Gravatar update

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I’m going to choose one of those 3 little pics as the default for my non-Gravatarred commenting buds.  I know.  I know.  You’ll miss the highly esteemed Mystery Man we chatted about in my previous post about getting your very own Gravatar and how easy (and free,) it is.  Sorry.  But folks, M. Man has seen his day here and we do have the technology to make this blog all that it can be: my Wordpress Consultant, Kim Woodbridge sees to stuff like that, whoo-hoo.

I’m leaning towards the wood duck.  What do you think?

Here is the duck bigger (If you wish, click it to bigger it even more.  Actually, click twice for maximum biggerment.)  I shot him (with my camera,) along the running trail last year.  He is so freaking gorgeous – looks like a painting, I do declare.  Wait, is he in fact a “he?”  I need to brush up on my wood ducks.

So let me know if you like 1, 2 or 3 better and I’ll go with the general concensus.  Please!  And thank you!

Oh, and I’ll totally post that “Blame Tara Meme” next time – look for it on Saturday morning, early.  It reveals tidbits about my Mr. Spock belt buckle, my Uncle Sylvester’s 3-legged goat and my full-body girdle.

Toodles!

Got Gravatar? No? It’s Easy!

Globally Recognized Avatars — a.k.a. Gravatars, are those little square photos that appear beside blog comments.

Maybe you’ve seen mine around?

Lately, as some of you have noted, I’ve changed up the automatically-generated comment images for the not-yet-Gravatarred of you.  I was tired of the old “identicons” and upon experimenting with Wordpress’ other choices of aliens and monsters, which are too weird even for me, plus some of you were assigned sad faces and that just won’t do, I’ve settled on…

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the highly esteemed mystery man photo credit:buildinternet.com

Friends, if you don’t have your own Gravatar, It’s SO EASY to get one and YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE A WORDPRESS BLOG for it to work, the latter tidbit I owe to the wonderful bloggers Karyn and Barkaly.

Here’s what Gravatar.com says…

“Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled sites, like Jannie’s!”

Of course, I could’ve told you that myself but I have to show off that I finally figured out how to do a blockquote box!

Go Jannie, go!  Kick some blockquote keister!

Hey, and once you have your Gravatar, all your past comments become magically retroactively Gravatarred.  And Gravatar.com does not use your e-mail address for anything even remotely nefarious. Plus, and get this  — just for signing up, Gravatar will send you and 7 friends on an all-expenses-paid first class World Cruise!!!

So, if you don’t have a Gravatar and would like one, why delay another moment! Go now — Go! To Gravatar.com.

And for those of you who already have your Gravatar, have you anything you might like to share about yours?

Ordering The Funsterment

MY FABULOUS NEW P.O. BOX !!!!!! - what a thrill.   Now I’m more than ever a semi-somebody! 

(Thanks Cedar’s Mountain blog for the ”semi-somebody” contribution.) 

Have you noticed the new buttons on the kind-of-upper-right-area of this page?!  Yes, three ways to add Jannie’s award-winning songstressing to your realm.  (CDs $10.00, plus low S&H.)

1. By Paypal / credit card (that yellow “Buy Now” button)
2. Send money to MY FABULOUS NEW P.O. BOX !!!!!!
3. Buy the CD here in Austin at Waterloo Records.

(I’ll work on that i-Tunes thing next.)

My aim is to get my hands all sticky with HTML code and replace those 3 buttons to the right with one gloriously feng shui ”Buy Jannie’s CD!” button, to whisk you to my Buy CD page where you’ll commune with my spirit while ordering CDs to your heart and wallet’s content any time of the day or night, in any weather, in any manner of dress or undress.

And now…  a total non-sequitur…  what album(s) have you worn out playing?

I’ll go first…  U2s “The Joshua Tree.”   Carole King’s “Tapestry.”  And Bach and Handel’s “Greatest Hits.”

And have you noticed a fair amout of ass-kicking around here lately??

A Musician’s List

photo credit: Lueken’s Liquors

CDs ready - check

PA system - check

Guitar, tuner, fresh guitar 9V battery, guitar stand, capo, microphone, microphone for Kelly, mike cables, 2 mike stands, guitar cable, surge board, stringless uke, spoons, shaker, tambourine, video camera charged, tripod, duct tape, scissors, barstool, music stands (just in case,) music book, set lists, reminder to Tracy, Adrian, Kalyani and Ryan to bring their cables, Kalyani’s mike stand - check

2 pretty cloth tablecloths, CD display case, bottle of Chandon sent to my house from Patricia’s Wisdom!!! Gorgeous FTD bouquet of roses et al sent to my house from Patricia’s Wisdom and Life Coach Davina at Shades of Crimson!!! – check

Dozens of bottled waters – check

Lemonade and jug, little cups, munchie plates, napkins - check

Shiny pink toenails – check

Bangs permed, roots colored, hair trimmed – check

7 hours peaceful sleep – check

Mantra – check.

Still to do (get,)…. 4 miles on running trail, guitar tuner batteries, ice, cheeses, crackers, fruit, munchies, more champagne, cookies, lightbulbs.  Tracy chord chart on “Hearts & Bones,” call him about the B minor vs the D major 7.

Dudes, I’m going running and shopping!

xo

The CDs Have Landed!

Got them last week!  Was going to start taking orders yesterday but decided to wait until after the Release show Sunday, so I can focus this week on strumming my gee-tar, perfecting my macaroni sheep sculptures and kissing the running trail trees with my eyes.

Plus, I need to find me a fabulous new blue shirt!!  And maybe even some super-funky pants.

Here’s the CD’s front cover.

Here’s the back cover. (Totally went for the barcode, Dudes!)

And this sticker… (but smaller than depicted here,)

will go on the outside of the shrinkwrap of the CDs to be sold in stores.

In total, “I Need A Man,” includes 8 full-color pages of art, photos, writing and other never-before-seen stuff.  And the songs sounded good before but now with the packaging they sound, IMHO, pretty darn great.  How is that?

CDs available locally at Waterloo Records, starting next week, I hope.

Mail orders available directly from me — each CD packed in a pristine bubble envelope with aromatic moonbeams, Texas morning air and a specially chanted Jannie love incantation.   With a free Jannie autograph, if desired — the latter which will necessitate shrinkwrap removal.

$10.00 USD per CD.   Low shipping and handling, details to be posted Monday on my new Buy CD page.

I plan to put the songs on iTunes too, when I figure it out.  And maybe Amazon.com or CD Baby or some other such dew-fangled thing, if it makes sense.

Oh!!  Guess what?!  I’ve put another 6 MP3 snippets from the CD up on my Song Samples page.  Have a listen if you’re so in the mood.  They vary from about 45 to 60 seconds each.

And friends, my posting may be especially light for the rest of this week, to give myself a little pre-show “vacation” and allow me to get over with joyful abandon to read all your blogs.  Yay!

So take care and I’ll see you soon!!    xo