January 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Oh. my. gosh. Internet explorer on my computer is STUPID. Yeah. So, I'm coding this layout, and as soon as I add in an alpha filter to the CSS and then refresh the page, the stupid IE information bar pops up saying that there could be a danger. Keep in mind, all it is is a CSS filter and the file is one that is ON my computer, that I wrote. There are NO dangers stupid IE! So, it's continually doing that while I'm tweaking code and refreshing and it's pissing me off. Then I'm like, "wait a second, I use that same filter code on both the skins at Harmony Alley and my computer doesn't have a cow." So, I upload the files I'm working on and test them running off the server. No problems. Then I go and find one of the files from Harmony Alley on my computer, and open it and then the stupid bar pops up again telling me that it's not a good idea to allow active content. I was not aware that a CSS FILTER was active content! *throws up hands* At least, theoretically, when people visit the sites online, if they're using IE (like me), they shouldn't get the obnoxious bar. Theoretically. *rolls eyes at IE*
You know what would be flippin' hilarious? If my computer decided not to have a cow when I turn it on tomorrow. lol Like how the other day I put in a CD-RW I'd made on my laptop and my desktop knew the disk was in, could tell stuff was on it, but would not show any of the files! Then, for the heck of it, I tried a day or two later and it worked fine. *confused* At least the things hasn't crashed again like the first day. lol *prays that now she's said that it doesn't decide to happen again*
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Ah, this is much better. With the help of my mom, I have raised the back of my computer chair, and it feels much nicer now. lol I could still use a new and better one where the back will go up hight and provide more support, but this is good for now while I wait to have $50-100 to throw around for a new chair. lmao There was this really nice one at Office Depot that felt good and was on sale for $50... but as I'm not making much money right now, it's just not doable. Speaking of making money... I applied for another job yesterday. I feel like I'm actually qualified for this one and might possibly at least get a call for an interview or something! Who knows! Haha.
I don't think anything of note happened during this past week until Friday. If it did, it's apparently not enough note for me to remember right now. ;) Anyway, Friday my mom and I went and saw some movies. I use the plural form there because mom saw Dreamgirls and I saw Children of Men. Mom said the former was okay, which is the same thing I had to say about the latter. Normally we see the same movie together, but I didn't particularly care to see her movie in theatres, and she has no desire at all to see mine. ;) I don't know, Children of Men was okay and I found it interesting how society functioned in the situation, but (and here are spoilers), they kill off all the main characters except for one by the end of the movie, and the end is kind of lame. I mean, it's obvious she and the baby get picked up by The Human Project people, but then it just fades out and shows the title with the sound of children's laughter playing in the background. I assume that means that somehow they managed to figure out what the problem was and people started reproducing again, but dang, I would have appreciated a little more.
Yesterday wasn't anything great. I believe I watched a movie and sat around generally not accomplishing anything. Yup. I made a list of things I needed to do. lol
Today I was woken up before eight for church. I did not get much sleep last night. lol You'd think I'd be tired now, but nope; gotta stay up until 3 AM or something. Maybe there's something wrong with my brain? Haha. Anyway... after church my mom and I went and watched A Night At The Museum. Then, we came home and I proceeded to get on my computer. Which brings me to one of the items on my to-do list I wrote yesterday.
I've finally started to get my TCG Admin script ready for being released. At least, the first version anyway. I'm kind of thinking of adding some stuff to it, but that likely won't be for a while. I started planning the database structure for part of the addition, but I'm still not sure how I want to do it. Anyway, I've gotten a fair few e-mails from people asking about the script and when it's going to be available (probably at least 10), so I thought I should finally get going to get it online. The most time-consuming part remains: writing instructions. lol Well, I mean, it took a long time to code, but that's been done for a while (I just had to polish it up), so the instructions are going to be worse. ;) I am motivated, though, by the hope that some of the people who decide to use the script will refer me at DreamHost (psst... if you sign up and enter STARAFAR as your promo code, you get the setup fee waived or a few months free if you pay for a year or more in advance) or donate through them to my hosting bill. lol My reward click-thru report from there says that there were 207 clicks in the last year, but only Sam referred me. lol (Thanks again Sam!!!) The money I got from the referral has now run out though. Good thing that websites are fairly high up on my what to spend money on priority list. ;)
Monday, January 22, 2007
I had planned to be good and work on getting my TCG Admin script ready to be released and writing instructions, etc. for it today, but then I decided that Harmony Alley needed stamp cards. So, out of purely selfish desire (though I'm sure this benefits the other members as well) to get more cards by having traded with lots of people already, I did that. lol Then, I felt in the mood and made a new deck and released that there as well. ;) I almost started making more decks, but then I watched some TV with mom while I ate and just didn't feel like starting now when I'd probably end up staying up for hours working on it. I was woken up early today (yes, 10 AM is early people), so I'll probably be tired soon. You know... like in an hour or so. lol
