o/` Tchikovsky – Sleeping Beauty Soundtrack o/`

The few hours of work I did these past couple days was refreshing. I am glad I was given that chance, and I guess they were pleased enough so that they will get ahold of me to come in again the in future, yay!

I had to use a machine with Windows XP on it while at work, I have a new-found dislike for it. Nothing broke too badly, but the method of copying and pasting got on my nerves very quickly ;) I used Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for the html editiong, I’d never really used an HTML editor like that before. I can see what some people like in it, but I pretty much ignore all the bells and whistles and got annoyed when it put in an end tag whenever I put in a beginning tag. In all it really wasn’t a bad program, but I could never justify paying for it. All I really require is syntax highlighting, and vim has that. Luckily, Myk said that if I do come back often that he’d take the time to set up a linux box for me, yay! That’d be nice… being stuck in XP was no fun. It was fun working on websites for “Real” companies though, exciting to know I had a part in some big websites, even if it was HTML grunt work ;)

I’m in a terrible mood. I’ve never been so moody before, it’s progressively gotten worse this year, luckily I can usually keep my crankiness to myself so Myk doesn’t have to deal with it after a hard day at work, but it’s becoming progressively more difficult. I guess it’s just me getting older, yuck. I hate feeling this way, no matter what i do to bring myself up I just start sulking again, it’s quite pathetic. I have tried just working on things and keeping my mind completely off my mood, but that just serves to push my mood to another part of the day. I need to find a way to peacefully deal with this crappy feeling without inconveniencing others.

The Philly Chix meeting is tonight. I want to go, the weather is nice, and I feel good so I’ll probably be taking the train down. Hopefully we’ll have more people there, but 5 is a hard number to beat considering we only have 7 members ;) I was contacted by the woman who organizes the Linux Chix chapter in Washington DC (I have spoken to her before, but never made concrete plans), she said that it might be possible for her group to meet with ours sometime in October. We’re thinking that a few of us might ride down to Baltimore, and meet them there, so we could possibly go out for dinner, see some sights, do whatever as a big chix meeting (with our boyfriends, and male members of the DC Chix group). It would be fun, and I’ll bring it up at the meeting tonight, maybe we can arrange going up some weekend.

Now I go work on some things that were neglected during my couple days of real work %) *wanders off*

Yesterday I went to work. *watches everyone reading this do a double-take on whose journal this is* Yep, work. Myk told me yesterday morning around 9:30 that employer had some tedious html work that they needed someone to do this week, and since I was available at last minute they had no trouble accepting me to do the contract work, yay! It was kinda nice being notified at last minute, since I am a crazy worrier and I probably wouldn’t have slept Sunday night if I had known I was going to work my first day the next morning. I really had nothing to worry about however, it really was html grunt work, a bit of organizing of content, nothing remotely difficult. Today they have more work for me, so I’ll be going in with Myk this morning. So this is why I’m up and showered before 7 am.

Having this contract work is very nice, I am happy to financially contribute for once to this relationship, and it certainly makes me feel better about myself. This is a great opportunity as well. I kept finding myself wondering how I’d get anywhere without this chance, thinking it’s somehow less of an achievement since my boyfriend set me up with this. But if I wasn’t here with Myk, if I was still living in NY with my aunt, I’d probably would be working and going to school, carving my way that way, so what I’m doing now is just taking advantage of the opportunities that live is giving me. I shouldn’t worry about how I got the opportunities, only that they exist.

Who knows, maybe in the future, if they are pleased with my work, I will have more chances to work for them. That’d be nice. At least I now can expand my portfolio, not just one webpage job for a tiny real estate company, now I have something more, and a bit different. It feels good.

Well I am going to go eat some breakfast and continue to get ready to go. *wanders off*

Myk and I went to Gettysburg, PA yesterday. We took the turnpike to exit 236 (about 100 miles), got off there, went south on 15 until we got to 30 (about 27 miles). Took 30 west right into the center of Gettysburg. In all the trip was a little over 130 miles, took us around 2 hours. We got into Gettysburg in the late afternoon, which was alright. First we visited the huge National Historical Park there where they have hundreds of monuments. It was so weird, you drive by the park and you think it’s just another farm, and then you see all the monuments. We found an entrance into the park and just happened to decide and stop at Little Round Top. I wanted to see this, but we didn’t have a map so we sorta just decided to drive and walk around to see what we could see, I was glad we were able to go here. Saw the little monument that was put up for the 20th Maine (hey, I’m basically a Mainer at heart). We got to walk through some trails in the woods behind Little Round Top, it was beautiful back there, we’d enjoy the scenery and then come upon another small monument, just often enough to make us remember what horrible battles were fought in that wonderful place.

