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In a nutshell…

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

It’s been a while since I was able to really sit down and think about an entry to post here. Unfortunately there isn’t a lot going on in my life that’s really “news worthy”.

I guess it’d be easier to go in “list mode”.

  • New Template – I haven’t sat down and worked on anything personal since April. Luckily I came across a similar template and was instantly inspired, so here it is.
  • College Woe’s – My FAFSA is completed, I’ve been working with Admissions at the University of Phoenix and I hope to be enrolled very soon.
  • Work – I’ve had a steady flow of work for the past couple of weeks, it’s brought in enough money where I can insure that everyone’s birthday is taken care of. Dad’s turning 60, Mo is going to be 22, and Karen recently had her birthday as well. So it’s safe to say that come July 1st, I’ll be officially tapped out. I’m still working from home. Recent interviews have proven to be a waste of my time. I’ve submitted my application to god knows how many companies and when I do get call backs they’ll look at my portfolio, say I’m great, and then go with someone who has a Bachelors in something completely different. How come 10 years of experience in internet/media for a web design position is trumped by someone with a bachelors in science? :: confused ::
  • Canceled Plans – Sean and I decided to cancel our plans for our anniversary. Money is tight and even though everything is complimentary (room, food) we can’t afford to go up to Atlantic City. So I think we’re going to head down to Ocean City and have dinner then relax on the boardwalk. It’s not the most extravagant of plans but we’re living within our means.
  • Moving – I’m in the process of moving to a new data center. I was able to get half of the accounts moved over and now I’m patiently waiting on the other half. I absolutely loathe the company I was previously with and while I adore Tony as a person, and a hard worker, the company who’s filling out his paychecks is run by a bunch of useless fucks. So this move should void all of the downtime issues, run-time issues, and that stupid “page cannot be displayed” issue connected with WordPress installations that was written off as “Natural”. It’s not natural, your fucking data center can’t handle a simple freaking script! ::end rant::

So yea, that’s the last month in a nut-shell. Boring eh?

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Difficult Morning

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I’ve only been up for an hour and it’s looking to be a pretty stressful day.  For the past couple of days I’ve been working on quite a few different websites.  I did a PSD to WordPress convert for Jackie.  I’m currently working on another WordPress convert for a client I picked up on GAF and on top of that I had to redo a few things for a template I completed last week for my new “boss” so to speak.  Tomorrow I’m taking on another template and while it’s constant work it’s also a constant headache.

The landscapers woke me up today, but that’s fine because for me sleeping until 10 means that I’ve overslept and I needed to be jolted out of bed anyway.  The reason behind the jolt is Bella, naturally.  If someone is under the window she’ll typically bark her head off and slap a big machine under them and that’s grounds for all kinds of barks and growls on her end.  Knowing that Sean worked all night and didn’t actually get to sleep until about 5:30 this morning, I made it a point to get her out of there as fast as possible.  Now she’s hanging out with me in the office, she’s got her window seat and some fresh food on the floor and that’s about all she needs.

Another reason for the down-day isn’t going to be the predicted 70* weather, it’s the email I received from my mother.

Living four hours away from friends and family has been difficult for me, and while I love Sean and do like Delaware – It’s taking me a lot longer to getting used to not having so many people around.  I come from a big family, and the only time it really feels “homey” is when Karen’s sister comes down with her kids because there’s more noise in the house and it feels more like what my life was like in New York.

I really miss everyone, my grandparents, aunts and uncles and I truly have no idea what’s going on with any of my cousins, even the two out of five that I’d stand the chance of seeing.  My one aunt doesn’t get out to visit very often and the other one just held a Christening for her son, and I saw the pictures he’s absolutely adorable.  He looks a lot like my aunt, and has this tiny button nose and looked so cute in his little white suit with gold chain, definitely an Italian child, I’ll tell you that much.

It kind of just hit me today that I’ve missed out on a lot of things.  Hell, I even miss my sister sometimes and when I lived up there I absolutely could not stand her.  But, considering our situation we did get along well – we were just frustrated with each other the way that siblings typically are.

