All of my creative projects are on hold for now. Why is that? Well, it's because I can't think straight. I realize the roof needs to be fixed, but I hate noise, especially noise that keeps me awake. I already keep odd hours as it is, I don't need help staying up when I'd normally be sleeping. When I can have a moment's peace to focus on the projects I'm working, I'l be able to get them done.
Basically, when I'm overtired from not getting enough sleep, I get a little cranky, okay, I'm a vicious little hellion when I'm overtired. If I make a comment to anyone's site, or in general that seems like I'm being spitefully mean, this is the advance apology for it, stress and lack of sleep do make me grumpy.
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Magnus Lensherr
The house I live in was built in 1904, so it's 102 years old. If the most important leaks get fixed, that'll be enough for me, and the family too. It rains as much inside as it does outside in two rooms on the second floor (The house has three floors, but the leaks miss the third floor, long story, I'd have to show you pics of the house and that's not something I do, no home pickies posted online).
I used to have a freewebs account, but I think I lost my log in info for that one a while ago, or I may have given that one up because of something I didn't like. The pagebuilder that Yahoo! has is terrible, it doesn't work very well on a technical level, and the code it generates is nowhere near standards compliant. You're better off doing up your page then uploading it to the site when it's done. I don't know a lot of the new HTML and XHTML stuff, but I found an editor that should let me create a semi-decent page without needing to know every little thing about the newer HTML standards. I'm even working on the CSS sheet to keep the whole site looking the same. I think the best way to go for anyone anymore is to find an editor that does most of the complicated work for you, the standards are just way to difficult for most people to grasp completely.
That's what copy and paste are for, I use that for everything. As I understand it, It has ties to a family respecting ones own departed relations. The whole thing with the sugar skulls painted with bright colors and all goes back a ways to the ancestors who used it as a way of poking fun at the dead, you know, kind of saying "I'm not afraid of no ghost" type thing. That's about all I know of the holiday, more research would be needed.
In some people's eyes he is important, but my favorite Batman character believe it or not is the Joker. The guy was a clown with green hair obsessed with making people smile and laugh (in the animated series anyway) what's not to like about that? The Riddler is my other favorite villain.
beyblader
The leak actually got our downstairs TV, yep somehow the leak is actually coming down two floors and dripping on the first floor when it rains really heavy. Luckily the TV wasn't damaged, and we cover it with a plastic sheet every time it rains now, just to be safe. My Mom's room right above where the TV was attacked is the worst now, the rain drips in like there's no roof or ceiling at all. She's got buckets lined up everywhere to catch all the drips. Hopefully it'll all be repaired soon, the contractors are fixing the leak in the back of the house first (Over my sister's bedroom), then they'll get to the one in the front which happens to be above my bedroom (It misses my room because of the way the house is shaped).
I'm not sure what you're referring to on the spelling, I know I have a nasty habit of posting without proofreading some, well, most of the time. That's a feature that'll have to be suggested to Adam, a spelling checker for comments and blog entries, though it would have to be smart enough to recognize Romaji Japanese, and to ignore HTML, CSS, and javascript code. Maybe that's too much to ask for, but it's a thought.
Actually the site will have more than just updated HTML. The site will hopefully have some functional elements (maybe a decent navigation menu if I can make one) as well as an updated look, and cleaner, more current source coding. I have a rush job splash page up for now, but a lot of the information on that page is outdated in terms of what I'll be making the focus of the site (which will include that offline writing project that I keep going on about). I just put it up to keep my site alive while I took the time to learn newer code, or find a program that would let me generate such current code. When I get done, I'll have a virtual ribbon cutting right here on MyO, and maybe I'll even draw up a good luck pic for it too.
Yensid:
I take advantage of the onsite tools provided here at MyO, so all you have to do is look in the obvious places to find things. The link is over in the sidebar menu under the "Contact Me" section below my e-mail (If it isn't I need to know because MyO is broken). The page that's up now is an outdated placeholder basically, so it's not very impressive to look at.
I will try to stay up tonight and tomorrow to get the core CSS for the whole site done, they say it's easier to do one CSS for the whole site, and the new index page so I can have that page up as soon as possible. I already know I want to have a really nice, professional looking, index page so that I can maybe use the web to promote myself to employers. I want a page with links to the programs I always brag about on here, like Pixia, Irfanview, Spybot and AVG free edition, I do want to make an area of my site focus on my artistic style and works for both personal and professional reasons, and I want to feature my writing style and some projects on my site as well, also for both personal and professional reasons. I might even go into my paranormal investigation hobby on there as well. For me, I didn't start my Geocities website to separate my personal and professional online lives, it was just a hobby back then, but now I'm seeing the benefit of using the web to sell one's self to prospecting employers. It's an untapped resource for me to explore.
I still have to learn the subtleties of the programs I found to help me, so I'll be trying and failing a whole lot before I get things to work and look the way I want them to, but that's just part of the process, figuring out how to use the tools you get, or find, to get what you want out of the internet.
As previously stated, I'll have a public ribbon cutting right here on MyO to announce the revamped personal/professional website. You do what you can, and if I may make another suggestion, my dad recently did a number on his wrist, cracked the bone and couldn't really grip anything or move the wrist much, but he tried using a rubber stress ball that I had for when I overworked my wrist using the mouse on the computer (one of theose balls you squeeze the life out of when you're mad at something). It actually got his grip back in a couple days of using it for an hour. It's something you might want to try, or ask your doctor about, maybe exercising the wrists like that will help them. I'll caution you that I'm not a medical expert, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
I certainly hope they get the job done, and done right so there won't be any worries. They would be closer to being done if it hadn't rained yesterday.
sikaurai
Over in the sidebar menu there's a "Contact Me" section. Mine just has E-Mail, and Web Site. I do have my link up there, but as I've said in previous comments, it'll take you to my outdated splash/placeholder page till I get the new one up. That page isn't really impressive right now, but there's no harm in looking at it I guess.
Renting isn't always a good thing. My sister's friend is renting an apartment, and his landlord is trying to screw him over because of a stupid refrigerator, which the landlord is obligated by West Virginia law to provide, no guff, no squalk(He's trying to bill my sister's friend for it in "creative" which means illegal, ways). Unfortunately, I can't afford a place of my own right now, I'm 25 and I still live with my parents because I can't get a job to own or rent my own place. If I had my own place, I could probably take care of basic things, but I draw the line at climbing up three stories to fix a roof, I don't do heights, ladders, and 50+ lbs of shingles and other building materials at the same time.
I'll have a good day till the bang bang bang starts over my head again, then I'll be campng out down here on the computer watching the stuff on Toonami Jetstream.
alphonse13:
Since it's part of Yahoo! I figure why not try it rather than create a whole new account somewhere else. If I need something Yahoo! doesn offer, then I'll take my site somewhere else.
Well, my family isn't that daring. My Dad's in his 80's and working on recovering his wrist from an injury earlier this year, I'm 25 and scared to death of heights so we couldn't do it ourselves this time. My dad was up on the roof a couple years ago and got vertigo himself (that's why the first repair job was never really finished), so having professionals take care of the roof is a smart choice, and I for one feel better about that. I'm not sure how it's going to be paid for, but since I'm the only person at home who doesn't work, I guess that's not a worry for me.
Shireishou
The link is over in my sidebar (Contact Me, below e-mail link), but that splash/placeholder page is out of date. I probably should make a new placeholder page while I work on my new home page, so that it reflects my current direction for the site.
