All Sorted!

Remind me to never try to update wordpress without backing up my files first! Yes I know...my inwils.co.uk blog is hosted with my domain and I am constantly trying to design and update the blog in order to move to that site permanently, but with varies problems I have been using my inwils.wordpress.com for a while. (plus blogger) Anyway today I decided to get stuck into upgrading the wordpress client on my domain, and it went dreadfully wrong, making me have to reload and install both the software and the database again. Then it wouldn't work with MarsEdit! Luckily I think it is all sorted now. So its back to daily blogs if I can manage it and then some redesigning of my own homepage. Yes I know I said I was going to do it ages ago, but things have cropped up, and now I am starting on it in earnest.

Sad day yesterday, Tosca, my cat, who had been ill, sadly had to be put to sleep and is no longer with me. Sad I know and I do miss her and often think I can hear her or expect her to meow when I come home, but really it has caused me to change me life a bit. All her stuff has gone now and I just keep her photos to remind me of the times when she was young and healthy rather than how she was like at the end. Positive happy thoughts.

With it being bank holiday, I decided to go to stars this morning to meet my bezzy and was brave and had a mocha! It was nice and I haven't had much of an effect from it which is good news. While I walked up there I was listening to Deception Point by Dan Brown, a good book so far. In the book, they have found a meteorite from space what has a bugs in it. The thing that I found very interesting was when they started to talk about how versatile and adaptable insects are. Apparently, they can live in all extremes of climate, from deserts to the polar regions. While testing nuclear bombs, scientists actually went to ground zero to inspect the levels of radiation and actually found cockroaches and ants, going about their normal lives while radiation levels were really high! Also their size is limited on Earth because of the effects of gravity. If we had less gravity then they could be bigger, since its the effect of gravity on their exoskeletons that makes them have to be small. Eventhough these facts might only be fiction from a story book, I was still amazed by them! It also reminded me of a memory that I had totally forgotten! When I was at grammar school I remember that we had to do screen printing on our art aprons. I remember quite clearly that I did a green image of a locust, and above and below it were the words...

"Insects Will Rule!"

How forward thinking was I! I also remember that I took a lot of stick over it, oh the traumas forward thinking people have to suffer! Perhaps, out of all the intelligent and complex being on the planet it will be something as small and adaptable as a cockroach that actually ends up surviving and out living us all as a species. I wonder if they have created a survival technique to avoid being stood on yet!

Just before I sign off, wanted to let you know that I have learnt 'Chill Factor' from the internet with some help from a dance instructor called Ami. And I was able to dance it tonight at line dancing...I was well shuffed!!

Work tomorrow so signing off now...don't forget to have fun!