Tempered Fragility

So, today I coded for five hours straight, trying to get my Mum’s website done. It is only now that I realise my mistake: I haven’t tested in any other browser but Firefox since oh, two days ago? Two days worth of coding that may or may not be compatible with Internet Explorer. *sigh* Why does this happen to me? The site is looking good though.. just a few minor things to change, then a code clean-up and I’m done! Hopefully everything will look fine in IE. *crosses fingers*

Work was busy tonight; I think in the last half-hour we had three people sign up, and a whole heap of customers came in to browse then, too. I think they were out to get us, personally. See, at work we give out the DVD’s in jewel cases, along with the covers. Most people either take the covers, or tell us they don’t want them. Tonight, I had people on three separate occasions, bring DVD’s up to the counter and say “Those are the ones we don’t want.” *blink* Why, people? Why do you make me do more shelving, when I have huge piles right over there? *stab* Nah, just kidding. I don’t really want to stab them. *cough*

Anyway, I’m going to go and play Farm Frenzy for a bit, and kill some more brain cells.

My resolution for the new year is to write something everyday, and post it here. Sounds so easy.. but considering my success (*cough*) with NaBloPoMO, I’m guessing it will last a week. Maybe two. *shrug*

NYE was generally pretty low key; we went to Sunbury and watched the fireworks with Anthony and Nicole. Next year I am determined to go into the city and document the whole thing with my camera, and possibly a voice recorder.

This post is really short because I’m in the middle of cutting Rylee’s fur.. she may not be all that stylish, but at least she’ll be cool. She was panting non-stop in the heat today, and I’m worried about her losing weight or dehydrating under all that fur. We have a bag full so far, and there is still 1/4 of a puppy to do.

Oh! I wrote a poem today, but I’m still editing it. I will post it here when I’m done though.

I’m also currently in the middle of coding a layout for my Mum’s blog.. ugh. I did something to it, somewhere, but do you think I can find it? I’m considering commenting out ALL of the styling so I can maybe isolate the problem.. wish me luck!

Today I visited my Mum and siblings, since I haven’t seen them for awhile. Actually, I’m still there, but because my whole family is very tech-oriented, I’m allowed to be on the computer while I’m here and they still count it as time spent with them. Plus, my Mum is trying to get the yo-yo on speed (otherwise known as Katie) to sleep, and, well.. that just isn’t a very pretty sight.

I’ve enjoyed my visit so far, although coming home always reminds me of how much I miss them, and how many things I’m not a part of any more. I’m just the older sister who lives away from home now, and I don’t hold as big a place in the family any more. I used to think the girls would still idolise me, and that my relationship with my family wouldn’t change. How very wrong I was!

I play two Ultima Online shards, neither one regularly, and I think the time has come to kind of choose one, and leave the other. They both have advantages and disadvantages, and I’m not looking forward to choosing, but it’s reached the point where I’m actually getting frustrated at the differences between them. Like, I’ll be on one and I’ll be wishing I had some of the features that the other has, and vice versa. We’ll see.

I finished the graphic design for my Mum’s blog a few days ago, and now I just have to code it. I don’t think it will be that difficult, because I basically just have to code the webpage and stick Wordpress elements into it. I hope it goes smoothly, and it doesn’t turn out lovely in Firefox and ripped to pieces in Internet Explorer.

I got back from Gentil’s a few hours ago, and I thought I would post about my weekend while I took a break from writing my HTML/CSS presentation. First of all, quote of the weekend (from me of course =P):

“I’m so smart I confuse myself.” I said that as an excuse for my blondeness, but I don’t think anyone fell for it. Second of all, Gentil has decided he wants to open his own school. The classes? Tee hee:

• The Art of French Kissing
• The Basics of Making Out
• The Beauty of Sex
• Fellatio101
• Cunnilingus in Six Easy Steps

He’s terrible. None of those were thought up by me, either. *coughs*

We watched Saw II on Saturday night.. it was awesome. Makes me want to go and see Saw III sooo bad. I <3 the Saw movies. I had a fantastic weekend, minus the rather odd moodswing on Saturday night.. *shakes her head* Oh, and we got work done, too. So there, Chris! We don’t -only- make out! =P

That’s actually all I can think of right now.. *sigh* Back to the tutorial.. which I’m going to put up on this site when I’m finished. I’ve always wanted to write one (which is partly why I chose to for my end of year project), so I figure I may as well put it on my website.

