Red alert - changes ahead!

I'm the proud owner of a new domain name: survivingoz.com. I couldn't resist - I was mooching around and searching for domain names to amuse myself (simple minds, folks), and discovered that it was due to expire, so I used snapnames' hot ninja moves to grab it. I'm going to apply it as a custom domain name for this blog, so there are a few changes ahead!

What does this mean for you? If you try to visit lisa-ben.blogspot.com directly, you may get a redirect page with a little warning saying you are being directed outside of Blogger - just click OK to proceed to the blog (yes the URL is outside Blogger, but the content will still be hosted here, so it's really a change in name only).

I hope you'll stick with me for more musings on huge spiders, pubic hair books, toilet snakes, Aussie tips and things that go bump in the night! Blogger occasionally has some teething issues with redirecting to custom domains, so if you get a 404 error initially, don't panic - just try again in a few hours, or the next day.

In other news tidbits:

• I broke Korben the Wonder Dog. Seriously. A couple days ago, we were playing chase the ball (not fetch, since he doesn't bring it back - luckily there are seventy billion toys in the yard so I only have to move three inches to pick up another one), he pivoted badly on his left hind leg and is now limping sadly around. The vet has said to give it a week or so, but if it doesn't show improvement by then it's probably something worse than just a nasty strain. Let's hope not!
• As of this morning, Indiana the Obnoxious Puppy is a eunuch. He's not thrilled with his sudden lack of bodyparts, but them's the shakes, as my Nana says.
  
• My laptop is currently being cleaned. I didn't realize how attached I was to it until now. I may need a 12-step program.
  
• This is a fabulous book. It's going on my To Buy list.
• This is NOT a fabulous book. It's overblown tripe where the author uses his character's lack of experience in composing a narrative as an excuse for poor writing (really - the protagonist actually asks the reader to do this). What's up with all these overwritten, pretentious books being lauded as literary masterpieces lately? Whatevs. Grow a pair and admit it's not a good book just because it's a bajillion pages long and you think you look important reading it! Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest.

Over and out, folks - see you in a day or two on the new site!