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Jul 4, 2007 
Nano loves this toy, we play with it on a daily basis. She learned to catch it in the air (sometimes) and gets really excited when I take it out to play.
geekery, drawing and then some
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Once I went to the zoo, in the middle of the winter. I did some drawing and purchased a mascot. It looks like a sock monkey and feels very nice and soft.
Nothing beats that magic of first ink on paper.
After some searching I managed to find my little booklet. I got out my pens and started drawing. I had a hard time drawing my keys. My dog kept on interrupting me because she didn’t like that I had more attention for my silly pen and some paper than for her. She tried chewing on my pen while I drew and I finally managed to distract her long enough with some treats.
I’ve had this backpack for I while, but had never drawn it before. During a cleaning-spree I found little Kenny-the-keychain and hung him on my backpack. He frequently suffers attack from my dog and other dogs, that love to check him out, leaving me screaming “OH MY GOD, DON’T KILL KENNY!!”.
I don’t scream too often though.
Very happy with how the backpack turned out.
I have misplaced my little booklet to draw in. I can’t draw that much these days but I wanted to, and then I couldn’t find my little booklet. Must find it!
I couldn’t help myself, I redesigned the site. I like the previous design but it looked too messy. I had trouble reading stuff and finding stuff, and I designed the whole thing. mmm purple
My blogging-life became a lot easier with Markdown, which in turn became easy to use with TextMate. I don’t really like the inline linking style, I much more prefer the reference linking style. To keep myself sane I would ofcourse need some nifty TextMate magic to do so. It only took a little bit of googling to find the solution.
Dr. Drang explains it clearly at his blog. Make sure to check both this and this link to create your own macro in TextMate. The second link has some additions to the first one, making the reference numbers automatic.
After that, check out the third follow-up to create a macro that lets you select a word and create a reference link (cause no doubt, you sometimes read back and think ‘Damn, I should link that!’).
So, you get the idea, and you want more! Checkout the next follow-up on how to create a reference link by selecting a word and letting your little macro do a ‘I feel lucky!’ google-lookup.
I love computers.
I recently started another blog and due to its simple nature I wanted a simple blogging ‘platform’. MT seemed a bit overkill for a small site. Someone suggested using blosxom, which seemed a bit outdated and he then mentioned pyblosxom, a python-version of Blosxom. I had never installed anything python-y, and much to my delight it went mostly fine (I misread a few things). With the many pyblosxom plugins I managed to fix up my blog the way I wanted to.
Getting back on my feet from my little RA-blow takes a bit longer than expected. I have received medication that works (fabulously) and all seemed to go well again, until this itsy bitsy thing with a low amount of white blood-cells popped up, which made the doctors stop the medication. My white count went up again, so last week I restarted treatment, yaay. I have put up a blog about the trial and my RA, with some nifty home-made photos (mmm dandelions).
I have not completely abandoned my creative projects either, I have made some nice photos and I started the painting in the picture (stuck with it now, though). I also have bought a sewing machine and managed to sew up a skirt, a dress and a top. It just goes a bit slow.
I blogged about TextMate before but I neglected to mention how much I’ve used it to actual blog (not that I blog that much). I’ve also used it to edit templates and CSS for my blog, working mostly with Cyberduck cause I just like my GUI. I do on occasion simply scp, but I really miss the visual tree I do get in Cyberduck (and other gui-ftp-tools).
With the help of the GTDalt bundle and SVK (and the bundle in TextMate) I also get more things done and have managed to organise my files better. Though I do still spend a lot of time tweaking and geeking about :)
The next item on my list: dejunk my closet. Which I shall do right now!
(if I feel like it I might post the amount of junk I removed from it later on)
A while back I ordered some tools for carving. I also bought a rubber eraser to carve in. My first try-out for a hand-carved rubber stamp turned out pretty good.
In October 2006 my new doctor told me I had rheumatoid arthritis. I had experienced frequent pains in my hands and my feet in the months before and my lung-specialist referred me to a rheumatologist. I have since said good-bye to the lung-specialist, not my lungs but my stomach has caused the ongoing cough which made me visit him. I have not yet said good-bye to the rheumatologist and I most likely will not for a long time.