Westy is Wild Again

*sigh* In an hour I drive off for my first day back at work since my vacation.

Obviously, I am NOT looking forward to it. I have no idea what will be awaiting me. Those that were on my fav list in the old JS may have read about the problems I have had there with a certain jerk. On Wednesday and Thursday I also have my dance classes.

It seems I woke up this morning with some sniffles! There was not a hint of it yesterday… oh, dear.

At least the temps outside are above freezing (3°C / 37°F).

So, this was just a short entry to say “hi” with. I may report more later on how my work day went… or maybe not.

I don’t even have an interesting picture to share with y’all! LOL

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First day went well… the “Jerk” wasn’t there most of the time and there was nothing serious going on or to do. The boss was out sick as well as two other collegues.

The weather is mild, about 8°C/ 46°F, but VERY windy!

I hope all of you are having a good start to your week. I’ve noticed a big drop in new entries, no matter whether here or at the new JS, not to forget my forum which is now collecting dust. boohoo I started putting an excel spread sheet of old names of everyone and matching that to your new blogging homes, but I need some help with it. Anyone able? Send me a pm via my forum.

Btw., since blogspot doesn’t have a pm system, you can still use the one in the forum….

OK, have things to do. See y’all around!

Dorrie

EDIT!

I just realised the comments don’t work…. this is an imported layout and it has that bug that many others have been having. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

EDIT AGAIN! I went back to one of the original blogger layouts, it still won’t work! As if I wasn’t frustrated enough…. *sigh*

Yes, I’m frustrated with this place. I know, give them time. Well, I don’t HAVE the time! I spend to much time trying to navigate here, only for new glitches to appear.

My prestent layout looks fine in the template demo, but here the entry part is too narrow… and we still can’t change that and probably never will without paying, like at Wordpress.

My entries are single in the entry box, then when the comments open up, the entries show up DOUBLE! WTF!

I can’t see when my favorite JS’ers have updated… I have to visit their blogs and check… all how many? geeeez And the blogroll has to be done manually, one by one… I’ve got lest then half up there now.

I’ll keep this up here, but I’ll probably do most of my posting at blogspot… come visit me there.

I think I’m really suffering blogger overkill

Dorrie

I just found this Coast Guard Video of the crash! At about 2 minutes you see the airplane hit the water. It’s very small, but then they zoom in and you see how quick people already started exiting onto the wings.

Since linking doesn’t seem to work here yet, I’ll just put the url here:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e6_1232166872

Yes, I know I could go to the html tab and perhaps add it, but I really don’t have the time to mess with all that. But I did want to share it with all of you.

Westy aka Dorrie

found this picture this morning… though I’m sure most of you are following your own press sites…

good morning everyone!! Thank you for the comments in my last entry. I actually slept through the night, though the 3rd night is usually the worst for jetlag. I was surprised when I woke up it was 07:30 am.

I have lots to do here, like go out shopping… but it’s all ICE outside! Wheelie just warned me NOT to go out… there’s ice-rain. Luckily there’s a small grocery store walking distance from my apartment where I can pick up some necessities.

Regina brought my cat, Shila, back to me last night. I think Shila missed me pretty much, lol.

I have loads of wash to get started and also finish unpacking my suitcase.

I posted the last entry also in my new journalspace journal and added a picture. I still don’t care for the Wordpress format and it’s difficult to find MY favorite people without trying to find them in the memberlist.

This photo was taken after take-off in San Diego and shows Mission Bay, where I was able to meet up with Fitzgerald .

Somewhere in this mass of buildings, about in the middle of the picture below, my parents live. I tried to add an arrow but it was too small to see so I left it out… besides, I was too tired to mess around with it last night, heehee. Also, Kashew’s home is also there somewhere. I also flew past John’s town but the plane was already too high to pick it out.

I did try waving at a few of you on my way East…. did y’all see me? LOL

Well, this is NOT getting anything accomplished. Most of you are sleeping while I write this and will hopefully stop by when you wake up. Gosh I miss the old JS format!!

Dorrie

Yes, I arrived safe and sound. Both flights were uneventful, unlike the one that hit the Hudson. I heard about that crash just as we were boarding in San Diego. In spite of 10 minute delay for “mechanical reasons” (the pilot needed to run the engine because of something he noticed during his outside check), no one decided NOT to fly and we arrived in Washington, on time! That was good, because I had a very short transfer time. No up-grading to business class this trip *snif*

Now I’m back in Germany, one hour EARLIER than planned because of strong tail winds…. according to the pilot, stronger than he’s ever experienced in his career.

