I finally got my insert link button working again, it  took a few days and some frustration but I think I have the problem fixed, though I haven’t figured out why all of a sudden the insert link wasn’t working in the first place. The  problem was that I would highlight my text and hit the insert link button on my WP blog and the pop up window would come up but there was no text in it and the screen was grayed out. I could not click on anything and I had to use the back button or right click and refresh the page. I didn’t see an error message in Firefox so I had no idea what was going on. I had read on the forum in WP that it could be a tinyMCE Popup error, so I downloaded what I though was the right plug-in  but it was not, it did not fix the problem. Fine. I stopped trying to figure it out after a while, I was getting nowhere. So today I figured I would give it another try and I thought that maybe it was a Firefox problem, so I logged into my admin from IE to see if I could use the insert link there. I got the same thing, a blank pop up window, but down in the  browser corner where the word done was was a little yellow error triangle and when I clicked on it I could see the tiny MCE error message. Now I am in business! I went back to the forum page, downloaded and uploaded the right plug-in, followed the directions and shebang! My insert link is working once again!   The tread I read was

Can’t use Insert/Edit Link in Visual Mode: tinyMCEPopup is not defined. Scroll down to the last entry. If that can help someone, I am happy.

So back to a subject that I talked about last post, the hatless German people. This time they were topless. Okay, clean it up, I wasn’t talking about clothing, I am talking about convertible cars. Last Wed. I was out for a walk, the sun was actually out and it was nice. Still cold, mind you, but nice. I am walking down the street (with my hat on) and here comes this guy in a red sport something-or-other car with the top down! Like it is summer! It is 30 something degrees here and this guy is rolling around with his top down. I just stood there and looked at him, as he sat at the red light. He did have a hat on too. So let me get this straight, people don’t wear hats when it is cold out, but if they have the roof of their car down in the winter, then they wear their hats. What the ****? I do notice that the people with hats look like they come from somewhere else. Foreigners! I will not try to make sense of this, all I know is that it seems that most people love the cold here. More power to them.I feel like I live at the top of the world. South Siberia.

And while we are on the subject of things I still don’t understand yet, why is it that people here stand while they eat and drink? I have been and seen a number of places that have tall tables and no seats, everyone  stands around the tables eating and drinking coffee or beer. And some places have the tables outside,where hatless people stand around chatting and having a grand old time. Sipping Schnapps probably, that’s why they appear to not notice that they are standing in the cold. I keep meaning to ask someone why they stand up when they eat, I guess maybe they just like to, or maybe it gets the food to the stomach faster. I’ll report back on this later when and if I get an answer.

I was talking to my landlord the other day, the sunny one, he was saying that in a couple of months the sun will be high enough in the sky to actually reach the ground here in the city. YO-DE-LAY-HE-HOO! Two months?!?!? Damn, think I’ll go get my shorts on and wait out on the balcony! That will be late March. I noticed he didn’t say it would be warmer though. Actually I have started to wear my shorts around the apartment, I am tired of wearing pants everyday, I wear them with my thermal knee high socks. Tooooooasty!