Well my site was down for a bit last night, we were changing our webserver from testing debian to stable.. prolly should have done that *before* we moved the webpages, oh well, a little downtime didnt hurt too much %) Everything seemed to go smoothly I’m really happy %D

I’m making cookies now. Prolly going to go read while I do it so I dont burn any cookies by not paying attention, hehe. The sugar cookie dough is in the ‘fridge chilling (needs to chill 2-3 hours before making the cookies), and I have chocolate chip ones in the oven now, YAY!
*wanders back to making cookies*

Jimmy Eat World – A Praise Chorus

The direct link to the guestbook for princessleia.com is :http://www.princessleia.com/Guestbook.php … it’s located under the links on the right side of the main page too, heh.

Working on an address/email/phone number database and I’m writing a php frontend for it, with search options. It’s more difficult than I thought it would be %) *wanders back to work on it*

YAY! I have my new guestbook up on princessleia.com

Everyone can go there now and sign it (%

o/` Stabbing Westward – The Only Thing o/`

I didnt write anything yesterday, never really had a chance.. er I did, but I used that chance to chat instead. Saturday I said I probably wasnt going to do much, but I ended up going to the … wait for it…. MALL. I just have one thing to say about that experience:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I didn’t actually *want* to go to the mall. As people who know me know, I HATE malls, and this hatred goes much further when the month is December. Not that I don’t like shopping, I’m a woman so at least that instinct is intact ;) But actually going to a store, and having to look for what I want, having to deal with PEOPLE is really annoying. Like I have said before, online shopping was made for people like me, besides, with online shopping you not only get cool stuff, but you get packages in the mail too! And getting packages in the mail is fun. Anyway, I went to the mall in December because I needed cookie sheets, and cookie cutters, and a rolling pin, and cookie tins to put cookies in… I know they sell most of these things at the grocery store, but they tend to be really expensive and the quality is questionable.

This was the first time I drove myself to the mall ’cause I told Myk I’d go out and get all the errands done myself. I get to the mall and then spent 20 minutes looking for a parking space. That 20 minutes was HELL. At one point I was stopped in the entrance to part of a parking lot only one car width wide (one way since it’s a very busy part of the parking lot), and instead of letting me go this other woman decided she wanted to squeeze her car in next to mine going the wrong way! Then of course it caused a big traffic jam because she couldnt move until finally I backed up the jeep so she could get out again and go down the correct lane *UGH* I finally found a space in the back of the mall, WAY far out in the parking lot ’cause I didn’t want to deal with people long enough to get a closer space, I CAN WALK %) I get into the mall and it’s insane as expected. I go to stores primarily looking for cookie cutters, ’cause if all else failed I could just get everything else at the grocery store… and I couldnt find any!!! Went to the Disney store and all their xmas stuff was marked down! Same with many stores, and the selection sucked, what are these people thinking? I ended up walking around the mall for almost an hour, I ended up getting some of those little wire hook things to hang up bulbs on the tree with, and then just went to sears and bought a couple cookie sheets (they didnt have cookie tins that I could find OR a rolling pin, UGH!). I resolved to either just have round cookies or hope I found something at the grocery store.

So I get to the grocery store plaza and there is a “Michael’s” next to it, where they sell crafty stuff, so I decide to go there to see if they had cookie cutters. All they had were individual BIG ones that were like $5 each … and then they had “generic” ones that were like a star, moon, heart … so I just got those. Then I noticed a “Bath Body and Beyond” store and remembered that I wanted to get bubble-bath. So I walked over to that store and saw tons of kitchen stuff! GAH! I didn’t need to go to the mall after all! So I was able to get a couple Christmas-themed cookie cutters, a rolling pin, and some cookie tins. So I get back to the Jeep and put the bags in there and realize that I forgot to get bubble bath, DOH! I am such a woman.

