mountaineer musings

nothing to see here, folks

ok, musees, i've finally decided to just make my move to my new wordpress blog, if for no other reason than to save us all time in posting comments. hooray!!

so here it is, the new spot... mountaineermusings.com
my ALIAS stuff will be here ALIAS.
and my ALIAS quotes will be here ALIAS quotes.

hooray!!

please update your links, and love me. that's all i ask. :)

yeah, sorry 'bout that

blogging will continue to be light here until i get my stupid CPA license renewal paperwork filed with the state. i'm not used to doing this myself... so spoiled.

should be done by tomorrow night, though, and then you might even get BlogLib results out of me, and i know you just can't wait for that.

hey! creepo! get outta here!

whoever came here looking for "nudity and low rise jeans" -- SHAME. ON. YOU.

so i'm like the smartest girl in the whole world

so i'm working on converting the blog over, and i'm trying to install movable type on the server. and i get some random error that's not remotely covered in anyone's stinkin' help database. not MT, not HM, not any google searches. ugh. well, that might not be true, because i'm not very patient with help. if i go through too many searches without finding what i'm looking for, i'd just rather figure it out myself and be done with it all quick-like.

and the error is something like "hey, goofball, look in your cfg file, and then figure out what this sentence means: variable 'The' not found". so what does my genius real close to genius little brain start thinkin'? well, it starts thinkin' that perhaps the word 'The' appears in the cfg file in some random place, most likely close to the place where yours truly edited it to config my blog. and there was a # sign missing somewhere that there were # signs everywhere else, so i decided i should just throw in one of them there pound signs and see if that didn't solve my problem.

and it did.

and i feel smart.
and so witty.
and gay (as in happy).
and i pity any girl who isn't me today.
la la la la la la la la la la!

UPDATE: so i thought i was a genius, and then 5 minutes later i didn't think that anymore. fortunately, Chad at Pass the Ammo (who also made my neato-skeeto banner) was gracious enough to help me fix my other problems that i created. and i don't mean i emailed him a question and he answered it and that was that. i mean he IMd w/ me for 2 or 3 hours until we got it fixed. this is because CHAD TOTALLY ROCKS.

UPDATE 2: using typepad = pretty. using movable type = ugly. no color, just stark, white pages. why? is this just me?

so i didn't sleep through the alarm this morning...

which is just great, because that means i made it for morning worship. hooray!

and now i'm sitting here going, "uh, what's it mean when it says 'connect to your site via FTP'?"

i can follow directions (help databases are the bomb), but how about a "how to install movable type on hosting matters for dummies"? i'd buy a copy.

domain name

ok, so i've decided to go w/ MT and Hosting Matters. so i started to order the hosting service and tried to get the name sarahk.com. taken. bah.

what's annoying is that it was taken in 2000 and is not being used.

so now i'm not sure what to do. suggestions, please?

UPDATE: i did check on other "sarahk"s. sarahk.net is taken, sarahk.us is available (no, i won't buy it from you if you snatch it up before me). 1) should i go with sarahk.us, or stay away from the "sarahk"s altogether? 2) if i go with sarahk.us, will people think i'm only doing that because i'm Frank's #1 fan and all and want to be just like him? except female, blonde, not funny, etc.?

epinemic

nope, that's not a word, but look it up for kicks. anyway, little bits and some linkage for you...

i'm not sure the Little Sizzle and i came from Bikey's loins... Bikermommy found an Indian food restaurant right here in Amarillo (hooray!); she and i went there for lunch today (food was good, but i can't make a true judgment until i've had the papad and the masala made spicy), and she had never had Indian food. now, the Sizzle and i agree that Indian food is by far the best cuisine on the planet, so i had high hopes for Bikey... well, she liked the rice and the tomato soup and the naan and the yummy green cilantro-mint-jalapeno-whatever-else sauce, but the rest she wasn't crazy about. was afraid to try the meatballs, not crazy about chicken tikke masala (!!), squinted like she was really takin' a chance on something every time she took a bite of the chicken tandoori... alas, she told me that i would need to find a different partner in town for eating Indian food, which totally stinks, since i have no friends here (yet). lots of takeout in my future.

