Wanna Hang Out?

You guys are cool! Jali's latest post has me thinking about how many interesting folks I've met since I've been blogging. Some of you blog as yourselves, others as a persona, but either way, I feel like I've gotten to know you other bloggers a little more post by post. I talk about you all the time. If you've written something that I think is interesting, it may come up in conversation in my real life. I feel like this forum has stretched me and put me in contact with people I wouldn't normally associate with, for whatever reason. That is amazing and invaluable to me. It's been a fascinating voyage through the market place of ideas. I've discovered tremendous diversity among those of you on my blogroll and those of you who comment here. I'm glad I "know" each of you.

With all the mushy stuff said, who's down for a Blogger Meet-Up? I would love to meet some of you guys who don't mind blowing your anonymity and hanging out with some other people with way too much time on their hands. What do you say? If you're interested, I'll organize it. Just email me at lex dot blogger at gmail dot com. I'm in the DC area, but that doesn't mean the Meet-up has to be here. I'll travel. Maybe we can find some cool spot central to the responders. Let me tell you now, if you've never commented here before, I don't know you. I will ignore your email, so don't bother. This isn't an invitation for crazy stalker shit. Got it?

Let's hang out and have drinks or something.

Holla!

Fiddling around in the Dark

I really need a life. I have spent my entire evening deleting and replacing elements of my template html to see what things do. I was tired of my blog looking like your standard Blogger 1 of 10, but I'm not satisfied yet.

I got rid of the Christmas balls in the header, but I can't figure out how to get a header I like better. All of the pre-fab ones I've found aren't wide enough. I don't have Photoshop, in which I understand you can easily make your own header, and I'm not willing to buy one. So this is what we have for the moment.

I can't figure out how to make the hunter green go away. So, we're stuck with that for now too. I kinda like the mayhem.

I am such a freaking dork.

As much as I claim I need a life, I quite enjoyed myself this evening. This has been fun. I don't know what I've learned except that I'm not nearly as afraid to FUBAR my blog as I thought I was. I took huge risks tonight. You can't imagine. When I say I had NO idea what I was doing...I mean NO idea.

I even created an account on del.icio.us. Can I tell you have haven't the foggiest idea what that is. I thought it would give me free blog headers since I got to it via my google search for "headers blogger". Maybe someone can explain it to me. And while you're at it, tell me about technorati. I signed up for that to, but my little button never appeared and I've actually forgotten all about it until this moment.

I think this is my learning style: fiddling around in the dark until I find the light switch.

I Switched...Successfully, I Think

I switched to the new blogger today. I was terrified that some typical Bloggerness would go down and I'd lose everything, but it looks like I've safely crossed over.

Now my head hurts because I copied and pasted all 143 posts on this blog into Word before the switch. I just rolled the dice with the other 2 blogs.

I'm going to rest my eyes now.