Blog Skins

Get your hard hats out - Kay's re-skinning the hard way.

I spend several hours a day staring a graphics and then another 30 minutes or so staring html in the face wondering why oh why i decided to undertake this whole "website" project :)

In any case, my blog needs a new skin and after spending a few hours trolling BlogSkins I've discovered that no one in the world can skin a blog that doesn't make my head hurt.

First of all, for the love of god, someone take JavascriptSource offline before these hyperactive teenage girls put a scrolling effect on anything else! Then to the graphics themselves - not too shabby, I suppose. They're mostly a little much but some of them are cute - the ones that aren't stretched out beyond all rational belief....

Then there's the scrolling boxes. Oh, how I hate the scrolling boxes! When I publish a blog, I like all of my post to just appear, I don't want to scroll down in a 2X4 window to find out what the next thing someone said was. The primary purpose of a blog is not to be pretty - it's to have content, substance - some kind of value, be that written value to your friends, strangers, or yourself...

And the netspeak! Jesus christ! I really am going to have to commit suicide if i see the world "lurve" again or "ure"...oy vey....

So, long story short (don't you love how we always throw these in at the end of the post), one of these days when I am all caught up on graphics requests (insert *laughable* smilie here) i'll reskin this damn thing.

Movies

This sucks!

I need female friends if only to force them to go see the new Johnny Depp movie with me :( That and the Aviator...:(

I don't wanna wait until they come out on DVD...:(

Color Me Pissed Off

Oh - My - God...wait, i need to do it slower O-H-M-Y-G-O-D

Yesterday I had a wonderful day. I sat on my livingroom floor for hours trying to download something and, today, knowing that the internet was working, I moved my PC back into my room. That's when I learned the real issue.

I hate my Wireless Modem.

This is a screener of the results of my third speedtest for the day (Screener)

Wow....

Who Wants To Take April 25th Off?

Hmmm?

(That means you, Mike :))

It's the only time Sluggo is hitting anywhere near us for an eon. He'll be in Madison and Champagne in March (the 1st and 2nd) but those are a tuesday and a wednesday and Madison and Champagne are far away.

+ 04.24.2005 + @ It Again Tour

Venue: Abbey Pub

Address: 3420 W. Grace Street City: CHICAGO State: IL Phone: 773-478-4408

Doors: 8:30PM

Ages: 18+

Cost: $15/$18

-> PerformingATMOSPHERE, P.O.S and GRAYSKUL

TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2005!

The Anime - It Gives Me A Headache

Any idea where I can find this: "kanojo : saishuu heiki"

Theoretically (and this is a fairly good theoretically) this is the translation for "She: The Ultimate Weapon" in Romaji which is this in Kanji "??: ????"

And now, Kay has a migraine.

UPDATE: Oh - wait, I think i found it...apparently it goes by two titles "kanojo : saishuu heiki" and "Saishuu Heiki Kanojo"

Someone needs to take fewer drugs and, for once, it's not me.

*sigh*

After a three hour argument regarding my favorite topic - Anime - i'm supposed to get ahold of "Chance Pop" "Battle Athletes" and "Sailor Moon" (This i'm familliar with) all in their original japanese.

I'm half inclined to enjoy the lack of easy to find torrent dl's and use that as a great excuse not to :P

I feel another horrid thing taking over bits of my life...

Dusty Scott

A while ago, I ran across a link to this (10 Worst Album Covers of All Time). It was worth a laugh - in places, entirely hilarious, but what caught my attention was the rest of his posts. The man has a lot of hilarity in most of the things he does.

This is, after all, the man responsible for: "Eight inches of knobby rubber and plastic on a sleek, ergonomic shaft, crisscross action, rubber stimulation prongs, and a vibrating head. Yep, I'm sure loving my new toothbrush." He's the funniest middle age man I've run across in a while.

Pork Tornado & Salami Tsunami

Great Resturants

This post has been brewing for a while - this is just the first time I actually remebered to do it :)

Kenosha has some really great food. We're never given credit for it, but I must say, there's a lot of it. My credits go out to these resturants as some of my favorite places to eat.

Panda

This is a great little Sceshwan place. The atmosphere isn't bad, the food is fairly authentic, and the service is prompt and polite. Would I reccomend taking anyone here for a romantic dinner, probably not, but I would definately say it's a great place to go to dinner when you just want some good chineese food. The downsides.

