Food of the Muse

I just started yet another new blog. Why? Well, just because and why not. You can never have too many blogs, apparently. My new blog, Food of the Muse, will be devoted to all things food, the ambrosia and nectar that make the Muse happy.

Naturally, being the obsessive-compulsive person that I am, I will continue to write food-related posts here, but I'll also post them on my new food blog as well. That might seem kind of stupid, but I guess if you want to look for food-related posts without weeding through all the other mundane posts, the Food of the Muse is the place to go.

Unfortunate Confusion

I have a cool little state meter attached to my blog so that I can track hits. I have this mostly because I'm curious about who visits and reads my blog. I have to admit most of my readers are family or a few loyal friends, but it is interesting to see the various way strangers stumble across my blog. I'm just an average person rambling about the mundane things going on in my life, so I get maybe a few hits a day on my blog. But when I checked my stats one day last month, I was surprised to see that my blog got about 30 hits in one day. That really took me by surprise, because I didn't write that often last month. There certainly wasn't a ground-breaking post or anything that could possibly shake the world that month. I noticed that most of the hits came from Turkey, of all places. I was even more puzzled. Why would a bunch of people in Turkey be searching for my blog?

I did a little bit of digging and searching, and eventually (and unfortunately) stumbled across the explanation. Apparently there is another blog out there in the world with the same title as my blog. The only difference is that the other blog is filled with smut and porn. What people were really searching for is a photo of a naked woman with the Turkish flag painted on her body. The other photos on the site weren't so "artistic," but it unfortunately explained what people were looking for. Although the hits from Turkey are far less these days, I still get a few occasionally, which is why I'm thinking about it today.

Needless to say, my blog is quite tame by comparison. I almost feel sorry for those people who were looking for risque photos on my blog and only ended up seeing photos of pasta dishes or clouds or the mountains. Oh well...

Current mood: relaxed and enjoying a final day off
Current music: iTunes on shuffle—Train "Hopeless"
Current drink: coffee

Blogs and Greek Letters

οι μοι

As I've been packing, I've also been trying to organize all of my old notebooks and files. One of the notebooks I keep is my little web design book. I found other notes on scraps of paper, so I was just transferring them into my notebook.

I am, by no means, an experienced web designer, but I know how to use some of the most basic codes. I know how to create links and how to add special characters. I looked online for other important codes I might need in the future, and I stumbled across some codes to write Greek letters, which is what, hopefully, you'll see at the top of this post. Granted it would take forever to type up anything lengthy using these codes, but they might come in handy for something short and simple.

By the way, οι μοι is often translated as "alas" or "woe [is me]." You'll often see it in Greek tragedy when people are basically saying, well, "woe is me" because usually something bad has happened or is about to happen.

Blogs, Blogs, Blogs

Because it is cold and raining outside, I've been staying home and inside—I'm not exactly eager to go out into 50 degree weather. I did enough of that in the winter. Although I should probably be packing, I've been playing around on the computer instead. With all of these new fancy blog templates, I've been updating and tinkering with my blogs. Yes, I said blogs, plural. This is my main blog where I do most of my writing, but I actually have a few other blogs dedicated to different things. One of these blogs is my photography blog, Eyes of the Muse, a blog I started in 2007. At the time I just bought a brand new digital camera and my plan was to post some of my photos on that blog. Well, over the past four years I posted about four things. The blog was left abandoned. But, four years and a few new cameras later, I've decided to revisit it and to start working on it again. So today I've been posting a few photos that I've taken over the past few years. We'll see how successful I am with keeping it up this time around...

You've Come to the Right Place

Do not be alarmed. You've come to the right place. For whatever reason, I've decided to play around with the template settings on my blog. I guess I'm in the mood for change these days. I've tried to go for something that is a little cleaner and brighter. I also wanted something that was a little easier to read, hence the slightly larger fonts because everyone I know is having a harder time reading these days. The blog appearance probably also depends on your computer and monitor. My laptop has a nice somewhat widescreen monitor, so everything looks nice. But this might look different on smaller old-fashioned CRT monitors. Anyway, if anything looks strange send me an e-mail.