Running Chick

Attention girl on treadmill next to me:

You are not accomplishing anything by hanging onto the front of the machine while cranking the speed to mach 1. Except, of course, looking like you're having a seizure as your your legs fly around in a spastic fashion.

Today was cold and blustery so that meant I had to log my 3 miler on the treadmill. The only good part about my session was that I got the treadmill next to the window.  I watched the wind blow the snow around to near-zero visibility and tried to remind myself that I should be happy that didn't have to run outside. Instead, I kept on thinking that it didn't look too bad and I was being wimpy. Then, the podcast that I was all set to listen to freaked out and locked up my iPhone, which meant I had nothing to listen to. Bah. Then, thanks to overdoing it with the weights on Monday, my legs felt like lead.  Every step was torture. Then, I got home and could barely get my car into it's spot because my retarded neighbors parked directly across the street from my driveway. Grrr. Yeah, I know.  Whine, whine, whine.  Hmmm..wine.  Do I have any wine?  I could use a glass or three about now. Let's toast to me having a better day tomorrow, shall we?  Cheers!

After running my blag on Serendipity for the past few months, I've come to the conclusion that Serendipity's built-in editor is less than adequate. When my blag was on blogger.com, I used a Firefox plugin called Scribefire for my posts. While Scribefire did have it's annoyances, I've found myself thinking more and more about seeing if I could figure out how to get it to work with Serendipity. One quick Google search later and I happily found that all I needed to do was add the "Post via XML-RPC" event plugin and set up the Serendiptiy account in Scribefire and I was up and running.  Geez, why didn't I think of this sooner? This post was written using the Scribefire. So far, so good. Let's see how it does images: That's promising.  Actually, that's Spencer's paw.  I was messing around with my new camera. How about formatting?  bold, italic, underline, bold and italic! Big! Small! How about some color?  Ooh, pretty!

• Hey, bullet points!
• I don't really have anything else to add to this list
• Oh well

I'd say that this gets a solid thumbs up for now. ** Update 12/31/2010 *** Since this post seems to get the most visits, I thought I'd do a follow-up. I no longer use Scribefire for my posts. I found it to be buggy and, most annoying, it would frequently crash and end up losing everything I was working on. Also, it seemed to have trouble posting to my blog - sometimes it would post just fine, other times it would say it would post, but nothing would show up in my draft folder. Then, when I would try to post again, it would tell me that the post already existed. While it's quite possible that I was doing something wrong, I got to the point where it was just too frustrating to use. So, after much searching around, I switched to Windows Live Writer. Live Writer obviously comes with it's own set of quirks, but it's never deleted one of my posts and it's never failed to post to my blog when I told it to. Plus, there's a ton of plugins available for managing images, videos, code and whatnot. I've been using it for over a year now, and I'm really happy with it and can have no complaints.