Why was I so rudely awakened at such an early hour, you ask? Why, the phone rang. I decided not to get up and answer it, but then I heard the message being left, which meant I had to get up after all. *sigh* Oh well, it was probably good for me, right? Anyway, I'm being nice (but still getting paid) and doing some extra stuff to help the theatre this week. It was just supposed to be getting a phone call, but then I found out I had to go down to the theatre to get some stuff. Well, at least that got me out of the house, and I did NOT have to drive my car--dad let me borrow his. I'm honestly afraid to drive my car. Plus, I'm sure the battery has de-charged itself once again and the hood doesn't pop up (you have to get a screwdriver or something to get it up). Yes, borrowing dad's car was far less of a hassle and healthier. If I have not already mentioned, mold is growing in my car again. It did this last year, but I cleaned it up and it was good through the warm months. This year is worse. *cringe*
Okay, got to get a job in order to buy a new (to me) car. lol Actually, last night I made a list of goals for this year. That's a big deal for me because the last time I did anything with "goals" was in like 6th or 7th grade when they forced me to in school. Yeah, at that age I'm supposed to know/have a goal of where I wanted to be in 10 years. *rolls eyes* I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I just made something up so that I could finish the assignment and be done with it. I'm feeling pretty good about my goal sheet for this year though. I was inspired by an e-mail from the NaNoWriMo people proclaiming this as the year to do really big scary things together (I'm paraphrasing, of course). It got me thinking, as did Freedom Writers. See, I've been in this very pesimistic mood and complaining a lot and just sort of down on hope, but God is picking me back up right now, and at the moment I feel pretty darn good. :) Some of my goals are big, some are pretty much guarenteed, and some are not yet necassarily goals so much as possible ideas. I don't really want to share them all right now, but I'll tell you a few. Two I've already mentioned in this post: getting a job and a new (to me) car. Another is to participate in the NaNo people's latest thing, Script Frenzy, which starts in June, I believe. It's to write a screenplay in a month; which, realistically, is a whole lot less to ask than writing a 50K novel in a month. ;) Plus, I've already got a lot of the pre-writing done from that script writing class I took a while back! Woo hoo! lol
Saturday, January 20, 2007
I watched four movies yesterday. Whew! lol First, my mom and I went to a matinee of Freedom Writers. GOOD movie! Really good movie, as a matter of fact. I highly recommend that you go to see it, or at least rent it when it comes out on video. It did a lot of good for me too, because it was one of those movies that gives you hope and I needed that. :) Anyhoo, after the movie, mom and I went to Pizza Hut and had evil, tasty pizza. lol It was good. :)
We got home after that and a couple errands and then Emily came over to watch Harry Potter movies. She's just now starting to read some of the books and hadn't seen any of the movies (only pieces of a few). Well, first we talked for a while, but then we watched HP 1. Between that and HP 2 we took a break to make chocolate chip cookies (more evil food I should not be eating, lol). It was about 1 AM when the second movie was over, and then we decided to watch the third one! lol She went home at about three. Then she was going to come over again today to watch the fourth movie, but she decided, since she is currently reading the fourth book, that she'd rather wait till she finished the book before watching that one, so we'll watch that another day.
So today I just watched TV for a while after I got up, then got on my computer. Essentially, same thing as normal. ;) I think it's about time for food though. At least I'm going to have a healthy item for dinner since all the leftover pizza is already gone--corn chowder soup! Anyway, off I go again.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
The above link is NOT just for Americans, though every American should watch it. If you are from another country--ANY country--PLEASE watch this video! The beginning may not mean a lot to you, but the end certainly should. This is by far the scariest, horrible, most sorrowful thing I have ever come to know: and I believe it. You can call me crazy or a conspiracy theorist or anything else you want if that's what you believe after you have watched the ENTIRE film I have linked above.
God save us all.
Petition to shut down the Federal Reserve - Freedom To Fascism.com
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
As is my right by the laws originally set forth at the beginning of the United States, I have Voted to Impeach Bush and written to my Senators and Congressman urging them to get the ball rolling and call for the impeachment of Bush, et al. I would now urge and invite all fellow US citizens who read this to do the same. I would also suggest you visit THIS site and read about why this impeachment needs to happen, and that we are the ones to do it, otherwise, by doing nothing, we are essentially commiting the same crimes. I have done something now. I also find THIS site very interesting. And, in line with this, for those Americans that believe the lies the government has told us about 9/11, do a google search and check out 911truth.org. There are a lot of websites out there that talk about this subject. A lot.
Edit: If you think it's still just a conspiracy theory, watch THIS with an open mind and decide for yourself using common sense and the evidence.
