it's odd being back in town for only a day before leaving again. i spent this past weekend in coldspring, texas at a scrapbooking retreat where i finished 80 pages. yes. 80. that would be the rest of my london scrapbook and 3/4 of my college years. whew.
tomorrow morning i leave for ca to spend the thanksgiving holidays with the family. i have lots to do, including kidnapping family photos for scanning, talking with family members to figure out who some of the people in the old pictures are in the first place, and other such genealogy-related fun stuff. :)
i hope that the past year has given you many things to be thankful for...and that you'll take a few moments to remember them.
yep. that's how i feel. started coming down with a migraine this afternoon - thankfully when i stopped by the apartment. took the medicine, laid on the couch waiting for it to work, fell asleep for a little while. when i woke up i felt really weird. my whole body was really heavy, i was kind of dizzy, and my arms were really heavy. somehow i managed to walk around a little bit, grabbed my stuff, then got in the car. i stopped to check my mail, and that was when i really started to feel weird. i sat in the car for a little bit and noticed that my right arm was completely numb. it got better after about five minutes or so, so i continued on to work. i really should have stayed at home - i still can't really think straight. :/
i'm supposed to have a hammered dulcimer lesson this evening - i don't know whether i should attempt to go or not. even if i have nick drive me down, i don't know how well i'll do playing as my reflexes suck at the moment...just like my typing. i could be really happy just sitting here, i think. sitting and staring off into space. or maybe a nap would be good. decisions...decisions...
i don't even really know if i'm making any sense.
i really am liking this much better. fewer clicks for you - fewer clicks for me! ok, put your secret decoder ring to the screen: if you're looking for something that isn't linked from the index page, you'll find some extra stuff under "bio." that's today's first tip of the day.
i've noticed that i left my contact information off. oops. i'll find a place for it soon.
(the real one) use control-tab to move between tabs in dreamweaver mx. older versions of dw opened new windows and you could alt-tab between them. this new version has tabs at the bottom of the document window, and cntl-tab moves forward through them; cntl-shift-tab moves backwards.
tip of the day, pt. 3
do you have a handspring pda? take a look at your stylus. the plasic pieces screw off - one end has a tiny screwdriver, and the other has a reset tool that fits in the back of the handspring. the extra-thin model doesn't have this feature, but the rest of them do.
tada! look for more tips as i find them or figure them out. :)
ok, so the truth is, i have a ton of stuff on my site that i don't, and won't, update. it's leaving starting now. the pages that are linked are the ones that i intend to update.
i'm still playing, but it's starting to look better...
why sometimes the coolest web sites are done by high school students? i think it's 'cause they have too much time on their hands. i really do. they aren't working full time, finishing grad school, taking hammered dulcimer lessons, trying to finish scrapbooks, swing dancing...
yeah well, so i'm jealous.
you know this means you'll see a redesign here.
you know this means that it's gonna look completely different.
:D
yep. my webpage is. i updated the bio section today. hopefully i'll start working on it piece by piece to get it bearing some semblance to my current reality. :)
mostly i'm just procrastinating. i need to find a way to recharge my creative juices and get out of my rut (design and otherwise).
being so is not fun. not a'tall. though you do get to get a lot of sleep all day. that was friday.
on the other hand, i got my new palm m130 yesterday. color! yes, i dream, i pda in color. it's great. i need more memory. ;)
today was a good day. we started peer groups in the communications advisory board meeting which gave me a chance to start talking with other designers across campus. networking, baby! :) actually, there's a lot of big picture stuff that we can do, that we need to do, 'cause the U isn't going to do it, unfortunately. or at least any time soon...
macromedia users group. yay! this seems like it's going to be a worthwhile group to belong to. today's presentation was on flash. i really need to start messing with it.
in other news, i feel like taking pictures. maybe i will later this evening - i need to just start dragging the digicam around with me.
so, that's the very random news in a nutshell.
it's been a slow day. i've spend most of it playing with macromedia's newest software - contribute. so far it seems really cool. then again, anything that would let me push content management onto other people is a good thing...
one thing is for sure - i'm really rather scatterbrained today...sometimes focused, mostly not. maybe i just need some time off.
...now it looks like i'm a discoverer. maybe it's my competitive nature coming out or maybe i'm just feeling bored in my job. why don't you take the kingdomality test and see what you come up as?
i've got a screw in my tire. it's been like that for about a week, i think. i tried to take care of it over lunch, but alas, the wait was 45 minutes at one place and an hour and a half at the other. guess i'll be taking care of it after work...
i'm looking forward to another clear weekend. i think i'll work at the food pantry this saturday - it's our turn. seems like whenever i show up, though, we've got too many people and too few customers. ah well. :)
maybe it's the rainbow that caused all the rain...so i'll put up a nice picture of the sunny beach instead. all my pictures of port aransas turned out really good - this is one of them.
enjoy!
wish i could take one right now. i can't stop yawning. i think people at work might notice my feet sticking out from under my desk if i tried though... and tonight's going to be busy doing homework and stuff. (not too much longer!!) it's just my low point of the day. i'm always like this between 2 and 5 or so.
