Why would Google Alerts send me an alert about a year-old post on my own blog that I deleted weeks ago? Weird.
Google Alerts is a good way to find out which spam sites are stealing my content, but it’s not like I can do anything about it once I find them. I’ve been using Google Alerts on my own name and the name of my blog for a long time-long enough to know nobody in the world is talking about me.
Do you use Google Alerts, and if so, for what purpose?
So I hurt my hand on Friday, remember?Once again, I was paying attention to the kids and not where I was going and paid the price. This time we were on our way out, the kids excited about the promised Spring Break trip to the skating rink. They ran ahead, and I called out instructions as I closed the door behind me, and I stepped wrong, twisting my ankle. I put my hand out to catch myself on the stoop and jammed my middle finger, I guess, on the step with all my weight on it. Something popped, actually several things popped, and I screamed. The pain was so great I was afraid to look at it, so great I forgot how to speak. I knew the kids would be worried, but I couldn’t think of what to say.
Unlocking the door seemed an insurmountable challenge, but driving to the skating rink seemed doable for some reason. I didn’t want to disappoint the kids, and I thought it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I was wrong.
The swelling is almost gone, the bruises have started to fade, but I can see it’s going to be weeks before I regain full function of my right hand. It gets tired fast, and the middle finger still isn’t right. I can type with it as long as I go slowly and take many breaks, so maybe I can get back into my writing schedule now that the kids are back in school.
Thanks for the supportive comments. This is the last time you’ll hear about the hand until I announce that it is completely healed.
I feel like crap today, people. Among other, smaller aches, I hurt my right hand yesterday. I have a lot to say about it; however, my left hand alone can’t keep up with my brain, so I’ll just have to tell you all about it later. No, I haven’t gone to the doctor, and yes, it’s starting to look like maybe I should. I’m a wait and see kind of person, so I’ll probably do that for a couple of days.
Not sure why I bothered pecking out this post. Guess I just wanted some sympathy. Go around with your dominant hand in your pocket for a while and you’ll get an understanding.
I’ve mentioned my Dell Latitude’s iffy power jack. Well, I was talking to Darcknyt about it last night, and he mentioned hot glue. I thought it couldn’t hurt to try. I mean, if I mess up, hot glue is pretty easy to peel off after its cooled, yet it could take up the space inside the jack and thereby stabilize the cord. So this morning I smeared a little hot glue around the plug, slipped it into the jack, wiggled it till I got a connection and held it there for a couple of minutes till the glue cooled. After waiting a few more minutes for good measure, I picked up the laptop and moved it around, akin to the movement of my lap, and voila! I didn’t lose connection once. Woo!
You may have noticed I moved my sidebars around, added some new links to my lengthy blogroll and cleaned up some dead links. If you are my friend and I removed your link, it’s only because you never post. (Looking at you, Benti.) I added an RSS feed to some writing blogs that I like, and with 20 blogs to choose from, the feed randomly selects which posts to display. Those should refresh every day, maybe every time you refresh the page.
I also have a couple of new pages. (Page tabs are at the very top, above the header.) My “contact” list is so long with the various social networking sites that I decided to give those links their own page. Another page I added is dedicated to the various blog awards I’ve received, as well as the images people have made for me. They are dear to me and deserve a special place.
So click around and see what’s new, and if there’s any feature you enjoy on other blogs that I haven’t included here, let me know and I’ll check it out.