Well, my good deed is done for the day! ;) lol Sam was having trouble with a site she is redesigning for a client. She couldn't figure out why some links in an iframe were only showing up in that frame, instead of the main page where they were supposed to. Took me a few seconds to figure out looking at the code. Sometimes you just need fresh eyes on these things. The number of times I have spent hours on a problem with code that just turned out to be a missing quote or semi-colon is uncountable. *sigh* But then, after all the hours of struggle, when you finally see the itty bitty thing right there in front of you that's been causing all of your problems and you fix it, and then the script starts working... THAT is a good feeling. ;)
I feel much better than the other day when I posted. I finally got some sleep. Still not the full night I was hoping for, but I have slept the last two nights, so I think it's slowly getting better as far as the insomnia goes. The other stuff comes in bouts at different times. *sigh* Anyway, I also accomplished some stuff yesterday, so that was helpful. I steamed veggies, did a thorough cleaning of the kitty litter box, and my mom helped me make some soup. :) Haven't done anything but watch TV and be on the computer yet today though. lol Perhaps I'll do some writing stuff later. I think I could maybe feel like that.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
This whole not sleeping thing is really starting to get to me. I don't feel so great. It's not like I'm doing it on purpose either. I CAN'T sleep. I've been trying for days (or nights, however you prefer to look at it), and I don't think I've gotten more than a few hours of sleep each night--definitely not in solid blocks. I tried different things, and I'm trying some new ones tonight, and maybe they'll work. I certainly feel crappy enough to go to sleep, but whether or not I will shall remain to be seen. I think it's two things: I've been eating too much cheese lately and I'm really rather down about a number of things that I haven't necessarily wanted to admit. Then, I voice what's bothering me (or the beginnings of it) and get hit with stuff that only serves to further stress me out, make me feel more guilty and even more like a lazy bum than I already know I am. I know it wasn't meant to affect me in that respect, but that's how it came out. I just feel so down about the world and my place (or lack thereof) in it right now. You could do all these things if you really wanted to. Okay, well that means I'm not motivated, I'm lazy, and I don't deserve any of those things, so why bother? See how I'm pesimistic right now?
In other news, I did my taxes on Wednesday--mostly by myself too, so that was sort of an accomplishment. It's not really that hard; the government just sucks at explaining it. Anyway, woo haw for lots of money back. I was more excited (at the time) about the occupation I wrote down though. There's this dumb box for your occupation next to your signature. I'm sort-of employed... uh. Yeah. So, anyway, I couldn't think of what to put so I asked my mom and she said Web Designer, which I almost wrote until I came up with WRITER. Take that stupid world! I am a writer. I told the government so. But then again, I'm all, "screw the governmen," so what does that really mean?
There was something else I was going to write, but I kept forgetting until the middle of the night when I was up with insomnia and really just wanted to fall asleep. Oh, possibility of going to Cali in the spring. Disneyland sounds extra nice right now. Okay, I'm going to go. I just remembered some other stuff I was going to write about how everyone I know in real life must think I'm a loser since none of them want to be my friends, but there's enough angst here, that I'll just leave it at that brief mention. And, as the world has taught me, "don't worry, I'll be fine."
Monday, January 8, 2007
Woo hoo! Just launched Harmony Alley, the new Backstreet Boys TCG that Aceetha, Sam, and I have made. :) Everyone go check it out! And, you know, join if you're a BSB fan. ;)
Hey, is it just that no one has felt the desire to leave me a tag message, or is my new security feature too confusing/not working? It worked when I tested it, and I thought it was easy enough to figure out, but I could have been wrong. Someone e-mail me if it needs tweeking please. :)
In other news... Friday was not that great apparently as I can't really remember it at all. lol Saturday I went and saw Night at the Museum with Emily (new friend), and then we went to the arcade and played lots of DDR and ParaPara Paradise. My arms and legs were rather sore, and now my arches on my feet hurt because I wasn't wearing the best shoes for DDR. lol The movie was hilarious though, and I recommend it to all! I enjoyed it a lot.
Yesterday Emily and I got together for some writing time. This time we actually did a bit of writing instead of just talking about stuff the whole time. ;) Well, Emily did writing anyway. I wrote down one note thing, and then read through some of the stuff I've already got written and some of my other notes. I just didn't feel like writing at the time I guess.