Another irk of the day is the fact that I can’t find my USB cable for my digital camera.  I took some nice pictures this morning to put up on my health blog.  I guess something will appear after I go through a few boxes.

I need to get my butt in gear and finish this template.  I’m hoping to be able to start something for this site sometime today but that really isn’t too important at the moment, work comes first.

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Time for a change…

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Since I spent so much time trying to get acidgloss.net back up and running, I decided that a little theme alteration was needed here. As far as I’m concerned, March is over. There are only a few days left and I already show my Irish pride with a tattoo so having the theme up for as long as I did, just proved I’m not into it anymore. I was also getting sick of the green. It reminds me of something I don’t have, money.

Today I was accepted for a contract/freelance position and once I can get all of the paperwork sent back, I hope to be able to get the ball rolling. I’m also still patiently waiting to hear something from the Interview last week. I assume it’s going to take a few weeks and that’s fine, it’s more the waiting that’s getting to me than the actual choice they make. I just want to know – you know?

I’ve been up since about 7am, so I’m basically vegging out on the couch at the moment. I’m too tired to move and hope to be able to crawl into bed soon. There are a few more things that I’m going to need to accomplish before that happens but it shouldn’t take me a lot of time.

The weather today was absolutely gorgeous! Sean and I spent some time down on the beach enjoying the 77°F (25°C) temperature.  While it was a pretty windy day, there was still an over-abundance of sunshine keeping us nice and toasty.  It took a while to get down there though, with such a hot day the beach was absolutely swamped.  I had to go over a few blocks to park because my usual side-street was packed to the max.  I was close to pulling into someone’s drive-way but I wasn’t going to take that route, I finally did get myself into a spot so that was good enough for me.

For a while I convinced myself that I’d be spending a lot of time at the beach this summer.  However, considering the way it was loaded today, and it’s not even summer yet, I think I’m going to setup a nice set of chairs in the backyard and tan that way.  It’s my hope to be working through the summer, so my weekends will be filled with downtime in the yard, that’s not such a bad plan as long as I maintain my regular weekend schedule, right?

Another goal for the summer is to pack enough cash away so I can get myself into school this Fall.  I know I’ve said this a lot but it’s a big goal of mine and at this point, nothing is going to stand in my way.  Maybe I’ll get lucky and I’ll get back to my $5k a month income and be able to accomplish it a lot sooner than I’d originally planned.  I can handle two full-time jobs, I have a laptop for the at-home stuff so that can come out to the yard with me!

Moving along…. After the beach we made a quick run to the grocery store, we were close to completely being out of food so we picked up the essentials and they’re going to have to last for a while.  I’m breaking my diet and going to live on pasta for the next couple of days, only because that’s all we can afford right now.  I don’t like being in a hole, but if $1200 a month wasn’t going out to bills it would be easier to maintain things.

In any event, it’s knocking on 11pm and my eyes are close to almost completely closed, time for bed!

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Happy Easter!

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

It’s Easter Sunday and while I haven’t really done anything yet, I have accomplished quite a bit over the past weekend so I can sit back and relax for a while until I start all of the cooking for dinner tonight.  I’m not going too crazy with dinner.  I’m throwing a ham in the oven, and making up a few sides to have with it and that’s about it.  Yea, there’s going to be like five sides and some rolls or something.  While that may seem like a lot, I’m Italian – I’m used to large meals for a small number of people.

I’m still waiting on news about the job interview on Friday.  I assume that since they’re a Monday – Friday service that I’ll hear something tomorrow, or at least I hope.  I’m really anxious about it.  With the way money is going right now I could really use this job.  The interview itself went pretty well, at least I personally thought it did.  I like the environment, and those whom I spoke to seem pretty nice.  The drive wasn’t that bad, I’ll have to factor in summer travel in a few weeks but that just means I’d have to leave around 7am as opposed to 730ish to make it there by 8.  I figure a 20 minute drive will take about 45 minutes when it comes to the summer traffic down here.  That’s what you get living in a tourist town though.  Either way it’d be a Monday to Friday 8-5 position.  I’d get home around 6pm on the summer nights and since it’s year round I really think I could do well there.

