Archive for August, 2007
Mercy Flush
It’s weird having something on my schedule from the morning until late in the evening. Last week I started working on the new client’s website, and then in the evenings I’ve had class to go to. Both have been pretty well although I’ve hit a bit of a snag with the client’s website. I’m not [...]
It’s weird having something on my schedule from the morning until late in the evening. Last week I started working on the new client’s website, and then in the evenings I’ve had class to go to. Both have been pretty well although I’ve hit a bit of a snag with the client’s website. I’m not extremely fond of the design that their graphic designer came up with. I’ve found it really hard to code the website (although it is done now) because I just did not like what I saw. I’ve made suggestions for elements that really needed to be changed, and they were considered, although I felt extremely put off when I was told that it’s really what the client will agree with and whatnot. I understand that, but how can you be proud of the work you do, when you don’t like what you’re working with. I mean, isn’t it all about giving the client the best, and what will look the best? Regardless I did come up with a new concept, albeit it lacks any graphical inspiration for the soul fact that I am *not* a graphic designer. I’m hoping to present it to the client (since the graphic designer right now, is sort of AWOL but long story) and see if they like the new structure (rather than the design itself.)
All that aside, I have been asking myself why I have never gotten into watching Scrubs before. Throughout the week my friend Jeff and I have pretty much been distracting each other by talking about random crap, and of course exchanging YouTube videos. Earlier in the week he sent me a video of Turk dancing, and it was basically down hill from there. I guess it also doesn’t help that he’s been sending me a bunch of other clips from Scrubs to watch! Needless to say before I went out last night, I was able to catch two episodes on Comedy Central and pretty much kicked myself in the ass for never watching this show before. Time to start from the beginning! I really have to either blame or thank (or both!) Jeff for this. The plus is that I now have a new show to be excited to watch, but the downside is that I have seasons upon seasons to catch up on. Hopefully he can fulfill his duty of being a fellow nerd by compiling a list of episodes that I *must* watch, or even just a list of seasons that are better than others. We’ll see!
All that aside, this past week has been really great. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that school has started, and as I mentioned earlier I’m busy from the moment I wake up, up until I go to sleep. I love it! Hopefully a bunch of stuff will go on this week. Trying to make some plans for things; I know I have class on Thursday, but I might not go to that class as much. Besides, I’d rather go out with my friends to Durbin’s instead! Despite the fact that tomorrow is Monday, I hope that my SysWear order, Think Geek order and new Xbox video game (Star Wars: Battlefront; I loved it on the PS2) come in! Or my new debit card so that I can order a few t-shirts that (”NOOB, I am your father.,” “OMFG–The Gamer’s Prayer“) I really want to have, and because I really need to replenish my t-shirt collection. It’s very apparent which ones I wear the most–since they’re all black, and have been worn one day too many, they’re more of a dingy grey’ish black. -insert sad face emoticon-
And on that note, I am going to pass the fuck out.
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Yesterday the Chicagoland area got buttraped with some massive storms. Around 3pm, I noticed that it was getting really dark out so I decided to keep my blinds open (my desk faces a window) to just watch. 2 minutes later the wind picks up out of nowhere and already tree branches are flying everywhere. So [...]
Yesterday the Chicagoland area got buttraped with some massive storms. Around 3pm, I noticed that it was getting really dark out so I decided to keep my blinds open (my desk faces a window) to just watch. 2 minutes later the wind picks up out of nowhere and already tree branches are flying everywhere. So I called my sister and told her I was going to pick her up from her bus stop but her friend was already on her way here to drop her off. Shortly after that the tornado sirens went off, so I was talking to this guy Jeff online pretty much saying “oh noez.” So I got up to look out the patio window and it was just a huge clusterfuck of rain falling down. I couldn’t even see 10 feet past the window.
Naturally my mother instinct kicked in so I called my sister and told her to pull over somewhere or a friend’s house that was closer to wait until the storm was over. Turns out that the house they were going to stop at, noone was home so they got to our house fine, except soaked from just running 50 feet to the patio door.
The storm ended up lasting about 15 minutes or so, but damn it did major damage. Our patio chairs were in the lawn, huge branches were scattered across our front lawn, driveway, and street. Since it didn’t seem like power was going to come back on, I went ahead and used the last of the water up (we have filtered well water) to shower. Left my house around 5pm and drove around town; Nearly 75% of it was without power, and trees were down all over. The drive to school wasn’t too bad, since the storm had cleared and sun was trying to shine through.
Got to school about 1.25 hours early, so I headed to the lab to get some work done. Around 6:45pm, the school’s tornado sirens went off, so we all had to go downstairs. It was.. so… boring. But I had plenty of eyecandy to look at though I just ended up watching Family Guy on my iPod. Around 7:30 they let us go back to class. I should have just went home, but I wanted to see what the class was going to be about and who was going to be in there.
Yeah, big fat fucking joke. The class is shit I already know (we talked about lan/wan, tcp/ip, domain names, connection speeds.) I think I won’t be going in to many classes unless there’s a test I have to take there. I was *that* person. You know, the one that answers every question and gets it right. The one who corrects the teacher when he’s wrong, and the one who’s sitting in the back doodling up designs for a website instead of paying attention.
What would’ve been my favorite class, is now my least favorite.
After class got out (9:30pm), the previous storm had already passed, so I called my friend Amy to see what she was up to. Turns out her town was out of power as well, so we made plans to hang out for a bit and just do something until one of us was tired. Ended up just driving around talking about boys as usual! Finalized plans for tomorrow night to go to Kankakee to see her cousin’s band play =). I think we’re going to hang out with him later on too, so I’m sure that’ll be mucho fun.
