Fixed. Maybe.

I fixed Ping so that it won't be posting microblogs to my long-standing blogs. The others, maybe. So, if you see any title-less new entries somewhere they shouldn't be, please tell me.

Ping!

I think I have solved my blogging woes. I got an account at Ping.fm, which posts to multiple sites at once. I'll have to try it out: it doesn't seem to have tagging capabilities, so I guess I'll still have to go in and edit posts later), and it doesn't cover some of my sites (Gaia Online comes to mind), but it will make posting less daunting.
And, of course, my setting it up would not be complete without getting an account at nearly every one of the sites they support. I'll get those URL's to you later: I need to go to bed.

I've been blogged!

So, I was doing an ego search (i.e., Googling "tomensnaben"), and found that I am actually mentioned somewhere by someone else! Here, to be exact. Well, I suppose it's more so my Latin, but still, if I can be cited as an authority on something, even something so minor that contributing at all makes you an authority, I'm happy.
This calls for a celebration! Any ideas?

College! And...er...more sites.

Today was my first day of junior college. Nothing much to report: just the general handing-out of syllabi and professors talking about themselves and the course. The classes seem nice enough, though.
I also got some new blogs: Vox, MindSay, and Blogster. Now, hear me out: each new blog gives me new features and opportunities to ignore. But this one sounds really fun: MindSay has a wiki. And I automatically have my own page. It requires an account to edit, so i guess it isn't a true wiki, but still. I can't wait to see what sort of stuff people say about me on it.
Oh, and I'm going to be on my own at last. Mum's moving in with her boyfriend at the end of September, and letting me stay here. I'll have to pay the bills and whatnot, but Ill be alone without having to scour the horrors of the housing market. Student loan time! (I also have to get a laptop, since my current computers are going to shit).

A common misconception about Minnesota...

...Is that it's always too cold. In fact, it is often too hot. We've skipped good weather entirely, going strait from the one to the other. And now it's raining--thunderstorms. They last about ten minutes, and ten later there is another. It's nearing ninety. It always irritates me to hear people saying "oh, I'd love to live in Florida--What great temperature: hundred degree days! Wouldn't that be heaven!" No, it would be hell. Have fun sweating to death!
I'm doing this to test out a new blog: tomensnaben.blog.com. Yes, against my better judgement, I got a new blog. I'm not transferring my back entries, though. I just need to post until no-one cares what the earlier posts are.

Let's get the Flock out of here.

I'm going to try and bring all of these web logs back. You see, I've lately been daunted by the idea of keeping all of my sites updated. On top of that, I haven't had the Internet at my house, and Netscape just kicked me off of itself, because it's apparently going to be discontinued.
But those seem to have righted each other. You see, Netscape pushed me on to some bizarre third-party thing called "Flock." I was less than thrilled at first, because it called itself "the social web browser," so I was worried that it would do something stupid, like allow others to use my account or something (I'm still a little worried). But, it has its own built-in blog poster, which I'm trying now. If this works, I'll be able to post to Xanga, Blogger, LiveJournal, and two new ones: Blogsome and WordPress (maybe I should stop getting random accounts) at once. That leaves only Yahoo 360°, MySpace, Gather, and Gaia Online to copy and paste to (that is, after transferring my back entries, which I may not do with these new ones.
Also, I got an account at a site called "Schola," so you don't have to worry about any more Latin entries. Spanish, I don't know about. I need a way to keep these separate, but don't know what it should be.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Dear diary...

[This is a translation of my previous two posts]
We just learned in my Spanish class that we have to write a diary entry every other Friday (a two-weekery?) in order to practise our informal writing. And when they say "diary," I hear "blog." Thus you, my readers, get to partake of my homework. Don't everybody celebrate at once...
For this assignment, our teacher stated that we should write something around sixty words. This is ridiculous! I have already written seventy words [or at least I had in Spanish], and I haven't said anything! Well, I do often write things with more than five hundred words in this blog (I think). So, I'm going to ignore this rule in the future, when I have more to talk about.

O ephemeris...

[Hoc latine redditus blogis prioris est]
Classe mea linguæ hispanicæ, nobis necesse esse rem scribere in ephemere tertio quoque die veneris ut scriptum fortuitum didcimus recenter. Quandoque "ephemeris" dicitur, "blogem" audio ego. Ut vos, o lectores mi, operem scholarem meum gustetis. Non omnes simul celebretis...
Huic operi, magistra nos aliquem cercum sexaginta verba scribere debere dicit. Hoc ridiculum est! Iam septagintam verba scripsi, ac nullum dixi! Multis temporibus res verbarum quingenti magisve hoc bloge scripsi (aut scripsi credo). Ut reglam prætermittam in futuro, quando est magis de quo loqui possum.

Querido diario...