After walking for a bit we decided to head up near the Pennyslvania monument. It’s the biggest one in the park (see picture, I didn’t take this, I swiped it from a government website… hey I’m sure it’s my tax money that was used to take this picture anyway). It had all the names of the men who died from PA in the battles there, and then there was a narrow spiral staircase that went up to near the top of the monument so you can look out, the view was very nice (similar to the view from on top of Little Round Top). We walked around a number of other monuments spaced out in the area, it was quite informative, and sad at the same time, I’d never been in a place like it.

At around 6:30 we left the park to find something to eat. We parked in town and walked around for a while looking for a place since we wanted to get the “full experience” of dining in Gettysburg. At around 7:30 we finally ended up at a place called the Farnsworth Inn. There was an indoor dining room, but we would have had to wait unil 8:30 to get a seat, so we went outside into the Garden of that same restuarant, where we were quickly seated. The waitresses were all dressed up in civil war era clothing, and the atmosphere was great. Luckily the weather was perfect, so we weren’t too hot or too cold while we ate. The menu was short, about 8 entrees, all served with bread, salad, and vegetable. I got a chicken pot pie, which definatelly had the yummieness of home cooked food, I was quite pleased. The salad was great, the breads were wonderful, and for a vegetable both Myk and I got pumpkin fritters, which were like pumpkin doughnuts… oh my, they were good. The service wasn’t the greatest, the waitress wasn’t around much, and never remembered to bring me a glass of water that I asked for, but I didn’t let it bother me too much. It was a great dinner.

After dinner we did some more walking on Baltimore Ave. There were a number of “Candlelight Ghost Walks” and since it was after 8 and didn’t really have other plans we decided to buy tickets for the most popular one, the “Farnsworth Candlelit Ghost Tour.” While we waited we stopped at a fudge shop, oh yummie fudge! It was good %) Then at around 9 we got to go on the ghost walk. It was amusing, the guide wasn’t *too* cheesey I guess, even if some of the people taking the tour were a little weird. During part of the tour I got a little dizzy, but I think it was because I had eaten so much and then decided to do lots of walking beside a road that had lots of motorcycles driving on it (yay exhaust fumes). I felt fine for the rest of the walk after sitting down for a couple minutes. We were taken to one dark woodsy spot where people often “see things” and sometimes cameras pick up things. Did I see anything? Naw, but I’m sure I would have if I wanted to, it’s e
asy to see shadows in an area near the woods. To end the tour we were able to go up in the attic of the Farnsworth Inn, it wasn’t really interesting unto itself, I actually enjoyed the walking into the in, up the stairs, through the hallways, it was a really cute little place (and $120-180 per night, it’s an option for accomidations next time we go..). The stories the guy told gave an interesting picture of the area, and in the end it was a decent way to spend a couple hours. Just keep in mind if you ever do it yourself that it’s a lot of walking and standing on the sidewalk of a busy road ;)

It was around 11 when the walk ended, still having a 2 hours drive home ahead of us we decided it would be a good time to leave. We stopped for some sodas and gas on the way home (gas is about 20 cents/gallon cheaper out there, living near a city sucks!). The drive home was nice and uneventful. Almost as soon as we got home around 1 I went to bed. It was a perfect day.

I think next time we head up to Gettysburg I’ll take the time to find a map of the Historical Park, and do a bit of research into Gettysburg history so I am more clueful to what I’m looking at. It’ll definately be worthwhile to spend the time learning about it, I want to anyway. We also think we might want to try to get reservations at one of the many bed and breakfasts there, maybe take a three day weekend and sleep there for a couple nights. Since we enjoy walking I don’t think we’ll suffer from a shortage of things to do. Oh! And there are little horse-drawn carriages that go through town, definately want to go on one of those next time.

Now for the boring stuff %)

“What’s your vector Victor?”

