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Dreamweaver woes

Have I mentioned that DreamWeaver 3 is CRAP? Well, it is. It’s really annoying to have to constantly go back and forth between the 2 versions [DW2 and DW3], according to what I’m doing. Like now, for instance. I’m typing, so I have to use DW 2 because DW 3 i.s…s..o….s..l..o..w. Apparently DW 3 has issues with all browsers, which renders it useless in my book, since doing WEB DESIGN usually requires using a BROWSER. HELLOOOOOOO!!! I don’t know what the morons at Macromedia were thinking. In addition, DW 4 still has the same typing and table editing bugs as DW 3. Talk about useless upgrades…

Anyway, what I’m really posting for today is to let you know that I updated the About page with new info and pix. I fiddled with the links page a bit, but not enough to really make a difference. [nevermind, they are rolled into this new site now – A]

Another interesting thing I found out today as I was trolling my referrer logs trying to see who is scoping me out is that I’m listed in a blog list called Bloghop.com. Who knew? It’s also interesting to note that I had one bad rating and one good one. Tee! In addition to that interesting finding, I have stats about platform and browsers that will help me to get the new design right. For a change. It appears that mostly Winblows and Exploder are used to view this page, but Mac accounted for 1/3, so that makes me happy. ‘Specially since Netscape is such a piece of crap now that AOL got ahold of it – now I can relax and just deal with browsers that uphold the standards [MSIE 5, anyone?]. To hell with all the old browsers that just don’t cut it. Sorry Netscape, really I am! I wish Netscape would come out with just an email client. That’s what I use it for anyway. Eudora can’t show headers, so that’s out. Outlook is just, well, so MicroSux. Why doesn’t someone come out with a kick ass email client that does everything that Netscape Messenger does? Huh, WHY?

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Andy Graduates!

Found Links to amuse: Museum of e-Failure. Yes, this guy has made it his mission to go around to all failing dot coms and get a screen shot of their last site before they die and become just another Ghost Town on the Info Super Highway. It’s a worthwhile pursuit and I, for one, am glad he is attempting to document this cyberspace equivalent of ghost towns left from the Gold Rush. Interesting. [update 3.28.09: disobey.com is more of a blog now, but they still have some ghost sites in that section. It’s mildly entertaining. – A][update 2: Mar 2015. Totally a blog now. Don’t bother. -A]

Andy’s graduation sort of took over my life last week, which is why, Dear Readers, you’ve had no fodder here at Misangela. I know that’s no excuse, but hey, it’s the one you get. Andy is now, officially, DOCTOR Ray!

Andy's Graduation!
Andy's Graduation!

Our post graduation celebration was at the

Andy's graduation party.
Andy's graduation party.
with a bunch of friends.

He took Hobbes away to CA with him and it was a total scene at the airport. He cried, I cried, Hobbes whined. It wasn’t pretty and it took the rest of the week to recover from the emotional trauma.

What Hobbes thinks of CA!
What Hobbes thinks of CA!
Hobbes is still freaked out to be in a new home with no siblings, but we think he’ll adjust. Now, to get ourselves adjusted… [3.28.09, interesting note: This was the last time I was ever to go to the gate to watch someone leave. 9/11 took away that right several months later. Yes, the terrorists DID win IMO. – A]

Things are going fairly smoothly here at Casa Misangela, aside from the aforementioned stuff. The ID mailer went out last week and now I wait for responses. I certainly hope there are responses, otherwise, our Heroine gets to hit the pavement for a lovely ‘real’ job. I just can’t articulate how much the idea of that thrills me. //end sarcasm

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Music Midtown

1am

Music Midtown was great fun! My faves were (in order of how good their show was): Live, Train, Oleander, The Cult, Left Front Tire and Fuel . Marvelous 3 sucked ass. Fuel would have ranked higher if the singer’s voice had not been totally ragged out. He apparently has vocal cord issues, since he has been taking singing lessons. Well, I can tell you that screaming on damaged cords is no way to heal them…The weirdest thing of the festival was Dennis Rodman showing up at the Live show. (?) What the fuck was 99x thinking? A friend of mine took 2.5 hits of Ecstasy and was “in the bushes with my eyes rolled in the back of my head” [her quote] for most of Friday night. I saw her Saturday and she was debating taking more that evening. Hence the Soopa Secret Phrase for today! Tee! Those of you who know my friends know who I’m talking about… And those of you who’ve seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas know this line, too.

