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Baby It's Cold Outside

Batten down the hatches. The winds blew, the snow flew and our love affair with the long, warm fall died like the winter sunset on a partly cloudy skyline. In other words, it's cold out there brother.

View of Lake Maria


Maria and I have already attended an open house that required us to sing Christmas songs. Char and Bob Van Astin hosted a mob of friends that is enviable. Eclectic is one word that comes to mind. The singing was average, but when you consider the age and diversity of the crowd that's a compliment. I certainly can't sing like I did when I was younger

The accompaniment was outstanding. Bob's son, Leo played the carols like the pro he is. His Mozart performance was awesome.

As I announced earlier, I'm cancer free. The growth on my face was successfully removed , the stitches have been taken out, and I'm told that I won't even see the scar in a couple of weeks. I will be happy as soon as I can get a clean shave in that area. I plan on using a face lotion with a 30 SPC as aftershave. This is what I should have been doing along. If I had done this, I probably wouldn't have acquired the cancerous growth in the first place.

I am trying to learn how to work in the blog site cum website design software known as Word Press. Word Press is a free, with some limits, open source program. This means that anybody can improve the software by submitting the code and having it approved.

What does this mean to a user like me? It means that buying the book, "Word Press for Dummies" is stupid. Almost everything that is in the book will be changed before they edit and print the damn thing. The same goes for online instruction. (I used Lynda.com)

 I particularly enjoy the print/on screen instructor referring to a screen and a link command that doesn't look anything like my screen. This software is the product of some really smart people that write code in their sleep. My guess is they like a lot of technical people make huge assumptions about the knowledge of people that will be using their creation.

My goal is to learn enough to help my client run the website they inherited. The guy who created this site is long gone and my client has neither the funds or the inclination to redesign the site in a different format.

I am your faithful blogger, Poppa Jeff from Camp Jeff on the snowy shore of Lake Maria.




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