I had forgotten entirely about pancakes.  What they tasted like.  How they smelled.  What they were, even.  It seems that I have been quite deprived of their particular sensory satisfaction for a year, perhaps years.  How can one live in modern culture and escape all encounters with pancakes?  How?

Then this morning, there they were!  On a plate.  Edible.  Just like a virgin....downed for they very first time.

If you're a Netscape user and can't see the blog up in my header (only IE has the capability), check out nfp.kicks-ass.net -- *notforprophet's attache* .  It's my very-own sponsored weblog.  It resides on my PC and is completely self-contained. 

The only problem is that I still use a dial-up connection with a dynamic DNS address and if that drops, so does my server!  The desired solution: a DSL line with a static IP address.  Then I'll remain *always on* -- even if Xanga experiences outages!

Greymatter, the weblog authoring software, is the coolest thing next to Xanga!  It even has the capability to allow other authors to publish to it with a stipulated ID and password--just like Xanga.  And the ability to customize it is virtually endless.  And best of all, it's free!

To get Greymatter to work on my PC (as opposed to having it sponsored on an externalized domain server), I had to set up my PC as a *server* using another freeware item, Jana Server 2.  This was not trivial as I spent most of the night and this morning perfecting it.  However, it works now!  Dare I say: I win! ??

So my *blog-in-blog* here is now my very own Greymatter blog within my Xanga blog, whereas before I had setup an externalized livejournal blog as a Xanga infiltrant. 

And, oh, by the way, if you see nothing above (IE) and the nfp.kicks-ass.net link is dormant, bear with me: I'm just a fledging webmaster with a dial-up PC in my house