BunkBlog

So, who has gotten jiggy with someone other than their SO with that SO’s permission? You know what I’m talking about: swinging, swapping, group sex, and so on. I know there are some folks on my “friends” list that have been there, done them…

How’d that go?
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I just can’t get a line from the old CJ Maccall song, Convoy, out of my head.

OMAHA? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure

Oh, and the business part of the business trip is dull as an old rusty knife.
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Let’s see, I have to go to Omaha this week, for a trip I’d rather not take. This is in support of another trip that is scheduled for a week I’m required to be at home for business. Can’t wait to see how the company screws me on this one.

While dreading the trip, I went to bed at an early hour last night, so I could awaken at 5am to carpool to work. The Boy decided that I’d rather be awake at 3, and proceeded to climb into bed and kick me at random intervals.

After getting ready for work (casual day since our customers are taking this Federal Holiday off, even if we aren’t), I drove over to my carpool partner’s apartment, a few minutes early. When he became 10 minutes late, I pounded on his door to no avail.

So, I’m at work, all alone. I’ve been here an hour, and still nobody else from my group has shown up. Some moron turned the heat off over the weekend (thermostats are tough technology), and it’s almost gotten up to comfortable now. I’m tired, I’m bored, and I have nothing to do even if I were motivated to do anything. As soon as I get the laptop for tomorrow’s trip, I am so heading home.

I need a nap.
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Although she seemed to find laudatory comments to make on some pieces of my essay, including the thesis and conclusion (most important parts, no?), my professor gave me only an 80 on it. For those keeping score at home, #1 was 90, #2 I’m revising, #3 was 88, and #4 was 80. EIGHTY?

I can’t wait to resume classes with a real flesh-and-blood instructor that I can see and question. This bullshit of “Guess what I really want because my instructions are so vague” is bugging me to death.
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Walking back from the mailbox, the boy sees a big person, who he points out as a “guy.” After being told this was, in fact, a “girl,” he decides to be a mac baby.
“Hug girl. Kisses girl.”

Oh, geez, won’t he be fun in 15 years…
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I don’t know why I bother trying to have civil adult conversations with most of the children on LiveJournal.
When someone asks a simple question that begs some clarification on one’s intent, that is not rude. When someone volunteers one’s services in support of a large event, ignoring them is rude. The list of examples could continue for days, honestly.

Let’s have a little sanity check, shall we? Before you hit the REPLY button on a post, read it carefully and try to be dispassionate. Most messages online are impersonal, not intended as a personal attack on anyone. As a corollary, when someone emails you something or replies to your post and wishes a response, give them one within a couple days. And, “er. hi” is not a response.

The term plonk, for those of you new to the specifics of online etiquette, is the sound of someone hitting a killfile. Basically, it means the conversation is over because the person on the other end is incapable of having a civil exchange of words without getting stupid and insulting.

Thank you, this has been a screed from Andy Social. We now return you to your normal programming.
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As the kids say today, “Woot!”

We are going to have a house of our very own in a mere six weeks. woohoo!

I think we’ll be playing bocce ball in that enormous backyard or something. 🙂

Potty training is so much fun.

Not only did the boy have trouble informing me before he had to pee today, he found a way to pee the bed while not asleep. Not his bed, of course – mine. One minute he’s happily toddling along the hallway and stairs, next he’s crying on my bed while three small puddles expand. Combined with the erping-up of the other day, and he’s had plenty of clean clothes lately, although we’ve not quite gotten around to doing our own laundry…

I’m still trying to figure out how he did it. How do you make three different pee puddles on the bed, yet have only the smallest of wet spots on your own pants?

To make the evening complete, he proceeded to pee himself at dinner, not 30 seconds after I’d asked if he needed to go to the bathroom. Love potty training…

Rather than Black Belt or Green Belt, we’ve decided that our Six Sigma status blocks should be names. I am now Jet Li, and is Steven Seagall.
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The statistics, in more detail than you can possibly need, for my website in the month of December: right here.

