{"id":1358,"date":"2004-02-12T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T00:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/weekly_roundup_"},"modified":"2004-02-12T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T00:38:40","slug":"weekly_roundup_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Weekly roundup – well-deserved acknowledgements and other choice bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Commissar made my week when he listed me in his Blogger’s Bestiary<\/a>, an imaged collection of some of the Commissar’s favorite blogs.<\/p>\n

\nI have not been able to browse through my favorite blogs this week because I was loading all of my apps and my files on to a new computer. The old and faithful e-machine had been spontaneously rebooting every few hours and I decided to bite the bullet and spring for a newer, faster,etc. computer. On the second day of the transfer, the new computer, my first non-e-machine in 8 years, started hanging up. Power off and reboot seemed to get it going again, but it failed several times more and quit for good. <\/p>\n

It was an HP Pavillion, an a410n, and I returned it to Office Depot with about 20 gigabytes of my files on it, because I couldn’t access them to erase them. I then had to spend several hours changing all of the passwords on a dozen on-line accounts. I couldn’t get a reeplacement, since there were no more in stock. I will wait and get an e-machine next time. They have never failed us and we have bought seven of them. <\/p>\n

\nI have seen more alarming news this week than I wanted, so it is always a pleasure to escape to blogs where hilarity and good humor prevail. A few of my favorite sites for mood adjustment are: Pioneer Woman with Cellphone<\/a>, in which Melissa describes her efforts at writing a novel; LeeAnn’s, The Cheese Stands Alone<\/a>, which contains delightfully surreal humor; and my favorite mood lifter, Chris Muir’s laid-back cartoon blog Day by Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now – I’m ready for Friday!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Commissar made my week when he listed me in his Blogger’s Bestiary, an imaged collection of some of the Commissar’s favorite blogs. I have not been able to browse through my favorite blogs this week because I was loading … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-lU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}