As far as my own stuff is concerned, I managed to get the new template up on acidgloss.net, something I’m very happy about.  I really like the way things turned out.  There was a template just like it for sale for about $90 but I was able to recreate it with no real trouble.  The spacing is off on a few things depending on the browser you use but it really isn’t anything that major so it doesn’t matter too much to me.  I’m working on getting a few more link options in order there, hopefully I’ll be able to get some of my lost traffic back.  It’ll take some time but I do have a few tricks up my sleeve, you can only depend on SEO for so long before you have to get back into gear on commenting on things.

In any event, it’s now about 2:15pm and I’m hoping to relax for a few hours before I have to get in gear on the kitchen.  So a quick straighten-up around the kitchen so I have some surface area to work with and the rest is cake…literally – I think I’ll make cup-cakes to have as an after dinner treat.  We’ll see how I feel though, my stomach is already bothering me from too much coffee today anyway –  heh.

So, Happy Easter to everyone, hope you have a nice relaxing day with family and friends.  If you celebrate of course.

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Moving on OUT

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

After going back and forth on a few emails with Surpass Hosting, I think I’m going to wind up making the switch. Hopefully this resolves all of the downtime issues that all servers have been experiencing. At first I thought my router was on the fritz but when every other website loaded except for those located on host6 and host9, I decided that it’s time to move on. I’m still working out all of the details but I do plan on making the switch by the end of the month (maybe sooner depending on whether or not I wish to even bother making the payment to the existing hosting company).

I’ll be saving money in the end, I’ll be able to downgrade a few things and I’m also gaining over a terabyte of bandwidth in the process. Right now I’ve got say 80gb space and 500gb bandwidth available to me, with Surprass I’ll have about 120gb and 2tb with the switch. It’s not even space I’m concerned with at the moment, it’s the bandwidth. As far as clients are concerned only about 20gb-30gb of disk space is even being used on each server, but the reason for needing 3 accounts is the 1tb of bandwidth (total) that’s being used. Since that has doubled I can downgrade to just the one server and thats excellent news for my wallet. Over $800 a month in hosting fees is being downsized to about $200. Savings, savings, savings!

I just wish it didn’t have to come down to this, but at this point I really have no choice. For the past three days I’m getting downtime after downtime and to top that off, posts through paid advertisers are being rejected left and right because my site isn’t accessible. I find it completely absurd and can’t wait until this is all resolved.

Part of me wishes that Rik would get back into hosting so I can go back to him. I don’t think I was EVER unhappy with his services once. For the past two months, I’ve absolutely hated where I am now. Sorry Tony but you seriously don’t help me out as much as you claim and I’m just completely done with you and the data center.

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I keep losing my mouse!

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

My monitor showed up today, I’m still working out the kinks. I’m not used to a dual-configuration and I wind up losing the mouse very easily between screens. If it weren’t for the nifty CTRL option that puts the rings around the mouse, I may have lost it by now.

I’m in the process of getting some work done, I slacked off today so I’m getting my butt in gear now. I’ll have more of an update later, this is more of a personal one:

Stacy – I emailed you from agndesigns@gmail.com. I could have sworn that was where the email was noted from before but I could have chosen the wrong address out of the drop down menu.

Shauna – I’ve contacted you twice – did you get either of them?

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Hopping around

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

While I still don’t feel as though I accomplished anything today, I did manage to get through everything on my to do list – so I guess that counts for something. There’s still a long list of things to get done before Saturday but a deadline is a deadline and I like to meet and/or exceed them as much as possible. It keeps me on my toes, and typically the client is happy as well.

FedEX finally updated their tracking system and I’ve learned that my monitor is coming out of Exton, PA. I know that this is only about 2 hours away from me so I’ll be happy to see it when I wake up in the morning. This, of course, depends on whether or not I can get myself back on track.

I know that you’re supposed to take antibiotics for exactly how many days your doctor prescribed but when the infection seems to have cleared up two days prior to the bottle being empty, do you really have to? I know, “Krissy, you’re being stupid!” but I just don’t like having to sleep things off, I need to be productive damn it!