Then I went grocery shopping and got all the cookie ingredients and then went home. In all this entire venture took about 4 hours… It was good getting out of the house I guess, even if the mall was insane. When I got home we put up xmas lights on our porch, they look nice too, even if we are the only people in our part of the complex who has lights up. We’re going to take pictures of the tree n stuff in a few days once we have firewood, so we can take a pretty picture of our fireplace and decorated mantel with a fire in it.

Last night I found out something interesting… Baking Powder has an expiration date! And not “in ten years” but like, 2 years… Now this wouldnt surprise me but I could have sworn that my mother had the same baking powder for like 7 years, hehe. Maybe I just didn’t notice she bought more, but what the hell do you use baking powder for? My mother certainly did not do a lot of baking from scratch… *shrugs* In any event, I am not going to use all that before 2 years is up, I wish they sold it in smaller quantities.

Going to get my PA license prolly on Thursday. We would do it earlier, but Myk can only leave work so early and the DMV usually closes at 4:15… if we got there at 3:30 it would be difficult to get everything done before the close, but on Thursdays they are open til 8 .. so going there at 3:30 wont be a problem, and hopefully it wont be too busy.

I love coffee.

So I have been reading the second volume of the Outline Of History by HG Wells. And I have been learning quite a number of interesting things. In school they made it seem like Asia and Europe were quite separate and had no influence over each other until after Marco Polo, they *stressed* this even, which is odd, because I have found several instances where there is interaction, usually through Christian missionaries, but also through invading armies that clashed along the transient borders between Asia and Europe, and through a bit of trade. I mean granted, the influence was not much, and news didnt travel much, but they really did know about each other, and they weren’t as isolated as I was led to believe, I hate school. There are also lots of interesting facts that would have made me more interested in history if people had only pointed them out! Like the Pope who began the Inquisition was Pope Innocent III .. innocent! HAH! and that “Normandy” was named for the “Northmen” (vikings) who settled the original (located in what is now northern France)… and Gypsies are called “gypsies” because they are rumored to have come from Egypt. See, there are lots of interesting things about history that I just don’t know. I also noticed from reading this history that Wells wrote this for “the common person who didn’t know much about history” … but it’s often that he makes references to world geography that I just don’t know much about. Granted, Wells lived in England, and I am sure people of England know European geography better than I do, but it’s definitely made me learn more in an effort to visualize everything explained in the book. But it seems like 80 years ago when this was written, so many things like geography were common knowledge, and they really arent anymore, sad.

Speaking of sad, recently I was talking to a friend. He has a girlfriend who has a lot of health problems and was saying that he doesnt want to be “burdened” with taking care of her when he gets older and she cannot take care of herself. This was really surprising to me. I mean I guess I can see where he is coming from, he’s young, and doesnt want to grow older *knowing* that he’ll have to take care of the woman he loves, but does he really love her if he sees it as a BURDEN? I can see myself in the same situation, if Myk was somehow going to get older and end up in a wheelchair and I had to take care of him, and I don’t see that like that at *all* It’s a change, and it may be difficult, but by no means do I see it as a deturrant. And what if this guy breaks up with this girl because of her health problems and 15 years into his real marriage his wife gets into a car accident? Would he be willing to take on the responsibility of taking care of her then? I guess it’s just a question of how much you love someone … I’m sure he’d take care of someone he truly loved, but right now he just doesnt see it like that…

Uh, so maybe you will notice that I took down the banner that says “PrincessLeia2’s Journal” and replaced it with just normal text. I did that ’cause we moved princessleia.com and wallaceandgromit.net down to our home connection last night (sooner than I had expected, but that means I can put up my guest-book soon, yay). Anyway, the image is hosted there, and now whenever anyone sees an image linked to my site it “uploads” to them, thus making my connection slow and sucky. So to avoid so much lag on my connection I am taking down images I have in places other than my site that I really don’t need. If you go to princessleia.com the load time is a little slower than before, but as long as I don’t make it too image intensive it’s still fast enough for people to browse, it’s not painful anyway. And although my page gets a good number of hits, it’s not like it’s constant so my connection shouldn’t be *too* terrible

Is anyone still reading this entry? Congrats.

