HFCS: effika’s blog

I need to get back in the habit of posting. It just seems a lot harder to pour everything out into a weblog when I’m no longer an angsty teen hating my professors. :-)

My taxes are done, and for the first time I owed the government money. It will be more than balanced out by the economic stimulus check I’ll get this summer, so I suppose that’s OK. Instead of spending it on frivolities I’m going to knock out a chunk of my student loan debt. (Do you guys see how boring I’ve become? 3 years ago I would have totally had an awesome plan for spending it all on hazelnuts and chocolate.)

And do you guys remember that poor computer I used to have, the one where the capacitors blew out on the motherboard? Jay’s been using it, as both his post-2002 computers broke down. It was working pretty well until a month or so ago– now ALL the capacitors are blown out. It’s turned writing papers into a game of roulette. Not surprisingly, his 1998-era Compaq runs fine (if slowly due to the crap that’s been lodged into the Win98 install).

At work I’ve been given an extra set of duties as “back-up web coordinator” as they switch over to a modern CMS. Our actual web coordinator for my area is our health educator, who has a job description that fits such duties perfectly. I am, apparently, the only person in the building who knows anything at all about HTML, so they tasked me to help her. Apparently I’ve helped her so well that they want me to work on other division’s sites too. This would be awesome if it meant that I would get extra pay, but instead it just means that I have to squeeze my inspections into an even smaller time frame.

Many of you know I knit, but most of you are probably not interested in it nearly as much as I am. I have decided to keep this blog free of knitting as much as I can. Instead, I talk about it on my Ravelry account. If there’s calling for me to post more (even if it’s about knitting socks) I might start letting some of that spill over. Also I take pretty pictures of my projects (and sometimes flowers) and put them on my Flickr account. I might put in one of those little distracting Flickr boxes on my sidebar, but I’d want to redesign the site for that. I think I want to redesign the site anyway, but I’m lacking the inspiration.