On friday night Myk got home and we thought about doing our much needed grocery shopping, but neither of us were in the mood so we ordered out for pizza and wings instead. Yum. While eating we were channel surfing and stopped on a classic movies channel where they were playing “Naked Gun”.. which I had never seen. It was funny. After, they played “Top Secret” which I had seen. THEN they played “Airplane!” Yay! I had never seen it, but wanted to someday. we had almost rented it a couple times. It was cool to be able to just watch it on TV. The “drinking problem” thing had me laughing for about 5 minutes, actually, it still makes me chuckle. After “Airplane!” (by this time it’s after 1, and I needed to get up for Gettysburg in the morning) they played “Zero Hour!” which is the film that “Airplane!” is a spoof of. Well, hah! I had never seen “Airplane!” and had no idea it was actually a remake to a bad 1950’s airplane disaster film. So I started watching “Zero Hour!” It was definately what “Airplane!” was based on, even the main character (Striker) had the same name. Some scenes were nearly identical in both films, it was great, I really which I could have stayed up and watched the entire thing, but I would have been exhausted in the morning.

Hmm, today I guess we’ll finally go grocery shopping since we don’t have much food. No other plans really, I took some benadryl this morning because my allergies were bothering me, so I don’t think I’ll be doing too many active things (at least I’m not drowsy yet!). It should be a nice relaxing day, and it’s beautiful out, such perfect weather. This is my favorite time of the year.

We were watching some tv right before bed last night, Travel Channel’s World’s Best. It’s a decent show for when I’m trying to fall asleep, and last night it was on the “Most Patriotic Places” in the US. When it came to number 7 (or 8?), I perked up, Gettysburg! All summer we’ve been looking for places to go walking, usually settling on wandering around our apartment complex, or going up to a state park and walking down trails. I asked Myk how far Gettysburg was, and I guess it’s no further than Harrisburg (less that 2 hours), so I suggested that we go this weekend. I have never been to Gettysburg, growing up in Maine and only recently moving to PA in 2001 it’s not terribly surprising I guess. I am really looking forward to it! Myk looked up some touristy websites today that might be really interesting to visit, and we could do LOTS of walking. It’s supposed to be nice too, so everything is shaping up nicely for a day trip. Wow, I’m actually travelling because of something I saw on the Travel Channel.

Today I got all sorts of things done. Cleaned the apartment, paid bills. Tons of little projects that I have intended to tie up in the recent past have been paid attention to finally, I realized that I have so many that I doubt I’ll finish them all in the near future. It feels good to be busy, and I definately feel like I’m acomplishing a bit.

Of course I finally have tons of things to do today and I find out that R2D2’s weather script has been acting funny *sigh* I found one of the flaws, but it’ll definately require a great deal of tweaking, probably on monday when I have a day to look at it.

It’s so nice out today, I opened the windows and I’m actually not sneezing, yay! Now I still have things to do so I need to get back to work. *wanders off*

o/` Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time o/`

About 10 months ago I started collectiong logs of #13thHour from my irc bot R2D2. At the end of each month I’d stop R2D2, move the log file, and restart irssi with a new log file so i had them separated into months. Just recently I made an IRC Stats Archive with current and past logs. So I looked at these stats recently, from the first full month of October, to this past month of August:

October 2002: Total number of lines: 19965.
August 2003: Total number of lines: 60613.

Wow. I guess it is sorta unfair to compare “summer stats” to “during school” stats, since we do have a few people who are still in school and won’t chat is much, but still, over 3 times as much activity! I’ve said this before, but I’m so very proud of that channel *looks at it now* currently we have 24 people (not counting bots or clones, with them the number is 27). That’s so great, just think, in the winter of 2001 Time and Thrawn sat in #13thHour just to keep the channel open. Not only do we have a high user count (anyone can do that if they “offer” some incentive, like warez), but we have some really great people there and I enjoy talking to all of them %)

I emailed a few people who had been in there long enough to be considered members, so hopefully I’ll start getting their surveys back so I can put them up on the memebers page. Yay %)

It’s been really great watching #13thHour grow. I guess it was inviting a number of people from web journals at once that boosted it, I think about 4-5 of you came at the same time and started chatting, so then when people dropped by they stayed because it was active more than it was before, and more and more kept staying until we had a thriving channel again that is often active. It makes me so happy.

I don’t usually keep up with the news, but it seems they caught an 18 year old guy who modded the Blaster worm and caused more trouble on thousands of computers. I looked on yahoo (just because i have email there, so I was there anyawy) and they had this story about how this guy is “just a kid” … apparently his parents went on television and claimed they were just a normal middleclass family and that their kid was no “genius” on the computer. Hm, so he was just another malicious script kiddie? Throw the book at him. Yeah, it sucks for his family, but I have no doubt this kid got on IRC after letting out this modded worm and bragged to all his leet hax0r friends about what he had done. And he is not “just a kid,” he’s 18 and in the US that makes him liable for every thing he did. I’m glad he was caught. I hope they make an example of him. As much as I dislike Microsoft, I hate script kiddies like this much much more. Their actions cost time and money around the world, and it’s about time one was caught and hung out to dry.