I was a bit stressed out yesterday. I guess it’s ’cause on Saturday Myk and I talked about me getting a job, and an entire of year of procrastinating came crashing down on top of me. It’s so EASY to say I will go out and get a job in the field I want to, so easy to say “sometime in the future I will …” but when the future comes rushing up at me I just tend to run. Excuses, rationalizations, completely avoiding the subject and hoping it will go away. I’m scared. I feel like I had an entire adult life looming in front of me and I don’t know what to do, I feel so inexperienced and stupid! So it all came down to me breaking down and crying while Myk tried to explain to me what he went through at my age. And although I am still scared, it’s not quite so bad. Myk told me not to worry about getting a job, because currently the things I say about not having a job arent just excuses, they are the truth! To get even an entry level position somewhere I need a car, preferably contacts in the area to help me get in the door, and some sort of community activity (which again, requires a vehicle). I dont have a car, I dont have friends around here (well I have Myk’s friends…). But I still feel that although these things are holding me back a bit, I am still hiding behind them. I know I will freak when I get a car. So I sorta talked to Myk about this, and he said something really profound “There is not much more to life than this.” Now I have spent MONTHS worrying about the future, and working myself up about it, that this worrying has created a HUGE cloud of confusion and fear in my head, and it’s really not all that bad. I get a car, get a crappy tech job, and work my way up from there. Building a career does not begin with your perfect job, I *know* I don’t know enough to do well at my perfect job. And if I really love what I do (and I do, I love computers) I will be happy, even a crappy tech job is better than working at a grocery store. So I guess I wont be going up to the plaza near here and getting a job… We cant afford a car for me at the moment, but we will work toward that, so eventually I will. And in the meantime I will continue striving to learn everything I am interested in and that will benefit my future.

I am much less scared now, I love Myk so much. It’s nice to have someone to drag my crazy worrying into perspective %)

This entry has been long, I should end it now so I can go get some work done %) *wanders off*

o/` Frank Sinatra – The Most Wonderful Of The Year o/`

I was feeling really down last night, I think I was just tired… but it still sucked. Ended up going to sleep around midnight, and I didnt get up til 10:30 this morning, but I’m still exhausted. I also woke up with a sore throat, I’ve been munching on sore throat drops all morning, I hate sore throats! Hurts to eat, hurts to drink, hurts to swallow. I just hope this doesn’t mean I am getting a cold.

I think I actually know enough about MySQL and php to create my own little “Poll” for prinessleia.com… I had one back when I used phpnuke on my site, but have never gathered up the courage to write one myself. I think I will try to work on that this weekend, it’d be nice to have a guestbook and a poll up when I get my site all moved and stuff %)

I think we are going to put lights up on our little porch this afternoon *looks into the bag of throat drops* and I’ll need to get summore of these… other than that I think I will prolly be reading most of the day… I am so boring, hehee.

*wanders off*

o/` Fisher – Six Hundred Sixty Six o/`

Well I was going to put my guestbook up today… I ended up making it all pretty yesterday and even making it so each entry is colored with a randomly selected color (out of 5 different colors) .. I guess it looks a little tacky, but I can always change it someday if I really hate it, hehe. But we talked about getting rid of the cobalt last night, and decided we really need to save all the money we can for a house and the cobalt is *VERY* expensive (it’s a 20 gig cobalt at a NOC, oc-48 connection, unlimited bandwidth, use your imagination, hehe)… so probably sometime next month we wont have it anymore %( We’re going to move our sites to our home cable connection, and hope we dont have too many connection problems. It’s going to suck, and each time someone surfs our sites the connection speed will be shot to hell, but we must make some sacrifices to get a house someday, and this is a very small one in the scheme of things. SO I decided to just wait til we move the sites down to our home connection to set up the database for the guestbook, that way I wont have any problems moving the database or anything, and wont have to set it all up twice in a relatively short amount of time.

