Half Full

i will tell you that the clicking the little box down there by the comments requesting to be emailed when someone else comments will do you no good at all. the engine works, but i can't make clicking the box automatically add you to the "keep updated" list. why? because i have been having issues with space badgers nesting in the code. and, also, because i do not know how to do these things really. but mostly, it's the badgers.

also, if you've signed up for a typekey account and you log in, typekey will recognize you! then, absolutely nothing different will happen. theoretically, as a typekey member, your comments will automatically be posted on the blog once i initially approve you and all other comments will need to pass through my moderation. this doesn't work because even though the system recognizes you as registered, my MT installation doesn't. or something. again. badgers.

so everything works! just 50% of everything.

we did some more registering this weekend. i vastly dislike registering. we registered for some pots. and some pans. and for a lemon juicer.

would you like to buy me a lemon juicer?

we are also seriously considering using this service that lets you build an easy-to-use web "travel register." you basically write up gifts like "SCUBA dive in Malaysia : $100" and "Two old samosas on the train platform in Chennai : $0.50" and then people can click on them and "buy" them for you by charging that amount to their cards or whatever. Then, this service -- get this, it's the exciting part -- gives us the money minus an 8% commission. or maybe they tack 8% on to the gift?

if one of my friends was getting hitched, and directed me to this service, i'd almost surely look at it and decide to save the 8% commission by just -- and this is a bit wild, so bear with me -- writing them a check directly.

i know. it's crazy.

then again, there are a lot of people who want to buy you a gift, not give you a check, and i guess the 8% is the "gift-illusion" fee. for 8%, you can click on the lil photo of the pony ride and feel as if you didn't give us $40, but bought a pony ride (for $47).

i suppose you could just write "pony ride" on the comment line on the check...

wait. that's not really funny, either.

damn.

oh wait! i know.

on saturday night we had dinner with my folks and my pseudo-aunt, anita, who was in from boston. somehow or other we decided it would be a really good idea to get married in every country we traveled to, in the local style, and collect marriage certificates.

because planning one wedding isn't enough fun.

no. it's pretty romantic, right? and it could be a gas. and would make a good book...

okay. i give up. i'm not feeling too funny yet. let me drink more coffee and try again.

feel free to help fix my blog and/or buy me a pony ride.