just don’t try this with wordpress

You can embed google maps now. Like, woah!

Unless of course, you’re on wordpress.com. In which case, you can’t.

Works on blogger though, apparently.*

*When blogger works. Which is not now. Heh. (8/22/07, 10:30EDT)

roadist

The Whoa! Where Am I fun begins, it is to be hoped, in a little more than two weeks.

Although my supervisor could put the kabosh on it at any time. She left for a two week vacation without giving me a signed leave slip. I don’t think she’s returning until a couple of days before I’m supposed to leave. 

This year’s departure will be slightly different than last year. Then, I had to work on Friday and Saturday, in fact I worked that whole Labor Day week and it was the heaviest week of the year. I think that record still holds, believe it or not. Saturday was almost as bad as Tuesday, the day after the holiday. I had 13 trays of mail that day… 26 feet… on R7, a volume not equalled before or since. And I needed to get to Bowers well before the 6pm conclusion of the Pepper Festival. Looking back on it now, I’m not sure how I managed it, but I did.

This year I don’t have to work the whole week. Just Tuesday and Wednesday, maybe Thursday if they put me on R5. I’ll also have to work Saturday, but not Friday. That means I can go to Bowers, get a few bags full of hot beauties, come back and pickle some of them, hang the rest to dry, and pick up this year’s version of the beige bull.

Of course, the chances I’ll get called to work on Friday are just as real as the possibility that my supervisor could come back in a bad mood and deny my leave. So all this planning may amount to games of the mind.

Fun, though. I’m starting to think like a roadist. I sure do like thinking that way.

wTunes

Wal Mart is offering DRM-free music for $0.94 per song.

A strong indicator of which way the market for digital music will go. Much to the probable chagrin of the RIAA and others in the industry.

But here’s the killer. You’ll need internet explorer if you want to browse their latest edition. Dumb.

If the big W is smart, the enhancements promised in the graphic will come quick.

UPDATE: It is possible to download music if you are using firefox. I successfully downloaded Peter Frampton’s song “Holding On To You,” which I’ve been looking for as a single download for months. It is now safely ensconced in my itunes library. I’m not sure which features one misses when not using IE, but I’m loathe to open the software and find out.

dank

Soggy, wet. Overly moist. Double plus moist.

And I am totally incapable of sending some of the vast clamminess to those who really need it.