So today I got up, cleaned the apartment like I do every friday morning, and then came to my computer with 43545 ideas about what i could do today (when I take walks, clean, or most anything away from my computer that i have spare brainpower during I tend to think of all the stuff I will be doing once I get back to my computer, hehe). I ended up messing around with irrsi command binding %) Wrote a script so when i type /xmas it returns my “christmas facey” … and then i wrote one so when i do /x what i want %) to say … it turns the %) into a christmas facey… hehe, it’s all silly of course, but I hadnt done any perl scripting for irssi in a few months. I made one for Myk too, so his 8) has christmas’ness too, hehe… and now our chat nicks are PrincessJingle2 and ChristmasTime YAY! %
)

Anyway, it’s friday, yay! I doubt we’ll be doing anything really this weekend. I havent been reading as much as I usually do, so I want to get a bit of reading done, maybe start setting up a box to handle all 4 of our domain names, n stuff.

*wanders off*

o/` Radiohead-Paranoid_Android o/`

It’s Snowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem, now that I got that out of my system… the snow is nice, fluffy, happy snow %) We have something like 4 inches on the ground, it’s not supposed to stop til this evening, YAY! I love snow, and last year we hardly had any. We’re calling a place that delivers half cords of wood to get one delivered this weekend hopefully, with any luck that’ll be all we need this winter for our fireplace, and hopefully we’ll find room on our little porch for it all, hehehe.

Good news! Yesterday I made several breakthroughs with PHP and MySQL! I ended up creating a user for ‘guest’ in the guestbook database, made a table called book, went and then connected with php and I was able to write to the database using the mysql php module. Then I was able to grab the entries made by the php page with more php and display them on a page… all this took about 3-4 hours. Then this morning I finally got finished being able to post all the entries onto one page.. this was actually the hardest part of the whole process.! Uh, well if anyone is interested I’ll just post what I did after the connection to the database was established here:

$Rows = mysql_query(“select count(*) from book;”) or die (“Invalid Query”);
$NumberOfEntries = mysql_result($Rows,0);

$Entry = mysql_query(“select * from book;”) or die (“Invalid Query”);

while ($NumberOfEntries >= 1)
{
$NumberOfEntries–;

printf(“Date: %s?br?n”, mysql_result($Entry,$NumberOfEntries,”date”));
printf(“Name: %s?br?n”, mysql_result($Entry,$NumberOfEntries,”name”));
printf(“Email: %s?br?n”, mysql_result($Entry,$NumberOfEntries,”email”));
printf(“Webpage: %s?br?n”, mysql_result($Entry,$NumberOfEntries,”webpage”));
printf(“How: %s?br?n”, mysql_result($Entry,$NumberOfEntries,”how”));
printf(“Comments: %s?br?n”, mysql_result($Entry,$NumberOfEntries,”comments”));
printf(“?br??br?”);
}

Hrm, it appears these weblogs dont like replacement values for <'s and >‘s … well that’s what those ?’s are in the code %)

That looks like this (with two entries in the database at the moment):

It’s not very complicated, but I am really inexperienced with both MySQL and PHP, so it’s quite an acomplishment for me %) I’m really excited. I will make it all “pretty” today, and I’ll have Myk add a user for me in the MySQL database on the Cobalt (currently only root can write to the database, and I dont have the root pass) so I can put this on my webpage tomorrow. YAY!!!