Now I’m back to the snow and around 0°C (32°F) My suitcase is half unpacked, the rest will be done tomorrow. My daughter, Regina, has already brought the cat back. And on Monday it’s back to work again!

Now I’ll see how much catching up I can do…. probably not much.

Dorrie

Yes, I arrived safe and sound. Both flights were uneventful, unlike the one that hit the Hudson. I heard about that crash just as we were boarding in San Diego. In spite of 10 minute delay for “mechanical reasons” (the pilot needed to run the engine because of something he noticed during his outside check), no one decided NOT to fly and we arrived in Washington, on time! That was good, because I had a very short transfer time. No up-grading to business class this trip *snif*

Now I’m back in Germany, one hour EARLIER then planned because of strong tail winds…. according to the pilot, stronger then he’s ever experienced in his career.

Now I’m back to the snow and around 0°C (32°F) My suitcase is half unpacked, the rest will be done tomorrow. My daughter, Regina, has already brought the cat back. And on Monday it’s back to work again!

Now I’ll see how much catching up I can do…. probably not much.

Dorrie

Today, my last day, I took another trip. If the mountain can’t come to you, go to the mountain! Or, in this case, where the Ghetto meets the sea.

For those of you familiar with his entries… I went to visit our own MrScribbler!

NO, he’s not behind bars, but the cliffs are now fenced in, keeping us from getting closer. The weather was perfect, the place interesting. Unfortunately, there were no cats around begging for their pictures to be taken. Well, Scribby caught me…

Yep, today’s my last day. Tomorrow I leave this summer weather for the dread cold of Germany.

I didn’t take that many pictures this trip, so it’s been only a small selection I’m sharing with you. Here’s me and my dad taken the other night.

Tomorrow Kashew will pick me up and drive me to the airport. I really don’t want to go….

Dorrie

yep, slowly but surely I’m learning my way around this place.

No, I will NOT start a “New JS for Dummies” journal! No!

But some people are not finding their way around here, or already complaining about features not found… (ahem… me, too). I think we were all in too much of a hurry to have everything perfect.

1) adding photos: hit the html tab at the top of your entry block and add photos the same as in JS without the visual editor, i.e.   first <img src=”photo url”>  it’s the same method I use when adding my smilies.

2) private entries: I discovered below the entry box some “advanced” links. One of them says “password protect this post”… well, guess what that does?

There will be more help to come… let’s give it a chance.

Dorrie

but so far none I’m crazy about. I tried one of them, but went back to the one I had. So far we don’t seem to be able to move some widgets around, only add and delete… but not the ones THEY put in. But, like everything else, time will tell…. they are still working on things.

So I’ll continue to practice PATIENCE! LOL

Some people have already given up and deleted already. That’s a pity… we should at least give these guys a chance. I’m keeping my blogger journal, too, but I notice that people aren’t visiting like they used to. Boo hoo!

Well, back to checking out this place…..

Dorrie

Now that all the hype of journalspace returning in a somewhat acceptible form (we hope), I can now post some more pictures.

On every trip here to California I try to go to Balboa Park on a Sunday afternoon. I learned all my folk dancing up there and besides, it’s a beautiful park, made in a quaint Spanish style. The buildings were originally built for the 1915 Exposition. Some have been long removed, others still exist.

In past years I have taken so many photos of the park. But I still can’t resist. LOL

Yes, I did stop by the dancers, but so many I knew are no longer there or alive…. and it feels odd when of all the dancers, I’m one of the youngest!

So I didn’t stay long but walked through the park instead. As you can see from my past entries (before the JS ones), San Diego has so much to offer…. I dread having to leave it once again, back to the cold (temps were around -5°F the past days brrrrrr).

I again found some flowers that were begging to be photographed! I almost caught a hummingbird that was flying around those in the first picture, in fact, one bird made a low fly direct over my head!

These orchids were in the botanical garden house….

I almost went to visit the famous San Diego zoo, which is located in this park. I was already thinking about the cool picture motives I would find. Well, I walked over there, took one look at the entry fee…. and left in shock! $35 for a one-day pass!! You poor dear animals, no visit from me. *snif* I would have gone with $20, but not $35!

It’s hard to believe I’ll be leaving here in 4 days….

Dorrie