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Here are the reports for this week:
Chris - 1 GAIN
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 LOSS
Grace - 1.4 GAIN
Leigh - 0.5 GAIN
Clara - 0.5 LOSS
Dette - -1.5 LOSS
Julie - 2.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 1 GAIN
Cyn Blue - 0 CHANGE
Audrey - On VACATION
Christy - 8 LOSS!! You go girl!
Welcome new member Tina with a 1 pound loss!
Total : 11.3 LOSS WOOT!!
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I don’t know what it is.. but every now and then I get this irresistible bug to go and spend money. Buy something frivolous and something that I really don’t need. I wonder if this is a touch of what a shopping addiction is like?
So lately I’ve wanted another blue Life Is Good collar for Muffit. The blue is perfect, it’s my flyball team’s colors and looks so good on Chase. So yesterday I actually put Chase’s on Muffit, and I ordered a new one for Chase. =P Yeah, totally pointless and not needed in our house full of collars! Dangit! But I just wanted one so I ordered ack. I’m terrible. But I do have some money, so I guess I can spend it. =P
That link goes to the Life Is Good website but they don’t have the collar I’m getting. They do have, however, this pink tank! It matches Tatum’s collar and leash… oh boy, we’ll be matching!
But you know, this is quite dumb of me… because I just went to lunch at Rumbi. And I just donated $5 for a parting gift for a coworker… and last weekend I spent some money at the Bark in the Park event I went to. And gave $20 to my obedience trainer… so why on earth do I feel the need to spend any more money?
I just pulled out $100 from my checking account for cash for this pay period. Unfortunately, I’m not supposed to pull it out until Friday (on payday) and so it’s now supposed to last me 3 weeks instead of 2. And already $15 of it is gone. GAH!
I had a busy weekend. CRAP! What is the deal with me! I’m too busy. I was at a Bark in the Park all yesterday (Saturday). Our flyball team did a demo, well two, and so we had to hang out all day. Which wouldn’t be so bad if I had any days at home to relax, which are few and far between. I know, I complain, but I do love doing dog things.
This morning I did obedience training. Then I built a couple of jumps (is this my dog blog or my personal blog? LOL). Then I vegged in front of the TV for a couple of hours… watched Monk and Robin Hood, I liked both of them. Monk freaked me out… tearing up that poor house! Ugh! I had to take a break from watching it for a bit as that disturbed me. 
But then I came back and it was definitely funny.
Now I’m watching TV and blogging a bit. I did, however, get some books from the library. Real Live Books. I hope to actually have time to read them. Usually I get books on CD anymore so I can listen when I drive. But I do miss just sitting down and reading.
Today will be a short work week, thank goodness. I’ll get to work from home on Wednesday for a few hours, in my home office, though I could use a new desk and chair. Oh well… I’m just happy I can work from home!
Okay.. I am still trying to understand and use OpenIDs. At long last, I think I finally understand.
So an OpenID has to be in the form of a URL. Big thing that was tripping me up, lol. And there are places where you can register your OpenID and they kinda are like an OpenID host. You sign up with them and they give you an OpenID that you can use to log into various websites that support OpenID.
I like Beemba so far. I have my own Beemba OpenID. So when I go to various websites, I use my Beemba OpenID to log in (yes, I have to log into Beemba so you can’t, even if you know my Beemba OpenID) and then voila, I’m in via OpenID.
And if you click the link to see my Beemba OpenID, you’ll see various information about me, too. And this is what I’ve been wanting! Instead of clicking my OpenID and seeing just a site, with nothing about me, that’s boring. This lists my FriendFeed info, Twitter, Del.icio.us info, and my website address and my picture of Tatum.
So far, so good!
And now for my relaxing weekend… ha! Well, not so much. Maybe Sunday afternoon. I reserved some books from the library… gonna check out Dennis C Carey too, see what he’s all about. I want some books on CD too to take with me when I got to Laramie the weekend after the 24th of July, so maybe they’ll be some good ones!
Not in my human brain.. fortunately. Well, actually, that’s just about gone and I have a hard time remembering things anyway. But specifically I’m talking about the RAM Memory on my VPS.
Figuring a Bob stroller won’t really help my memory problems, I pulled up Google (Yeah it’s evil, but it’s the best) and started to have a look around.
Looks like Apache is my biggest memory hog. And figuring my VPS is only used for web things, that is understandable. I don’t use the VPS for anything else other than a web server! So it’s time to tune up Apache, and maybe MySQL, to see if that helps my memory issues.