Things to note: search terms for this month are skewed heavily toward XXXmas and such; the CinPics and Lianna directories combine to be more than half the bandwidth for December. Go figure.

And, for some reason I’ve got a lot of hits from Saudi Arabia, but they’re all looking at Lianna’s Christmas Archive. Perverts.

OK, there is no way I’m going to make or attempt to keep any resolutions, but here’s the quiz result anyway:

Take the What Should Your New Year’s Resolution Be? Quiz

Added a page (now gone) of holiday photos, all taken Christmas morning.

Alex was being very greedy that day, go figure.

In other news, we signed the papers today that “petition” the court for me to adopt the boy. Not sure how long until the court date and all that, but it’s one step closer. Bio-dad has never even seen this little cutie, can you imagine?
current_music: Kevin & Bean – Swallow my Eggnog

Added a long-planned new thought on my site. If you need to explain to someone why ICQ is better than MSN (or Yahoo is better than MSN, or AIM is better than MSN), I’ve listed all the good and bad of each client.

While the boy napped, I played with my forums.

There are now two skins available to choose from, with more as I find ones that don’t suck. There are also several languages: English, French, Spanish, Swedish, and Dutch (formal or informal options).

Next up – Klingon?

To go along with my new LJ Styles, I’ve also updated my forums with some new software. Feel free to wander over there, and please fill out the poll in the News forum.

OK, once more into the LJ Styles breach…

I’ve revamped all four styles on my Livejournal. The two biggest changes are, of course, “LastN” and “Friends” pages, since they’re seen most. Following a model I discovered on the community, those two pages have been rebuilt using DIV tags instead of nesting TABLEs. The reason? Speed. Now, when you load my pages, you’ll not have to wait for the entire meta-table of entries to load before you can read the top ones. The Friends page also loads progressively like that. You’ll know you’ve hit the end when you see the “skiplinks” block (Previous 15 entries etc.).

I’m assuming this will look funky on Netscape 4.x, but it should be viewable on it at least. The boxes will be out of whack, but you really should upgrade to NS 6.2 anyway. Or Opera.

Cheers.

I guess with the advent of Naked Parts and their ilk, we don’t really need to do another Nekkid XXXmas this year, but I will miss the fun from last year, checking the post every hour or so to see who else got up the nerve…

To my friends in Asia and Australia, Merry Christmas! Those of us in the States just have to wait till tomorrow. 🙂

Some random thoughts for you budding web designers:

• Validate your web sites against HTML standards, so every browser can see your site.
• Don’t waste your time on a “splash screen” to start the site. Look at the big sites (Yahoo, CNN, etc) – Nobody visits them for their intro screen. Most people will either blow your site off because of it or bookmark your real index page.
• Your site is not best viewed in any particular browser. Don’t tell visitors what to use, some don’t have a choice.
• Consider heading over to Bobby to check your site for accessibility issues. It’s a requirement for .gov sites, but a good idea for anyone. You don’t want to block some of your visitors, do you?
• Don’t use the following:
  1. Poorly contrasting colors
  2. Tiny fonts
  3. Fixed size fonts. Those 8-pixel high things look like dots on a high-res monitor.
  4. Flash as your only means of navigation. Ever hear of Lynx?

Just my pet peeves of the day. I’ve been surfing some “personal” sites today, made by folks who think they’re Picasso with a mouse or something. Ick. Not everyone has DSL…
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WELL I had another conversation with someone about Microsoft V Linux
I would love to know why I get into some many conversations about it, it much be because I am willing to stand up for companies that many people put down Namely Microsoft.
I wish people would just realize that companies are not out there to give you everything you want on a silver plater.

Um, let’s see how many English errors we can count, and then subtract that from the level of seriousness with which to take the opinions expressed therein.

Again I say – If you want someone to take your opinions seriously, spellcheck, proofread and then re-think the entire posting. After you’ve thought about it and run it through “ispell” or some other such tool, then go ahead and post. Your views might still be stupid, but more people will listen to them anyway.
current_music: The Vandals – Christmas Time for my Penis