way too cute

awwwww. its too bad the tiger will eventually grow up and wanna eat that little orangutan

i'm feeling web retro

a few of the classics
Hamster Dance
All Your Base
and who could forget Mahir

added 3/2/07: I can't believe I left this guy out

a realization

i realized last night that most likely if anyone had bookmarked my site they had it pointed to /pm/weblog.php, not just my domain name. I apologize for forwarding my domain without any heads up.

a new blogger

as you may have noticed, this looks slightly different. just a few things, mainly the horizontal blogger bar at the top. I tried to make it work with godaddy, but I had a problem importing the mysql database for my blog onto their server, and despite repeated attempts to get it to work, it didn't. So I went with blogger. its free, so thats even better. I will try to get as many of my old entries on here as I can. I have archived my old site, and hopefully I will be able to stick it somewhere. But in the meantime, if you just have to read my old entries, you can find them on the web archive from last june. My goal is to at least get a years worth of old entries on this new version of my site. member accounts are no longer necessary, but unfortunately I couldn't keep the old comments. its actually easier for me to post new entries than with my old blogging software, so maybe i'll actually post more frequently, who knows!

changes

if you deeply scour my blog over the next few weeks you’ll notice a lot of the photos are gone. I’m in the process of cleaning out some of the albums that are just taking up space. I’m planning to switch to blogger and I’m going to archive the current blog entries on another server that doesn’t have a very high quota. I’m going to eventually put some of the photo albums back online through google’s web album. But I’m not sure how long that will take. Probably not very long because its set up very nicely with picasa.

I decided that paying for web hosting is pretty silly given my frequency of posting and the fact that I don’t have money to through around. I still like to post when the mood strikes, and I promise I will try to be better about posting more often. I will keep my domain name, its only $13 a year and I’ve had it for so long. I’ll just have it point to my blog on blogger.

scratch that. i decided to go with godaddy.com. its only $3.99 a month. the server i was going to archive my site on doesn’t have mysql support. d’oh. so hopefully no noticable changes will be made.

marley

r.i.p. Marley

Marley Barley Lorenzen 1999-2007

Yesterday I had to make one of the toughest decisions of my life and put poor Marley to sleep. He suffered from feline stomatitis, and it had finally taken its toll. The course of treatments for his disease were no longer effective and I couldn’t watch him suffer anymore. We tried teeth extractions but after he nearly died and had to be resuscitated from the anesthesia during a teeth cleaning, I decided that it wasn’t a viable route. Due to complications from the stomatitis, he was not digesting his food properly and was losing weight. Last week he stopped eating the liquified diet that he had been on for a long time. With the help of my friends, family and my vet I came to the conclusion that he could no longer live a normal life and it wasn’t fair for him to be in pain and starving anymore.

He was a very sweet and innocent little guy, and he will be sorely missed by Penny, Cali and especially me.

a few posts I’ve written about Marley’s struggles over the years:

Wed Mar 01, 2006

Marley had an accident in the house Sunday night and broke his tail :( it had to be amputated and now all that is left is a little stub.

He had a very sweet tail and liked to wrap it around my leg whenever he stood next to me. We’ll miss Marley’s tail, but at least the rest of him is okay.

courtesy of the way back machine:

Mar. 11 2003 Here is a recent picture of Marley (asleep). He’s doing great, and is already eating all of the hard cat food in his bowl, as well as Cali’s.

Feb. 26 2003 Marley had to get 4 teeth taken out instead of 2, and has now earned the nickname ‘toothless’. It’s sweet.

Feb. 19 2003 My cat Marley has to get two teeth pulled on Monday. He has feline stomatitis. Luckily he tested clean for all the viruses that typically are the cause of this disease, so its just a matter of getting it treated once and for all.

superbowl extravaganza

greatest halftime show .ever. Prince should do the superbowl every year. A flaming stage, flying doves, PURPLE RAIN. YES.
One of my favorite superbowl commercials, the budweiser commercial with the dog almost made me cry, that dog was so cute.
The Careerbuilder commercials were genius.

r.i.p.

Molly Ivins, 1944-2007

"The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy” July 2006

The Texas Observer has a list of some of her more recent columns. if anything read her last column, Enough is Enough