Yay for bitterness!

I am going to go work on some things now *wanders off*

o/` Miranda Sex Garden – Close to the Sky o/`

I love when Myk has a long weekend. It turned out to be quite nice, and eventful despite our lack of plans.

Saturday evening we decided to head out to Joseph’s for pizza. While we were there Myk noticed a message on his voicemail that was from our friend Doug, he was inviting us to a sort of impromptu lan party at Barry and Rae’s. It was nearly 8 pm, and since we were in Northeast Philly just sitting down to eat we said we’d head up after dinner just to hang out for a bit. So we had dinner, three-cheese spinach pizza, yummie! We hadn’t been to Joseph’s in over 9 months, I nearly forgot how good their pizza is! We don’t go down there often because it’s about 30 minutes away, and the traffic down there is never too nice, but it certainly is worth it sometimes.. mmm. After dinner we realized that we were really close to Krispy Kreme, so we drove over there to pick up a dozen doughnuts to bring to Barry and Rae’s.

Krispy Kreme is on Cottman Ave, which is also route 73, so we decided to take 73 all the way up to Skippack. Now where the Krispy Kreme place is is definately cityish, you’ve got billboards, lots of crappy cars, lots of crazy drivers, no skyscrapers because it’s not like downtown, but it’s scary place for me ;) and Skippack is a place I could definately delight in living in some day. It was amusing to drive down 73 out of northeast philly and see the progression from city to suburb to comfortable suburb. And it was kinda neat to see where my current home is in that progression, I don’t live in a bad area, but it’s simple to see that I do want to live further away. I guess I can eventually get used to the massive sprawl of philadelphia, but I’m not used to it yet ;) I still want to someday live further away, and maybe have a summer house somewhere, yeah! In the mountains…

We got to Barry and Rae’s at around 10, it was great seeing them, and Doug, Mega, n-tropy, Kelly, Sai. Of course we didn’t have our computers, so we hung out and watched The Two Towers DVD that they had. I love that movie %) I know that I was in awe of it the first time I watched it because it lived up to so many of my expectations, especially Gollum, for me Gollum MADE the film, he was so amazing. So this time I watched and tried to pick out silly details, bad parts of the special effects, and sure I found a few, and I found that some lines were a bit cheesey, but that cheese made me love it so much more! I think I still will wait til the whole trilogy is out before buying it in a cool DVD set, because I KNOW they are going to do something evil like release extended editions then and all those with the normal DVDs bought now will cry.

We had a nice time, left around midnight I guess and came home. I was tired and so I went to bed after watching a little lousy late night tv.

Monday (Labor day) Myk had off from work. We both got up relatively early (before 11) and did some computer stuff, reading, etc for a while. Then we thought that we should go for a walk, but it was sorta misty out, so maybe something else? We decided to head over to New Hope, which is a small town on the Delaware river, separating PA from NJ. There are lots of cute little shops there, a “magic” shop where we usually get frankincense and the little charcoal disks. It’s a really neat little town. On our way there we almost turned back at one point because it started raining a bit harder than a drizzle. Of course as soon as we were turned around the rain let up and we turned around again to go. So we got there around 3, walked around in the drizzle and some times when it rained a little harder. Went to a bookstore and I got to pick up Children Of The Mind, the next book in the Ender’s Game series that I needed. Some friends had offered to let me borrow it, but I see them so little and I really did want to own this book for myself since I’m sure I’ll read it more than once. Myk also bought me Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett, this is the next book I needed in the Discworld series, and I’ve ha
d a difficult time finding it in physical bookstores in the past. Yay! I love getting new books! *hugs them*

We had a really great time in New Hope, despite the rain. Even walked across the bridge into New Jersey briefly, we sorta wanted to go to a coffee shop, and I was reluctant to go to Starbucks because come on, I’m in cute little New Hope! I can find some place better than that! On the New Jersey side we found a cute little coffee shop, but they didn’t accept credit cards. Well damn, THEY certainly won’t be able to whine that Starbucks was the reason they went out of business if they do! Their problem is not moving with the times! So we didn’t get coffee, and I didn’t really feel like it once we crossed the bridge again. I guess we left New Hope a little after 5 because we wanted to head home for some dinner. Stopped at the grocery store and picked up a couple yummie boca pizzas and headed home to eat them. We just relaxed, watched the West Wing, played a little Warcraft 3, but I was so exhausted so we went and watched a couple shows on PBS.

