Category: BlahBlahBabble

Today’s schedule:

7:30 am: Wake up.
8:00 am: Pick up stuff for Jason’s chess tournament from my Mom.
8:20 am: Pick up Jason from the slumber party.
8:25 – 8:40 am: Wait while Jason, the slumber party host and his Mom search for Pokemon Ruby, which is in someone’s Gameboy, and it’s nowhere to be found.
8:50 am: Sign in for chess tournament.
8:55 am: Run to Whataburger to pick up breakfast.
9:10 am: Return to chess tournament. Jason plays 5 rounds of chess. Take May Day photos.
9:37 am: Freeze in amazingly cold high school during chess tournament. Could it POSSIBLY be any colder? Toes are red and numb.
9:53 am: First and only time I have ever walked outside in the Houston heat and thought “boy, this sure feels goooooood.”
10:03 am – 4:05 pm: Watch a lot of chess. Freeze. Thankful for heat outside. Take May Day photos. Use laptop computer as heat generator to keep legs warm. Edit photos to upload tomorrow.
4:07 pm: Jason didn’t place in tournament, but had a good time. Drive to apartment.
4:52 pm: Wake up Jason, who has crashed on the couch while I was printing maps. Leave apartment to drive to the other side of Houston (1 hour) for Doug’s graduation party. (He got his MBA! Whoooooo! Go Doug!)
6:07 pm – now: Arrive at Chelsey & Doug’s. Eat. Drink. Be merry. Have good time. Celebrate and enjoy!

Whew. Long day! How was yours?

Every time I see “j.f.m.a.m.j.j.a.s.o.n.d” in the sidebar of a blog, I have to stop and think about what it means. Every time. It takes me a few seconds, because all I see is “Jason” in the middle, and I don’t get what the rest of it is for. Then I finally figure out that it’s the initials of the months. It bugs me.

While I’m talking about what bothers me in sidebars, I hate Zonkboards. I hate them with a passion. They cause such an incredible lag time on sites loading. If you have to use them, could you skin your site and have a “Zonkfree” version? And an RSS feed with comments so I can read your site in NewzCrawler? Pretty please? I love all of you – I just hate the damn Zonkboards.

This post dedicated to Matt, who I made a commitment to, promising I would continue my Zonkfree campaign.

Just a few long list of things that I wanted to point out:

:: Two glasses of water and two Excedrin, and I’m feeling perfectly fabulous this morning. Jose Cuervo is still a friend of mine.

:: To the uber-creepy guy at Sambuca last night: when Jen tells you she isn’t interested, she means it. Don’t follow us out of the club (walking a block behind us) and then get in your car and try to find us in downtown. As if you weren’t creepy enough, you hit the ultimate freak factor.

:: Not only do I need to post photos from last night, I still need to post photos from two weeks ago when Mike, Matt and I met up with Leia, Julie, Jason and Amanda Who Does Not Blog. I can’t decide if I should share the secret of the Big Red Button – one of the best things to do in Downtown Houston. Maybe I’ll share the details but not disclose the location.

:: I also have to post the photos from the last H-Town Blogs gathering that I went to, hosted by Kathy at Tropica. Oops.

:: I have a lot of photos to post.

:: My Cookie Crumbs section is only on the default skin right now and the gray version of the default skin. I may add it to the others this weekend. I am also working on a minimalist skin with no sidebar. I don’t know when that will launch though.

:: Speaking of launches, I’m anxiously waiting for the Blogshares launch today. Soon, I hope.

:: Speaking of site redesigns, I’ve considered ditching my blogroll all together and just linking to the last 13 (Baker’s Dozen) people that have left comments. However, I can’t figure out how to keep duplicates off the list – if someone comments two times in a row, I only want the name to show up once. Also, if there is no URL filled in on the comment, I don’t want the name to show up at all.

:: I keep having reservations about making the change though. Maybe I’ll just stick to the blogroll, which still needs some more feng shui.

:: Dive Into Mark’s site still crashes my browser and locks up my computer. IE 6, Win98 (it’s work, I don’t have a choice). Not on the main page, but on every subpage of the site. Brenna’s site now has the same effect, and I don’t know why. Meanwhile, my site locks up Erika’s work computer with IE and Win95 (and I thought I had it bad with Win98). I have no clue why. Anyone have any ideas?

:: It took me weeks to figure out that Robert’s site, Truck808 should be read as “Truck Bob”. It probably didn’t help that I’ve never called him Bob, but it wasn’t until he mentioned Truck5on_02 (son #2) that I figured it out. Obviously, I’m not as l33t as I once thought. SuXor. However, I’m still all about the Swirl.

:: Tales for the L33t is still so hysterical that it makes me laugh to the point of tears. Romeo & Juliet doesn’t get any better than this. Watch it now – I’ll be here when you come back.

:: Jen is real. I know, and I’m here to testify. She’ll tell you that I am real too. What you see is what you get.

:: Fortunately, I think almost every blogger I’ve met in person to date is pretty real. I know that’s not true of all of them though – but I’ve been pretty lucky.

I’ve been doing some Feng Shui rearranging around here for the past day or two, behind the scenes, and it feels good. The sharp angles aren’t in spots where they hurt when you bump in to them, and there are fish and plants. Ok, not really, but it still feels good to do some housekeeping.

As I was poking around, I discovered something. There are a lot of you out there that link to this site that I have never heard of. I’m assuming that if you link to me, you just might travel through here every once in awhile. This is your open invitation to say hi and let me know you’re around. I can’t read your site if I don’t know about your site, can I? Come on … tell me who you are. I don’t bite. Well, not unless you ask me to…

The party went well yesterday and the boys all had a good time. Mike came over after EJ & Sherry’s wedding – I had to miss it for the birthday party, but I didn’t want him to miss it too. He said it was really nice, and I wish I could have been there for it. They make such a wonderful couple – I wish them nothing but the best in their life ahead together.

Today I have been busy on several different projects around the house, and even a few web related ones. Lots of photos added to PictureYourself (getting closer to the 1000 mark!) and working on privacy policy related documents for other projects.

I finally finished Jemima J today too, and it was absolutely FANTASTIC! I read at least half of it in one sitting, and it was nice to take some time to enjoy reading a good book. I was so inspired by the time I was done! Has anyone else read it? What did you think of it?