This is a picture I took in the cab of Joe’s truck as we drove to Rutledge recently:
I didn’t know until today, when I downloaded the image off of my digital camera, that my DH had stuck his tongue out! Silly stinker.
He’s really and truly the cutest thing in the world.
Second installment in a series of three, it’s Trio: Green for WisBar Advance 2.
Also included is a matching Today theme called Cream Rose.
Now, even though this skin is named ‘green,’ it looks totally brown on my e400. (I almost called it Trio: Mocha but decided against it.) I’m not sure why the color matching is so strange on my device – other themes come out looking more like they do on the desktop – but do be aware that Trio: Green might look brown on your device! Either way, the Today theme matches since I used color-picker to get the colors from the Today theme image itself, so no harm done.
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Behold!
The first of three new WisBar Advance 2 skins with matching Today themes! It’s Trio: Blue.
The WA2 skin contains all-new custom graphics and a Battery icon I’m particularly proud of (thanks to Juni for explaining how to make the gauges actually work!).
The Today theme is called Ice and features a wintery background.
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Overcast, chilly, leaf-killing weather deserves its own quasi-depressing Today theme for PPC.
Summer is so totally over. It never really got that hot this summer; we only ran the window A/C unit in our bedroom for a week of days. I don’t feel like it’s time for Fall yet, at least not the cold, depressing part.
Sigh.
Download the Gray Day Today theme for PPC.
I can go for months and never wear a pair of jeans. I usually wear skirts, and if needed I put a pair of pants on underneath them – usually pajama bottoms or something along similar soft, drapey, drawstringed lines.
Today I’m wearing a pair of jeans I found in my room this morning. I think they’re hand-me-downs from my sister in law, but I have so many clothes I never wear that I can’t remember them all.
Anyway, the point is that jeans are cold. Today is one of those gray rainy days you get in Fall, and every time I go outside I’m amazed at how cold my legs are. I’d be much warmer outside wearing a prairie skirt and some leggings underneath; all that fabric traps warm air. Jeans are a thin layer of non-insulating fabric. They suck for heat.
It’s counter-intuitive, I know: you’d expect jeans to be warmer than two layers of flimsy made-in-India cloth over a pair of flannel pants, but there it is.
Jeans: cold. Skirt and pajama bottoms: warm.
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I love Middle Eastern food. Today’s Link of the Day is to two recipe archives. Yum!
You know how everybody “knows” that DDT is toxic to humans? That it’s a terible carcinogen? Perhaps its not. Perhaps banning DDT causes unnecessary human deaths.
“In 1956, a group of human volunteers ingesting DDT for periods of from 12 to 18 months at 1,750 times the average amount for the U.S. population showed no adverse effects either at the conclusion of the trial or in follow-up studies 5 years later. A 1964 study of the incidence of different forms of cancer from all areas of the U.S. from 1927 to the early 1960s showed no correlation with the use patterns of DDT, nor with its presence in food or human body tissues.
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McDeb offers a gorgeous desktop wallpaper called Festive Winter. I love this wallpaper to death, I really do. Christmasy, but not so damn busy you can’t actually use it and see your desktop icons at the same time.
For some reason she never made a matching Today theme for PPC out of it.
So I did it for her!
Download the Festive Winter Today theme today.
(Now run on over to McDeb’s for that desktop wallpaper too! Matchy watchy!)
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I have a cold. A basic, run-of-the-mill Fall cold. This means I’m tired, have a sore throat when I wake up in the morning, and am feeling sorry for myself.
My co-worker Tim has one too, and so does his girlfriend.
It also means that all I want to eat is cheese. Why is that? You get a cold, and all you crave is stuff that will make you even more congested. Argh!
I’ve managed to keep the dairy to a minimum, though. Last night I ate a spicy Egyptian soup (from the Moosewood cookbook) and stuffed bell peppers; save the mildly cheesy feta sauce served over the pepper, the meal had no dairy at all. I mean, the stuffed peppers and the soup were both dairy-free. The sauce was just a condiment.
Today I have my old Nissan thermos full of Cold & Flu tea – I really need to replace it because it’s all dented and the cup’s broken – and while I did have an AM cup of coffee it was very small.
I like autumn clothes: I’m wearing jeans, a pair of those soled moccasin slip-on shoes all the construction guys love to wear, and a hand-me-down wool Intarsia sweater. So cozy.
Mr. Brett got himself drunk last night, unintentionally, and didn’t feel very good this morning. I fed him a cup of coffee and a fried egg sandwich on marble rye with Swiss. He said it helped. Now he’s up in the barn with Jimbo and Brady building custom cabinets for the new coffee shop going into the Telegroup building. (It’s a branch of the coffee shop in the Broadway building, the name of which escapes me. And I think it’s going in the Telegroup building but I wouldn’t testify on it; it could be going in some other professional building.)
I’m still madly in love with my new PPC. It’s so thin! So cute! Such a great screen! *sigh*
Things I want: a new Nissan thermos, a case for my PocketPC, and a cozy nap.