Labor Day weekend is coming up and the locals are anticipating the return to normalcy the moment the weekend is over. Tourists will go back home, the boardwalk will be cleaner, and we don’t have to worry about the crazies that seem to only come out of the woodwork when the heat shows up. THANK GOD!

In other news, we have a new pet. I went outside tonight to find a chubby little Frog hanging out by the front door. Knowing that I’ve seen a few of them hopping around before, I left it alone and walked right past it. Sean tried to help it out by putting it back on the grass but the frog has very obviously refused and is now back on the porch keeping an eye on the door for us. Bella treated it as a new toy, but knowing full well that this one doesn’t squeak we pulled her away from it instantly. He hopped inside when Sean brought Bella in from her walk but he quickly pushed him back out the door. I’m not sure why but this one seems like a special little buddy and something tells me he’ll be around for a while. Guess I should name him, huh? Any recommendations? Maybe tomorrow I’ll snap a picture of him or something, I’m sure he’ll still be on the porch hiding in the corner.

A theory I have is the bug zapper, maybe he’s picked up on the fact that anything that’s killed on the zapper is usually kicked back out (depending on what size it is) and the reason it’s so fat is based on the fact that it’s just eating very well. Either way I’ll consider him my new buddy and move on from there.

It’s almost 4am, guess I should start getting ready for bed. Whether I actually fall asleep is a completely different story.

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Lingering.

Monday, August 27th, 2007

It’s a little after 4:30 and I’m starting to wonder why I’m still awake. I’ve made the attempt at laying down and crashing for the night but there’s so much going on in my head that coming back to the office to figure it all out was just the only route to take. I wrote up my to-do list for the week, I’ve cleaned off my desk in anticipation for my new monitor, I even wound up heading into the kitchen and putting some dishes away just because they were in the sink and bothering the crap out of me.

On the top of my to-do list is accomplishing a September template, I may wind up just changing the color scheme of this one though. I actually like it too much to archive it so I’ll break my own ‘rules’ and leave it up for a while. When someone says “September” what colors pop out at you? And Di if you say “school bus yellow” I’ll head up to NY and smack you with a trout. I was thinking reds/oranges but that’s more of an October thing. I have no idea what the birthstone color is for September either, however I’m sure that can easily be found out through a quick Google search. I’m just too lazy to do it. Sapphire, that works out for me considering I was thinking blue anyway.

The meds are just kicking my ass, that’s really the only thing I can say that would explain the funk. Dreams are really messed up, my stomach is always bothering me because of whatever reaction the antibiotics are having on it, and to top that off I just don’t have the drive to do much of anything, even a well-written to-do list can’t keep me focused, usually that was the case.

I know I’m lacking creativity, on top of that I’m sure I just need a vacation because I haven’t really gone anywhere in quite some time. Sean and I have been unable to get down to the beach thanks to all of the Benny’s, and usually it’s the Ocean that sparks some kind of energy in me, and I’m not sure why either. I guess I’ll just have to wait until after Labor Day for things to get back to normal. It’s not like we could walk around on the beach anyway, his knee has been bothering him and my back isn’t doing to great at the moment either. I tried some more of that Freeze-It stuff, but it only works for like 10 minutes on me. I’ve also been in pain for years and even hefty muscle relaxers never did the trick…all I did was wind up sleeping too much.

It just sucks…I don’t know.

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Sleep Sucks!

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

I’ve been taking antibiotics for a few days now, so it’s no surprise that I’ve been sleeping for more than 12 hours a night. This is something that I absolutely HATE considering I like doing 16 hours of work then 8 hours of sleep. So cutting my work-day down by four hours has me feeling as though I’m missing out on a lot of shit with ‘rush jobs’. I should be resting, I’m aware of this. I just can’t sit and do nothing because it drives me crazy to just lay down and let hours pass where absolutely nothing is being accomplished.

