Perhaps Now, I Can Conquer the World...

Number of sips I took from my hot chai before dumping it down the back of my leg and all over the floor of the car: 3 (and yes, it was hot)
In the CD player: Bedtime Stories for Pirates, by Captain Bogg and Salty
In the Attic: Learning some new blogging tricks

I've discovered I'm pretty good at reading directions. But I suck at discovering the obvious. And that's too bad, because that's pretty much all that is required to figure out how to work this blog I've created. Lately, I have added a few new tricks to my blogging resume. Perhaps you've noticed some of them on the way.

1. Links. In reading through other blogs, I've long admired the ability to highlight a word or phrase, which when clicked on, would magically cast your reader off to another internet location, specifically about that content. The "Blogger Help" portion here was greatly informative. I learned about the HTML characters that I needed to insert before and after my phrase of choice. Unfortunately, it took me several frustrating attempts of writing the code down, copying and pasting it into HTML mode before I discovered the handly little button atop of the window that with just one click, does all of the hard part for you. All you need to do is insert your word or phrase. Clever.

2. Pictures. I've wondered about pictures for an even longer amount of time than links. Imagine the red on my face when I discovered that just down the same row from the link button, there exists an "add image" button.

3. Site Meter. Since my first post, I have wondered about who is reading my blog. I experimented with a first site meter, that I had a little trouble with. Finally, I have made a new attempt with another site meter (see the icon at the bottom of the page that looks like a rubix cube). When clicked on, it will tell how many people are dropping in at The Attic. And I fixed it so that I won't be counted. Now I won't be my biggest fan any longer, skewing viewing data.

Watch out world, here I come!
But if there are any shortcut buttons above the text window of my life, don't count on anything radical from me for a few years.
(That sounded funnier in my head than it does now that I see it in print.)