I’m still working on things, but I gotta admit - Wordpress is as friendly to use as people say.
It isn’t EASY, or at least, not for what I’m doing - the one-click install didn’t fly - but it is still remarkably user friendly.
And I’m posting this through ScribeFire, which I just adore, but had poor LJ support.
Hopefully will be ready to fully pull the trigger on this blog by the weekend. Woo!
I am starting the long-overdue process of moving this to dreamhost, which unfortunately is forcing me to switch the DNS before it is ready.
So, for the next few days, stephaniebambam.net is going to point to a kinda wacky page. stephaniebambam.livejournal.com will still be here and all functional until I’m ready to move over.
FINALLY!
I don’t know how this happened, but some random dude’s avatar is currently the logo on twitter. Harmless, but too funny not to share..
And yeah, my twitter obsession continues… 
Really! That’s not a joke. I have had surprisingly “good” experiences with cops across the board, but this one takes the cake.
I was pulled over about three weeks ago for rolling through a stop sign. I’m absolutely positive I did it, I was late to an appointment, and I’m very aware that when I get rushed I drive a little more erratic.
Cop runs my license and discovers that it was suspended in Virginia (I had kept my Virginia license/registration for a number of reasons) for “lack of insurance.” Cop was also holding a valid insurance card. I think he was slightly entertained by the situation, I was stunned at hearing that my license was suspended and can only imagine how silly my reaction was.
He gave me a ticket with a court date, and waited while a friend of mine picked me up (since I couldn’t drive away with a suspended license) instead of towing my car.
Since then, I have gotten my Virginia license reinstated, have letters from my insurance company in both Virginia and California stating that I am insured, AND got my California license and registration. I also discovered that my license had been suspended due to my Virginia insurance company telling the DMV that I canceled my policy, not that I transferred it out of state. If they think you’re uninsured, your license is automatically suspended.
This morning was my court date. Driving under a suspended license is an “uncorrectable” misdemenor, which means a trip in front of a judge. Waited on a looong line to see the clerk, who discovered that my ticket didn’t exist. From there, I was sent to the city attorney’s office - same, my ticket didn’t exist. The cop never turned it in.
My theory? The cop didn’t really want to ding me for a situation that really was a mistake, Virginia reinstated my license as soon as I faxed them my insurance letters with no questions asked. I still don’t know how long my license was suspended for. I think the cop did, however, did want to give me at least some grief for not registering my car/getting my license when I moved here a year ago. So, he made me spend a day running around the city waiting in lines.
I understand that, and would rather waste a day on lines to verify that I didn’t have anything to do, than worry about standing in front of a judge.
So to whoever that cop was - thank you. I have no idea what would have happened in front of a judge, but I’m very thankful that I don’t have to find out.
I have a horrible tendency to only write blog entries when I have something to complain about. I was always that way with my diary as a kid as well, if I was writing in the diary, something was VERY wrong.
So, in an attempt to break that habit, here’s a few random happy fun things:
- I’ve seen tons and tons of people get pulled over for talking on their cellphones without a headset, which is entertaining. It’s always the people on the phone who drive the worst.
- I drove past the Hills (MTV) crew filming a certain blonde on my way to work this morning, which made me think about another blonde I knew that I hadn’t talked to in a few weeks. Two hours later, that person IM’d me.
- I finished watching John Adams, and it was fantastic. I spent a few years living in Mt Vernon (Virginia) when I was a kid, and from then on loooved the colonial period. My perspective on it was always very skewed towards virginia, though, all George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and stuff. I knew very little about John Adams by comparison, so the movie covered a lot of new ground for me. Really interesting.
- The Doctor Who season finale was fantabulous. I need to write up a whole big Dr Who rant, but I’m gonna save that until after the finale airs in the US.
- I recently learned to play Blackjack counting cards. It’s really cool, and I’m getting pretty decent at it!
- I will be at two conferences coming up – BlogHer ’08 next weekend, and Casual Connect the week after. I’m on a panel at Casual Connect, and reading an entry from this blog at BlogHer.
- I think my cat just locked himself in my bathroom. He’s done that far too many times now, you think he’d learn. (ok, maybe that’s not “happy” per se, but entertaining nontheless) The other cat is inside my bookcase, staring out at me from behind a pane of glass. Dunno why she loves it so much in there.
And on that note, I’m off to rescue the cat. Or just taunt him from the other side of the door. I haven’t decided which yet.
