I got up and mowed before it got hot. Usually I don't like to mow when the grass is that wet, but it was worth it to beat the heat. Cleaned the undercarriage before I put it away - what a mess of wet clippings!
Then I called Randy and he came right away and fixed the toilet. Yay!
I also called my friend Linda. She is going to drive me to my appointment on Wednesday, so I don't have to drive with bad brakes. We are also going to drop my car off at the mechanic's that morning, so two birds with one stone. It means leaving home at 5-in-the-before-the-sun-comes-up am. And I can't eat or drink that morning. But I'll be glad to get it over with.
Taking some action on all these issues has made me feel better today.
In between the phone calls, I decided to copy all my old Xanga files to a flash drive. It took for-ev-er. I'd open a file, copy it, paste it into a word document, then save that to the flash drive. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat. The files were monthly, so guess how many I had? OK, I'll tell you. 73!! I kept getting distracted into reading some of my old posts. Some I couldn't remember posting. Like, I don't remember taking sixth graders to the ballet as a substitute teacher. Maybe it was so awful I wiped it from my brain.
The file were arranged by year, but then by month alphabetically. The posts in each file were most recent first. When I saved the files I just numbered them - Xanga1, Xanga2, Xanga47. So finding anything in particular would be a trick at this point. One day in the far distant future I'll have to go through them and put everything in order. But for now it is nice to know I have everything saved and in one spot.
BlogSpot seems to organize by month as well. If I am smart, I will start saving my monthly posts starting right now.
So the question is, am I smart?
I want to make some of my old xanga entries into a book for the kids someday. Yeah. We'll see if I get on that before they graduate from school.
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