Yeah, that was my weekend, all sorts of fun stuff!

And now it’s back to the week, at least it’s only 4 days even if today still feels like a monday. I spoke to my friend Eric today. We used to work together, and lived together for a time (as roommates) while I lived in upstate New York, he’s going to art school in Pittsburgh. He’s got his own apartment now, which he says is great, since he kept having trouble with roommates. He has a nice boyfriend now, and I guess in general he’s very happy, which is really all I can ask for for my friends. He mentioned that he might have some time off this fall and was thinking of visiting, that’d be really nice but I won’t get my hopes up ;) It was great hearing from him, he was just so busy last spring at school, then he was at home working and on dial up, so we lost touch for a few months.

I have a few things I want to do today, I want to take my weatherbot and morph it so it can also do UK, maybe even someday discover how to include canada in my weatherbot. *wanders off*

o/` Bel Canto – Dreaming Girl o/`

Yesterday was eventful.

In the evening I was making and early dinner when I heard some popping noise outside. At first we thought it was just some kids in the park near our place throwing little firecrackers. Then Myk went outside and saw that someone was throwing them from their porch out into the parkinglot, some were landing and exploding less than 20 feet from our porch! Myk went over to talk to the neighbor and ask the kids to stop it (it’s illegal), and he found it was some half drunk 40 year old “stereotypical white trash” guy throwing them. The hell? He got all pissed at Myk when he asked him to stop and started swearing. Eventually we called the cops, who slowly drove through the parkinglot and never stopped. We called the emergency people for the apartment complex since it was after hours and they never responded (they should have, I spoke to a woman from the leasing office this morning). And it seems that the guy that was throwing them didn’t even live there, he was a guest. I guess we’re going to head up and make a complaint at the police station later, at least this way we can have a paper trail if it happens again (the woman from the office that i spoke with this morning concurred), even if the jerk doesnt get in trouble for it this time. What was he thinking? Throwing firecrackers into a populated parkinglot on a SATURDAY? There were obviously people around to report him.

After all that annoyance we ate our half warm dinner. I read for a while, finished the second book in Card’s Homecoming series and started on the third. Didn’t do any computer stuff really, I wasn’t in the mood, just happy to relax with some books.

Around 9 we decided to head up to the martini party. It seems that I always forget how uncomfortable such situations make me… lots of people around my age, most of them I don’t know, hanging out and drinking in an apartment and porch. I’m not very social. I like talking to small groups of people in comfortable settings. So we didn’t drink, that was fine with me, I really wasn’t in the mood. Saw pinkee, mj and darkspur for a little while, we hadnt seen darkspur in a while, so it was cool seeing him. Unfortunately they had to leave because pinkee wasn’t feeling good (drinks + meds didn’t treat her well). That was a bit of a disappointment, since I wanted to hang out with them too. Bj and Sandi showed up of course, yay! %) It was really great getting to see them. Luckily neither of them were in a “party” mood at the moment either, so after spending a bit of time there talking we all decided to head up to get some food.

Bj, Sandi, mct, Nita, Myk and I all went up to have dinner at this little diner nearby. We had fun just sitting around and talking, catching up a bit. Sandi is a really fun person and I enjoyed talking to her, and bj has a sense of humor that I missed. It’s just not the same “being” with people in IRC, or in a journal. The food at the diner was ok, and service was ok, but I didn’t mind much, it was really the company that I enjoyed. It was a great night. I was a bit tired by 1:30 when we finished our food and left the diner. Stayed awake on the whole right home though. As soon as I got home I got into my pajamas and went to bed, fell asleep quickly. I didn’t even check my email or see who was in IRC! Hehe…

This morning I woke up around 10:30. I might go back to bed, I’m still tired %) and it’s a holiday weekend!

*wanders off*

o/` Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition Soundtrack o/`

I’ve been listening to a lot of soundtracks lately.

Last night was nice, had some chicken for dinner, sat around with Myk and watched an episode of MST3K that we had on tape. Played around with my laptop for a bit, and Myk helped me fix up2date, silly breaking redhat. The kernel on that box is now 2.4.20 (it was 2.4.18 before). Made up a new boot disk, and I guess I ended up going to bed finally around 1:30.

