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This week is turning into a very busy one for me, and even though I haven’t had time to respond properly, I did want to acknowledge a few folks that have left comments on my site or sent me e-mails. Most of my evenings this week will go toward working on a research proposal for my Exploring Place: History class, for which I’ve decided to study the history of and community that has developed around Oakland Cemetery, which is near my home. I spent most of Sunday afternoon on a guided tour of the cemetery, then went back as evening set in to take some (like, 150) pictures. I hope to wade through the pictures also over the next few days and get them out on Flickr. Anyway, I didn’t want anyone to feel like I was ignoring them or disregarding the time they spent contacting me, so here are my shout-outs and link-backs:
Chef Tom: Thanks for the Le-Le-Lemon Cheesecake recipe. I picked up the ingredients tonight and will be making it tomorrow night, to serve at a dessert-party for my best friend’s 50th birthday on Friday. I think it’s going to be excellent!
Karen: Thanks for the e-mail; I’m glad you joined BlogCatalog and I look forward to neighorhooding with you. I also wanted to mentioned that I read your article Peter the Great…Right Brained Learner? — and I think it’s great.
Morgan: Thanks for you interest in my writing and my studies; as well as for your e-mail reply and kind offer to help. I’m sure I’ll take you up on it, and please do keep an eye on my site and comment any time.
Cooper: Thanks for the provocation… heh heh heh … and your comments on War as a Spectator Sport (Part One). There will be a Part Two, down the road a short spell (next week, probably) and we can continue the conversation.
Jon: Thanks for your comments on War as a Spectator Sport also. It’s interesting how differently we see the photographs, and I’m sure I’ll write about that in the second part of the article. Subjectively, of course. Great site you have, and I really like your writing. Between the waking and the dream was pure pleasure to read. Oh, and thanks for the book recommendations; I will look for “The Psychology of Music” but may pass on Bloom since I’ve read parts of it and may not care to invest any more time in it … ya know what I mean?
Kukuh: I got your e-mail and the draft article and took a quick look at it. Fascinating stuff; will be glad to help if our schedules mesh okay. I’ve sent you a message on BlogCatalog.
Bye for now!
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. I’m sorry to hear about plumbing problems at your house. I’m pretty sure that it is a quite distraction when you hope to be able to spend times on other interesting...
Life so often intervenes in blogging. I think, as I told kelleypea – one of my favorite if the only – blogging mothers I read, that for me a good blog is a good bog, and I’m going to read it whether or not the blogger makes rounds at my blog or responds to my comments or emails or not.
I read a variety of blogs, but find the most interesting blogs are from people who have a life outside of blogging and use it for their blog posts.
That you have other things to do will only make you the more worth reading.
Thanks, Cooper, once again, for your comments, and for the link back from your site. I’ll admit I haven’t figured out how to keep up with both my classes and the blog, since they’re going to compete for the same “free time” on evenings and weekends. But it was only a few years ago that I had to find ways to fit the classes into the rest of my life, and I got that down pretty good, so the blog will find its place soon enough.
Bye for now!
Dale
In the midst of trying to finally figure out the difference between a back link and a trackback, I came across your link back to my article. Thank you! I understand busy very well. I just realized that i haven’t been back to the Blogging History discussion because there was a techie hitch and I don’t have time to write posts that won’t post. LOL!
Karen,
You’re certainly welcomed; I really liked the Peter the Great article.
I still get confused about the different kinds of links, so if you figure it out and can explain it, please let me know! Every time I post something that has links to another site, I end out surfing around to try and figure out why they do what they do … or sometimes don’t seem to do anything … and usually end out more confused.
I can relate to your comment about losing a post; it’s happened to me more than once that I’ve gotten something written, then either it didn’t post because my DSL disconnected, or worse, I clicked some wrong button and lost the whole thing. The best thing I’ve found to keep me from wasting time is to use Windows Live Writer, since it saves drafts automatically and helps keep me out of trouble… I think it supports Blogger, you might want to check it out.
See:
http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2007/08/12/windows-live-writer
Bye for now,
Dale