1) No chopsticks: They're one of the few good chinese resturants i've ever known that doesn't provide you with at least the option of chopsticks, but that's okay.
2) Cold: I have seldom sat outside of the smoking area (a glass enclosed room. - but don't let that fool you, I'd rather sit there than anywhere else - it's quiet and the smoke isn't overwhelming) anyway, it gets a bit chilly there, but nothing too bad.

Tenutas

If there is one thing I know, it's italian food.

Tenutas is a two part whammy. On one hand, you have Tenutas the delicatessen, complete with fine wine, great cheeses, sausages, seafood, liquer, and everything you could ever want to cook a great italian meal. It's authentic to the hilt and they have great ingrediants. But, grocery portion aside, all year long they sell prepared hot beef, mosticholi, lasagna, etc...in addition to their muffalatos. The summer season holds a fantastic outdoor grill for fresh pasta salads, fruit medlys, and tenuta's sausages, brats, etc... (Did I mention they now serve Starbucks Coffee :P)

Then, you have Tenuta's the Resturant. I've only ever ordered their pizza because, beyond their pizza, there is no living. The thin crust is fantastic and crackery - there's not better in the surrounding counties and, trust me, i've had it all. The meats, though I won't eat them, are apparently of a high, non-disgusting quality. They seem to stockpile or import mozzerella during the off-season because theirs doesn't suffer the way that others do.

Thai Gormet

Thai Gormet is buried in the midst of a strip mall and it's something you would never expect to be good. It really is, though. The atmosphere isn't the best. Again, it sort of has that "hole in the wall" vibe. It's no Sukasa. Again - food - very good. The downside falls, firmly in the decor. It's rather cute, I suppose, but it has an unauthentic feel.

Manja

The name may give it away. It's ethnicity is obvious. This is a place I would take a date. They have an adorable patio for summer dining (and, not unlike panda, the patio overlooks a bunch of buildings and neon) The food is great, its a little pricy, but nevertheless, excellent.

All in all, i've grown rather fond of our little town's food :)

:(

Ya know what sucks - the gilmore girls only lasts an hour...which means once a week i get an hour of my fix and then i'm left for another seven days wanting more. For instance - i've been waiting this entire season for Rori and Logan to kiss...they just did, and it's 10 to 8...GRRR!

Oh, and i'd complain to someone instead of blogging - but there's no one online. Sorry all.

Top 10 Ways To Tell Your Career Is Over

You've gone from Fast and Furious to Pacifier...

Poor Vin...

MSN Is Broken

Again!

GRRR

Sooo Many Things To Blog About!

1. I'm a plumber!

I installed a new showerhead yesterday all by myself. I even got a little cut on my finger! I'm so excited.

2. Max just keeps getting bigger!

Max is, if you would believe it, larger STILL. How long before he morphs into a guinea pig?

3. My mom played DDR today.

I'll be back wtih a link to the incrediably hilarious video!

4. "Coffee-Shop Boy."

So today I went to the mall because they have an indoor mini-golf thing and you play it under black lights and everything glows and it's fun cuz it glows...however, right across from the golf place is a coffee shop thing, so we went into the coffee shop thingie because my mother wanted to look at the Dr. Seuss tea-makey-thingie...Stop. Slug? On the...radio? In a coffee chain? You must be kidding. So i went to ask the little coffee monkey what station he was listening to. It turns out it was a freestyle compiliation with Aesop, Sluggo and Eyedea - not nearly as exciting as I thought it would be - anyway, I think the little coffee boy was impressed with my recognition of said off-beat hip-hop. In any case, we can add him to the list with oddball circuit city boy.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if i can still go into circuit city unarmed?

SCJ Commercials

For those of you that don't live in the heart of Johnson Wax territory - I do. The wax. J-waxers.

Yeah. Last year, Sam Johnson died. I, in fact, made a heart-felt, tear-filled post about it.

Well, he has a son and I just saw his son do the stupidest thing ever.

SJ used to do these adorable commericals where he talked about the business, what it meant to him and how he made it succeed. Fisk is in one now. *eyeroll* The man ruined this concept for me :(

And Now

..i just feel sick.

The Mother Of Shitty Days

There are few things that aren't depressing about today.

I got up this morning, hung out, found out that there was a Birthday party for my cousin (an adorable three year old with fuck-up's for parents) and set about to getting her something for her birthday.

Then Mike woke up and it's all been downhill from there.

He took the - "Hey, Sarah's birthday party is today." line really well. Yeah, I sprung it on him - but they sprung it on me too. Yeah, he's not the greatest fan of my family but so what? I just...My god, we have this argument everytime I have some family gathering to go to. Granted, at varying degrees, but it's the same damn thing everytime and everytime, its a completely loosing situation. I've actually come to dread any kind of event at all because I know it's going manage to start an argument that can't end well.