Right now, after a bit of tuning, my WebMin reports:
512 MB total, 348.22 MB used
I’ve been getting up to 500MB used, which is bad. And I’m getting Out Of Memory errors and my blogs are slowing down. So… in order to help this out, I changed some settings in Apache:
StartServers 6
MinSpareServers 3
MaxSpareServers 10
From what I’ve been reading, this should help. Originally it was set ti 8 4 and 20, respectively. I really would like processes killed off (MaxSpreServers) when they are idle. Instead of being held to see if they will be used again. I am not sure how important this is for my blogs, but I guess I’ll find out.
So far, so good… I still am at
512 MB total, 348.55 MB used
So I’ll be watching this for a bit to see how if it helps. I hope so.
Can’t get more of a statement out of a blog post than that…! Well, it’s where I stand. I’ve been hitting many blogs, lately, by republicans… or just those who support McCain and not Obama. And by the image on my sidebar that says I support him, and by this post, I want to say that I’m a Democrat all the way, and I am really liking Obama a lot.
Some say he is too young… well, Kennedy was young. And Kennedy was a Democrat. Even though I was too young (okay I wasn’t born yet) when he was president, still I like his image and I like what he did. I think Barack Obama will be similar.
Obama is fresh and has new ideas. I don’t care about experience… especially POW experience. How would that make for a good president? I don’t know. I want someone without experience who will come in and make some drastic changes.
Change the health care system. Get rid of all discrimination including sexual orientation (not that he supports that, but Democrats usually do so more than republicans). We need someone who is pro-choice for all us women who want control of our lives. And we want a president who is much, much more environmentally responsible!
I cannot go into details mainly because, like other things in life, I don’t remember details. I hear something I like, I absorb into into my mind and heart, and I decide I like it. And that’s how I feel about Obama. And I don’t post much about politics because I’m afraid of getting the facts wrong. But then, I’ll probably be corrected, eh? LOL.
I do not think off shore drilling is any kind of solution to the gas prices being so high. Any sensible person (lol how’s that for a slam?) can see that opening offshore drilling wouldn’t help our gas prices for years to come, maybe five or ten years, and we really would love to have some relief now!
I want to find and listen to Al Gore’s speech today… I heard that he has a goal of having all our electricity powered by renewable energy sources in 10 years? I heard that on NPR. Gotta go find that speech. I like Al Gore. I voted for Al Gore. I wish Al Gore would have won in 2000.
If McCain wins, like it’s been said, we’ll be having Bush’s third term starting off. Personally, I’ll be on the edge of my seat come November, probably even staying up late, to see who wins. Here in Utah usually the republican wins, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to be out there stamping my Democratic Vote on election day! (Or before, since I usually vote through the mail lol).
So anyway… that’s my 2cents!
Okay.. my cruise isn’t until October, but I’m starting to get excited! And really it’s only three months away now. I have to go get recertified for scuba diving as I have a scuba dive planned in Grand Cayman. I have always wanted to go to the Cayman Islands so I’m pretty excited about it.
I’m flying into Tampa with some friends, and we might need a car rental once we get there. I always am looking for the best deal on car rentals, as it’s not my most favorite part of the trip. Advantage has some specials on Luxury and Convertable Car rentals. Up to 50%. But I don’t like convertibles… ever since my second rollover I’m afraid because there is no hard shell over my head.
I gotta get that scuba going, and get my Harry Potter Robes cleaned as I’ll be there over Halloween!
Ugh… I woke up this morning and it was just so hard to wake up. My head felt thick and heavy. My neck hurt a bit, and all my muscles were tense.
I’m thinking the Zoloft is really finally having an affect on me, and it’s bugging me. Yup… takes me about a year to get used to something new and then really try to understand it. Okay I know, so I’m slow!
The Zoloft makes me a bit foggy in the head. I can’t concentrate as much, I can’t have those nice things I am not even going to talk about… my emotions are just not as sharp as they used to be. Yeah.. the anxiety and the PMS are a ton less, but I think I’m entering the phase where I think, if I stopped taking the meds, I’d be okay and I’d still be able to handle life.
So I guess it’s time to go and talk to the shrink. Maybe I can reduce my dosage a bit. I don’t like having no motivation during the day. And at night, sleeping with all my muscles so tense that my back and neck just hurt all day long.
Once I get up and get into a routine I’m better. But if I don’t have a goal, I’m kinda mush. And then I wonder if maybe I’m catching a cold, or if it’s emotional? I sometimes just don’t know what I feel.