{"id":942,"date":"2021-01-30T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T00:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/aarchives\/?page_id=942"},"modified":"2021-02-01T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:50:09","slug":"latest-news-from-aerendel-page-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/aarchives\/latest-news-from-aerendel\/latest-news-from-aerendel-page-2\/latest-news-from-aerendel-page-3\/latest-news-from-aerendel-page-4\/latest-news-from-aerendel-page-5\/","title":{"rendered":"“Latest News From Aerendel – Page 5”"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{{ A lot of this { Below } is Copied & Pasted \u2013 Don\u2019t try clicking anything inside a box that looks like a link. }}}<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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“I’ve Seen A lot Of Green Things Lately – { Poem form 1971 – rediscovered in dusty, moldy archives }”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\n

I\u2019ve seen a lot of green things lately<\/span><\/strong>
\ngrowing, trimmed to fit a grasping<\/span><\/strong>
\nneed to feel our power over life<\/span><\/strong>
\nand cars still speed past my window<\/span><\/strong>
\nin a hurry to get to somewhere<\/span><\/strong>
\nthey\u2019ll probably wish they weren\u2019t<\/span><\/strong>
\nyet their noises sometimes call me<\/span><\/strong>
\nto follow as far as your door.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ask me how I feel<\/span><\/strong>
\nI\u2019ll tell you, whenever something touches me<\/span><\/strong>
\nor reaches for my eyes or mind<\/span><\/strong>
\nsome complicated network<\/span><\/strong>
\nmade of things like telephone lines<\/span><\/strong>
\nsomehow pulls impressions<\/span><\/strong>
\nto a place where they\u2019re measured and<\/span><\/strong>
\nset in line with things that have<\/span><\/strong>
\nhappened<\/span><\/strong>
\nbefore.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ask what turns me on<\/span><\/strong>
\nthe music that once filled me<\/span><\/strong>
\nechoes of small ideas and wasted energy<\/span><\/strong>
\nthough I\u2019m sick of reacting to things<\/span><\/strong>
\nI can\u2019t control<\/span><\/strong>
\nI\u2019m lazy and lagging<\/span><\/strong>
\nI want to start something<\/span><\/strong>
\nthat makes sense<\/span><\/strong>
\nbeyond all this<\/span><\/strong>
\nbut I\u2019m tired.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ask me what I want<\/span><\/strong>
\nI\u2019m afraid to tell you<\/span><\/strong>
\nsomeone with soft hair<\/span><\/strong>
\nwhose eyes I wouldn\u2019t push<\/span><\/strong>
\naway from my mind, leaves<\/span><\/strong>
\nan image that won\u2019t let me think<\/span><\/strong>
\nto the time I\u2019ll stop my dreaming.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ask me what I\u2019ve found<\/span><\/strong>
\nI\u2019ll skip over the rulers of darkness<\/span><\/strong>
\nand light<\/span><\/strong>
\nand mathematical formulas<\/span><\/strong>
\nthat can teach you why<\/span><\/strong>
\nthe Earth moves and grass grows<\/span><\/strong>
\nand forty thousand people a year<\/span><\/strong>
\nhave to die in cars;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I\u2019d tell you<\/span><\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve learned that I need her<\/span><\/strong>
\nHer!<\/span><\/strong>
\nand daily look for reasons<\/span><\/strong>
\nto make her laugh<\/span><\/strong>
\nwhich set aside<\/span><\/strong>
\nfears that keep my hand<\/span><\/strong>
\nfrom reaching for hers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jim Wellington (4th try, august 24, 1971)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Doe & Fawn”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Doe<\/p>\n