I woke up today to find out that there’s the chance of having company on Tuesday. So I instantly looked around the house thinking “rut roh” it’s like a bomb hit it so I went through my morning ‘boot’ so to speak (cig, coffee, fed Bella – etc) then started on the kitchen. I’ve got the main counters cleaned off, the cabinet under the sink is straightened up and then I’ll get cracking on the island later this evening after I get some work done. The bathroom needs to be cleaned up and I’ve been trying to straighten up our bedroom for the last few days but everytime I go in there, all I want to do is lay down and go to sleep. It sucks!

I don’t like that FedEX doesn’t update their systems on the weekend. I’m trying to find out where my monitor is but since the tracking number I have isn’t even registering in the system, and knowing they more than likely ship out of Ohio,¬† it’ll probably be here tomorrow afternoon. Which would be great, I just have to spend some time tonight reorganizing my desk to be able to handle the second monitor and not look so cluttered. I’m not sure how I’m going to put them on the desk but I do know that everything that I have shifted to the one corner. I’ve got my lamp, pens, pencils, markers, koosh balls, rubics cube,¬† and other toys to fiddle with when I’m thinking and my hands won’t stop freaking moving. There’s even a glass Buddah over here but I stole that from Sean because he had the larger one and at the time my desk was A LOT smaller.

Either way it’s a lot of shit to accomplish on top of working and there just aren’t enough hours in the day thanks to these stupid meds. My tooth still hurts so I have no idea if they’re even working. I can say that my headaches have gone away, or just aren’t as heavy as they were over the past week. So maybe SOMETHINGS working, doesn’t mean I want to be sleeping during it though!

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Getting Late…

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

It’s a little after 1am and Sean has taken over my computer to fix a few things that, what’s looking to be, a horrible programmer setup for a site I worked on with Dick. So in order to shift the balance of the room completely, I’ve taken over Sean’s computer for a little while. It’s strange using a CRT again, I can’t believe that I used to use this damn monitor on such a regular basis, it’s HUGE in comparison to my LCD. It’s also slowly beginning to die, so now I understand why Sean typically sits on top of the thing while he’s working. It’s so damn dark, very hard to see anything going on in front of you. It’s also filthy but it’s his monitor now, he can clean it.

Once he finishes up with that task, I’m sure he’ll jump right back to this PC and get his own work done. I made him cookies tonight since there’s no real reason to pay someone you share finances with, you know? I could probably just turn around and play the Wii for a while since there’s really nothing I can do on this end anyway, there are so many windows open it’s like an instant headache. He knows exactly what he’s got going on in the clutter, someone who claims he hates it – yea right. There’s a difference between clutter and complete chaos, with how many tabs he’s got open in Firefox – he’s the latter – no question about it.

I’m done getting through all of my email, I do still have one more person to contact in regards to Hosting/Design stuff and I PROMISE I’ll get to her within the next couple of hours, depending on how long he’s working on that thing on my PC. I’m almost done with recoding the template for AGn Designs so I can at least get that up and running before the weekend. I kind of over-killed with too many widgets and WordPress add-ons so naturally I screwed myself in the launch time. I was looking at this past weekend but then I got click happy on a plugins site, and the rest is history.

I think I’ll go down my Do Follow list and see what fellow posters are up to.

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Is it time for bed yet?

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

It’s about 2:15am and it’s been a pretty busy day and I’m pooped because of it. I’ve almost completed the templates for Dick, I’m just waiting on a response from him about a few things. I’ve been battling it out with my server master in regards to Ranee and I’m close to completing another template to throw up on AGN Designs because a few things need to be changed out.

Rent’s been paid, bills are all taken care of and I’m shopping for a new cellphone. T-mobile has free Razr’s for those signing up with a new 2-year contract, I’m considering getting a family plan with Sean but not sure when, at the moment. I think the only reason they’re free is because Motorola is releasing R2 soon, it’s nice and all but I like the original – not too keen on what the new one has to offer.

I’m also working on getting the information together for grants/loans and other crap for Westwood so I can get that started. I’m just too busy with shit to really be able to sit down and concentrate on that at the moment.

It’s great having a pretty heavy work-flow coming in. I’m under a new contract and have like three templates pending for just basic blog work that shouldn’t take me THAT long, I just need to schedule myself. It’s the 2nd and I still haven’t gotten around to changing calendars around.

