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So, lets see, 4th of July was the last time I posted.

Since my hiatus began:

• We came and went on our yearly vacation to West Virginia.
• They piled more crap on my shoulders at work, then took over a month to compensate me with a bit more money
• The Stock Market collapsed quicker than K-Fed’s career (Lame, outdated reference, keeping up with most current events has escaped me as of late)
• The Chicago Cubs blew it, AGAIN! 0 for 100 (YEARS) … BAH!
• Oh, yes … another new design to the blog, big surprise? I didn’t think so.

I figure, if my posts may come erraticly, I may as well simplify things a bit more, magazine theme was nice and all, but no real need for it. Besides, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense, a “Magazine” would imply people actually want to read the drivle I post on here, when we all actually know better than that, don’t we?

Enjoy the new look, I may change the colors around at some point.

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Well, springtime in Chicago has finally, well, sprung! 71 degrees today, windy as hell though. If you believe the 10 day forecast, and I don’t, the lowest temp for the next week and a half is 52 degrees. Some lovely spring showers, too, of course. It’s about time we had a little bit of baseball weather to go along with the start of the season.

Enough about the weather, before I bore myself to sleep. I found this amazing little gadget to use with my blog here, called Zemanta. Zemanta is a firefox plugin (IE plugin coming soon) that attaches itself to your blog when you write a new post/article. It helps by suggesting related images, articles, links and tags to liven up your articles with relevant items for your readers. A very nice touch as it sits unobtrusively to the right of your writing area you will see relating images and articles. Below your writing area is the suggested links and tags. All of it, updating itself every 300 characters, or sooner if you wish. I think I’m going to be using this a lot as I try to get back into blogging more regularly. Well, since I’ve completely veered off course from springtime, I figure I’ll toss in a few of the suggested additions from Zemanta while I’m at it.

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I’m giving it another try, I’ve truly lost count of how many lives I’ve given this place. If it was a cat, it would have used up its nine lives long, long ago. So … on with the show. Some tweaks are needed, here and there, but at least its back up and running, yet again.