OH! On Tuesday, I hope to buy my own domain name! *crosses fingers* I hope I can.. I so badly want my own domain. It’s so fetch! *coughs* That was NOT a Mean Girls quote.. really.. it wasn’t. *coughs again*

Alrighty, ciao people. (Which reminds me, I still haven’t redone the site.. *mutter* December, I promise.)

Well, unfortunately I won’t be uploading pictures of my new stationery. *sniffs* Damn camera. Anyway, maybe when the notebook is all tattered and written in, I’ll upload a pic then. For now, I want to write about my goals for NaNoWriMo.

My Goals for NaNoWriMo:

• write it all, in a notebook, with a pencil
• reach 50,000 words by the end of November
• actually write something that I can be proud of
• do it again next November

I know, not particularly spectacular. But still, they’re goals. Speaking of goals.. ugh. I have to write a HTML/CSS tutorial by next Monday, not to mention all the other work I have to do. *sigh* Stupid TAFE. I mean, I have some of the tutorial written already.. I guess it’s the actual presenting of it that I’m not looking forward to. Bleh. So for the next week, I’ll be focusing on:

• HTML/CSS Tutorial
• Computer Workstation Poster (just about done, really)
• I.T Brochures (What a load of crap this one is.)
• Some other assignment thing for Computers/WRS

Heh. TAFE is so fun. *mutters* I really don’t have that much to do, despite my whining. It’s just so boring and repetitive.

Currently, things at home are pretty stressful. Mum’s health seems to be improving though, which is the main thing. Everyone is getting on everyone else’s nerves though, and everyone is tense. Mum is sick of soup (and I don’t blame her - note to self, liquid diet not that great after all), and the kids are sick of never seeing Mum, being lectured by their aunty and having to listen to their big sister.

Oh, and Gentil and I discovered that if you buy a monthly Metcard, you can use it on weekends in all three zones, no matter what zone it’s bought for. Awesomeness.

Anyway, time to do some homework.

I should ideally be doing homework right now… but I seem to have come across a stop sign, so I figured that maybe writing a blog entry would unstop me, so to speak.

Katie made me laugh when I got home from Gentil’s yesterday (after staying there Friday night). She ran up and hugged me, then looked up at me, glaring, and said “You’ve been kissing Gentil!” I was like, “What makes you say that?” Her response? “You smell like him!” *dies laughing* So funny.

Erm, I accomplished abolutely nothing I wanted to these holidays, except for spending time with Gentil. That goal was well and truly accomplished. =) In regards to school work, I should possibly have done some. Yeah. Oh well. I’ll catch up, I just got a bit lazy last term. For some reason it seemed both long and short. Maybe it just seemed long because of all the work we were doing. It stretched on forever while I was at TAFE, anyway, but the rest of the time flew by. Odd.

I was reading an article on A List Apart just before, and I must say, it surprises me that people DON’T want to conform to standards, or use CSS. I love CSS. Seriously, when I was first learning HTML, when I was about 13 or 14, I QUIT because I thought the nested tables and font tags everywhere were absolutely ridiculous, and completely inefficient. Then I discovered CSS. It makes everything so much easier. Sure, it has limitations, and IE only provides somewhat crappy support (what else is new?) and can also produce crazy behaviour at random times (WTF have you done to my beautiful list that renders so beautfully in EVERY other “main” browser, IE6! *shakes fist*)… but honestly, CSS is fantastic.

Standards are fantastic, too. When I do eventually get a hand-held device with wireless internet access (*dreams*) so I can surf the ‘net on the train (and the tram, and the bus, and while I should be doing schoolwork, and..) I want to be able to browse any site I like, and at the very least have the unstyled content available. And I don’t want it full of images (which of course will show their alt titles, because to save on ridiculously high bandwidth costs I will have turned images off) called “spacer.gif”. Ugh. *shudders* Spacer images.. bleh.

Ahem. Anyway. Just ignore that little rant. Good news, I’m unstopped! (Hence the title.. yes, I know, I’m funny. =P)

Ciao for now.