April 24th 2007
I’m experimenting with the pen tool in Illustrator. I’ve never used that one before because it’s quite confusing for someone new to the program. I finally got the hang of it with the help of a tutorial from Veerle. There’s a video of her using it and I’ve been practicing for the past two days. I’m getting much better. Right now I’m working on the mushrooms from Fantasia. So far there’s three of them and I like the second one the best. I still have some finishing touches for the third. I wish I had more creativity right now to draw on my own, but unfortunately, I don’t.
April 10th 2007
So this guy emailed me a few days ago asking to link exchange. I’m a semi-nice person so I checked out his site and besides it being a monstrosity of a design, his content wasn’t very good either. It’s not just pointless, but offensive. But don’t worry, he has a disclaimer on it saying “If you don’t like, go fuck yourself,” which I could agree with. I do agree with it actually. It’s his site, he can do what he wants with it. But since this is my site, I can do whatever I want with it, right? Well, I don’t want to link to someone like that.
Another sin he committed in my book is that he direct-linked. On purpose. He wasn’t just ignorant. There was a little disclaimer as he called it, “i will usually direct link your button until you add me, once you add me i will save your button to my server.” So he knows that most people don’t like that. And yet he does it. For what? I don’t know. But that’s the reason I gave him for turning down his link exchange.
So he emails me back, not once, but twice. Calling me names, insulting me, and saying he’s a real designer and I’m an idiot. And do you know what the worst part of this whole thing is? He’s 21. He claims his website has been around since 1999. You’d think he’d have learned a little something about the web since then.
P.S. Someone help me figure out why the hell my layouts never work in IE. I almost don’t even want to fix it since my stats show the top five browsers are different versions of Firefox.
April 5th 2007
A really good resource is The Blog World. Amanda has lots of tutorials, tricks, etc. for bloggers that are really helpful. I have it bookmarked and check it regularly to see what things she posted. It definitely warrants a visit.
I’m working on mine and Don’s budget. I’m trying to keep track of all our purchases in 2006. What goes to the car, what goes to food, etc. It’s slow-going. I’ve finally found a program I like that’s free. It’s got a reports feature that will give me graphs and that’s really what I’ve been looking for. Now I’ve just got to type everything in.
I’m also loving the Firefox extension Stumble Upon. It’s great. I’ve found a lot of good websites through it.
February 1st 2007
So I found GoogleFight from SNOG! and I must say, it’s pretty entertaining. I just spent five minutes sitting there, watching people fight. And I won all the fights I participated in because there’s some old English writer named Sydney Smith and I have lots of Google hits. Well, my name does anyway. Which counts.
I just got a job at this BBQ place today. I’m supposed to go in tomorrow for orientation. I suppose it’ll be all right. As long as I don’t have to close because I am so not staying until 10pm and cleaning that place. No way, Jose. My boyfriend works at the same chain, but a different store because he applied at the other one first and they hired him on the spot. He’s actually at work right now. His is a lot farther away and he doesn’t get home until 11 or 11:30 pm. It kinda sucks actually.
Oh and I got a rabbit today! Woohoo! Her name is Nibbler and I’m not sure how old she is. I don’t have my camera cord so I took a picture with my ISight camera on my computer. She’s got red eyes. You can’t really tell from the photo since it’s in black and white, but her eyes are bright red. They are really pretty, but a little wild looking. My teacher’s daughter raised some rabbits for 4H and I guess had some left and she gave us this one. She’s really playful and curious, but my room isn’t rabbit-proof yet so I can’t let her run around unsupervised. I don’t want her to chew on an electrical cord or anything.
Also, I’m going to put up some more content for this domain. I’m working on a photo gallery. I’m not sure which script I want to use. I used to have one, but deleted it because I never updated. Maybe I’ll actually update this one. Eh, maybe not. Who knows.
When I was a waiter for awhile, the manager suggested I get Shoes For Crews. I never did, but decided to check them out. And there’s actually some that are pretty cute. I really like these Sabrina ones and these Mary Jane ones. They wouldn’t be so bad to wear. But I like the Reeboks I have now even though they aren’t slip-resistant. I almost busted my ass a few times at that restaurant. It would’ve been pretty funny, unless I was carrying somebody’s food. Then it wouldn’t have been so funny. Well, maybe it would still be funny. I really liked that job. It was easy and the atmosphere of the place was great. It was this little Mexican restaurant and I interacted with the owners everyday so that was nice. The guy is hilarious. He’s got one of the best senses of humor I’ve ever encountered. And his wife is really nice. They’re both white, which makes me laugh since they opened a Mexican restaurant. But in Texas, it works. They also own some other company and a mortgage company. They’re really nice people. I miss that place.
January 25th 2007
Well guess what? I am way super excited because I have made a new layout for this site! Aren’t you happy? I know I am. But before I can code it, I have to put together my little sister’s trampoline. She’s so excited and the only reason I get to type this is because my boyfriend’s on the toilet and now he’s done so I have to go do that. Dang.
Butttt…there will be a new layout shortly! And I’m posting all the things on my never-ending to-do list when I get back.
Edit: Okay, I’m back. Like three hours later.
Sydney’s To Do List
Tehsheriff Stuff
Layout
Clean out fanlistings
Star Jar
Rotation - approve members and redo layout
Rejoin qbee
Join The Rumbles
Install Refericious
Other Stuff
Webands
Smack Zoidberg theme
K&P Taxidermy site
