Monthly Archives: July 2003

Are you ready to rumble?

Southern Humboldt, (the Garberville-Redway area and 30 miles in each direction) is home to a few very large events each year. Usually the Redwood Run – a Harley Davidson weekend is the 2nd week end in June, but delayed because of bridge repairs needed from last winters storms, is actually this weekend.

This event brings 1000’s of Harleys to the tiny town of Garberville, the rumble is constant, it’s a fun event if you like Harleys, to party hearty, country music with a little rock thrown in and have generally right wing attitudes.

I like looking at the bikes all lined up down main street on Saturday morning, will actually try to get out there and take some pictures this year if i am in town.

We often escape the rumble by staying out at the little house we are building that is 13 miles west of town and 3 1/2 miles down a private dirt road.

Much quieter.

Patti Linked To Me & Bees

First the rave part.. reading Patti’s blog is what blogging ‘for me’ is all about. (This was thegardencafe and then thepurpleprch .. but she has left the blogging world. I wish I had copied some of her stories.)
I love the way she writes, the stories she tells, she can make me laugh out loud and cry, she was an inspiration for me to find my own words.
Now maybe this linking is just some auto script on her site, as i haven’t listed anyone else but her on my ‘blog feed’ yet, after all, I am not even officially live.
Well, I guess I am now!
But really …. this is very cool, I hope any one who comes here now will come back later when i have had time to blog a bit and get the rest of the site going.
I do have things to say.. rants and raves..music to share and lots of stories of living in the hills…

Like how about this: We have a colony huge colony of bees living in the ground right between our house and our garden. Now we haven’t id’d them yet, there seems to be yellowjackets for sure, maybe a digger kind of bee, and a giant hornet type.. and maybe a hundred visible mounds. They look a little like ant hills until you get close and see that on some of them the holes on the top are 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide!!! This is really scary stuff ya know, hornets multiply quick and they can eat ya alive!!

We put out some sticky traps today to try and get an idea of who is living there, will hate to use poison, but may have no choice.
I hope to get pictures this week and will post any up that turn out…them bees fly fast ya know?!

Bruce Cockburn Coming to Mystic Theater

Bruce Cockburn – songwriter/singer/guitarist extraordinaire..will be at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma July 29, 2003. Of course i am going, 3+hours drive down, booked the motel room today.
If you come here often you will hear lots about this man and his music.
BTW..it is pronounced ‘co-burn’.
Even the name of this blog …On My Beat…. comes from one of his more recent songs My Beat.

Edited to add: the link above is throwing this page out of validation because a former webmaster at the Cockburn Project used ‘songs&music’ as a directory name, and now when linked in XHTML the ‘&’ throws an error. Maybe someday that will be fixed on the project, but as there are thousands of links to that directory, not any time soon. (So I have to decide if I want to link direct to the songs — which i was really planning on doing a lot, or just explain under the validation tag that that is what’s throwing the validation off. Drats.)

I have a section on another site that tells a little about him, but if you want the whole deal, you need to check out the Cockburn Project.

Ok I am having a heck of a time with the styling of links within the blog body..not sure why but don’t have time to trouble shoot the css right now, will get to it soon though as this ain’t workin’ the way i want@!

Oh and now i see that when i have an extended entry – ‘there’s more’
the permalinks line of links doesn’t have the hover effect.
Now why would that be?
And and i can’t seem to get the hover effect to work even with a new class inside the blog body text?

And looking in N6.. all works as it should.
Damn my ancient system and IE5…
and the fonts look too small in N6 and too big in IE5.
And the laptop is gone so i can’t check in IE6.

OnMyBeat domain is Live

Whooo–hoo! On My Beat domain is live!

On My Beat.net is now live!
As all things in my life seem to be works in progress, no doubt this will be too.
Gonna be tweaking this site all day trying to get it templated to a livable working model.

IE6 check

I am using a friends laptop to check out OnMyBeat.
All seems to be ok, i think the font in the posts section is a bit large,
yet too small if i lower it for N6. I hate the way colors are displayed on this lcd…i don’t know if all lcds are like this one or not.
And if i ever go the laptop route i will have to have an ergonomic keyboard, kind of defeats the purpose, no?

More on the color issues

14 July 2003

I e-talked with a friend today who confirmed that what i see on my crt screen and what shes sees on her lcd laptop are not one and the same, or really even close. This is too bad. I do like the color scheme, as i see it, that i have going here and else where, but i am thinking that i will change to a lighter/ meaning white with a few color accents for the blog. Now when this will happen is any ones’ guess *lol* in my ample amount of free time!

Did set up more categories in mt and did more tweaking for N6 and IE6.. still stuff to do before really going live with this.

New CSS – layout

15 July 2003
I know i said just yesterday that i wasn’t gonna change this style for awhile, but i just couldn’t stand the thought of all those with lcd screens looking at the ‘old’ site.
This is a far lighter brighter color scheme and the structure is different. Do you like it? I haven’t had time to do the validations yet, maybe later tonight or tomorrow. Slowly adding in sidebar stuff and that too will be in flux for a bit, and i need to link to a few static pages yet to be done as well.
And i really need to do a different layout on the archive pages, what’s there worked with the other design, but not so with this one. Maybe just adding a picture or two will help there.

Is the font too small?

16 July 2003
I use IE5 (i know i know!) and the font when set at :
font-size: small; or
font-size: 1em; or
font-size: 11px;
is just too darn large with ie, but when looking at it with N6..it looks much better.
Yet when I change to
font-size: x-small;
all is good on IE but looks too small on N6.
I run a 17″ /crt/ 1024×768 with text set to medium.

What to do? I guess if readers (are there any readers?– note to self, get tracker and sitemeter for this site) complain about too tiny fonts i will change.