http://liquidstar.org More interesting than durian. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:08:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been doing a lot of travelling lately about the West Coast. After a few lovely trips up to Portland, OR, wherein I was finally able to see a lot more of the city than just the airport, I was welcome to tag along on a friend's driving odyssey ... http://liquidstar.org/2008/06/01/going-gone-on-an-adventure/ Thanks to some time off from work and a lazy day at my sister's place today, I actually accomplished a lot with the updating around LiquidStar. Still, it isn't finished, but at least it's workable and I'm not using a free WordPress theme anymore. Nope, we are thankfully ... http://liquidstar.org/2008/05/04/lots-of-site-updating-progress/ After my ever-generous friend and host Dan recently upgraded LiquidStar to a new server, I was finally able to update WordPress to the most-recent version. Of course, it's so different from the previous version that my theme didn't work anymore and I have to update a bunch of plugins. While ... http://liquidstar.org/2008/05/03/bear-with-me/ So I met these guys in a bar. No, wait, don't stop reading yet--this is really going somewhere good, believe me. So, guys in a bar... Turns out they are some of the brains behind this insanely-good Internet sitcom titled Break a Leg. Picture the ... http://liquidstar.org/2007/11/28/go-break-a-leg-like-right-now/ Despite the difficulties I'd been experiencing trying to find things to fit my lifestyle that were also gluten-free, I managed to stick to it for a week before giving in to some bread that I had been craving. I'd been feeling great, actually, so I was afraid I had ... http://liquidstar.org/2007/11/10/thank-god-it-wasnt-the-gluten/ So I've been doing a lot of reading recently on the connections between IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome, something I was diagnosed with 15 years ago--quite a feat of a disease for a nine-year-old to even have to think about undertaking managing, let alone actually doing it) and lactose-intolerance, gluten-intolerance, and ... http://liquidstar.org/2007/10/30/going-gluten-free/ After finally getting Internet access at last summer's rental room, a whole series of events took place that had me completely distracted from this site. By the time I was set to get back into it all, I went to upgrade WordPress only to have it all go wrong ... http://liquidstar.org/2007/08/15/quite-possibly-the-longest-gap-ever/ I'm officially naming this summer as The Summer Without Internet. Because that's what it wound up being. Well, aside from lots of working at the bakery, some fun times with friends, a couple of BBQs here and there, and other such summery goodness, of course. But now ... http://liquidstar.org/2006/09/04/the-drought-has-ceased/ Now this is why I really left my parents' house for a place in Port Jeff... Sitting in the shade on a bench near the harbor on a breezy, partly sunny, warm day while live music wafts between the zephyrs from a nearby restaurant second-floor patio. Thanks to wireless broadband ... http://liquidstar.org/2006/07/02/some-people-ask-me-why-ive-moved-out-on-my-own/ The second Guilty Pleasure Sundays and other things I've wanted to write about will have to wait a while... I got a cut that required three stitches on Monday, so typing--among many other normal, day-to-day things--is an annoyingly slow and difficult process with a disabled finger (the index of ... http://liquidstar.org/2006/06/21/pausing-for-a-moment/