We decorated the tree last night, well, put lights on it and an angel on top, hehe. We have bulbs to put on it, but none of those little wire things that you hang the bulbs from, I think we had this problem last year as well and said “aw we’ll get them next year..” hehe. The tree looks nice just with lights on it tho %)

My father called me last night. He seems to be doing alright, I guess his arthritis is getting pretty bad so he is seeing doctors about it… but he’s doing ok in the rehab program, reading a lot and doing a lot of writing, which is all cool ’cause those are things I enjoy too, and that I know he enjoyed before he became an alcoholic. It was nice talking to him though, even if half the conversation consisted of “you should move back to new england, the job market is nice, it’s beautiful here, you will be near family!” … I do love new england, but I don’t have terribly strong family bonds, so the only reason I would move up there is if Myk could find a good job, and we could find a nice place to live. My dad asked if I was getting married sometime too, ugh, my *mother* asks that everytime I talk to her too! Parents! They’re divorced, I’d think they’d know better than anyone not to rush into anything… I guess they just want to see me taken care of *shrugs*

Anyway, I’m gonna go make my guestbook pretty %) I’ll be making a “preview entry” page too I think, it’ll be fun anyway, I like making things pretty, hehe. *wanders off*

http://www.princessleia.com/images/MyImages/bush_binoculars.jpg<--lmao!!!

o/` Frank Sinatra – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas o/`

Yes, Christmas songs already… we got a tree last night %) It was sorta a pain ’cause we didn’t know where to go to get one, so we just sorta started driving toward a place we had seen a few days before, and stopped at a stop light right next to a tree place. So we stopped there, it was just a place in a parking lot.. a local landscaper selling trees. So we picked out a tree and the kid went to cut part of the stump off and couldnt get the chainsaw started, then said they didnt wrap them OR give you anything to tie it onto your car with, so after 20 minutes of standing in the frigid weather we said forget it, heh. SO we decided to drive out to Frank’s Nursery and Crafts to get a tree (we got ours there last year), and on the way there we saw another place set up to sell trees, so instead of driving all the way to Frank’s we turned into that parking-lot. This time we had much better luck. Obviously this early not too many people are buying yet, so we were the only ones there, and they guy was really helpful. We *wanted* to get a smaller tree than last year, but I think we ended up with one the same size, hehe, trees look so much smaller outside! The guy working there helped us pick one out, and of course I was indecisive, I wanted the perfect tree! Finally, the 5th one he showed us seemed to be nice. We brought it home, cleared a space in our livingroom and put the tree up. It was a fairly painless process %)

We were able to get a tree last night ’cause Myk went into work early and so got to leave early, he went in early again this morning. This of course means that I got up early too, since I try to keep the same schedule as him. It’s really not so bad, I’m not a morning person, but getting up early doesnt seem to bother me, yet.

Don’t buy cheap socks. I got these socks at Ames las year and almost all of them have holes in them… I don’t even go out much, these are socks I wear around the apartment!. I hate having holes in my socks.

I finished updating my resume this morning. I guess it still sorta sucks, but it’s better than it was %D I suppose I am going to put it up on my website, why would I be reluctant to do this? I doubt someone will give me a job by visiting my site, and I’m not sure that’s worth the risk I take by putting my address so publicly on a site like that… but of course if anyone really wanted to stalk me there are 5465465 other ways to find that information. Yeah, so wanna see my resume? HIRE ME!. I hate writing resume’s … I’ve never had much talent for writing (says the girl with the daily huge weblog, I know).

Maybe I shouldnt run apache all the time, it takes up resources and it’s sorta silly, it’s not like I NEED my network page active all the time, only Myk ever sees it, I only actually have it for testing stuff anyway, and I am not always testing stuff, sometimes I am wasting time writing in my weblog %D