This morning I got up around 9:30. I probably should have slept longer since we are expecting a long busy evening, oh well. I got up and puttered around for a while, chatted a bit, did the email thing. Then decided to make up a chinchilla page for my webpage. It had been on my todo list for over a year, and I just was never in the mood to design and develop even a simple page. Well, I was in the mood today. I am pleased with the results %)

I rearranged the main menu on PrincessLeia.com a bit so some of the sections aren’t so crowded. I have too much stuff on that site %) I also linked up a True Jedi Test that I created for my friend Ocean-Saurian (based on his questions and answers) earlier this week.

Tonight we are going to see our friend bj and his wife Sandi. They moved to Phoenix last November, and we haven’t seen them at least since then. It’ll be really nice to see them tonight, and spend some time with a few friends we don’t see often enough. I guess we’ll be going to a small martini party at one place, and then heading out for a late dinner. It should be a really nice (albeit late) evening. I’m looking forward to it. So far this is really the only thing we have planned for this holiday weekend. Maybe tomorrow we’ll rent a movie and have pizza or something %)

Now I go shower and wake up, since it’s after 2 in the afternoon eek! *wanders off*

o/` Hunchback Of Notre Dame Soundtrack o/`

I love Ciabatta bread. We bought some last night to have our boca burgers on, mmmm, it was a nice dinner. Also got a couple little chocolate cakes. We bought these things at a Whole Foods market, which specializes in having fresh and healthy foods, well these cakes certainly were fresh but they were horribly unhealthy! Wow, the chocolate in these “cakes” had the consistancy of the inside of truffles, seriously. So we each ate about half of ours and then had to stop ;) I got my chocolate fix though! Hehe.

I looked at the #13thHour Seti Team today. Wow, we have 13 members. Of course 2 have never returned any results and only 3 have actually returned results this *month* but it’s still pretty cool that people have found that page without any direct encouragement from me (it’s linked to the #13thHour page). *Pokes all the people who arent doing seti anymore* I set mine up so it starts at 7 pm and ends at midnight everyday… that way it doesnt usually interrupt anything I’m doing, up to 190 units now, yay!

Hmm, I cleaned the apartment this morning. I have a few things I’d like to work with on my webpage today, and I want to play around a little bit with the irssi perl scripts that I wrote, because i’ve discovered some problems that are worth fixing to make them look more presentable %)

*wanders off*

o/` Jack’s Lament – Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack o/`

A friend of mine asked me to help him install irssi this afternoon. What is he on? Redhat 9 *arrg* all I could think of was a few of my previous rpm experiences and I just *hoped* that irssi wouldnt require anything that wasn’t already installed. Of course it did %) He asked if all distrobutions were this evil, and I told him about debian’s apt and that redhat now had one. Other than knowing that redhat’s apt existed and that it’s repository was quite small I knew nothing else. I found this site which gives a very basic overview of what apt-rpm is (works a lot like debian’s apt, with apt-get install, apt-cache search, even a sources.list file), and I suggested that he give it a shot. He wasn’t able to install irssi from apt-rpm, but he could install the libs he needed so that his irssi rpm would install properly %) yay! Another irssi convert!

He was the perfect student too. I pointed him in the right direction and he did what needed to be done, only coming to me when there was a small problem or question he couldnt answer himself. He’s lucky he does this, I am so tired of people who come to me for help who aren’t willing to put any effort into it at all. I hate telling them that they just need to “RTFM” but it’s true, I’m not going to waste my time with someone who won’t even read a README %)

clockbot.xelium.net was decommissioned last night *tear* we have r2q5.xelium.net up and running on a new box of course, but clockbot was the original, it’s a little sad %) farewell old server!

I made a little section of my webpage about a friend’s cat Skorpan. He lives in Sweden, and is a very pretty Bengal Cat %) I have had exposure to Bengals in the past because the guy who gave us Dweezle the chinchilla was a breeder. His cats were big (healthy looking and about 15 pounds), so I was really wowed by these cats! From him I knew they were pretty expensive, so I never really thought about them until I saw the pictures of Skorpan… he’s so pretty! And doesn’t shed much, and they are great indoor kitties. Oh and there is a breeder here in Philadelphia! GangesCattery.com… they have an Online Kitten Application Form! Oh! … Not that I’m looking to get one *coughcough* at $500 each for pet quality (as opposed to one you wish to show) *wince* I do love kitties though %) Oh this is the page about Skorpan: Skorpan Page!. I need to make a pretty page like this for Cargo.

I guess that’s it. Allergies aren’t really bugging me today, yay! I think it was just the people cutting the grass that was driving my sinuses nuts. I am going to go figure out what I should make for dinner now. *wanders off*