Travel Travails

I’ve come home for my moth­er’s birth­day this week­end. I was exhaust­ed and grouchy from the trip home and the advi­sor meet­ing I’d had at CSU yes­ter­day. Appar­ent­ly it is going to take over two years for me to get all the class­es in that are nec­es­sary to get a teacher’s license. Then, when I left the Rhodes Tow­er, I dis­cov­ered that you aren’t allowed to park at the meters from 4:00–6:30, result­ing in a $35 park­ing tick­et, then, rush hour traf­fic. So I end­ed up on the road a full hour lat­er than I’d antic­i­pat­ed. I was get­ting sleepy around 6, so I stopped and picked up some Vit­a­min Water “Ener­gy”. The good thing about hav­ing a low caf­feine intake means a lit­tle goes a long way. The bad thing is that I could taste the bit­ter­ness of the caf­feine and guarana in my drinks. In addi­tion to the Vit­a­min Water, I ate half a box of choco­late frost­ed donettes. I final­ly made it home and had a bowl of sausage and pota­to soup, made by my moth­er. Then I slept for 12 hours. Now that I’m awake, it is time to wash the vinyl sid­ing.

6 thoughts on “Travel Travails”

  1. A few things, unre­lat­ed to this post:
    * You RSS feed isn’t work­ing. It’s still pulling the old site.
    * Your right hand links don’t seem to work in Safari. I don’t know if they’re meant to not appear until moused over (at which time they do appear)…
    * Your type is kin­da big in Safari (like approx 14–15 pt or so. ) Don’t know if this is inten­tion­al or not.

    Relat­ed to your post, I did­n’t know you want­ed to be a teacher. Best of luck with it! So you going to go to school PT while work­ing at West? I know some­one who had a good gig work­ing teach­ing eng­lish in the evenings and west dur­ing the day, which he was able to par­lay into a job work­ing over­seas teach­ing eng­lish (as a sec­ond lan­guge, of course). Dun­no if you’d be inter­est­ed in that.

    I think the bit­ter­ness you tast­ed was your own, not the pills 😉

  2. Hey Patrick, thanks for the heads up. The type looks big or small depend­ing on the type of com­put­er you are on. On my mom’s lap­top it looks like 12pt, on mine it looks like 10pt, and on macs it looks huge appar­ent­ly. It all depends on your brows­er set­tings I think. I’ll check out the RSS when I get back home, but the feed is dif­fer­ent now since I’m on word­press. You might need to change your link. Hope NYC is treat­ing you nice.

  3. The prob­lem isn’t with a link. When you set­up a blog on Blog­lines (or some such site, Blog­lines is what we use) and put in the URL, it auto­mat­i­cal­ly finds the RSS feed. The URL https://www.organicmechanic.org is still pro­duc­ing the RSS feed of the old blog (or sim­ply noth­ing from the new one).

    Don’t mean to both­er you with prob­lems 😉 just try­ing to help debug the site.

  4. That is inter­est­ing. Try chang­ing the URL to organicmechanic.org/feed/ and see if that works. That’s the only thing I can think of. It works for me on Thun­der­bird.

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