everyone here is married ('cept me)... yeah, so everyone is either married or coupled; i know there are college boys in this town, but i don't run into them often. this will make for lots of Netflix evenings and many SVU re-runs, and at least i'll be able to snark the rest of ALIAS season 3.

i think Grama has stopped reading my blog... i say this because i talked to her Saturday night and she didn't mention anything about my learning to pee standing up; maybe she was too appalled and embarrassed by my lack of couth to bring it up.

i agree with Frank... he's got a post this afternoon about what we need to do with terrorists. they don't call him a genius for nuthin'. (seriously, pray for all of the hostages -- there are sure to be others, for the leaders of this great country and our allies and for all of the coalition forces.)

don't know if i mentioned it... but i went to Palo Duro Canyon last weekend, and my initial reaction was that it has lots of bugs (for a nature girl, i'm sure not a fan of bugs); after about a quarter mile of trudging through spider webs and seeing big, hairy, nasty, freakishly disgusting beetles, i high-tailed back to the 'Splorer and drove the rest of the way through the canyon, then went home. i'll try again soon and find a trail that actually ascends, since vertical variation is the whole point of hiking canyons.

i hate to keep linking to this guy... but he's somewhat kinda funny-ish and, by my estimation, a bit sarcastic, which always flies well with me. this week Pauly D of WFME is honoring clowns, which gets him an auto-link from the mountaineer, because the Psycho X is afraid of clowns. clowns clowns clowns. yippee! BOO, Psycho!

i take offense... to being called a Large Mammal. but i get over stuff really fast, just ask... um... well... ask Minerva! yeah.

nice day out, idn'it? i love the weather here; we had our company summer party at the park the other night, and they said it was humid for Amarillo... and humid for Amarillo is like 5% or something. nice.

bad sarahk... i feel so guilty; i've been 3 weeks without a massage, and i'm actually working now, so i'm really starting to feel it. my shoulders are so wussy. anyway, i don't know when i'll be in Fort Worth, since i can't leave before the house is in order and would prefer to let gasoline prices drop even more (yes, left, they ARE dropping, and it's not even November yet!) before i make that drive... so i'm going to see a massage therapist here next week, which makes me feel like i'm cheating on Mary. [keep the comments clean or i'll sissify you.] believe me, Mary, it's not you, it's me and my twisted shoulders.

i'm thinking the blogitorium is a little too quiet these days... so we need to have some kind of virtual gathering soon. who has an idea? not me. maybe i just wanted to say "blogitorium" again, because i think it's a neato word.

new photo album up

suddenly stricken with insomnia after being unable to figure out Pauly D's blog treasure hunt (solution here), i took the time to put together the album of the photo shoot that started it all... "it" being my illustrious career as the official IMAO T-Shirt Babe.

i'll have the photos from the actual T-Shirt Babe shoot up eventually; until then, you can see them on Frank's blog; just hit refresh every few seconds and get not only a new random picture of yours truly but also (and more importantly) a new random IMAO quote. hooray for randomness! hooray for t-shirts! hooray for Frank J!

ready to cut the apron strings...

ok, musees, your precious muser needs a little help here, and i know y'all will come through for me...

i've been thinkin' about getting hosted, getting my own domain name, moving off of typepad (it's so sluggish!). now that i've been at this for 6 months, i figure i'll probably stick with it. i don't really know where to start, so that's where y'all come in and help me with those little questions.

who's good for hosting? do they take care of the domain stuff, or do i have to go somewhere else for that?

then what software should i go with? i didn't get in on the free wordpress thing, and i know people are happy with wordpress. typepad is MT-based, so should i go with MT? i know i've heard a lot of people unhappy with the pricing structure, etc., but i'm thinking it would be easier to move over from typepad to MT, since the stylesheets would be similar. or would they? i dunno... or are they all the same? i dunno that either. don't make fun of me, i hadn't even heard of blogs until December, so i'd say i've picked it up ok.

k, so please help, don't make this a 0-comments post, por favor!

i'll wait and thank y'all after you help. :-)

p.s. how big a pain is it to do this?

i'm back!

and happy to know i was missed, at least by two. anyway, i have been writing down blog stuff for the past couple of days so i wouldn't forget about all the exciting SarahK stuff that i don't want y'all to miss out on. ;)

let the blogging recommence...