AtomicMrX

I’ve added some cool stuff to the old blog. All the research for the other web sites is paying off because I’m finding some very helpful plugins for my own blog. I’ve added a very easy to use Photo Gallery tool. It is so easy to upload the pictures now and it make the thumbnails automatically. I’ll be uploading more photos now that it’s much easier to do. Plus you can still click on any of the photo thumbnails and it will open an enlarged version with the photos caption.

I’ve taken some Summer time pictures of the garden. We have herbs, herbs, and more herbs. You can only eat so much herbs and Shannon planted a bunch of them! Just go to the Photos tab at the top of the page and you will see the Album with all the Summer pictures.

Well, I went and upgraded the WordPress blogging software to 2.6 (the latest). I use a plug-in that does it “automatically” (with a lot of prompting but still - much easier than the manual way)! 

I really like the changes they made to WordPress 2.6 but unfortunately they are only visible while in the administrative areas of the blog. It’s much easier to get around and everything looks sharp!

I’m trying out a few new plug-ins to see if I like them. The Who’s Online and Tags. I don’t know much about the Tags one so I’ll have to get use to using it.

I have been working hard on two other web sites so I have neglected the AtomicMrX Blog badly. One is a make over site and the other I’m just trying to incorporate the blogging software into it to make updates much easier to do (especially the photo albums!).

Work is starting to pick up as we approach the election. We will be doing a lot more overtime in the next few months. 

Well, the Topsy Turvy Tomatoes are doing great so I thought I would share some photos of their progress.

Here is Tiny Tim and Super Bush:

We should have nice red tomatoes by the end of next week!

I’m up to the Slimy Sewer levels and I’ve gotten mega stuck one time so far on Slimy Sewer level 2. I finally figured it out last night but I had to play the same level over, and over, and over, and over for about 20 times till my timing was just right. I was going insane (okay, insan-er)! Once I did complete that level I stopped for the night because it took about an hour and a half to complete and the next level looks even harder.

Here is another video of Toki Tori:

After the Slimy Sewer levels I’ll be at the last level: Bubble Barrage. There are ten puzzles per each level.

Toki Tori is a Wii Ware game available for the Wii. I downloaded it over the weekend and have been playing everyday. It is fun, challenging and good for my old brain. Basically, Toki Tori is a puzzle/platform game in which the players use a variety of items such as Telewarp, InstantRock and Slug Sucker. Clever use and combinations of these items is needed to solve all the game’s levels, of which there are more than 70. These levels range from easy to brainteasingly hard.

With all this rain, the garden is growing like crazy and so are my upside-down tomato plants!

I finally broke the 200 pound mark. This week I weighed in at 199 which also makes my 20 pound loss mark as well. I am now about half way (ugh)!