Today marks two years of blogging at easyVegan.info! Veg*n champagne, anyone?

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So I’m back, mostly at least. The surgery went well; the laughing gas and sedatives knocked me on my arse more than anything else. The whole first day I couldn’t keep much of anything down, not even liquids and Vicodin, and so I spent all of Thursday alternating between napping and puking. (A stomach empty save for Dr. Pepper makes for surprisingly interesting vomit. No, for reals.) By Friday my back was seized up from laying around, but I was too dazed to do much of anything else. Same for Saturday. Yesterday I was restless enough that I dragged my but into the office and slogged through my email. Not fun, but at least I got to sit upright for a bit. Yoga felt soooo goood this morning, I almost did it twice.

All in all, the whole experience was not as fun as I’d hoped. I’d had grandiose visions of spending a weekend catching up on Netflix movies, reading a book or two, and just generally milking the sympathy. Not so much. And the caffeine withdrawal (there was a 36 hour stretch where I couldn’t eat *at all*) sure didn’t help matters.

Aside from the four gaping holes in my mouth, I’m good. Good enough to make some lolz, anyways. Here’s a Kaylee series, after she had six teeth removed last March. Her old “owners” sucked ass, but the only thing we can do about that now is love on her and laugh about it as best we can. And edumakate others. So, take your animals to the vet, people, otherwise this is what happens.

Such a sweet face, even with those crazy teefs!

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After 15 years (15 years! that’s, like, half my life!) of pissing and moaning, I’m finally getting my wisdom teeth yanked out tomorrow. I have no idea how long I’ll be out of commission, but Monday sounds about right. Of course, I’m probably just being a big whiny tittybaby.

Either way, I’ll see ya when I see ya.

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Photo via Michael Heilemann

House, that is. Posts will be sporadic to nonexistent (what’s new, right?) for a few weeks while the furbabies and their harried parents get settled in.

Feeling bored? Browse the archives for action alerts to keep busy!

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Jayne’s gone swimming

Between the new house (renovations on which are slowly starting to wrap up), the impending move across town, and the new workload I’m trying to take on to pay for it all, spare time for blogging has been tight. So, for the time being, easyVegan will be on a semi-vacation. Not that your trusty blogger will be getting much rest. No siree. I’ll just be sacrificing my metacarpals to my corporate overlords rather than the greater good, at least for the foreseeable future. Sigh.

So what does this mean for easyVegan the blog? Well, I’ll continue to bring you all the rage-inducing action alerts of days past, but rather than create a separate, detailed post for each issue, methinks I’ll post a “link roundup” every day or two instead. This near-daily link dump will consist of (links to) animal rights/welfare and enviro action alerts, petitions, newsletters, carnivals, press releases, and campaign updates (etc., etc.) that have already been published on the internets. I will, however, continue to reprint emails that have not otherwise been reprinted online (the Friday Farm Sanctuary newsletter comes to mind). (And of course, news items via delicious!)

I expect the new setup to continue until at least October, though I have a sneaking suspicion that I just might like it enough to stick with it fur-ever. Hopefully, once I’m all snuggled into the new digs, I can use my free time to write some original content as opposed to re-editing, re-formatting, and re-gurgitating everyone else’s stuff. That’s the plan, anyway.

Questions? Comments? Points of discussion?

Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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I meant to announce this a looooong time ago, but managed to procrastinate for what must be a record seven months. Anyway, I started bookmarking news items with delicious back in January, and have grown so fond of it that I’ve also taken to tagging veg*n/AR/enviro newsletters that I find interesting, but not interesting enough to write a whole post on ‘em. (Unless it’s got an action alert or an especially outrageous news story, there’s just not enough time in the day, am I right?)

So, while I used to announce new newsletters via individual blog posts, now I plan on tagging them with delicious instead. What this means for you is that, if you want to know when new issues of UPC’s Poultry Press, COK’s Compassionate Action, or AHA’s Humane Review are available, you’ll either need to join their mailing lists or check out my delicious account on a semi-regular basis. (Newsletters are conveniently tagged with the keyword “newsletter” - hint, hint.)

