I always wished that the makers of the “–for Dummies” and “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to –” would do something about those obnoxious and easily recognizable covers. Don’t they know that someone who has been blogging for three-plus years FEELS like a dummy just holding “Wordpress for Dummies” when standing in the checkline at Borders? Those yellow and black covers with their little “a reference for the rest of us!” subtitles will make you feel like a dummy just by touching them. Anyone looking at you will assume that you are not one of “the rest of us,” but that you are, in fact, so dangerously daft that you need a book colored like caution tape to warn people out of your path. Yes, it shows through the white plastic Borders bag.

That being said, “Wordpress for Dummies” helped a great deal and I do recommend it if you’re starting off on Wordpress.org and you think that a plugin is the thing at the end of the laptop-charging cord. These books should come in nice, faux-leather covers with a ribbon bookmark, like Bibles.

But welcome! Have a cookie! I’m not sure about this design yet, but I always wanted to do something with that picture of the redhead over there, and she seemed to fit with the yellows and pinks and brighten things up here. I need to sort out how to give this thing a custom header, I think. Due to a very unfortunate cash flow problem (almost-dead laptop, ornery major appliances), the professional design from Delicious Design Studio must be delayed. I like yellow, and now that I’ve figured out this FTP crap, I’m feeling invincible with my shiny NEW laptop. This will work. At the very least, I’ve passed a mostly pleasant sober Saturday night.

Baggage Update:

I don’t think that I mentioned that Kayak was an SGB reader for many months. When we first started hanging out a few weeks ago, he told me he’d stop reading if it made me uncomfortable. I told him that would be good, and he agreed to stop. Our time spent together and even just in conversation has tapered off considerably this week, which is probably just due to the fact that I am sour on everything right now and not afraid to share the fact – but a tiny part of me wonders if he read those posts about E. He’s probably just giving me space, though. Probably.

E and I spent some time on the phone on Wednesday night, and we have plans to hang out Sunday evening. I need to spend some time with the boy in a less emotionally-charged situation than we had on Monday. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about him. Of course, I haven’t really tried.