Power went back on around 8am this morning, unfortunately Comcast (internet/phone/tv) is still down, so I got into the office at 9am. I think I’ll be here for most of the day because I have a website to finish for my client. *goes back to work*
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Classes started yesterday, and it’s about time. It’s been way too long since I was really in school, so I’m excited to finally be going back (and full-time at that!) Yesterday I had my graphic design class, and already started an abstract project using only typography. The teacher seems okay, but he talks too fucking [...]
Classes started yesterday, and it’s about time. It’s been way too long since I was really in school, so I’m excited to finally be going back (and full-time at that!) Yesterday I had my graphic design class, and already started an abstract project using only typography. The teacher seems okay, but he talks too fucking much. He kept talking to one of the girls that was sitting in my row, and it just annoyed the shit out of me. I suppose it had a lot to do with the fact that she was using some guy to design her website and wasn’t going to pay him for it. She was like “Well, I’m going out to dinner with him, but I really don’t want to…” I almost chimed in and told her to get over herself, and if she’s going to screw him over, she’ll get hers back eventually. But I held my tongue, though that didn’t stop me from muttering “shut the fuck up” and having the kid next to me agree :P
Today was my Microsoft Office class. It’ll be easy as pie. Nothing too interesting there, but there were a couple of cute guys in the class. Not like I talked to them though, since I wasn’t anywhere near them. Tomorrow I’ve got GD again, so hopefully it’ll be somewhat interesting. Then my favorite (hopefully) class is on Thursday. It’s my internet technologies class which will primarily be about hosting, servers, and all that other good stuff. I’m really hoping that I’ll be one of few (or the only) female in that class, just so I can boost my ego even further.
The only class I don’t have to go on campus for is my WWW Authoring class, which is strictly online. I’m slightly disappointed, since I’d love to be in a class for this (as if I really need to be taught this) but unfortunately it wasn’t available. I don’t think this class starts until October, though I’m really impatient. I’m going to email the department head and ask her if it’s possible to get started early on this class rather than wait another two months. I mean, why not, it’s based online anyway. :D
Aside from class, I’ve been working on stuff for the new client I have with work. Their graphic designer just sent me his PSD today, but there were uhm, a few things I did NOT like, so I sent him a really long email on it (and to the client) so hopefully some things will be considered/looked into. I got in some hours today; Ended up working 9-1:30pm, and played around with subversion and Ruby On Rails during most of that, and then got a skeleton set up for the site.
Tomorrow is going to be busy. Work in the morning, then off to buy 4 new tires for my car, and get an oil change. Then off to school early to buy $330 worth of books, and then GD class from 7-10pm. Debating whether or not to go to sleep now, or when I can’t keep my eyes open.
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This past week has been a complete struggle for me. No, scratch that, this entire month has. I’ve become such a hermit crab it’s disgusting. But I’ve decided that this is just hurting me too much, and that nothing is going to change. Why should I wait around for someone that doesn’t give a shit [...]
This past week has been a complete struggle for me. No, scratch that, this entire month has. I’ve become such a hermit crab it’s disgusting. But I’ve decided that this is just hurting me too much, and that nothing is going to change. Why should I wait around for someone that doesn’t give a shit about me anymore, or rather that’s the impression that he gives me. I know it sucks, it really does, but this is my life, and I want to be happy.
So this weekend was pretty painful, more emotional than anything else, but just realizing the decision I was going to make. Tomorrow my classes start, and from Monday thru Thursday I’ll be trying to focus a lot of my attention on that.
I just hope that I can really stick to my guns and try to stay strong. I really just want to find someone to hang out with, make me happy again. I don’t care if it’s just a friend, that’s all I want right now.
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Much intense attention to finishing and getting up the new design for Holdfire Network has surely paid off. I spent almost all of today fixing up last minute items with the website, testing it out to make sure it works, and then of course uploading it and setting it up for actual production. I had [...]
Much intense attention to finishing and getting up the new design for Holdfire Network has surely paid off. I spent almost all of today fixing up last minute items with the website, testing it out to make sure it works, and then of course uploading it and setting it up for actual production. I had a few issues with .htaccess (namely 301 Redirects) and ended up changing the scheme so I’ll end up losing some PR for the pages, but quite frankly, PR isn’t going to do much with the site when it’s not like I’m doing this for SEO or advertisements based off of PR.
Anyway, feel free to check out the design and let me know what you think. Right now there ARE a few issues I have to resolve (when you’re viewing the dropdown menu, the bottom border does not go across 100%; dropdown menu doesn’t work in IE6, and the dropdown is off by some pixels in IE7) but if you do spot any errors whether it’s XHTML that I borked, spelling, grammar, broken links, or just something I should change… TELL ME!
I also finally added the affiliates program to the site as well. Each sale earns an affiliate 25% commission, and payment is through PayPal when their balance hits $25. I’m seriously excited for the new additions and the design. I truly hope that this will help to encourage new clients, because honestly, this is something I love doing and I really want this to get bigger.
Holdfire Billing is the only thing slightly out of whack at the moment. WHMCS is based entirely off of tables, so I’ve been trying to do some quick XHTML/CSS integration with it, and there are some things that are screwed up. Which explains why I’m still up at 3:30AM. I just want to get a few more things done, and then I am just going to pass out and sleep late.
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