PHP Problems

Don't know if anybody's noticed, but some of my photo gallery and my guestbook no longer work. I don't know what happened, other than my webhost updated their PHP engine and screwed up all my crap. I don't know if I'll have a guestbook in the future - no one signs those things anymore anyway. But I'm working on fixing my photo galleries. My kids (animals) is up and running now http://www.geminidreamz.com/animals.

Update (10/30/05 6:38PM): Shotglasses are fixed, and the guestbook is working - lost my old entries, but what were there? two?

How many cars...?

I haven't had the best luck with cars. We all know that. But lets think about this for a minute. I'm 26 years old. This means that I've been driving for 10 years. I'm averaging nearly a car every year. I just traded in my Equinox - mainly for financial reasons... I'm now leasing a Pontiac G6 for nearly $150 less monthly and gas mileage will improve too. I'm still a SUV girl at heart, but then again I'm still a southern girl at heart too. We can't always have what our heart desires.

Poor Kitty

About 2 weeks ago, I took my dog to the vet for shots and a checkup. I followed the next week with two of my cats (the third isn't due for a checkup yet). My big kitty, Merlin, seems to have really bad teeth. I knew he was missing the little ones in front - a vet pointed that out a couple years ago. Seems now that it's gotten much worse. I took him back in today for a cleaning and they had to extract 5 teeth. They say that a cat can manage without teeth, but that seems like it'd be a rough life. It looks like poor Merlin will have to find out - the vet says that he's likely to lose the rest over the next couple years. At least he tested negative for things that cause problems like that like feline leukemia and stuff. Poor kitty.

Googling Yourself

When's the last time you Googled yourself? Really? I was sitting here a little bored and relized I hadn't Googled myself in quite some time and couldn't remember ever Googling my maiden name... just wanted to see what was out there on the net in my name. I found a very interesting Mary Hanna who wrote an article (ironically) about Googling herself (click here). You should try it - ya never know what's out there unless you look.

Motivation - (it kinda worked)

Hey, whaddya know... it kinda worked - I bitched at myself on my blog for all to read (yeah, as if anyone did yet) and I got a couple things done today. Oh, and I should really mention that I planted my tulip bulbs yesterday (there's nothing I hate worse than yardwork). So anyways, today I cleaned out the room across the hall so I can start painting it. And, I finally made some updates to Lunargeek - not a lot, just a few needed tweeks. Now I just have to finish the page I started devoted to building my new PC (which has been done for what? like a month now)... baby steps.

Motivation

Or lack thereof really...

Why is it so friggin hard to get motivated? I've got so much stuff I could be getting done and I'm sitting here blogging about nothing. I'm so proud of myself that I finally finished a book that took my friends mere days to get though (I'm not proud to say that it took me a couple months). I have a huge pile of filing that needs to be done - my files need to be overhauled since the move from TN. What I considered my favorite TV show for the past few years (Charmed) I'm about 7 or 8 episodes behind on - I never even finished watching last season. Yeah, I'm thinking admitting to the world how pathetic I am might kick me in the ass and make me get something done... (as if)... I need to clean out the room across the hall because I've decided to move my office in there (it's bigger)... but it needs to be painted and that's a big job in itself... and my hubby seems to be lacking motivation too.... our hallways could've been done long ago, but they're not even close... some of it's primed, some of it's not... at least it's sanded - that's the trouble with the room I'll be moving my office to - it needs to be sanded... ick, I hate having paint dust all over... and I hate trying to get Dan to do another project besides the ones he still hasn't finished... and I just DON'T sand.... it's kinda that styrofoam effect (if you know me, you have probably seen/heard me cringe in the presence of styrofoam). Damn, I'm longwinded tonight...

Update: FavoriteSync

After running FavoriteSync for a couple weeks, it now tells me that I have to update my account or "donate" to their program. Sorry, rarely is a program good enough for me to actually spend money on it. I thought it might help to sync to my own server instead of theirs, but the program won't connect to my server. It was nice while it lasted. I found another really simple (and free) Firefox extension that will export my bookmarks to favorites. Favorites are easy to backup, so I'll deal with that.

Speaking of spending money on programs... the last program I bought (yeah, really spent money on) was Roboform. It's available on the torrent system, but really... can you trust a hacked version of a password manager? I'm not that naive. And the program was worth it - I'd be lost without it. It's free until you get too many passwords stored in it, then it warns you for a while before it actually stops working. It was at that point that I decided that I really needed to buy it.

Hard Drive Hell...

Recently my storage drive crashed on me. My most tech-savvy friend told me that it was likely because I was not running a big enough power supply in my new computer. I know that this person knows what they're talking about, so I ran out and bought a new power supply. Ok, one problem solved. Well, I still needed a new storage drive... so I've been getting the idea that SATA is faster/neater than the old IDE drives, so I bought myself a 100gb SATA drive and came home and installed it as my storage drive. It ran very nicely and sparked the thought that I should buy another one for my primary drive - speed rules, ya know. So I attempted this... remember fighting with Windows 95 or 98 trying to get it to recognize your hardware and trying to get it to play nicely with your drivers? Yeah well, when it comes to SATA drives, Win XP is no better. I updated my BIOS and it recognized the drives just fine... well, BIOS and Windows are two different things. So try as I might, I couldn't get the system to boot to one of these SATA drives. So now I'm running my 60gb IDE hard drive as my Windows drive and I have two 100gb SATA storage drives. I guess this is the way it will be until Longhorn (um.. I mean Vista). Damn Microsoft!

Optical Illusions

Bored? I love optical illusions... this one really tripped me out - I still can't see it right... the 'A' & 'B' squares are the same color. Don't believe me? Save the pic and open it in Paint or snag the two areas and open them up elsewhere. WTF! Right?
http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html

Flash Fun

There's a extension (plug-in) for Firefox called StumbleUpon... if you're bored, click "stumble" and it will take you to different cool websites of the categories that you tell it you like when signing up... I love silly flash games and goofy time wasters... check this one out... http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf.

And do you believe this one? I'm tempted to ask a kid... Anyone got a 3-5 year old? See what they see here...http://www.ebaumsworld.com/dirtymindtest.html.

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