    • Search bar located towards the top right hand corner of the weblog.
    • Blog-roll links defaults to right sidebar at home/front page.
    • Bottom-bar sports three columns, ideal for displaying Flickr, images.

    CONs:

    • No time/date stamp.
    • No drop-down menu of sub-pages and grand-children, too.
    • Will get bored of this monochrome color sooner or later.

  • 20090905-Old Theme

    Gosh darnit! Sorry but I’ve changed back to the light purple theme here at WordPress.com:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

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

    Tags: white, left-sidebar, theme-options, widgets, two-columns, one-column, three-columns, right-sidebar, flexible-width, microformats, rtl-language-support

    And in order to display both the lengthy sidebar widgets for archives items and orgone-related stuff, the Sandbox Skin is:

    Three-Column Minimalist 1.0 by Scott Allan Wallick

    Minimalist style with left and right-sidebars

  • 20090903-Friggin Hot

    Today’s was friggin’ hot with clear blue skies. The evening is now cool and clear starlit skies.

    Yesterday was friggin’ hot with sylphs ahoy. The evening then was still friggin’ hot.

    The days before were friggin’ hot with some morning clouds but hot in the afternoon and evening.

  • 20090903-Old Theme

    Oh dear God! I’ve done it again! This time I’m trying another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Almost Spring by Becca Wei

    A light and simple two-column theme graced with greens and oranges.

    Tags: green, two-columns, fixed-width, rtl-language-support, widgets, sticky-post, right-sidebar, white, light

    BUT, instead of using the lime-green and orange color scheme, I found triadic color scheme called ‘Fantasy’. I could have went purple but that means something to TPTB. So I went with pink for flowers and found another color to replace the ‘orange-colored’ links with a green tone for a symbol of leaves within the same ‘Fantasy’ column.