August 14, 2001
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Aargh! I haven't logged in a week!
I used one of the Xanga Premium options to add some links down on the left about "What I Do While Not Logging." I didn't do all that much this last week, though. I do NOT function well in the heat, and as far as I know there are no meds I can take for that. I'm not quite incapacitated enough to get a doctor's prescription for air conditioning, I'm just incapacitated enough to be FRUSTRATED.
Fortunately, most of what was most important to me happended either in the evening or early in the day. (Avoiding hot weather being the only legitimate excuse I can think of for scheduling anything before 10AM.) Most of it had to do with opening new shelters or keeping current ones going.
I also got started as Poetry Editor of Real Change. If you write poetry, folks, take a look at ours and consider sending us some of yours. All we "pay" is ten copies of the paper, street value $10, but we have a reputation on the local poetry scene for high-quality poetry, each issue sells about 15,000 copies and each copy gets circulated to 3 or 4 people (according to our surveys) and we get about 3,000 hits a day on our website.
You don't have to write about homelessness or poverty. We already know that homelessness sucks and that people should be kinder to one another and Jesus was homeless too. Thanks. One of the things we're trying to do is to break stereotypes. I love the tinkling sound of crashing stereotypes. Write about anything, but do it well. I just manage entries: logging them in, getting them to the editorial committee, telling you the results, etc. They will be reviewed for publication by a committee of homeless and low-income writers who are talented and tough.
I went to a sea-chantey sing on the Wawona Friday night -- that's a wooden schooner being restored down at the Maritime Museum on South Lake Union here in Seattle. I found the words to "Bound for Valparaiso in a Rowboat"! I have updated my sea-chantey page accordingly.
This weekend I pulled two all-nighters to make room on the Real Change domain so that I could get the writers' program and artists' program sites back up and have space for future updates. (We haven't posted a current issue since June, for space reasons and because the volunteer who did the updates for a year went and volunteered someplace else, God bless her.) I used Dreamweaver to identify all the "orphans" (files taking up space but not in use, not linked to anything) and pulled them out; used NetMechanic and its GifBot to identify overlarge graphics and compress them; and used MacTidy to clean up the HTML, which often makes smaller HTML files. End result was 50MB of new space. StreetWrites and StreetLife Gallery are now back up! (And I'm actually getting paid for this!)
Today is cooler. Long may it last!
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