Wednesday, August 28, 2002


Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

After many years and many wrestles with myself, I decided yesterday to finally go under the scissors for some major snippage. I'm talking about my hair. All my life I've wanted long hair and having it waist-length is my preferred length. However, due to my major pet peeves of having some major breakages (resulting in having to braid my hair more than once during the day due to it fraying), I've finally decided (but more importantly actually acted upon that desicion) to cut it.

Yeah, that big "C" word: cut. Well, since keeping a 12" lock of hair in a dresser drawer ain't an option for me, I'm gonna give to Locks of Love. I know being sick ain't no fun (another reason for cutting the hair is to see whether my migraines and seizures subside a bit) and I'm certain that someone out there who's bald due to sickness is equally sick over losing their hair. Yes I hacked my hair and I feel a little sick about it, but I know others are even sicker about it but they didn't have that choice.




One foot...of hair. That silver blip is an Ohio State Quarter


Don't worry, I still got "long" hair (but to me it's medium bordering on short), and we did take some pix yesterday for comparison and I reckon we'll grab the "after" pix tomorrow when it isn't raining. I'll post those pix when I can. And no I did not pick up an *Ohio* state quarter for any specific reason other than it was just the nearest thing I could grab for scale.
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Saturday, August 24, 2002


Birthday week

This is the one week of the year where several birthdays collide into one week and considering the post below, it's kinda hard *not* to forget this week:


On the 23rd is the birthday of a good friend of mine who used to ride the schoolbus with me while we tried to think of different things to do with the bus (can we go swimming in it yet?) since we weren't thrilled with the school we were at (we met on that bus actually), and is currently a great flier. From violins and a big yellow bus, she's taken to the skies and now flies around. I hope she buzzes my house one day. At the very least, she could probably find my head while she's flying in the clouds. Tag! You're it!


On the 24th is a double-dose. First, is other most level-headed person on this earth(*) and she just happens to be my Mom. Somehow I don't think that clearing up her desk would be a good birthday present cuz her systems of organizing things are a bit different than mine, but one thing she's taught me that's been one of my most valuable tools is the ability to improvise. She also inveneted a sentense that's been one of my life mottos: "I am enthusiastically determined to perservere in my development of self-discipline and self-control." You can't imagine in how many places and times that's applicable. And since it's an on-going thing, you can carry it with you forever everywhere. Thanks Mom! I love you! {{{Mom}}}


The other "birthday" on the 24th is Hurricane Andrew, and me being the natural disaster freak that I am, I have to remember this one too...especially since I keep forgetting the exact date. :-P On a side note, I'm sorry Mount Pinatubo for not remembering June 7 & 15 in the blog this year. But it ain't just the disasters- it's the people who survived and were determined to rebuild and were strengthened by the ordeals. Hats off to all the survivors!!!


The "birthday" on the 25th is the Pee Wee Herman doll from last post. I remember it because it was right in-between two birthdays.


The birthday on the 26th is the birthday of a family member of mine whom is responsible for my sense of humor. He taught the person whose birthday is on the 24th, and then she taught the one whose birthday was way back in May the day after they got married, and then the three of them taught me. Everything else I either learned on my own or on the internet. But humor aside (actually no cuz he has the ability to make several quick quips during a conversation and if you ain't paying attention, you'll be going "what? what?" while everyone else is laughing. He's lightening quick), (*)he's one of the most level-headed people on this earth and God bless him for it! Our families could not do without this man.


God bless you Lauren, Papa, the survivors, & Mom!!!!


Now if anyone or anything else happens in my life this week that's of note, please let me know! :-D Busy week...and busyness means I screw things up sometimes. If you read this post before 5:30 today, you would have read that I switched Mom's and Papa's birthdays. ACK! Sorry! :-S Like I said, I'm busy.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002


Stranger things have happened

Well lesse, in the world of unpacking things, I found a few things I'd been looking for and others I had not...and some I'm a little embarassed to admit I had. I found my high school assignment books which is good for medical reasons (yeah you heard me), I found a Kermit the Frog hand puppet, I found a softie Annie doll (the first person to starts singing "Tomorrow" is gonna get sacked), and I also found the old Pee Wee Herman doll (the one where you pull the string and he says something).

Yeah you heard me.

A Pee Wee Herman doll.

I hear it's a collector's item now.

But something tells me they won't take one with a busted arm. So now the question is, how and where do I put him so that he doesn't hit on my Rainbow Brite doll? No wait, don't answer that one...
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Sunday, August 11, 2002


Dinosaurs from Pluto

Ok so not really, but last time Mom & I went to the grocery store, we saw an interesting fruit labelled as "Dinosaur Eggs". On the sticker on the fruit, it said "pluot" and that it was grown in California. I'd show you a picture but Mom sliced 'em up before I could.

I actually did a MSN search (!!!!!!!) for these guys and came up with this and this. And that's about it for the top ten. (but then again, do we really need any more at present?)

Well, they looke like speckled apple/plums on the outside and the redder and squishier they are on the inside, the riper and sweeter they are. They are rather sweet, problem is, after eating a few, my neck started to protest so I think I might be allergic to them. :-(

Anyway, they're plum hybrids so good luck in finding some!
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Monday, August 05, 2002


"Don't Link To Us!"

LOL! I had this site on the list as one I might put in that box over there, and then when I get to Blogger today I find that they got noticed! Hooray for them! I guess I'll link to them now.

I actually have a nice small list of news and magazine websites that don't allow deep linking. That's how my Ian and Almeida sites lost over 200 links between them. I'm thinking these Don't Link guys should have a sister site that lists all the various places you have to either pay money or subscribe to first in order to just read what they posted yesterday. :-P

But on the flip side, I do have a site myself with a "no link" policy. That's cuz it's centerpiece is a private blog that hasn't been made public yet. Unlike websites, blogs are a different matter. Public ones: link away. Private ones: don't you dare. They're private for a reason.