It’s supposed to be pretty hot this week and I’m someone who absolutely hates hot weather so I may wind up spending more time inside than I’d really like. I like having the ability to go relax outside for a little while and get some fresh air. In Delaware, however, there’s something known as a “State Smell” and the running joke with residents is you can tell what county your in based on the smell in the air. So since I’m surrounded by farms it’s kind of hard to relax in the heat. And even though placement of the house is in my favor during the day, when the sun starts to set it drops down head-on with the porch and that’s an instant heat box. Just not fun at all.

In any event, I considered this my ‘break’ for the evening so I need to get back to work.

[edit] You people seriously need to spend less time coming up with bull-shit stories and more time looking into a real life. I have not been sued, threatened or even contacted by TGO in regards to anything going on with Ranee’s site being suspended. No lawyers are throwing paperwork in my face, no local police departments are telling me to shut anything down and I have not spoken to, or plan on speaking to TGO about this. The reports did not come from him and while private information has been listed on the site he hasn’t said BOO to me about it. The issue at this point is between Ranee, Me and my server master. Step away from the freaking computer and leave things alone and next time you start sending off stupid emails at least have your damn facts straight.

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Almost done for the evening.

Friday, July 27th, 2007

For some reason my domain wasn’t set to auto-renew so I luckily got in just in time so I could keep AGn Designs up and running without any downtime. The server has been on the fritz for most of the evening, if you’ve noticed a 500 error – trust me I’m fully aware of it.

I just finished up work for the day, took me a few hours longer than anticipated but I think that was based on the fact that I’m having some trouble concentrating. I have quite a bit of email to go through as well. I’ve been slacking, but honestly I’ve just had more important things to do. I’m working on a new project, I’m getting clients taken care of, if random questions here and there go unanswered for a day or two that’s just how it is. I’ll have all of them cleared up tonight though, I should be sitting here for a little while longer before I take a shower and get myself ready for bed.

Bella’s being obnoxious lately, she refuses to eat anything half the time and she’s been right at my feet for what seems like the last 24 hours. I usually can’t leave the room without having her right behind me but today it’s just growing to be annoying. I can’t even move my chair without the risk of rolling over her paw or her tail. She has a bed in the office, she won’t really sleep in it though. She was in it for a while today but then Sean came back in the office and for some reason once he showed up she wound up right back underneath my chair. If she was just under the desk itself it wouldn’t be that bad but right under the wheel of the chair is just unsafe considering how often I move around. My back has been killing me, so sitting still for too long just doesn’t seem possible anymore.

Time to get some write-ups taken care of.

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I’ve finally made my decision.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

So after finally getting a chance to talk to Adam, I’m confident that I’m making a good decision about school. I’ve decided upon Westwood Online. In total it’s probably going to run me in the $60,000 range but at the same time (after talking to Sean and working with his knowledge of financial aid and grants) I’m also confident that financial aid and grants offered through the school and other outside resources that I’ve been provided with will more than likely cover about half of the full tuition. So instead of hoping to get a $65,000 loan (I’m factoring in supplies here) I’ll only have to look into about $25,000-$30,000 which isn’t as bad as I originally thought it was.

I did some playing around with numbers and noticed that if I keep on the path I’m on, I’ll be bringing in about $45,000 a year and that’s just good enough for me. If I put the bulk of it into savings I should have the loan paid off before I even graduate and then I don’t have to worry about an excess interest payments.

I was considering taking the Web Design & Multimedia course but after talking to Sean I’m not too sure because he told me about how his step mother made some pretty decent money working only 4 hours a day at $80 an hour doing graphics design. Westwood also offers a Graphics Design & Multimedia course.

Adam explained to me that even with his Bachelors I still know more about actual web design than he does. After a quick look at the over-view of the course I found out that it’s all basic introduction based courses and there really is nothing new that I’ll be learning through that course. So now I believe I’m just going to go straight for the graphics design course. It’s all still in the same price range and I’ll be able to utilize the upcoming iMac purchase I’ll be making.

