This Classical Life

In music news: the Square Peg Alliance site is finally up and Mark Williams has an updated site as well!

We’re packing up a storm and can hardly believe that our pods will be delivered a week from tomorrow.  Kate’s spending the weekend with GP and Nana, which should further our efforts to the point of being nearly done by the fourth.  Our closing date is less than two weeks away.  Alabama, here we come!

Mike is planning on writing a post on Simply Christian and I am hoping to write one on Crunchy Cons.  Hope we can deliver these before the clarity of “just finished” fades…

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Bloglines stopped misbehaving as well, which made me happy, because I tried out several different free feed readers and I didn’t like any as well as Bloglines.

… and you go to UNC, make it baseball.

1. You’re in Chapel Hill. What are you doing with a baseball anyhow?

2. You return to an empty campus and no classes. (See: Chris Simms and the case of the unexcused absences!)

We never met when we both lived in Texas and have both been in Virginia for a year now and still hadn’t met, so before we left town, I finally caught up with Kelly the Badgermum and three of her seven children, en route to the deep South.  We had a nice time, but I forgot my camera!  The drought caused big puddles at the park we met up at and everyone got very dirty, but of course, the kids enjoyed that.  Thanks for stopping, Kelly!

Incoporate daily readings from the ESV into your Google Calendar. The link takes you to an html version that you can always visit. You could also toggle the ‘month’ tab and select ’subscribe with Google Calendar’ to add this calendar to your own personal.

If you click on an entry, it takes you to the entry on Google Calendar, from which you can select the link to take you to the online edition of the ESV.

Bloglines is not working properly for me. Some feeds that are working fine on Mike’s bloglines aren’t on mine. Half of my blogs have the [!] after them. I am so annoyed! Now I expect that the feed reader is surfing on my behalf and I get verklempt if I have to do that myself. What a difference two months makes!

ETA: The lunacy continues.  Mike got this post in his bloglines and I didn’t in mine.  I looked and bloglines has us listed as subscribing to two different feeds with the same address.  His is working, mine is not.  What the heck?

The girls weren’t napping simulataneously today, so I could not really pack and I decided to finally bite the bullet and try to install Word Press 2.0.3 on the server and upgrade from 1.5.2. And I managed to do it all by myself! I even used FileZilla for the first time. I know most of you are thinking, “so?” but I usually make Mike do everything technical in relation to this blog in exchange for not having to post as much. But now that I am doing techie stuff… he’ll just have to post more!

Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassat

Lexi is six months old today, so we reached the milestone only 14.2% of babies in America do: six months of exclusive breastfeeding. She’s actually never had a bottle. I tried pumping with Kate and honestly, it wasn’t worth the effort. I never leave my infants more than 2 hours anyway, that’s all I’m comfortable with. Little babies are portable. Toddlers… they are way more difficult to take along on dates!

When my friend Sara first heard about our house, she told me one of the fringe benefits of living in an old house with little closet space is that it makes it much harder to be attached to posessions. We’ve been getting rid of things left and right and it is so freeing.

We’re packing and living and… I don’t have time to write of all the things I’d like. Perhaps non-chatty post tomorrow.

Our realtor was in the house yesterday measuring for appliances and we asked him to look at the counters because we had a slight bit of doubt and… they aren’t black and white. They’re really dark forest green and white. :o/ What would you paint the walls? Won’t barnyard red be too Christmas-y? Red in the dining room and sagey green in the kitchen? Some other color? (Behr.com suggests perhaps a slate blue, sage or a muted plum…)