jessamyn's temple of ego

choo

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down the street from Forrest and Kelly there lives a train afficionado. He has this signal in his front yard

Lichen!

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Lichen + needles

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do I do house calls?

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sure, are you kidding?

after the cloudburst

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ghost cow

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wow

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for anyone who hunts around for ladyslippers in New England forests, a collection like this was really amazing to see.

ladyslippers

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ladyslipper bud

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twins

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"This genus gets its name from the Greek όρχις orchis, meaning testicle" Not surprising, really.

post-cloudburst ladyslipper

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Guestroom, Randolph VT

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petsitting

19-20jun08

new pajamas

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Tired of plaids. Flannel pjs are cheap this time of year (these were $3). Also, it is cold here.

Someone requested this; no I do not think you care about my wardrobe. Pretty much I don't even care about my wardrobe.

I don't like the WordPress 2.5 look and feel. I am not interested in switching CMSes. What are my options for basic postings to my blog with minimal interaction with the WordPress interface? The suboptimal things include having to scroll to choose categories and add tags, the "3D" look to the buttons, all the extra headings and colors, the small "publish" button and all the nagging (I know 2.5.1 is available, I'd like to dismiss that message). I'd like to not have to scroll to write and publish a short post with tags and categories. I think this must be possible.

I am fairly tech-savvy. I want to post a blog entry with maybe a category and some tags, nothing else fancy (this is for my "work" blog, not my personal blog). I can write my own HTML, don't need WYSIWIG. I'm okay using the admin interface for more complicated things or for editing. I like what WP does, just not how it looks.

I had a nice custom admin section before I upgraded; my fallback plan is just to hack away at the CSS like I did last time. I have tried a few things that have not worked so well.

- ScribeFire and Deepest Sender addons for Firefox both kick back errors that I don't quite understand. (I get through installing/configuring them and see my categories but can't post. DS returns "TypeError: node is null" SF returns "The server returned a malformed response. Please check that your blog and API URLs are correct." If this is a chmod problem, I can chmod). If I could get either of those to work my problem would be solved. I have command line access to my account and a medium level of comfort with command line Unixy stuff.
- I have installed a few plugins that claim to make WP easier on the eyes including Retro-Dashboard Admin Theme, Admin Menus, Dashboard Lite and a few more that I may have already deleted. They are fine but don't solve these specific problems.
- I do not want to install an older version of WP just to fix this.
- I have searched the WP plugins admin section and Google for something that seems to do this and tried many things and didn't find anything that looked good.

I'd be happy to hear if you've found something that works but please don't direct me to the WP site (unless there's really something you think I've missed) or to a Google search. Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!

covered steps up to apt

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the main house

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the backyard

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there was once a carriage shed here

mirror shot

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weeding

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root, bridge

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