Things I've Learned... Today

04.01.2004

Today has been educational. I've learned a couple of important things.

• I hate April Fools Day. It gives everybody free reign to be a smart ass, and there are enough on a normal day. Big, over the top pranks are good when they're done right, but the little, incesant, non-stop jabs just suck.
• When testing a shopping cart, turn off the email notification. If you don't, you may find yourself with 77 emails you need to delete.
• When using PHP to set a cookie, it can only be overwritten from the same directory it was set in if not explicitly configured. It takes some people 2 hours and 14 minutes to figure that out on their own.

I'll probably learn more befor ethe day is through, I just hope it's not painful.

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The Renovations: Part 4

03.31.2004

The last of the contractored (it's my website, I can make up words if I want - like spicket!) home renovations has been complete. Quarter round guys came in and spent 15 minutes finishing up the 2 hall closets. To make up for it, I heard they then spent about 3 hours fixing the garage door. The door now works fine, it's just in need of new bearings for the rollers. I have no idea how to put new bearings in teh rollers. Sounds like I may need another contractor! The only thing left is to put Gina to work painting!

Yesterday I also sent my poor lawn mower off to finally get the faulty gas tank replaced. While at the shop, it'll be getting the whole tune-up treatment. Hopefully it'll all happen quick since the lawn is starting to get in dire need of mowing.

Totally unrelated, but today marks my 1st anniversary at Spiritus! Yay me!

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Catastrophe Strikes!

03.30.2004

It was only a matter of time before something serious like this happened. It was inevitable, I should have seen it coming.

I walked into my computer room yesterday and sensed something was amiss. I looked at the floor and saw what had triggered my RussSense?. Staring up at me was an arm. A wrestling figure arm. I looked up to the top of the bookshelf and saw an empty spot. A spot that should have been occupied. I looked down to the floor beside the bookshelf and there I found him.

Edge.

The wrestler, not the guitarist from U2.

Poor, sweet, (now one-armed) Edge. I'm not sure what caused this to happen, but there's an in-depth Camtoon in the works to try and get to the bottom of this. Did he just fall off the bookshelf, or was there foul play involved? I've got to get to the bottom of this!

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The Renovations: Part 3

03.29.2004

After an amazinginly swift 2 weeks, my home remodelling project(s?) is now 99% complete! Hardwood laminate is in. Tile shower is in. Faucets, spickets, quarter-round: mostly in. They still have to come back later and finish up putting some quarter-round in closets, but that should be pretty much it. The only other oddity is that when the floor guys came to put down the laminate, the oven light mysteriously came on. And has stayed on ever since. I'm going to try to get them to look at that when they come back to finish up the quarter-round. This all has prefaced my ability to touch things and watch them fall apart on Saturday. I've always had little problems with the garage door. It started back 5 years ago when I dented the door with my head while backing out in the convertible. When the house was struck by lightning and the contractors were here fixing my electrical problems, the big giant spring that attaches the garage door to the wall came out (so I guess I was lucky there was sometone available to fix it). Saturday, a couple of the rollers came off the track when the door was closing, causig the door to kind of warp while bending the track. I think the house is telling me I should replace the garage door. Now I have to track down a garage door guy.

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Sequels with Bugs

03.26.2004

One of my favorite movies was Starship Troopers. I know, it was heralded all over as "Aliens: 90210", but being a huge fan of the original book drew me to the movie. It's one of the few books I can sit, read, get totally engrossed in, and finish in one sitting. It's a long sitting, but it's a good book. Sticking more to the roots of the book is a CGI animated series that's pretty good.

While browsing around today, I found that they've made a sequel to Starship Troopers that comes to DVD June 1st. Although the cast is comprised of some recognizable names (if you watch enough tv), looking through the website gives the movie a feel that they've gone back and re-used all the CGI footage from the original movie, while setting up a couple of sets in someone's basement to shoot their new scenes. I've just got a ba-a-a-a-ad feeling about this.

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