If you’re interested, there are two ways of keeping current with my delicious bookmarks. Firstly, of course, you can just visit my account here: del.icio.us/easyvegan. And if you’re kinda sorta forgetful like me, there’s even an RSS feed: del.icio.us/rss/easyvegan. Yay!

You can also check the newest entries right here, without clicking away from my lovely pawprinted site design: www.easyvegan.info/virtual-library/. (It updates every time the page is refreshed, and displays - I think - the 25 most recent items. I forget, and am not about to go count.)

The “virtual library” primarily houses two feeds: my latest delicious bookmarks, as well as a random selection of books from my LibraryThing account. Though this by no means represents my entire library (or even a fraction of it!), I started with all my animal rights/animal welfare/animal behavior/environmental books, just for you guys. That’s gotta warm the cockles, right? Again, there are some handy-dandy RSS feeds for the absent-minded or just-plain-curious: a feed for newly-added books; another for new reviews of said books, written by yours truly; and a feed for reviews written by any Library Thing user of books that this Library Thing user owns. Got all that?

If not, some interpages for your perusal:

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Astute readers may notice that all of the email addresses posted on easyVegan.info are spam-safe. Rather than publishing email addresses in a format that’s easily harvested by spambots, I try to break ‘em up so that the addresses aren’t inundated with spam. So, instead of posting an email address in its actual format, such as abc@xyz.com, I’ll post it as abc [at] xyz.com. In order to utilize the email addresses, readers hafta fix ‘em. If any given action alert contains only one or two email addys, that’s not too big a hassle. On the other hand, if there are entire blocks of alerts (such as in the Kinship Circle alert I just posted), it takes valuable time to edit each one manually. Thus, a tip.

If any given alert contains more than a few email addresses, copy the spam-safe addresses and paste them into a blank Word document. Then, under the “Edit” drop-down menu, choose “Replace”. In the window that pops up, do this: in the “Find what” field, enter ” [at] “, and in the “Replace with” field, enter “@”. Be sure to include the spaces before and after “[at]”, so that these are deleted. Otherwise, you’ll still end up with a useless email address. After the find and relace is complete, simply copy the new, working email block and paste it into your email program.

Of course, any program with a similar find and replace function will work. I’m not all that Mac-savvy, so if anyone has a Mac-related (or other) suggestion, kindly leave it in the comments.

By the by, I do plan on including this and other tips in an easyVegan.info FAQ. Most of the site is completed, but as you can see, I’ve been putting off the FAQ for, what is it, six months now. Mainly because I’m not really sure what questions/answers to write up! So, if you’ve got a suggestion, let me know! It can be most anything, from “Where do all those alerts come from?” to “What if an email address bounces?” or “I’d like to recommend a resource, what should I do?” Tech questions will work too, so long as they aren’t too complicated.

Now, back to those alerts.

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Well, the vacation’s over. Shane & I returned from Rochester Monday night, and after a day of frantic (and fatigued) unpacking, it’s back to work. I tried my best to keep up with my email while I was gone but, alas, it was a losing battle. So, bear with me while I work through a three-week backlog of 200+ action alerts, newsletters, and other good stuff. Expect a deluge of posts while I get caught up!

Vacation pictures might take a bit longer, though. Between my sis and I, I’ve got more than 3,000 files to sort through (more if any other relatives contribute their snapshots). I’ll post a note when I’m able to upload the best-est to Flickr. (Got lotsa great doggie pics to share!)

Well, Shane & I are headed out on a three-week vacation, dogs in tow. Posting will be sporadic for the next few weeks, but I’ll be back to stay in mid-July. Until then, be patient - it might take me a little while to approve pending comments and reply to email. And feel free to invite fellow animal rights and/or enviro activists to visit the site. I’ve not yet gotten a heckuvalotta traffic, but considering that I haven’t done anything to promote the site, the hits aren’t that bad!

In the meantime, some vintage Ralphie-on-the-road pics. (Vacation pics forthcoming!)
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

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