Burnt toast, sheets and fucking foto services

[susandennis]

This morning I decided to have a couple of slices of toast.  I have two toaster ovens.  One I use mainly for broiling meat and toasting toast and the other I used for baking stuff.  This morning I put two slices of bread in the one I use for toasting and then came over to the computer to check on something and got distracted.  By the time I remembered the toast it was burnt.  So I tossed it and tried again (to the melodious screech of the smoke alarm).  This toaster oven is slow... so again to the computer. 

This time, when I remembered to check I found the toast flambeau!  Yep, flaming, fire.  YIKES! 

So... this toast is now a crusade for me.  I get two more pieces of bread and try the other toaster oven.  I've never used it for toast before.  It does a FINE job!  5 minutes  Perfect toast.   Note to self:  Don't forget to toss out the charcoal you left in the first toaster oven.

Somewhere last week I caught a lengthy online thread about sheets and duvet covers and who sleeps with what bed linen.  It was a variation on the toilet roll up or under controversy.  For years I have slept on a full sized bed with fitted bottom sheet and a twin sized top sheet and a duvet cover - full of duvet in the winter and empty like a light blanket in the Summer.  After reading the conversation I decided to try going comando - no top sheet.  I'm sold.  Way easier sleeping.  Way Way easier bed making.  Probably in the Summer, I'll add the top sheet back in but maybe not.  Stay tuned.

Buzznet is giving me fits.  I've had my account there for two years now.  It has the handiest feature - a snippet of code grabs the last four photos and puts them on my web page.  Plus, I just like the layout of their pages - the latest photo and then thumbs of the dozen ones before the latest.  Easy peasy but they are always having some kind of issues.  It's been a year since I've reliably been notified by email of any comments.  The site owner keeps telling me he's fixed this but it keeps not being fixed.  Then today I noticed that once again my syndication - the last four photos - is no longer working on my webpage.

So I decided it was time to switch.  I've always hated flickr.  I don't know why.  I hate it when a link sends me there.  I find their interface very confusing and I just don't like it.  Textamerica was once a fine alternative but they, apparently, no longer offer syndication.  So back to flickr.  I'm sure there is a way to email my photos to flickr and then grab the last four for my webpage but you know what, I've now killed an hour trying to figure out how. 

This is what I hate about flickr.  It is impossible to figure out how to work their site.  I know others have done it.  machupicchu loves the place and kyrielle seems very happy with it and both have, apparently, cracked their obfuscated system.  But I'll be darned if I can figure it out.  I did figure out how to email photos - the email address is very bizzar but it works.  But, I can not figure out how to generate the code which will pick up the last four photos and plop them on my website and refresh as I email new photos.  If anyone has a clue, I'd kill for a tip.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/susand/

I did take a walk today. It's been nearly a year since I've done one of my weekend walks and today was just a mini one.  I walked down to the aquarium and back - according to Google it's .8 miles.  It was perfect walking weather.  Cool and nice.