Luna Tail

Well, as you may know, and I’ve mentioned it before, I have a secret. And why these things in life are so difficult to admit to, or talk about, I don’t know. It’s silly, really. But lately I’ve started taking Zoloft for anxiety.

There, I said it. Ugh. And you know? It’s really helping. I don’t like that I’m kinda fuzzy all the time. But I do like that I’m not stressing all the time. I can sit and relax, which is nice. And it’s cut my appetite way down, which is nice. But that’s why I’m eating so many chocolate chips. I just don’t care about much now, it seems. So I don’t eat much, and when I do, it’s just stuff I really like. Yeah I know I know, I’ll get back to eating better in a few days. After my party. At least I think I will.

Anyway, the Zoloft is making it so I am not sleeping well. I am having a nasty time falling asleep, and then a nasty time waking up. So the doc gave me some Trazodone to help me sleep. Army Mom has tried it, and she said it helps her sleep a lot. Hopefully it will help me, too.

I just took it about 15 mins ago. 7:30 PM MDT. So I might be getting sleepy here soon. But I’d rather take it early and then not be so drowsy in the morning. I am having just a heck of a time getting up lately. And then I’m tired all day and want to sleep.

So we’ll see how it goes. I’ll read some blogs before I go to bed.

Today at work we had a firedrill. Yes yes yes… we don’t leave the building fast. Usually it’s someone who has burned their toast and set off the alarm. No idea what it was today.

Well, actually, it was an opportunity to use my new camcorder! LOL. My friend, Mark, taped me a little bit since I haven’t been in any of the movies yet. So this is me. It’s about a minute long. Not too long.. but you can’t hear me very well.

Well… I was really wanting to get this plugin, the Comment Email Responder, installed and working. Because it is such a neat idea to be able to reply to comments not only by email, but also on the comment itself. And then have an email sent to the commenter.

So I was looking at it a little bit. I installed it on all three of my blogs. On two it was working great. But on this blog, Luna Tail, I didn’t see the little icon I was supposed to be seeing when I viewed comments.

So off to PHP land I went and looked at the code. The code contains an if statement that looks to see if the user is level 10. If so, it displays the envelope. If not, it falls out of the if statement.

I displayed some of the variables, and I found that my admin login ID did not display a 10. I went and created a new user, and gave her admin status, and logged in through IE and guess what? New user had a 10.

So off to the database I went. There is an entry in the usermeta table called wp_user_level. My new user had this entry in the DB, and it was set to 10. But my admin user did not have this entry in the DB at all.

So I went to w3schools, where I always have to go for SQL because I don’t use it enough to remember SQL sytax, and got an insert line to add this field to that table in the DB, for my admin user (user 1), and give it a value of 10. Viola, works like a dream.

Now I can see the envelope icon on this blog and use the comment email responder. Woo Hoo!

I love code. I love PHP. It’s too much fun to work in. I don’t do it nearly enough.

NOTE: Read comments for further information about this fix.

Remember that CamCorder I said I bought? He he.. well, that just means ya’ll are in trouble, now. Because I also have a YouTube account.
Check out our house. It’s short, just a couple of seconds. Too much fun!

Well, as you can see, I’ve changed the template. I thought something Moon (aka Luna) related was in order. I think I like it. Let me know what you think.

Now I have a Sammy boy wanting Dinner, as well as the rest of the major huge pack. I better get to it!

Well, yesterday I went and bought a Sony CamCorder. It burns right to the Minidisc DVDs. I’m excited. I wrote some more about it on my other blog….

It’s mostly going to be a dog training tool. My friends and I at agility (did I just say my friends? wow) have been taping each other a lot lately. One of my friends has a camcorder that records to tape, but we’ve been recording over ourselves too much. This DVD recorder won’t do that. Or at least I can set it not to do that. So that’ll be sweet.

And this way I can really edit videos the way I want to. Since I’ve been downloading videos and burning to DVD, and ripping and burning, I’m learning about video. And since I’m a control freak and I like to do things Just So, this will allow me to do that.

But hey, if they are my videos of my dogs, then I should be allowed to be a control freak shouldn’t I? LOL

Sure sure. Anyway it’s a Sony Handycam with a 40x Optical Zoom. It’s sweet. Well… I haven’t actually recorded anything yet!

I plan on getting videos of the foster dogs, too, and put them up on Petfinder. As well as agility, obedience, flyball, and my birthday party next Saturday. Should be super fun!

Ugh… ran agility all weekend, home now and very tired. Watching the end of Pirates of the Caribbean. More about agility on my other blog.

Was fun. Lots of work. The weather was pretty nice, though. And sometimes my ankle gets disjointed or something. Usually I can pop it back in, but this weekend I couldn’t. So it is quite sore. I have ice on it now. Not fun.

Today is my second annual 39th Birthday. Oh okay, it’s my 40th! 40 years ago on May 26, 1967, little Cynthia came into the world.

I’m off to do agility, and have a fun day.

You should really sing the title to this blog post. “… in the neighborhood…” that is a song, isn’t it?

What is going on in my neighborhood, you may ask? Well, since my husband and I both have Social Anxiety, we hardly know our neighbors. But we do know the lady across the street has lived in her house since it was built in 1943 (ours was also built in 1943, same design, just a mirror image). The people next to them have a little girl probably just under a year old. They are renting but they love the house and the block, and want to buy.

There were about 4 cop cars and a fire truck on our street this week, that was exciting.
Our house has 7 dogs in it at the moment (yeah 7, in 1300 square feet, too small for 7 dogs, one that is 99 pounds). So it keeps us hopping.

I haven’t seen the regularly loose dogs out lately, thank the gods. I hate it when people let their dogs roam the block. And poop everywhere. With 7 dogs, we have enough poop of our own to pick up thank-you-very-much. We don’t need to pick up the neighbors dogs’ poop!

As for higher up, Rocky Anderson, who is the mayor of our fine city, just rocks. Quoted from Wikipedia:

Anderson also signed executive orders that extend benefits to domestic partners of City employees, and ban discrimination against City employees on the basis of race, creed, gender, or sexual orientation.

Which is pretty amazing for Utah. Same Sex unions are sooo frowned on here, it’s just sad. I support gay marriage. So I think Rocky Anderson did a great thing for Utah.

The weather is good, I have an agility trial this weekend, and tomorrow (May 26) is my 40th birthday. Yay.

Hmmm… there are many web sites out there that go on about how to build SEO (Search Engine Optimization - I only discovered this week what SEO stood for). There is a fairly new website up, now, where you can submit your blog, or website, for free or for pay, and they will put you on their front page.

Now, I’ve read that pages that have a ton of outgoing links might take a hit from Google’s PR, instead of a boost. But it seems that PR is a giant mystery, and no one knows exactly how it works. Maybe the guys writing it do (I sure hope they do) but for the masses, it’s still in debate.

Anyway, this website is WriteAbout.us. They are a PR3 as of the latest PR update. You can pay to get a link up on their site, or you can submit one for free. I’m doing the free thing, because I’m poor, and need money for the collies. I’m going to see how it works and just do this blog for now, and wait on my other blog for a bit.