En mi clase de español, acabamos de aprender que hay que escribir algo en un diario cada segundo viernes (un duosemanio?) para practicar nuestra escritura informal. Y, cuando se dice «diario», yo oigo «blog». Entonces vosotros, mis leedores, podéis compartir en mi tarea escolar. No todos celebréis en una vez…

Para esta tarea, la maestra dice que debamos escribir algo acerca de sesenta palabras. ¡Este es ridículo! Ya he escrito setenta palabras, ¡y no dije nada! Pues, muchas veces escribo cosas de más que quinientos palabras en este blog (o, creo que escribo). Entonces, voy a ignorar esta regla en el futuro, cuando tengo más en que puedo hablar.

Everything is finite in the end.

We have power! Somehow I've neglected to blog it, but we've had it for just over a week. Although it did go out for a few hours last night, but that seemed to affect the whole neighbourhood. Oh, the things I'd missed...
In other news, we gave Coco away. That means that we're down to the three dogs we're going to keep: Ivan, Bear, and Pepper Anne. And they have been moved from the kennel--which has been disassembled--to the house (for reasons which I will discuss later). We're keeping them in the kitchen so that they don't eat anything in the rest of the house (or do anything else, as they aren't fully house broken) and at night we take them into our rooms. This is kind of annoying because, even though he goes right to sleep (he loves the soft bed), Ivan gets up much sooner than I do, and seems to think that the best way to get me up is to scratch my face. Oh, well, at least he's not a cat.
So, on to why their inside. You see, one day they broke loose from their kennel and went into the neighbour's yard, supposedly wrecking her flower bed. I haven't seen the damage, so perhaps they went to some hidden, out of the way part, bypassing the obvious front. But, at any rate, she was pissed and our dogs were moved inside.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007: Overhaul

Well, I'm sick of my sites' themes. Time to revamp it all. It's too dark and obsessed with Atheism. And my profile just plain sounds immature. So, I'll be redoing it all, one site at a time. And the reason I haven't been blogging is that I haven't been getting more than, say, and hour of computer time a week (we moved out of mum's boyfriend's house, but the power's still out. His kids are scum).

And in case you enjoyed my old stuff, here it is:

Profile: "Excluding what is written elsewhere, I am rather critical and analytical. My dislikes are Christianity (though not Christians in general), intolerance, war, pop music, cover tracks, Jack T. Chick, Disney, deathbed conversion stories, fundamentalism, evangelists, bad remakes/movies from novels, unoriginality, anti-first amendment folks, anti-second amendment folks, pretty much anti-rights folks, Texas, idiots, profiles that mention "God/Jesus" under interests, american bastards, religious groups who masquerade as secular ones, people who don't know what "atheist" means but think they do, when people try to bless me after I sneeze, sexism, when people think that Catholics aren't Christian for some reason, hypocrisy, and more to come..."

Tagline: "Warning: this site contains some content deemed inappropriate for Christians"

Why not?

After a bumpy start, our new homestay is now just fine. You see, for the first few days we were tormented by mum's boyfriend's son, who would have the TV or conversations at full--or possibly higher--volume blaring until at least midnight, allowing us in the next room only a few hours of sleep. That, compounded with some other things, made our stay a living Hell. But now, after we had a discussion, it is quite alright.
I now take my dog, Ivan, for daily walk lasting multiple hours. We have given away five of our original nine liveborn pups, leaving one, Coco, to give away--I often walk her as well. We will keep three: my Ivan, my brother's Pepper, and mum's Bear. All of these pups are living in a kennel in this house, along with their dog, Max.
In sad news, Blog City is ending its free service. At the end of the year, my account will be locked. That was one of my favourite blogs! Oh, well.

Saturday, February 24, 2007: I return.

I really need to start this thing back up. I think it's a problem of focus: I'm certainly on the Internet enough, I just don't feel like blogging while I'm on it. But my longing is enough when I'm not on to warrant actually doing it.
Well, for starters, our dog is pregnant. At first, we thought that she was just not eating her treats because she's weird. Then, over night--literally--she plumped up, and we figured out that that was morning sickness. We figure that it was this husky that has been hanging around here. We don't know when the pups will come, but I'd like to see the black lab/huskies.
In other news, on a suggestion I have joined the spring play. It's a comedy called "You Can't Take it with You," and sounded pretty good during the script reading--even for my three lines. Well, first time in theatre, what did you expect?
I've also decided to restart my Transformer collection. I had, to this point, thirty-five from my childhood--in various conditions and states of completion. I am now getting the Beast Wars tenth anniversary figures--fitting, since Beast Wars was where my collection started. I have Dinobot and Rattrap so far--a fitting pair--and they're pretty good. They each come with a DVD and a piece of Transmutate--I can't believe that they made a show accurate version of her before G1 Arcee--which were larger than I expected the whole figure to be. Sadly, they had no movement, and connected to her with non-ball joints--to sum up, it's a simple, barely possible display piece. I was really hoping they would combine to form a fully-articulated toy. Later, I'll get the world's smallest line. That should arrive on the twenty-seventh. I believe they're roughly the size of capsule toys.
I need to divide my time more evenly. I'm meaning to read a couple of books and start a comic, but I end up just playing games--when I'm not doing my homework, that is.