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Why am I sitting up at 11:30am?

I guess that it’s not such an unusual question, until you consider that I haven’t yet been to bed. I sat up all night working on a template for this website that would appear correctly in browsers other than my own.

I finally gave up and lucked upon this great template that I barely modified. I’m loving it so far. And if you discover that it doesn’t look right in your browser, please let me know… but not until next week. I don’t think I can take that news right now.

Today marks the last day of NaBloPoMo. I can’t say I’m sad about it. I mean, it was great getting into the habit of writing at least once a day. But I’m happy to not have to type “NaBloPoMo” for much longer.

I know they’re giving out prizes for people who managed to write every day. I want to know who has the job of going through all 2000+ blogs to determine who’s eligible.

It seems my post from a couple of days ago about Gays and Christianity has been nominated for inclusion in the Sacramento Bee. Check out this site for more information.

UMB is now officially addicted to blogging, and it seems that he’s actually reading other people’s blogs. He still doesn’t read mine. Guess he thinks he knows all my stories. It’s a strange age when the world at large knows about something funny that happened to me, or some conversation I had, and UMB shares my house/bed/pets/life and knows nothing about it.

Kristy has informed me that we’re doing another karaoke night soon. I promise more photos, as I’m sure something hilarious will happen. Maybe Othurme will finally get lucky with Dill.

Ok. Crack of noon… guess it’s time to get some sleep.

in Rant, Web Design

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Allow me for just a moment to speak geek and tell everyone out there who still uses Internet Explorer or, God FORBID, the America Online Browser to please, please, PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU, get used to using an internet browser that complies with the W3C standards!!!!

Your refusal to comply results in my spending hours… HOURS!!!! trying to fix the coding of a website so that the page will look right to you.

Get yourself moved to FIREFOX or Opera or even NETSCAPE immediately. You’ll learn to love it, trust me!

in FYI, Links, Relationships, Web Design

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This past weekend, UMB got really sick of listening to Jerry, Dan and I talk about blogs, writing them, reading them, and designing them. He was tired of discussions about NaBloPoMo and the vast number of really shitty websites out here in the tubes.*

UMB had not ever read my blog. I’ve got archives that date back to long before I met him.** Yet he claims that he didn’t know about it until a few months ago… and even then didn’t feel compelled to read.

This isn’t so surprising. He’s not much of a reader. I think he’s read maybe 2 books since we’ve been together (4.5 years). He’s thumbed through a bunch of magazines, mostly the Smithsonian and every variety of Better Homes and Beautiful Kitchen and Landscaping Your Self-Decorated Geodesic Dome magazine he can find.

But now, he has decided to enter the blogosphere, throw down some opinions, and see what happens. His website has been live for a mere four days, and he already has eight posts up.

Showoff.

He’s asked the world for an opinion on How Much Porn is Too Much Porn, shared an embarrassing story about Why “Trevor” Will Never Go Out With Us Again, and a few posts about his favorite subject, music.

Show him some link love and drop him a comment, eh? I’m sure he’d love to hear from you. Besides, I want you all to see the kick ass design I did for him.

* Notice, I’m not saying my blog is any better than anyone elses… well, ok, maybe that is exactly what I’m saying. I’ll go head to head against some of these awful “I worked today, I’m so tired. I’m having rice for dinner. Maybe I’ll take a bath.” blogs anyday.

** Those archives are missing from this site for a reason. They were either terrible, written about a job I no longer have, or just otherwise boring as hell.

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Seems Othurme has reached his life long goal: to be the number one resource on the web for the search string, “How to Eat Coochie.”

Congratulations on your accomplishment, Othurme. This certainly overshadows that silly kidney transplant.

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So yeah… leave it to me to take a seemingly simple task and turn it into a complete disaster.

I upgraded Wordpress yesterday. This is an easy operation. However, when I uploaded the new files, I failed to hit “Merge” instead of “Replace” which caused Wordpress to do exactly what it was told to do…

Write over my site.

So I’ve spent several hours repairing the damage, recreating my theme and artwork, and the most maddening task of uploading all the images I’ve used in my posts for the past 6 months.

I’m almost done. There are some images that I no longer have, and will have to either find them again, or replace them. So if you happen to see a broken image link, don’t worry. I’m working on it.

In the meantime, you might have to settle for reading the articles.

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A conversation that took place at my aunt’s house this weekend…

Jerry: “Actually, I’m quite partial to them.”

UMB: “To what?”

Jerry: “My legs. I enjoy having both of them. It would suck if they were gone.”

Me: “What on earth are you talking about?”

Jerry: “UMB asked me if I wanted my legs.”

UMB: “No, I asked if you wanted deviled eggs.”

Jerry: “Oh. Yes. Thank you.”