The Red line was PACKED to the brim with riders so I decided to get off on Harrison and go to Loopy Yarns to look around. Little did I know that this is exactly where the fire was taking place! Across the street from the Harrison exit I could see the building in smoke and fire trucks everywhere! Here are three pix I took with my Razr:

Sun setting

Sunlight in the side mirror

Reflected sunlight in the side mirror

Filtered sunlight on a building

If I stay I lose myself,
if I leave I change myself.

But where would I ultimately be happy?

Anyways, yesterday we topped all other conversations we’ve ever had with the invention of the “pimped out flasher coat” (that’s what I call it anyway).

Whenever I walk in to work every morning I end up glistening with sweat from the walk when I get to my desk. As it turns out, it’s a good idea to remove your coat when you walk into the building because of the temperature change. Here I thought I was just a fat ass that had no stamina. So Ken* was talking about how he and Wade* were walking in one day and through the revolving door Wade whipped off his coat and put it in his bag. Ken said it was like Superman changing from Clark Kent. I blurted out, “Next thing you know he’s naked.” Wade said, “Yeah, I was wearing my flashing coat.”

Everyone laughed, then Wade held up his hands to his ribs said, “It’s like this short though so I don’t know why people aren’t shocked when I flash them.” And this is where the conversation went on a crazy tangent. Molly* suggested that he get a stiffy that’s timed with the opening of the flashing coat. Well, this would be difficult to achieve multiple times. Then Molly suggested tying a string to Mr. Happy Pants so it’s lifted upon the opening of the flashing coat. We all quiped in with further suggestions each one topping the next…

• the string also has a bell on it so Mr. Happy Pants jingles too
• a spotlight on the inside of the coat to shine down on it
• then glitter comes out from the back in a shimmer effect
• a white dove flies out
• an angelic chorus sings “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH”
• and Mr. Happy Pants is wearing a bow tie

I laughed so hard my stomach muscles were hurting and I had tears in my eyes.

* names have been changed to protect the dirty.

I’m so happeee!! :yummy: I :heart: Don Harder.

No, I couldn’t do that to myself. I’d rather get my jaw fixed. Oh! You didn’t know? My lower jaw is a tad underdeveloped so I need surgury to have my lower jaw moved foward. No biggie—but I don’t think we have the money to do it. Actually, I don’t know if the insurance would cover all of it or not. Eh. So my jaw pops sometimes and sometimes I have tension headaches. It’s a slice of life, huh?

I’ve trained myself to compensate by jutting out my chin a touch and most people don’t notice. Unless I eat in front of people and have food fall outta my mouth. Yeah, good times!

In other news, I found a site that has O’Reilly books online on Web Design. I remember visiting this site long time ago then it was taken down for some reasons, so take time to visit while u can.

As a decent web designer, you should have all these books; of course I don’t have all these books myself, but I never said I was decent.

In other news, I :heart: Spanish Rock music. If I didn’t have that, I think I’d go insane O_o I’m thinking of making myself some cute t’s for the summer with sayings. I’m a creative person, I think I can come up with some oddball stuff. Definitely going to make one that says, “Rockera” in glitter. Yes, glitter! Don’t roll your eyes at me!!

Now, I have to go and make a backup of my Movable Type database and my website cuz I haven’t done it in a while and that’s exactly when the whole shit hits the fan and you loose all your work.

I know there’s a cron job & script file somewhere’s on my hosting site’s forum where it makes a backup by itself and emails u the tar file but I ain’t that sophisti-ma-cated to figure it all out. Maybe I’ll give it a whirl…

I had my interview yesterday with a great firm and they liked my work, I liked how they work, it was all good. I hope, I hope, I hope they call me back!

In other news, I have to brush up on my JavaScript because if I do end up staying here at my current place of work, I *will* have to become the CSS, JS, XHTML, Client-side guru over here. Such pressure!

Sounds like an idea I can get onboard with. Now I’m off to learn me some XML.

It was a lot of lining things up right and switching images and making all the ® marks superscript. So anyways they actually put the site up live before even looking at it themselves. Then they hadda take the forms out cuz what my supervisor used for the form post method. Don’t ask me tho, cuz I don’t know any asp.

I was only slightly embarrased but I was more upset cuz now I had no more coffee & no paper to read. I threw down my paper to soak up the spill and used my napkins to wipe off coffee from my shoes.

This isn’t the biggest problem I’ve faced today so far…

What’s happening now is that here at work I use Mac OSX and there’s a feature in it that allows you to ftp to a server [Go > Connect to Server ...] without using an ftp client like Fetch. Well, I can connect alright but can’t write to the server. It’s like locked or something.

Meanwhile my trial copy of Fetch has expired and I’m stuck waiting like 5 minutes for it to start cuz “I’ll-enter-the-serial-number-next-time-I-swear” button takes forever to activate.

In other news: the Earth opened up today and swallowed a young woman by the name of Zulema Ortiz because God wanted to put her out of her misery. :p