\"Closer<\/p>\n

— Our neighbours told us that one of the deer who has been coming around lately (which is odd behaviour for a deer, they usually disappear all summer and start coming around to augment their diet in September) had triplets and probably needs all the good food she can get.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— Tonight we saw one adult deer and one fawn. I can\u2019t tell one normal deer from another, so I don\u2019t know if this is the mother of triplets and one of ther fawns or not. And I had to use the flash and didn\u2019t want to scare them away, so these are the best photos I got.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

~~~~~Jim<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Cathi’s Photo”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Cathi's<\/p>\n

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“I’m not interested in getting more hits. I don’t care if I’m last on every search engine.”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Who<\/p>\n

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“New Look – & Thank You – Jassper!”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""New<\/p>\n

— Okay- We\u2019ve been busy in a lot of areas lately and when we checked this page\/ these pages for the first time in months, we found that: \u00a01.) There were 1,942 spam comments waiting to be deleted. & 2.) \u2018upgrading\u2019 to a much hyped newer theme can be a pain in the, um, bum.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— Jassper, bless his heart, has been fantastic at sitting there, going through the mind-numbing task of making sure none of those spammed comments had anything to say worth allowing them to be approved for, and posted live. I think he said that two out of the first 400 he\u2019s gone through might have been legitimate comments and\/or worth checking out.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— The new theme, \u201cevolve\u201d, has a couple great features and, as far as our needs and tastes are concerned, a lot of superfluous nonsense- \u00a0The developers went way out of their way to make the theme user friendly, probably aimed at the 15 to 35 year old crowd \u2013 which means my step son could have whizzed through it at the age of 5. 🙂 But it has some annoying features that I haven\u2019t been able to figure out. The suggested height of a\u00a0header\u00a0was \u201c125 pixels\u201d. This like almost everything else about this theme, is customizable. So I changed it to 200 pixels and that worked, for about ten seconds. Then the stupid thing snapped back to showing only 125 of the two hundred pixels of the old header image I had to re-upload. There probably is a setting in here somewhere that I can change, manually, by diving into the code in the code editor, reading through thousands of lines, finding the right line, overwriting the setting with the new numbers, re-saving or \u2018updating\u2019 and then sitting back while the wheels spin and hope that when I look at what I think I have just fixed, it just might be what we thought we had all along.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— Sigh.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— They have some color settings here that are marked \u201cImportant!\u201d in the code, as seen through the editor. And I can\u2019t figure out how to get rid of the plain vanilla overly white background all around the guts of the page and put in my own color, or \u2018colour\u2019 since we are in Canada. 🙂<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— And- I wasn\u2019t thrilled with the very green colour block around the \u2018sticky\u2019 messages that are supposed to stay at the top of the list of \u2018posts\u2019 to be displayed whenever any of you out there in reader\/surfer land come pay us a visit. But that may be one of the things in the code that is marked \u201cImportant!\u201d And right now, I\u2019m too tired to argue with them or mess with the code to see if changing the color setting launches an ICBM attack on our closest allies or anything.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— It also took me between ten and twenty minutes of clicking through all the user friendly options to find the button to push to turn off the \u2018featured image\u2019 function, which grabbed the first image in the post and displayed it larger than the image was supposed to be displayed, and displayed it on top of the rest of the article, as a link, so articles with images had a huge honking featured image above itself and then the same image in its normal size down inside the article where it had been told to hang out- and articles with no images included had a huge light gray box with a spooky semi translucent image of a ghost camera above the article, so fraekin huge that the images were often twice the size of the article itself. But I did find that box and clicked it off, grumbling, \u201cWe don\u2019t need no stinkin\u2019 featured images.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— And Jassper has promised to sit down and delete another couple hundred pieces of garbage \u2018comments\u2019 tomorrow and we\u2019re pretty sure we turned off the ability of anybody to post a comment here if they\u2019re not on our staff. So if you really have something to say that we might think is valid and worth posting, you can send it to \u201cjassper@aerendel.org\u201d and if you really want to become another unpaid volunteer here, say so, and we\u2019ll send you a user password set to \u2018contributer\u2019 and screen everything you try to post until we\u2019re damned sure we can trust you. Sorry, we only needed to get burned once before we turned hard on potential volunteers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— Don\u2019t tell anybody, I just yawned.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Thank you \u2014 And we hope you find something here that makes your day more enjoyable or at least more informed. And since these pages here are more or less aimed at relatives and close friends, we would probably be surprised if you did find something that really tweaked your interest here. But then, again, you may have found something in\/or one of the other pages that fired your enthusiasm, and you can write to jassper and tell him you\u2019d like to contribute to that page, include a user name and either a password that we hope you can change later or we\u2019ll pick one for you. & don\u2019t forget we need your real email address to send you this information.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

— & I\u2019ve clicked every category we currently have listed as pertaining to this message, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re all about, so far. New categories might explode into our consciousness any time, day or night-<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Have a wonderful day, have a wonderful life time, and a wonderful happily ever after \u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Jim<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Sudden Rain Halts Work Outside – So Cathi Painted a Painting.”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Sudden<\/p>\n

\""<\/p>\n

\""Cathi's<\/p>\n

\""Beaming<\/p>\n

\""dogatory"\"<\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“Cathi Delivered Her Painting To The New Community Centre”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Cathi<\/p>\n

\""Today<\/p>\n

\""We<\/p>\n

\""We<\/p>\n

\""The<\/p>\n

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“This Week At The Pallet Factory -“<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""At<\/p>\n

\""Pallet<\/p>\n

\""Um<\/p>\n

\""Tuesday<\/p>\n

— I\u2019ve also been going through old photos I thought were lost and pieces of stories\/novels that were hiding on old hard drives that weren\u2019t really dead. ( \u201cOnly sleeping?\u201d I\u2019ve had to go into the control panels and tell every computer I\u2019ve had in the past fifteen years not to put the blinkin hard drives to sleep, because that crashes the computers every time. Sometimes it takes two or three tries to get the hard drives to wake up. If I knew for sure this was something that evil ice holes calculated to purposefully drive us crazy I would have to struggle valiantly to control my temper and not want to join a jihad again ice hole planned obsolescence and computer frustration conspiracy proliferators. That\u2019s a mouthful- )<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\""interesting"\"<\/p>\n

\""Bowl<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

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