Category: Blogs & Blogging

Anybody seen Mrs. A?

Anybody seen Ephraim F. Moya?

… doesn’t need any more noise. I’m taking today off.

Throw me a little discussion, eh?

Yours truly,

The Management

Damn! FunctionalAmbivalent has published NewMexiKen’s photo.

Actually not really. THIS is me at about that age.

Donna, official friend of NewMexiKen, doesn’t want me to blog about the election. (And for that matter Obama only looks good any more because McCain is so god awful — in other words it’s turning into a typical election.)

Jill and Emily, official daughters of NewMexiKen, don’t want me to blog about the Olympics for fear I may reveal another winner in real time. (But it is a sporting event you know, not a TV program, whatever NBC thinks.)

Ephraim doesn’t want me to blog about climate warming for fear science will over react and freeze the planet.

I don’t want to blog about birthdays.

And the only best line I’ve seen was at Sideline Chatter that the Chinese women’s gymnastics team tested positive for Desitin. (It’s for diaper rash — ‘cuz they look so young — sort of adapted from Dick Vitale.)

Blogging got me better service from Comcast, otherwise . . .

NewMexiKen will be away for the next few days, hanging-out with three of The Sweeties®, sight-seeing, playing Chutes and Ladders. I will try and blog when I can, but instead of the usual half-wisdom, half-whimsy, half-wit you get around here, it may only be one-eighth.

While I am gone Hannibal Lecter will be house-sitting at Casa NewMexiKen, along with my pit bulls, Attila and Genghis. The recent rains (big-time last night) have raised havoc with the rattlesnakes in the backyard. I think they have moved inside and resettled among the wires and cables behind the computer, television and surround sound.

I took yesterday off. It was the fifth anniversary of NewMexiKen. No one ever asked how I voted.

I liked taking the day off so much, I took off much of today too. It took Comcast to get me riled enough to need an outlet.

Watching Law & Order reruns and three year old movies on TV is much more fun than blogging.

Ever take a business call while on vacation?  Me, too.

So just consider the three items that follow some stuff I phoned in.

I think I’ll shut NewMexiKen down for a while.

Knowing my record you may find me back in a few days or a week.

Or maybe not. We’ll see.

UPDATE: JULY 1ST

Hey, thanks everybody.

1. I’m fine — or at least I’m as fine as ever.

2. I just really needed a break from the day-to-day pressure obsession, which I feel even when I skip a day or two. So maybe I’ll take three or four days or more off this time.

3. I’m sick of the election and reading about the election and the media coverage of the election. I needed a break particularly from that, but just doing the birthdays and a few best lines doesn’t keep me going.

4. I need to do some re-coding, hence the drop back to the default style temporarily. The site may look the same as it did when I come back (or not), but the code (CSS) has to be cleaned up.

5. I’ve done this blog an estimated 330+ days a year for almost five years. I really should quit.

NewMexiKen feels a lot like digby. When I began blogging almost five years ago I had to tell people what a “blog” was.

As some newer readers have chimed in lately about reposting older entries, I thought I’d mention Star gazing. It remains the most commented post ever here at NewMexiKen with 39.

So, who is the most famous person you’ve spoken with? And who is the most famous person you’ve seen in person? And what is the most famous/notorious event/performance you have witnessed?

No rules. Whatever you’d like to brag (?) about.

New comment thread starts here.

Should I repost the birthday and other date-specific posts from past years?

Today for example is Geronimo’s birthday and I have posted about him every year. Today is also the anniversary of Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech, another event I’ve posted about every June 16th.

Should I publish these posts again every year even if I don’t add anything different?

NewMexiKen has added a little box in the far right sidebar. It lists the top commenters — by quantity, not necessarily by quality. 🙂 At the moment it lists them for June. It’s flexible, so I could change it to week or year. We’ll see.

NewMexiKen thinks everything is working, but I’m not too sure about the comments.

Maybe you should test them.

At its core, a website such as this (a blog) is generated from three sets of files — a database that holds all the content, some template files that manage the layout, and some code files that fill the layout with the content when a reader clicks on the site. I guess somewhere in those files for NewMexiKen there was a bug, because late Wednesday I used up more than my allotted share of the server (for the third time) and the company that hosts the site shut me down. (It surely wasn’t due to too much traffic.)

For the past two days then I have been scrambling to find a suitable landing place and then getting the unresponsive former provider to redirect the URL newmexiken.com to the new server. They made the switch overnight last night (early Saturday morning).

And so I am back, but in a limited way — I don’t have to worry about any bugs, but I can’t do much with the look and I can’t restore the archives.

So I’ll just blog here while I figure out what I want to do.

Howdy. We’re going to be starting over from here — at least for now.

[Technical difficulties took this site down May 15, 2008.  This was the first post after service resumed.]

I’m back, but I think whatever muse I have got left behind — maybe she missed the connecting flight in Minneapolis last night.

What should I be writing about? Surely enough has already been said about Miley Cyrus and Jeremiah Wright.

In answer to the comment:

I love Seattle and believe, perhaps foolishly, that the weather wouldn’t bother me all that much.

But I have no plans to make my April Fool’s Day prank actually happen.

If I ever change the name of this blog, it will become “Poor Kenneth’s Almanack.” Benjamin Franklin’s famous serial publication (25 years) is somewhere in my mind as I do this, even now.

Finally, I have found the blogging holy grail — The Celebrity Fugprentice, none other than Omarosa.

Thanks to Jill, the official tacky celebrity website scout for NewMexiKen.