i'm taking care of anti-procrastination day a day late. (it's wednesdays!) the point is, i finally scanned, uploaded, and ordered the pictures i need to complete most of the scrapbook i'm doing for my mom for, um, last mother's day. *blush* she knows it's coming, though. at this rate, maybe i'll get her birthday (september) calligraphy done over christmas. then again, over christmas i'm supposed to be working on msbrowar.com version 2.0. i won't complain - i get paid for that.
i often hope my high school english teacher never reads this. i really don't normally write this way when i'm writing letters and memos and stuff at work - but then i'm sure you figured that. plus, at work, i have a professional writer looking over my shoulder most of the time, correcting my grammar. ;) i suppose i've read too many web journals that are written in this style - well, the no caps is my style - but the stream-of-consciousness type. oh yeah. too much time on the internet. (but didn't they say you could break the rules as long as you did it consciously and with reason? mine's a reason of expression. yeah. that's it.)
i wish that i could turn off the little task bar notification that i've got mail. i really don't need to know i've got mail - i've always got mail. in fact, it seems i get an email every 5 minutes. In fact, i've got 62 deleted messages - that doesn't include the ones that i've kept for one reason or another. oh look, another email...
before this seems like a gripe session, i'm actually in a pretty good mood today. tired, trying to keep my eyes open, but in a good mood nevertheless.
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
*whistles* uh, yeah. like this morning when it was 40something outside and i kept turning the heater up 'cause my toes were numb. what's wrong with 75? i didn't complain about it...
i don't need any more "news." next time someone asks me, "have you heard?" or "did i tell you?" i'm going to say "no. and i don't want to know." sometimes i think that ignorance really is bliss. perhaps my life would be so much better if i just went on in my own little world, not knowing what was going on in others' lives.
*puuuuh*
i can't tell you how getting a cd made my day today. ok, so maybe i just did, but anyway. i got the stephen speaks cd that i pre-orded about a month ago. it's just awesome. :)
now that i've gotten new music twice in the past couple of weeks, it was time to shuffle out some of the stuff that's been in the car for a while. now playing in the little blue supercar:
dave matthews band - busted stuff
paul simon - graceland (somehow, i just can't bear to take it out at the moment)
nickel creek
nickel creek - this side (yes, both still in the car)
john mayer - room for squares (the original release; i have had this crazy urge to listen to 'back to you' recently)
graham colton (yeah, like this is going to leave the car anytime soon. i've yet to wear it out, though)
stephen speaks - no more doubt 2.0 (yay! you *must* find this cd and listen to it. it's awesome!!!!)
jesse cook - gravity
jesse cook - vertigo (a little new-age flamenco anyone? talk about music that wants to make you get up and dance...)
jonny lang - lie to me (for the days when i'm having a bad day. nothing like some hard-core blues guitar to make you feel better)
there. sufficiently eclectic for you? ok, so maybe it's a little heavy on the guitar/folksy side, but you should see the music collection i have at home. ;)
lulling me to sleep and getting me going in the morning:
chanticleer - mexican baroque (they're an awesome all-male acapella group that does, well, everything. their classical choral stuff is awesome, though. this cd has somehow become standard fare for me on christmas eve after midnight mass. don't know how it ended up that way, but it did...)
(lee ritenour - color rit was the previous selection. makes me think of summer nights in california down by the ocean, cool breeze, light jazz....*happy thoughts*)
speaking of music, the hammered dulcimer is coming along nicely. i'm really enjoying it. i'm probably annoying my neighbors as i learn the jig patterns. heh. they're hearing them over and over and over and over... it's all good though - eventually i'll get to the point where i'm learning a whole jig.
:D the sun's back. it must have been tired 'cause it took a long vacation. we had a five minute break during class, and I went outside to stand in the sun. aaaaaah.
fall's definitely here, though. looks like it's not going to get any warmer than 70 in the forecast. since most of my nice work stuff is warm-weather clothing, people at work have seen me more dressed up than usual. maybe once i get more pants i can start wearing business casual again. (i had to retire another pair of pants yesterday. *sniff* will the designers please put pleats back in their pants?!)
we finally turned in our final project for negotiations class today. presentation next week, three weeks of no work, then a final and we're done there. i'm choosing not to think about my requirements elicitation class. there's a lot left to do for it. *bleh*
back to work, i guess.
here we go - pictures from today around noon. this is what the area outside my apartment looks like.
-seabees
some days i have an attitude like this. usually it's on mondays.
rain drops keep falling on my head...
alright. enough with the rain already. can we have a week of sun? please? on the other hand, it's rather comical to watch wet yellow leaves fly off my car as i pull out of the driveway and head for work.
i think i live on weather.com - looks like the rain's going to be around for most of the day. should dry out tomorrow or the day after. i'm rather curious, though. i've lived here since '94, and it's *never* been this cool at this time of the year. it's really quite shocking - we are actually experiencing fall. maybe i was transported to the northeast when i wasn't looking or something. i mean, we've even got yellow leaves - though that might just be root rot from all the rain. ;)