Hi. This thing on? I had a power outtage this morning, and it has played silly buggers with just about everything.

My phone? The one I take calls on for the psychic network? It depends on electricity. Who knew? My call was cut off. Then, when power was restored, I had to put it on the charger. You’d think the gods of electricity don’t want me to make money today, but I fooled them. I actually have a hard-wired type landline that doesn’t rely on electricity.

I was just finishing off my shop items, because apparently, there was some bogus message about paypal not doing its duty. So I recoded the buttons and they seem fine now. Regular shipping is included in the shop prices, but express? You will have to slip me a few extra bux to get those puppies in time for Christmas. Same with the purple plates and disks. They make lovely prezzies.

I did some shopping on Etsey yesterday, and it was painless and lovely. I can’t give too many details in case the recipients read this here drivel, but I had to pay extra to get things shipped express. Because I seldom get out of the house and all.

One last bit of pimpage here, and I will rest your weary eyes. I am leaving my pricing for my readings in Canadian dollars until January 1st. So for the $50 reading, you can save $10 unless the US dollar takes a swan dive. A reading makes a nice gift is all I’m saying. And? I include a sound recording of the session.

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I’d forgotten how ridiculously easy Dreamweaver is to work with for web developers.

It’s like if you sneeze, Dreamweaver hands you a tissue.

And, it made me absurdly happy to fix my purple plates site. If you have Internet Explorer 6, you can access the site from a link on the page.

I was singing in my head, because that is the only place it sounds good to anybody, “Wooo-oooo, you’re my best friend” and I was referring to Dreamweaver.

I wouldn’t make out with it and have its babies, because, Hello? It’s software.

I’m guessing not much that is soft makes the babies. Where was I?

The reason the site was wonky? One tiny piece of code, three characters long, on one page.

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Yep, those three. I was too sick over the weekend to tackle any kind of task requiring any smarts at all. I stayed up late last night, poring over code, and had the solution for IE6 this morning. All of the problems with the site had to do with file management.

Or, in my case, file mis-management.

I feel much better now.

Go buy some. They’re awesome. You are too, and you always smell nice.

Usually, it’s Ask witchypoo, but there were no questions in this letter I received, just an accounting of how the wondrous purple plates worked for her. Her would be Jenny of Hyphen Mama fame.

I loved my purple plates so much, I gave them all away too, and I suspect Jenny is doing the same thing. Here’s what she has to say:

Witchy,
I wanted to share a funny little ditty with you regarding the small circular purple plate I most recently bought for my dog.

I have a 7 year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever/Black Lab mix who LOVES to play with his tennis ball. He could chase his tennis ball 24 hours a day and he’d be a happy boy. About 3 years ago (maybe more, maybe less… my memory fails me) he was jumping for a tennis ball and came down on one of his hind legs and partially tore his ACL. He limped for a few weeks and we took him to the vet, who x-rayed it and told us to see if it would heal on its own. Well, being the runner he is, he never stopped moving long enough to let it fully heal. He’s had a limp since that time. I’ve had him treated with acupuncture and chiropractic care. We can’t afford the $3000 for a knee replacement for him. He continued to limp. Especially after he’d been playing ball. I feed him joint supplements. He limped around almost all the time. Poor guy, had a really hard time getting up and down the stairs.

I put the small circular purple plate on his collar a few months ago. In just the past 2 weeks or so, I’ve noticed HE’S NOT LIMPING. He will limp a tiny bit, but continues to use that leg (where before he’d just lift it up and only use 3 legs). He walks on that leg. He jumps on it. He chases balls without a limp.

I don’t know what the heck it is…but I’m going with it.

Incidentally, I had a spare large circle and my dad was talking about his aches and pains this past weekend. I sent that one off to him and he’s now keeping it in his pocket. He SWEARS that after only a day or so he’s already feeling a difference. He admits it could be wishful thinking, but he doesn’t care.

I wear mine around my neck all the time and just wait for people to ask me about it, because I can’t wait to tell them about it!

Thanks witchy, for such a great little thingy.
Jenny
Hyphen Mama

p.s. Also, I hung one over Mack’s bed when he was around 17 months old, that’s when he first started sleeping through the night. But I had to remove the one from Wynnie’s bedroom, as she wasn’t able to sleep at all! Funny how it affects each differently.

I don’t understand why more of you aren’t snapping these plates up. They’re wicked good. And I barely break even on my costs. I just want everyone to have one.