Stalkers suck. “Oh no, another stalker pl2? That sucks” … NOPE! It’s not someone stalking ME this time… it’s someone stalking Myk, and ex-girlfriend to be exact. See, a few months ago this chatter came in as “Captain” … at first I thought it was a guy, for the first few weeks actually. Then one day she said something that made me realize she was female, and we saw that her ISP was the college that Myk’s most recent ex went to. So the next day I asked where she lived, she said Michigan (NOT the place where the college is, it’s in West Virginia) and I asked where she went to college and she said that that was also in Michigan. So unless we had been mistaken, she was lying. It sucked because I had been really nice to her and helped her out with some things, given her computer advice, etc. Then, last night, she came into chat while I was in the bedroom reading, and Myk asked her if she went to that college in WV, she said yes, he asked if she knew his ex, she said yes. Then she started this whole thing about how Myk’s ex was bisexual now, always hanging out in bars, etc… Now the reason Myk’s ex broke up with him was that she was “born-again Christian” even to the point of becoming a missionary to Honduras, so something was strange here %) Given that Captain’s credibility was shot to hell since she lied about living in Michigan, Myk grabbed her IP and found out that it was the same ISP that his ex’s parents use (with whom she was living with last we knew). So we came to the conclusion that Captain IS his ex, and she is fucking crazy %) Why can’t she just leave us alone!? She broke up with him because he would never become a Christian, so it should have been over then… but last year when I started dating him she started harassing me until we started ignoring her, and now this! Holiday Stalking Season. Creepy.

Don’t you love how my weblog jumps around from random subject to random subject? No transitional sentences here!

I have been watching more tv than usual lately, I am not sure why really… it’s weird. I was watching CourtTV the other night and they had some show on E. Coli … I never knew much about it, it’s nasty! The show made me very glad I don’t eat beef %) They said that something like 3% of ground beef is infected! Of course if you cook it properly you shouldnt have to worry about the meat being contaminated, but what about when it’s in your refrigerator and has the chance to get on other food? Ick. Yay paranoia!

So in response to Ailstyn‘s comment, yah, newsspeak… I dont actually use it often, heh, but now that it’s brought up … I should really read 1984 again.. it’s been a few years. And yeah, i play computer games, and run linux, and like anime, and play magic the gathering, and all sorts of things girls don’t usually do… but I’m one of the most “girly” people when it comes to stuffed animals, cute animals, and the color pink (% hehee.

PLUG is tonight, I doubt we’ll go though, it’s supposed to snow, and the LAST place I want to be when it’s snowing is center city. We really should go to a meeting sometime tho, haven’t been since june %

I am going to go noew… I never did get around to messing with PHP and MySQL yesterday so I will do that now *wanders off*

o/` Hooverphonic – Mad About You o/`

I posted entries from the previous days (I post to a livejournal as well, so I just grabbed the entries from there to update here) … and I read the apology from xanga about the down-time, and I am pleased they offered AT LEAST that apology. I mean I know I really shouldn’t complain about a free service, but if I actually paid for this, like so MANY people do, I’d be veeeerrrry upset. I have to hand it to xanga tho, they obviously have a very good business plan to make so many people comment on their apology with “aww that’s ok, you dont need to apologize” … they made their business seem like a community, instead of an entity providing a premium service for a price.

I didn’t get much sleep last night. Ever since I was about 12 years old I have had trouble sleeping at night… I remember going to a few slumber parties and being all happy that I was the last one to fall asleep, ’cause it really wasnt difficult. Of course this has always hampered my ability to function %) But I’ve always been really good at sleeping during the day… so I guess it’s not exactly classic insomnia, I guess I’m just nocturnal. Anyway, I did get myself onto a normal nighttime sleep schedule and that seemed to help. Unfortunately when Myk has vacation time, like this past weekend, I tend to go to bed at 4 am… wake up at 10, go back to bed at 1 pm then wake up again at 3pm. So I get enough sleep, but again slipping into sleeping during the day again. Last night I read for a while then tried to go to sleep around midnight. Tossed and turned til about 1:30 when Myk came to bed… and was awake in bed most of the night just thinking about things, and dozing off a couple of times I’m sure… Ended up just getting out of bed finally when Myk left for work early (around 6:30 am). I actually don’t feel bad right now, but I am sure I am going to be really sleepy come this afternoon. Must. Resist. Napping.