That said, perhaps I should make *this* blog public then eh?
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Movers and...movers

Why does it seem that everybody is moving this summer? Everyone's moving. Bloggers on the move. I have moved too and was in return moved. Why are we moving?
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Sunday, August 04, 2002


new bloglist

Ok it's updated, go knock yourself out! :-)

Psst, I think the "Brown Trout" one is up there because Artie liked the name and layout. ;-)
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The LEGO Barbie Wheelchair

This infamous thing was first constructed sometime in the early 1990s like 1992 or 1993. It was disassembled for the durations of a couple moves and was recently resurrected during a bout of boredom while unpacking from a different move. Here are 2 pix of the Lego Barbie Wheelchair model 2002 D for your enjoyment:



the infamous LBWc



Riders of the Lost Lego


The riders are: Padmé, another duck, Toto, a plastic Jigglypuff, inherited-from-the-cousins Qui-Gon Jinn, Lego Darth Vader, and Lego Emperor in his chair waving the canesaber.
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Blog nuts

Ok I have a confession to make, that box labeled "Blogs I read" to the right there...I really don't read them. I have about maybe 200 blogs in my bookmarks file and I only read maybe 2 blogs on a regular basis. All the rest, they're either there cuz I found the names interesting, the layouts interesting, the themes interesting...or something like that. I think I'll revise that list actually since one of the blogs doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, I'll go fix that.

See, I just don't have the time to read/keep up with that many blogs. I've got too many websites, newsgroups, friends, emails, and characters (not necessarily in that order at the moment) to keep up with. Despite being disabled, I'm a busy gal. You ever tried using *your* head, or more specifically your brain, as a punch bag? Nevermind...

That grand ol' big list of blogs has been in the works for some time and maybe eventually I'll finish it. In the meantime, I'll go update that box with stuff I actually want to read more often.
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Friday, August 02, 2002


New tables, new archives

Eh, I when ahead and republished all of my archives so hopefully they'll be no sagging tables here at all and people starting at the beginning will have no idea what I've been talking about for the past month in regards to table problems. Maybe I'll post a screencap of the ghastly saggage. Nah, too painful. You want sagging tables? Go to the Wayback Machine. Uh, not that *thay* have sagging tables...

Oh wait, the Wayback doesn't do Blogspot yet. Damn. Well, good thing I keep all of my old templates. Screencaps it is. But not tonight.
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The Return of the Useless Blob

The little guy started disappearing on me several times, and each time I knew exactly why- the image comes from his home over at Spacefem. Normally when people give you images to link to (biggest and best example being results from online quizzes), what they don't tell you is that when too many people link to the image on the original server (read: not yours), it can crash someone's server.

Now, when you visit sites that offer "free graphics" like Animation City or on sites where computer artists showcase their works, the put a disclaimer on the page telling you to please upload any images you take to your own server cuz by not doing that, you are stealing their bandwidth and can thus cause their server to crash.

Both camps are correct, but the quizzers don't clearly state this hazzard on their sites. In fact, whenever they say "copy this code", if you look closely, it shows the link for the image on their own server. Basically, this is an open invitation to steal their bandwidth and crash their server- thus losing both the cool graphic and the cool quiz and you end up with the big dreaded red "x" on your page where an image should be.

Well, I'm sorry Spacefem, but when I got my useless blob, you were doing what the quiz folks were doing. Normally, I do download the images to my own server, but without the big fat disclaimer on the useless blob page (or more poignantly) next to the "copy this code", you were headed for a server crash. When you don't put this disclaimer up, two things happen: 1) people who don't know better will link to the image on your server simply cuz they don't know better and 2) people who *do* know better don't see the disclaimer and thus assume that you have a big fat server that can take the load.

Now, I admit to direct linking (definition: "linking to something on someone else's server, especially an image, which steals bandwidth") but this was because at the time I adopted a useless blob, there was no big fat disclaimer/warning staring me in the face. I was wrong to assume, and you were wrong to not put that big fat warning up. We're both sorry. We ok?

And just for the record, this is the only time I had kept a direct link up. After an experience with my first online quiz, I put the image on my own server for safekeeping and safeguarding. And yes I did do the same with the useless blobs I adopted just in case something like this happened. The direct links are no more now. From now on, if you see a big red "x" where my useless blobs (one's in a blogpost from way back) should be, either reload the page, or email me. Thanks!
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Tables Dances

No my tables aren't dancing and no I'm not dancing on my tables...I *am* dancing because I got the tables fixed!!!!!! No sagging tables! WOOHOO!!!! :-D <::happy dance::>
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PeterPika's jealous

Not only do the Pokemon want their own blog (or rather want me to talk about nothing but them even when they "have their own newsgroup"), but I was blogsurfing and found this via here.

Why is PeterPika jealous? Well, he does all of his carvings using real pumpkins and pumpkins rot after awhile. But then again, this is cardboard we're talking here. He'd have to keep it to himself cuz the rambunctious (I actually had to look up that spelling :-P and yes it's correct) 'Puffs (Hamillpuff & Ewanpuff here) would probably have an accident around it. Besides, we don't live in New York and I don't have a 9'+ ceiling anywhere.

RAMbunctious. Now *that's* a pun waiting to happen! :-D
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Whee! New error :-D

Error 503: Unable to load template file. We're working on this. Please try back later.[more info]

They're so polite I can't believe it!!! :-D At elast they're working on it, I never know when this thing's gonna strike or on what blog. :-D So weird.

Well at least it's never boring around here right?
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Miss me?

Well, did ya?
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