HFCS: effika’s blog

I love receiving free things in the mail. Recently I’ve received a couple of free razors: a Bic Mach-3 knockoff (for Jay), a Schick Quattro, and a Schick Intuition Plus. I can’t speak of the quality of the Bic, as I don’t believe Jay has used it yet. The Quattro, spoken of [...]

Wow, September went by fast.
This month brought in a lot of unexpected search strings!

rank hits percent search string
1 3 13.04% alan rickman
2 2 8.70% cat and towel
3 2 8.70% cat towel
4 2 8.70% www.effika.net
5 1 4.35% -
6 1 4.35% box brownies with no egg
7 1 4.35% brownies
8 1 4.35% [...]

The NWS dudes predicted another warm winter, though not as warm as last year’s. Last year I wore my heavy coat exactly twice.
So it’s October right now, and the leaves are just barely starting to change here. Nothing new, that’s just how Fall is in Oklahoma.
We had to turn the heat on today. [...]

Did you ever wonder how you can get something like

There are 2 posts in the last 30 days, and 323 total posts.

on your page somewhere?
Jason Clark has a nifty set of instructions on how to do it.

Typing up the entire weekend would take too long, so I present it to you in list format:
Things that are awesome:

A man in a white truck pulled up to the back of the parking lot, between two buildings, and proceeded to load the truck with doors. There were doors of all sizes— small interior closet doors, large exterior doors, medium-sized bedroom doors. The doors were all the same color, however— a very bad [...]

The next door neighbors are in the second phase of moving out, namely the “let’s move a bunch of random crap at 1am with our 2-year old daughter loose and causing havoc” phase. After a particularly loud bang, Jay rolled over and got a very serious look on his face.
Jay: We still have power, [...]

Here’s an interesting NY Times article drawing parallels to Rome of 68 B.C. and the current state of the U.S. government.

In other news, I’ve been simultaneously busy and not busy. I’ve got some writer’s block, but hopefully that will end soon and I’ll be posting again.

Things are crazy for a bit while I figure out what went wrong with my upgrade to the new Wordpress release.
Ok, so the new & improved database back-up plugin is the only thing that’s not working. Actually, the old one doesn’t work anymore either. Good thing I backed up before I upgraded!
Ok, so [...]

I’ve decided to start documenting my sandwiches. I can never remember how I made whatever awesome sandwich I had 3 months ago, so hopefully this will help.
Bread: Sara Lee Honey Whole Wheat
Meat: Oscar Mayer Honey Smoked 99% Lean Turkey
Veggies: Fresh Express romaine, radiccio, and carrot blend; cherry tomatoes
Condiments: Grey Poupon Dijon
Verdict: Good sandwich, [...]