Soopa Secret Phrase: Duuuude, you took too much! I told you not to take too much!

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Inner Earthquakes and Other Oddities

Andy is in California now, but he’s coming in this weekend to do the graduation ceremony on Monday. It’s hard to do this, you know. It’s hard to say goodbye again and to let go of one of my kids [Hobbes the cat, for those of you who are clueless and think that I’d ever have a snot nosed brat], but I’ve got to do it. And with some semblance of dignity.

I filled space and wrote all about the wonders of Network last time, and while every word is definitely true, I must admit it *was* filler. Just me, living in the Land of DeNial. Call me Cleo.

I don’t feel that I need to necessarily spill my guts here, but I do feel that I should at least give up a little of what I am thinking about and feeling. I’ve been through a lot in the past month, and rather than try to elaborate on one thing or another, I think I’ll just give a list of the things that have at least hit the radar since we last chatted. OK, here goes:

* Painting is fun. And a cheap way to make a semi-shitty room look very nice.
* Does anyone (or two) really need 4 corkboards?
* I really love my newly pink (rosey mauve, actually) bathroom. I happen to have a pink bathroom fetish, thank you.
* Having only one sofa sucks.
* I have my doubts that I should do web design as a career. I’m not good enough with scripts.
* I have no career at all at the moment. My Mac support biz has tanked along with the other tech stuff. Thanks Geedubya, ya fucking little FUCK!
* I’ve decided that Geedubya is an evil little big money corporation ass kisser who has a Ronnie Reagan shrine in one of the rooms in the White House. It’s locked up so the Media can’t find it, but it’s there, trust me.
* The Center for Holistic Health is a death sentence for any hardware sent there.
* I’m such a newbie user when it comes to sewing machines. I’m thinking of getting one, since June [Mommie Dearest] has graciously [and disturbingly] offered to buy me one. I was in info overload and asked the sales guy to just stop with his incessant listing of every model and the 400 things it does. ACK.
* I’m not sure that having our Special Friends living next door will be without its downside. Like, too much of a good thing, ya know?
* Why are 20 year olds SO into drama? And so loud and obnoxious? Heh, could it be that I’m OLD???
* When will I ever get out of this money Karma?
* Why can’t I just sell everything and move to the fucking Aussie outback? Or the hills of New Zealand? Or Hawai’i? Cats. That’s why.
* Why do these inner earthquakes come upon me so quickly?
* My Honda will never recover from the Firestone escapade. Perhaps I should call the personal injury lawyer guy and see if he’d care to take on Bridgestone/Firestone…
* Perhaps all the money I need to get through the next 2 weeks will magically fall from the big Pin Oak tree outside. That’s the only way I’ll get anything paid, I’ll bet.
* I wonder if Andy will find some cool people to hang with soon. His lab is full of boring, classical music listening, Rule Nazis and they suck. Hang with it, And. The cool people will appear.
* I wonder if Hobbes will miss me? I wonder if he’ll miss his house and yard? Prolly not.
* Having to go on a special diet to cleanse my body of candida sucks. The upside is that hopefully I’ll ditch a few pounds in the process.
* I feel overwhelmed these days, but nothing is going on. Maybe it’s just general stress.
* I can’t get the IndigoDragon front page to work with the double rollovers. No one else can, either, but that doesn’t reduce my frustration with it, or my deep sense of inadequacy about it. FEH!
* Being Egyptian (Living in the Land of DeNial) is really not that bad. You should try it. And call me Cleo, won’t you?

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Car guys SUCK

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Well, I got the Honda back. She is running GREAT, except for nothing being fixed. The problems the car has cannot BE fixed. The Honda Technician did a buttload of work on the car and confirmed that the valve job from last year was indeed botched, but he can’t make it better. So the bottom line is that I have damaged valves, worn bearings and an odd transmission problem that can’t be identified. But everything else is just great, thanks. [No damaged valves, it is the main transmission bearing that is the noise. It is 14 years later and she is still running fine – if noisy. Just don’t use these places, OK? Find a legit shop. -A]

Why do people/events keep making me have to talk with lawyers? Why am I being fucked with? It just goes to show that the Universe IS out to get me.

CAR GUYS SUCK. FIRESTONE SUCKS. GOODYEAR SUCKS.

That is all.