This can't be that interesting

I wonder if I could come up with a flag to alert potential readers to what might be of any interest... sort of a < content="interesting" > tag.

This of course would involve me being able to identify what that was ahead of time. Well, here's something then.

I am going to Nashville on the 11th, flying back to Seattle, turning around a few hours later and flying to Chicago (previous itinerary via ATL), and spending the weekend in Chicago. I then will be flying directly from Chicago to Nashville on Tuesday the 19th, and returning to Chicago on Friday the 22nd. From there Beth and I will drive cross country to Seattle, completing my transcontinental ping pong rally! At least I didn't end up passing through Texas (orignal plans had me going from Chicago to Seattle via Houston, then back to Nashville via Denver!)

html worked

looking at the list items, that seems to be fine. I wonder why the text under the list didn't realign... probably something I am not aware of influencing things.

Found it, I tried to close a UL tag with a /OL closer. That won't work... using the Dashboard in blogger it identified the error and refused it! Go error checking!

Back in Blogger... apparently the tool I am using doesn't actually set the title, but it does have a top line, that looks suspiciously like a title bar. Shame.

No email status?

I just tried this once, and two things I notices were:

• The title was not bold
• I didn't receive an email confirmation

This is strange in so many ways, but not the end of the world. I am now testing html tags in the text field.

From the top of the desktop

I am writing this from the blog tool in gnome. Now there can be plenty of spontaneous nothing here! Just when I thought I might need to think out clearly what I was going to post!

I won't be inconvenienced.

This is a nice article I just read on Salon about Pelosi's pilgrimage to our far northern neighbor, Greenland. Apparently, the House Speaker is the highest ranking official in our government to have ever visited Greenland. Wow, Greenland... I hear they got their independence recently because the Danes forgot it was a territory of theirs. Now that's a revolution.
Quoted from the article:

How did this happen? Pelosi says "that the American people are way ahead of all of us in Washington, D.C. -- the Congress, the White House and the rest. They know that we need a serious initiative and a serious commitment to making the change that is necessary." I'm not entirely sure that's true. The American people also want cheap gas. More than anything else, the American people don't want to be inconvenienced. But one thing's indisputable, American politicians are now convinced that voters take climate change seriously, enough so that passing a cap-and-trade bill on carbon emissions is seen as strategically advisable.

Chronology

What does time have to do with this? How can you make a clean narrative that reads backward in time? What can I say today that measures against anything I have said in the past? How much filtering is appropriate to ensure that only the right amount is written, and that a single idea is expressed, or many ideas with a theme less broad than that they occur to me?

What kind of dedication or curiosity is needed for someone to read, let alone try to understand, what is recorded here. I think I want to try to track what I read, maybe some of what I see, and a bit of what I think. Is it a selfish whim? A compulsive self-involvement...

I mowed the lawn today. Beth is gone, so I needed to witness the short grass myself. It's one of her special pleasures, or at least something I can give her, if it's mundane.

I started to dig a hole in the yard to get at a sewer pipe that has some issues... I don't see the problem, and am torn between continuing to dig, or to start cutting and look inside... neither sounds too good.

On the Beach

Watching 'On the Beach'. It's shocking how few Australians had accents in the 60's, maybe there was a softening on account of the war. The creepy 'Waltzing Matilda' score is a bit trying sometimes to handle. It's a shame, since I like the song enough.

Gregory Peck... ah, reminds me of Roman Holiday...