Either he's going to go, grudgingly, because I don't volunteer to let him out, be pissed off about it the entire time and succeed in making me feel horribly guilty and angry at the same time because he was mad about it or, he's not going to go and then i'm going to be pissed off because he still doesn't understand why i asked him to go in the first place or why it matter and he's pissed off because i asked him to go and because he know's i'm mad at him.....and it just never gets any better.

Today was probably the mother of all arguments about this and the worst part about it is, it never moved past a level of polite discussion. I dunno.

I get that he hates these things - i'm not the greatest fan of them either. I get that he doesn't feel comfortable at them because my family has given him so much hell in the past. I get that he would rather spend his day doing anything but this but...It's not that there's anything i'd love more in the world right now than to be snuggled up in bed to him, but there are other things that just need to be done and they're part of my life - and so is he. I just don't understand why me saying it's important to me isn't enough for him and that makes me sad.

I think i'll return to my laying-in-bed-crying-myself-to-sleep-so-i-don't-have-to-think-about-it method cuz there isn't a damn thing I can do about it while he's with King.

Troy

Last night I rented two movies - Troy and Swiss Family Robinson. The dialogue in one put the other to shame and you'll never guess which one I'm talking about :P

Troy, while a valiant attempt at an epic film, failed completely miserably.

One, Brad Pitt is not Achilles.
Attractive he may be, but descendent of the Grecian Gods I doubt firmly. Though he came closer to fitting the physical description bill than he did with the acting. You're a descendent of the Gods - act like it. Yes, as the story goes, he rejected his post as any type of royalty and lived to exist as a warrior, but seriously people.

Two, what year is it again?
Mind you, I'm aware that this is set in the time of Troy and Sparta, and thusly, that Greek would have been the spoken language and that it would have been horribly annoying for those of you that don't speak it to have to read subtitles the entire evening, but I would have appreciated, in the absence of that kind of truth to the story, at least sentence structures appropriate to the dialect. Now, maybe I'm being too nitpicky here, but its an epic fucking story line. Have some respect for it.

Three, how long can you make this?
They did get that right, I must admit. In the absence of an inordinate amount of other things to do, I appreciate the fact that they kept true to the fact that it was, indeed, an epic story line and that it goes on into eternity as all epic battles do. That said, I really really really could have done without sitting through three hours of Brad Pitt's ass floating in and out of the frame. Speaking of which - the unlikelihood of that love scene will haunt me forever ("I'm going to kill you" - "you can't kill me" - "yes I can" - "no you can't. lets have sex.") but then, the fact that, technically, she hasn't officially broken her pact as a servant to Apollo - she's still sleeping with an almost-god.

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The Swiss Family Robinson never fails to amuse me as one of life's all time bad movies, however :)

Stupid Slow Guy!

Every morning i stop at the bakery - the bakery keeps me in coffee and sweet things.

On this particular day which is already shaping up to be hellacious - and the sun isn't even fully risen yet - when my number came up, the only guy available was the only man employed by said establishment - the slowest man on earth....or so I thought, until two hours later when I got my food and I stepped to the cooler for juice to match my espresso that they were already making on the other end of hte store because they know how cranky i get without my coffee what so I find but thw man competeing for slow bakery guy's title.

This man takes being slow into the realm of an art form. An art form i tell you. He stood at the juice cooler - not a large cooler, a conventional sized cooler - one door..not even two! for 10 minuites! I almost ninja kicked him!

Oy vey! Does no one in the world have anywhere to be?

I'm A Flipping Genius

So tonight, I finally got off of my ass and did something i've been saying I was going to do for a while - I coded graphics request forms!

Not only did I code them - but i hosted them too!

This may seem trivial to you, but you don't know how nice it will be to get an orderly e-mail everytime someone requests something with all of the relevent information. The only thing I have left to do is to find a javascript authentification that my server doesn't loathe...then i'll be in business..*sigh* the amount of time i spend idiot-proofing things....

My Boots Are Sick!

My favorite boots need a doctor! The tread fell off one of the heels!

Does anyone know an old man? Can't all old men fix shoes?

Legislation I Can Get Behind

Someone is proposing a law to prohibit convicted criminals from contacting their victims during any period of their sentancing, including probation, etc...

Rodney Still Can't Get Any Respect

CNN called Rodney Dangerfield's old publicist to see if Rodney could comment on Johnny Carson's death.

Problem is...he died too.