Footprints on the Moon

This morning I’ve been working on a bit of a blog clean up. Alot of my early posts are uncategorized, so I’ve been adding some categories to some of those. (And come to find out, I *still* have entries that I don’t know where to put!) Also, somewhere along the way, some entries have been picking up some extra characters, either during an update or theme change or something. I suspect that these stem from the fact that I wrote a lot of these entries before I disabled the Rich Text Editor. Either way, they annoy me, so I’m fixing them as I find them.
I did notice though, that as I re-saved a couple of these entries, I was receiving pings on some old entries of my own. I had originally set my blog NOT to notify of links, so apparently now that I’m saving these entries again, it’s going to go ahead and send out those pings. So if you’re getting trackbacks on old posts of yours, from old posts of mine, don’t be too concerned– it’s just me mucking around in old posts!!

I’m also discovering that I really do not like this theme. It’s pretty, but I don’t like the way it works. I really like the theme I put up on my other blogs though, so I might try to customize it for over here. I was trying to do that a few weeks back and I wasn’t having much luck.

If you’re like me, the word decathlon makes you think of running. If you’re really like me, it also probably makes you tired just thinking about it! The one I’m talking about however, is the BP Solar Decathlon, and it’s something different entirely. In this decathlon, teams from 20 colleges and universities around the world are competing to create the most energy-efficient house, built solely using solar power. And, in testament to how far reaching this blogging thing has become, there is even a Solar Decathlon Blog where you can read updates from BP, and each of the teams.

Their construction deadline is actually tomorrow, so I imagine they are all working very hard to get the final touches in place. The winner will be announced on Friday, October 19th, but in the meantime, the houses will be open to the public. If you’re in the Washington DC area, be sure to head out and check that out! I would love to be able to go walk through the houses– that sounds like something interesting to see! I like the idea of solar power… I’m not one who tries overly hard to live a green lifestyle, far from it actually, but I do think we should be doing what we can to use renewable energy sources when possible. Anyways, go check it out. I’m going to go back to the blog and read a little more about the experience– apparently the truck carrying in one of the houses took out two telephone poles en route!

I’m a big fan of the site I Can Has Cheezburger? It is, in my opinion, the best LOLCat site that’s out there. Certainly the best one I’ve found. The one up there cracked me up this morning. I’m sick of that cell phone commercial, but the grandma whose texting her “BFF Jill” is funny.
Although, LOLSecretz is now a close second. I read them at work all the time, and bust up laughing. Sitting in the lobby all by myself. People around here must think I’m crazy. I read “secrets” all the time at PostSecret, and LJsecret, so the LOLcat secretz are pretty dang funny! Must have a sense of humor there, though. You know if you’re easily offended or not. If you are, don’t come back and complain about something you read– you’ve been warned!