Sunday, July 17, 2011

Blogger...again/more

Ugh.  Still transferring over old posts from Webs.  After transferring about 20, I realized that my new posts had the wrong time stamp on them.  I assumed this was probably just a "time zone" setting and searched to fix it.  Well, I changed the timestamp time zone to central and wouldn't you know, it changed all of my backdated posts as well...which were correct already.  I started off trying to fix this tonight, but I grew tired of it.  So, if you are that picky about my timestamps in my old posts, you can...well, go jump off a bridge...to put it nicely.  :^)  It's been a lazy weekend, hence me working on here.  After I get it the way I want it, you should start seeing less behind-the-scened posts.  Sorry for the construction in the meantime!

-Mrs. Kreilaus

Saturday, July 16, 2011

The big move...well, url-wise

In coming to Blogger, I didn't want to just lose all of my posts from webs.com because they are an online diary for me.  So, tonight, somewhat against my will, I decided to see if the move would be easy or oh-so painful.  Turns out, it's pretty easy.  So, that's what I'm working on.  They will all have the tag "webs" and I am able to back date them, so I am putting them in the order they were written - by date AND time.  I also keep wanting to blog more, but everytime I look at this site, I see so much work and I usually don't have much time to do it.  I plan to get the site how I want it, delete the webs site and keep this one up more.  Good?

-Mrs. Kreilaus

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Fine, you win, Blogger.

As some or all of you may know, I had another blog/website that I eventually came to dislike.  Add in the fact that I pretty much rendered it useless, and here we are.  I needed a new site.  Everyone and their dog have a blogspot.com blog.  I HATE following the crowd.  But it seems that this does a lot more than I thought it did when I originally passed it over for the other website.  I am going to go explore.  Catch you on the flipside.

-Mrs. Kreilaus

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Waiting on that "out like a lamb" part...

The end of March and beginning of April came in like a lion and it's still roaring. There were lots of issues that came up that unfortunately involve other people and I don't know if they would approve of me writing about the issues. Therefore, I won't. But I can go into some lighter, funner issues. :^) My 3rd nephew was born on 4/4/11 and we have had fun visiting him and Miranda while they are in town. My birthday was in there somewhere, we did our taxes in there, too, and Jon opened and closed Rent at The Joint in Catoosa. That actually marked my first time in a casino. I was prepared to spend between $10 - $20 in there and actually got bills for my $2 worth of coins. Somehow, I walked out of there having only spent someone else's $1. ??? Oh well, I suppose that's good. If you haven't been to a casino, I recommend you wait until nightfall or the weekend. During the day is a creepy, creepy crowd. Although it is fairly quiet with lots of open seats. So, I guess it's your call. Shelby and I went out for our combined birthday celebration (her birthday is 4/20/11) and got free desserts that...well...weren't great. But it was the thought that counted! I'm still plugging away with my phone. It's one of my favorite things. It's battery life is not. But I am amazed daily at all the little things it can do and what I let it do for me. Maybe I'll do another post on my newest phone lessons.

Jon is working on getting all of his loose ends tied up so that he can graduate on May 7th. We have no idea what we are doing after that. There are a few options on or near the table, but nothing is set in stone. Hmmm...that didn't seem like nearly as much as we've been through in the past month! Oh well, it's lacking the big stuff, so I guess that's where the bulk of it is. haha Until next time...

OH! I almost forgot the most exciting part! I got another new purse this past Monday because mine was dying...again....

It's my new favorite thing right now. :^D


-Mrs. Kreilaus

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Babies and Technology (Completely Unrelated)

Babies: I took Friday off from work and Jon and I met up with Price, Sarah, and Baby David. This was the first time we'd met him. 5 months old. Then, after that, I took Jon to work and went to hang out with Shelby and her 1 month old Kingston. About a week ago, we learned that Joe and Miranda have the green light and have completed the adoption hoops course for a baby due any day now. And of course we all know that our nephew Dillon is set to have a baby sometime this year, too, making Jon and I Great Uncle and Great Aunt. I've only been doing this Aunt thing for about a year and a half now...wish I could have gotten some more practice in before moving into the Great realm! Oh, and Lyndsey is due to come to Oklahoma around the 1st of April, so I'll get to play with 10 month old Beckham then. WAVE O' BABIES!

Technology: A computer guru coworker of mine told me awhile back that Android 2.2 (FROYO) had been released and kept asking me if I had gotten on my phone yet. I kept trying and trying, but it kept telling me that I didn't have any updates available. Finally, a couple of days ago, I got a text telling me about it and gave me a link to go to. Well, that night, the link wasn't working. Of course not. Duh. So, I get it to work the next day and it was telling me that I was going to have to down FROYO onto my computer and then put it on my phone. Well, I had tried downloading directly to my phone the night I got the text message, but it, once again, told me I didn't have any updates available. Anyway, On Saturday (yes, while at work), I did the hoops jump and got it downloaded to my phone. It doesn't seem like too big of a change, but I'm still kinda new at it, so who knows. I don't really like its style, though...I would prefer a more streamlined look. Then yesterday (yes, at work again...) the same computer guru coworker tells me about a neat new feature on Facebook that I hadn't seen yet. He says something about maybe needing to have the new IE for it to work. So I get on Microsoft's website today and sure enough, there's an Internet Explorer 9 out and I have 8. Annoying. So, I download 9 after reading a little bit about it (Okay, so I read about it as I was downloading...so sue me...). It was talking about a streamlined format and putting the focus back on webpages. Yay...that sounds great. I thought 8 was a little cluttered looking and clunky leaving a very small window to view a webpage on my netbook. I get it downloaded, restarted my computer and fired up IE9. Ummm....there's an address/search bar (which they were making a big deal about, but Delli - my 2004 Dell Inspiron - had a combined address/search bar.....?), a tab showing the page I'm on, a home button, a favorites button, and a settings button....that's it. Now, I'm going to have to give you a little history here for you to understand how this made me feel. I've always been a "favorites" kind of girl. I even have folders in my favorites folder...that's how I roll. That is, until IE 8 came out on my Windows 7 netbook and introduced me to the favorites bar. Cute little mini-icons all sat at the top of my window reminding me to go check out my favorite sites. LOVED it. I was up to 20+ mini-icons and still had room for more. They were all my banking shortcuts, sites I go to once every few months, sites I go to once every few minutes, and everything in between. This devil IE 9 seemed to have eaten them. All of them. I didn't think to write them all down in case they disappeared. I frantically clicked the settings button...no favorites bar option. I then began to go to the more popular ones and "pin" them to my task bar at the bottom. It wasn't going well. Then, I realized that there was a lot of blank space at the top of the window and remembered that I'm on a PC...with the "right button o' magic". LUCKILY, I was able to add the favorites bar, but it was not easy to find it (I literally had to click on nothing...). So, I'm still a little jumpy after that, but I think this is going to work well. :^)

Well, I seem to be fighting a headache, so I'm going to go. Maybe I'll update more later today. See ya!

-Mrs. Kreilaus