Red Enough Reloaded

08.18.2004

Last week I finished, or at least said I was finished, with my learning how to paint experiment. I've finally gotten the pictures of how it progressed ready:

From left to right:

• The pristine original room, cleaned out for the first time in a good 3 or 4 years. I hate the grey carpet.
• After a coat of tinted primer, aka "The Bubble Gum Room". If I was an 8 year old girl keen on Barbie, I could have stopped here.
• 4 1/2 coats of "Wine Tasting" later. Notice the carpet? It's there to cover up the paint stains on the carpet I hate. Kind of artsy funky though, having a rug on top of a carpet.

I've been trying to finish up the million other little things around the house this week. I've screwed more things into walls in the past 3 days than I ever have. I wonder if that sounds as dirty as my tired mind makes it out to be?

I've still got to build the shelves (and then stock them with everything I've crammed into a closet for temporary holding of said stuff. After mooving the shelves-to-be into the room, I'm pretty sure it's going to take a good chunk of a weekend to put the blasted things together. They're heavy!

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Joy of Log Files

08.12.2004

I've managed to keep track of my server logs for over the past year. My favorite analysis tool has been Weblog Expert, it has just enough info and charts to be informative, yet not overwhelming. One of the most informative things I've seen is what people are searching for that leads them to my humble site:

Hmmm, if you combine babe of the day and "babe of the day", that would turn out to be 189 people. TNA wrestling, which I thought would die a horrible death after seeing the inaugural show 2 years ago, is the next most popular search. That also leads to my most linked to picture, which is Toby Keith suplexing Jeff Jarret.

Some of the stuff I just don't get. Wrestler's Wives? Lingerie Wrestling (which I think may have been a match at the first TNA event)? This doesn't show some of my favorites that only show up once or twice:

• wrestling bimbos
• wiggles parody
• stephen hawking stripper
• pictures of dancing girls in cages
• wrestling rue

I feel like I run more of a porn site then a blog. So, until you find Stephen Hawking stripping in cages with wrestling bimbos, keep on searching that net!

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Capri Pant Rage

08.11.2004

I'm not the fashion police, god knows I'm not the bessed dresser around, but I think I have a good opinion on what certain body types shouldn't wear. It's also not often that a piece of clothing comes along that it seems absolutely nobody looks good in. Capri pants, pedal pushers, cropped pants, call them what you will, but I have yet to see anyone wearing a pair of these that looks good in them.

Yesterday was a good example. I was out doing some shopping and was noticing the pants women were wearing. An inappropriately large portion were wearing the aforementioned capri/pedal/cropped pants. The main feature of these pants is that they tend to make women's legs look bigger. Pants stopping at the largest portion of the calf seem to accentuate how big the calf is. God forbid they're wearing a version that's tight and cropped at the knee - it usually looks like someone is squeezing a giant sausage through the pants.

It's not just the big and beautiful crowd that's erring here. Your typical midriff showing high school hottie has a hard time pulling off wearing these pants. And why do they always show up in orange? The worse offender is when there is a top to go with the pants that have some matching embroidered design. If you're under 60, and don't want to look over 60, you should stay away from this combination.

Ok, rant over. Just go put on some shorts and be done with it.

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.Net = .Hell

08.10.2004

I've managed to put it off for at least the past 8 months, but it's finally caught up to me. I'm learning .NET.

I'm trying to keep an open mind. After all, I learned ASP when I was at DeltaCom and it wasn't the end of the world. I even did a little .NET stuff at the end of last year and I survived. The only thing instilling fear and trepidation is that this time I have to make something from scratch. Ooooh crap.

Right now I'm going through one of the O'reilly books online - ASP.NET in a Nutshell - and it's going better than I originally thought. I figure going through and learning all the details like a newbie might help my attitude. I even did the Hello WOrld program. The key will be to see if I can actually make something that will work from all of this.

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Red Enough

08.09.2004

Saturday brought an end to the "Russ Learns To Paint" experiment. After a coat of primer and 4 coats of actual paint, the walls were a uniform (enough) shade of red for me to call it done. I should have some pics of how things progressed tomorrow!

Unfortunately, there were things I never thought of. The strength of latex bonding to the tape I had around the baseboards and door was one. Fortunately, I went around the edges with a razor before things got ripped too far apart. The sieve of a drop cloth that old sheets can be was another, now seeing that I have splotches of red and pink (the primer) here and there. Maybe I'll be able to clean it up, but I'm not very hopeful. I hated that carpet anyway, even though I wasn't planning on replacing it until next year.

Yep, the next time I'm painting, somebody else is going to do it.

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