Speaking of writing, I'm really excited that I found ChristianWriters.com. It's a nice forum and I've gotten some good advice with some things already. :) I was surprised, but jazzed, that they have a forum specifically for SF/F, too. Woo haw! Anyway... off I go for now. Think I may apply for a job as my car should be condemned and I don't have money for a new one. lol
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Well, after I had gotten my new computer happily up and running the other night, I shut it down and went to bed. When I woke up on the 1st (after having had some sleep), I turned it on again with the intention of loading programs. Nope. My computer restarted itself a moment after the desktop came up. When it got back into windows after that, it said that my computer had recovered from a serious error (from a driver). I was like... "okay." So, I re-started my computer hoping everything would be okay. Nope. Did the same thing it did before, restarting itself and then giving the error message. Then I like tried restarting it myself again or something (can't remember) and all heck broke loose! The computer wouldn't even get into windows before it restarted itself and it just kept going in a viscious cycle of restarting over and over again! I had to manually force the computer to turn off completely. I was going to call support, but I figured that was pointless, so on the boot screen I got it to go into the recovery section. First I did a partial recovery, then decided to do a complete one erasing everything and re-installing windows. I think the problem was a driver for a USB/Ethernet adaptor I had. But, it dawned on me that my new comptuer actually has an Ethernet port, so I didn't need the USB thing! That cleared up that, but I still waited like another day to start putting any of my files on it or anything. lol I was a little scared the computer was going to go completely kaput on me. Praise God it seems to be doing okay still! Hopefully it will continue, but I did have a little more "fun" last night.
I made a data disk on a DVD+RW of my files. Then, I put it into my laptop to make sure it had written properly (which went okay), and then back into my desktop to double-check. I clicked on a few image files on the disk to view them, and then double clicked to go into a folder on it and my computer re-started itself! I was like, "what the heck?" So, I tried again and after the third or fourth thing I clicked on, the computer restarted itself again! That makes NO sense to me. Why would the computer suddenly decide to restart itself when I'm clicking on a folder or image file on a DVD in the drive? *confused* So, I e-mail support and that was absolutely POINTLESS! They e-mailed me back thinking that the problem was that I couldn't open a GIF file. That's not what I wrote. I wrote my computer was restarting itself when I tried to access multiple files on a DVD+RW disk I'd created. The reply e-mail did not address that problem at all! They just said to boot into safe mode and try opening the file to see if it would open then and then get back to them. *rolls eyes* I don't think so. I may try it again later and see if it still restarts and consider calling support tomorrow to see if I could get anyone that would actually be able to help (as I hear that's hard to get). Or, I might just pray it's not a more serious problem and everything else will be okay. lol
And here I was hoping my computer would work great out of the box. ;) Other than those two things it's been good. lol
Edit: Silly me! I forgot to mention that you all should go and download Drew Seeley's songs. They're very good. I especially like "You Don't Know How It Feels." :D
Monday, January 1, 2007
2007, I greet thee. :) And a Happy New Year to you all! I feel good about this year. It's looking up; you know, even though I don't have a job and stuff. ;) Hehehe. No, no, it looks good and I'm excited. :)
So, it's now four in the morning on New Years Day and I have basically just finished getting my new computer setup. Okay, I mean, I got it setup before now (hour or two ago once I stopped burning disks on my old comp), but I was deleting yucky software, installing all the modem stuff so I could actually connect to the internet (woo!), and seeing if my Outlook Express files being transferred over worked. It did! At least, it transferred all of my messages anyway. For some reason not my mail settings or my address book. So, I plugged the now old comp into some extra outlets, turned it on, and hand wrote out my address book. Good thing there aren't that many addresses! lol And it's a good thing I did have the passwords for my e-mail written down and found them right away! Double yay! lol So far, so good--PRAISE GOD! I mean it too. I am so thankful to God! My monitor is fine (no dead pixels), the computer booted up and installed windows peachy keen, and everything else I've tried so far has worked, so I'm a happy camper. Will continue to pray for things I haven't tried to work as well. ;)
Speaking of the monitor... I wrote that it was a 19" widescreen LCD Flat-Panel, right? Well, it didn't look THAT big at the store, or even when I'd pulled it out of the box and had it setup on my floor while I got other things unpacked; BUT, when I put it up on my desk and sat down to look at it... HOLY COW! It's gynormous (sp on that? lol)! Wow. It is going to take some getting used to, that's for sure. And dang, I think I need to turn the brightness down even more--it seems so freakishly bright. However, that could more so be because I've been up WAY too long and should really go to bed. Especially since my mom has a cold and this is not helping my immune system. lol
So yes, I suppose I shall sign off. I think I've officially gotten things underway enough to take a break until tomorrow (aka later today). Besides, I don't want to wear down the space bar like I did on my old keyboard just yet. That's another thing about a new computer... I can read the letters on all of the keys again! lol Happy day. j/k So, I imagine that after I have slept well into the afternoon, I will get up and begin installing software. After that will be the... *counts* ...TWELVE CDs of files to copy onto the hard drive. The strange thing is, I probably WILL have fun with it all. ;) I guess testing out how a movie looks on this thing will have to wait until after sleep as well. Goodnight all, and may your computers be nice to you in the new year! ;) *giggles*