Myk just forwarded me an email about a web development studio that’s hiring… looks interesting. Apparently they are looking for people who work with php, mysql, and/or graphics designing… hmmm. Looks like you send a list of your skills, and if they accept you into their group they will contact you in the future sometime to work on projects. Apparently most people work for free, but if your skills are worth it to them they’ll pay you. Well it may not be a way to make my first million, but if anything I can get experience, even if I have to work for free for the first few projects. Ah volunteer web work is great to put on a resume! *grins* I really need computer related projects/work to put on my resume, since i’ve never had a job in the field…

Anyway… oh, a guy that I know just recently broke things off with his fiancee. I wouldnt normally mention this, because I don’t particularly like this guy very much, but the conditions of the breakup were what bothered me. The girl is about 2 years older than him (she’s 19 and he’s 17…) and apparently she cheated on him, lied to him, and was an all out bitch. When they finally broke up she said she not only didn’t love him, but she HATED him and would get a restraining order against him if he didnt leave her alone. She also said that she kept saying she loved him because she “felt sorry for him” and she said she’d marry him because she “wanted to make him happy” … and in the end she said she didn’t love him anymore because he “wasnt cute enough” … Now how cold-hearted can you get?! How could leading someone on and making them falsely believe you love them make someone happy? I mean lying to yourself about loving someone is one thing, but actively cheating on someone while saying it is completely different! Now of course he is paranoid that when he falls for a girl she’ll just turn around and cheat on him… I hate girls like that. Make all of us look like cheating whores, and no doubt this guys next girlfriend will be kept under close guard to make sure she doesnt cheat, which is completely unfair. *sigh* Liars suck

Oh I am going to talk about my keyboard again! *ahem* This new one is really nice, but I realized the other night when I went to put a cd in the drive that i don’t have any hot-keys on this keyboard! After all the work I went through learning about xmodmap and xev so I could bind cdplay to those silly hot-keys on my old keyboard, and now I don’t even have them anymore… very sad. I was so disappointed I almost switched back to my old keyboard, hehe.

Ok, I am feeling tired already, it’s going to be a long day.

I installed Open Office this morning so I can update my resume and send one off as a .doc file, as well as html (Myk has an html to pdf program that I need to grab from him sometime as well so I can have it in pdf format as well…). This is the first time I’ve run OpenOffice on my new computer, and I have to say I am quite impressed, it’s not nearly as slow and annoying as it was on my 450 mhz machine %) Of course I am sure this is to be expected, but still, it’s actually a nice program when it doesnt take three minutes and all my computer power to launch. I just need to work on having it play nicely with my ttf fontys, hehe.

A friend of mine has a quake server running on his box now, and told me that I “HAVE TO” install quake in linux so we can play sometime… There is a linux installer at http://www.quakeworld.net … of course I need the original version of Quake, so my friend has to send that to me I guess *shrugs* It would be fun tho, as old as the game is (% especially if I can get it installed without breaking anything, hehee.

I am thinking (after I get my resume updated) of trying to mess with php and mysql a little to see if I can create a guestbook for my site. I had a guestbook on princessleia2.com when that existed, it was called EZGuestbook or something, and it was not hard to setup I guess, but it didn’t always work… and that’s annoying. Besides, I need the php/mysql experience… it’ll be fun too. I am actually going to try to make it so I can distribute it for other people to use (I have a terrible habit of creating things so they work especially for me and would be infinitely confusing for anyone else to use… yes, taking the easy way out… writing a script is easy, making it user friendly and writing documentation is hard!). Yeah, so I am going to start working on how to do that today, which should take quite some time seeing as i don’t even remember how to open a mysql database with php %D

Wow, it’s my normal time for waking up, I guess that means I didnt waste any time today writing in my weblog! Hehe… I should sleep less… er… nm… i love sleep z_Z

Right, so I am gonna go noew *wanders off*