No, not that White House.

The one in Anaheim, California.

Yes, if you, or someone you know is a Long Beach-area kid (Los Angeles and Orange Counties included), and fit into one of three categories: 1st-2nd grader, 3rd-4th grader, or 5th-6th grader, you can enter to win $500, your mother could be declared “Mother of the Year,” and you could win her a dinner-for-two at the Anaheim White House Restaurant.

You are invited to submit 250-words-or-less essays on the topic “Why My Mom Should be Mother of the Year.”

Details are at Justin Rudd’s website:

Your mother just can’t do it ALL! She should know about administering her blog. And she does know a lot more about it than some, but today, she was poking around in the Wordpress blog interface, curious about the ‘Import’ feature on the Dashboard, and decided to try importing an RSS feed into it.

When she found a .XML file within her ‘Application Data’ folder within her ‘FeedReader’ folder that said ‘feeds.xml’, she decided to experiment with it and import that into her blog. OOOPS!!

The little Firefox ‘loading’ icon kept whirring around, and it was maybe about a minute into this process when she decided she’d better abort the mission. Guess what happened?

357 posts were made in this blog, and they were from all the presets in FeedReader from ‘Moreover’, and had nothing to do with the empowerment of women, or anything your mother particularly wants to have show up in this blog, so she went into her phpMyAdmin to have a look at the damage she had done with this little experiment, and found all the posts there, and decided to try to get rid of them.

Well, long story short, your mother doesn’t know enough about database administration to do anything that sophisticated, and she ended up deleting all the posts within this blog. DUUUHHH!!

So this is the first “post-post” she’s submitting, and she’s just going to have to start all over again. Oh well, it had only just begun anyway, and your mother has a lot of obligations because she’s signed up for every affiliate program under the sun, and these advertisers would like to see links to their products here, and of course, her readers want to find informative articles too…

Mother’s going to have to step back and re-assess everything about what this blog is supposed to be. Please feel free to comment about what you’d like to see here. She could use all the help she can get. You may need to log in to comment. Don’t worry about anyone here using your email address to send SPAM. That’s not going to happen. If you’d like to be updated on whjat’s happening here, Mother is working on her newsletter and mailing list, and once that’s up and running, she’ll be sending out a weekly email to anyone who wishes to get updates.

She has just too much to do, and we’re doing our best to help her out, but we don’t really have much of a handle on everything either.