I’ve been talking quite a bit about that on AGn Designs lately but I’ve decided to take about $1600 and get a 20″ iMac that’s fully loaded, to my specifications naturally. I don’t have to worry about any excess crap. But I could also take the route of taking out a loan for school and take $3,000 of that and throw some major components into the larger 24″ iMac that, as of right now, is base-priced in the $2,000 range.

So here’s where I ask you to help me out. Should I wait for the loan or should I just get it now?

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Much needed relaxing evening

Friday, July 20th, 2007

We wound up ordering out for dinner tonight because I’d forgotten to take some stuff out of the freezer to defrost so pizza seemed to be the only option. So while I sat here and got some work done, answering emails and what not, Sean went out to pick up the pizza and on his way back got the mail to find out that “Out to Sea” a movie he’d put on his blockbuster queue a while ago, showed up tonight. We plopped down in front of the TV for a few hours, enjoyed our pizza and laughed our asses off at the movie. Now it’s a little after midnight and we’re both back in the office getting some work done, well – I’m mainly starting on work for when I wake up in the morning. He just does what he does whenever he can, basically.

It’s my goal to at least get a PSD together for another template to put up on blog ideas. I’d like to have maybe four or five big templates – I don’t want to just hand out crappy CSS ones that are quick and simple for someone. I want them to have some kind of a style to them that isn’t really found on freebie templates, and trust me I’ve looked through many databases in order to know the route I’m going to take with these. I should probably boot up photoshop and get to work.

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Very, very close.

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I’m close to completing another theme. I’m still working on getting hemmingway to work on the first one I was working on but for some reason I came across a color scheme today that I fell in love with and then decided to play from there. I’m also going to go back and alter the templates so that there’s the option for two or three column, I know quite a few people are using three columns more now than in the past considering how much stuff main pages are being loaded with. I’m aware of the fact that there’s something on my sidebar that’s slowing down the loading time but trial and error hasn’t come up with much. I do believe that the blog rolling boxes have something to do with it though.

I’m running out of ideas for themes though, what colors would you like to see on a free template that you haven’t before?

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I’m stuck.

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I’m not sure why but for some reason I’m having trouble coding up one of the free templates. There’s a lot of functions options to play with for the widgets. I came across an article where you can use multiple widgets on the site and naturally I’m looking into them considering one of the themes has a hemmingway footer and instead of having the user install excess plugins, I’d rather do it through the new WordPress 2.0 setup with the widgets. I know the sidebar one works fine, it’s just creating the other ones for the footer that are growing to be a pain in the ass. I’ve been working on it for most of the day so I could have at least four solid templates to launch with in upcoming weeks.

Shauna, to answer your question, the downloads will be based on acidgloss.net, but I’ll have them located on blog-ideas.net and even curvy-chick.net just to cross link everything.¬† Either way they’ll be easy to find, trust me.

Other than that, it’s been kind of a lazy day. There isn’t really anything interesting going on. A little bit of rain passed through here today but nothing major. There’s nothing on television and I got no cleaning done, other than a few things in the kitchen before I made dinner. I did a roasted chicken with potatoes and broccoli, turned out pretty good but the white meat was a little dry and that makes no sense to me considering I basted the thing about three times during it’s three hour cook time. There’s a lot of left overs, I had to take all of the meat off the bones to put in a bowl. It’s not worth keeping the bones when the important stuff can easily fit into a bowl for convenience. So Bella is covered on food for the next few days, no one really eats left overs. It’ll save me some money too considering her new love of canned chicken is costing me about $30 a week in dog food where regular dog food is only about $0.60 cents per can – she’d prefer human food.

She got sick this morning, she refuses to eat and then throws up and looks for sympathy. So Sean and I were both sitting on the floor kind of forcing a piece of cheese down her throat, It didn’t work and we just wound up going to bed. We woke up a few hours later and she went right for a piece of cheese. Too much of a brat for me, I swear.

Speaking of brats, Princess loves to go through purses and managed to get into mine. All my gum is gone and all of my receipts are ripped to shreds. She did her damage then parked herself on the couch like she could do absolutely no wrong. She also almost took my finger off tonight going after a piece of food, teeth marks and blood to prove it. Vicious little brat, I swear to god.

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