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The best medicine?
Sep0
I’ve been sick for a week now. Right after getting my upper right molar removed, I caught whatever cough/cold my mother had the day before. While I was reeling in pain, mouth bleeding, having to replace gauze and drinking Slim Fast to make sure I had meals, I started to hack up phlegm. I wasn’t able to take “Generiquil” at nights until two days ago because I was taking ibuprophen for the pain from my mouth.
Eric is under the impression that I have an upper respiratory infection. I’m still not sure because I didn’t have a runny nose this whole time. It’s ironic because Eric apparently caught this “upper respiratory infection” from another source (thankfully not from yours truly) and also is only hacking up phlegm.
There were years that I was sick and I thought: maybe I’ll take a lot of vitamins. This year I decided mostly that I would just drink a lot of water and hope to pee out my colds. I still felt sick, but now I had the bladder of a 70-year-old man.
One thing that truly made me feel better was any form of humor. Whether it being Kathy Griffin dressing up as Kate Gosselin, that video of the stuttering football player on CollegeHumor, or pictures of true Fail, I didn’t care if I was hacking up phlegm as I was watching. The laughter made me feel better about my situation. It didn’t matter that when I laughed (or even smirked) it hurt my jaw for a little bit. Or I laughed so hard it made me want to pee.
My head isn’t hurting as much, my muscles don’t feel as bad, but I’m still hacking up phlegm. I thank my slightly faster recovery due to the fact that I was laughing hysterically at silly cats that hate water.
Such a beautiful day for an error.
Jun0
I’m having website meltdown. At the moment I hate HTML. I really do. HTML, CSS, Javascript. Everything. Why can’t websites be drawn on a piece of paper, scanned, and then mysteriously just work the way you wanted? Of course I have to struggle my way around with my small web bag of tricks, trying to make this webpage as effective as possible.
It’s pretty, but not exactly everything I wished for, you know? Sometimes the image in my head doesn’t match the drawing on the picture.
Anywho, I realized that one thing that websites are supposed to do is increase the length of time one person is on it for a while. How is a personal website supposed to do that? I’m not going to offer games, contests, or giveaways. That’s not my style and I’ve heard from other webmasters that giveaways aren’t as helpful to increasing readership. It causes a spike then disappears again. Moot. That’s what it is.
The Ugly Truth
Jun0
I have this underlying fear that people think writers are ugly. Probably less ugly than radio people, but still ugly. Why is that? Well, it’s because unlike television writers and radio people have a medium to fall behind, become a mask and display their work first before ever even seeing a face. I’m sure people read TV Squad and don’t even think about the person who wrote it.
Personally, I’ve seen the images of writers, radio people, and podcasters and was taken aback. Maybe it’s true. Maybe a lot of these people are the bastard ugly children of successful television and film stars. Even the people on YouTube have good looks and usually only the good looking (or just insanely funny) YouTube videos become the most popular.
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The underbelly of websites
Jun0
Sometimes I have those days where I’m just trying to make sure that I have a properly functioning website. I mean, I do pay for this damn thing. Yes, I understand that there is only one photo album at the moment, the contact page is sparse, and the review table mysteriously disappeared when I updated the design. But, the big thing I finally fixed was the damn RSS feed. Now it actually works up-op. Thanks Feedburner for never telling me that Google ate you.
So now, Feedburner should be taking care of my problems with RSS. Maybe I can finally get past that one subscriber and have…dare I say… two?
(Click on that Continue Reading for a picture of Sailor Moon and a dumb story)
Credit where credit is due
Jun0
I attempted to apply for a credit card and I got rejected. So I decided to go for a big named website and got instantly rejected. I’m now trying to go for a big named department-store. I was rejected for their actual credit card (associated with Visa/Mastercard/Discover/What have you) and am being under consideration for their less than $500 credit line.
I never had a real steady job. Yes, I get paid for my work writing articles for TV Squad. The unfortunate thing is that it’s not enough to even call it a part time job. The rest of my life is spent looking for other outlets for writing, reviewing music, and writing for other places on the internet (And blogging of course).
I was recently rejected by a website in the Match.com family (don’t worry I didn’t jump the shark and start writing about relationships; it was video game related) and I’m convinced that it’s because I have no credit. None.
(Click Continue Reading for the rest of the story)
A change in personality
May0
I love taking random personality quizzes to see how accurate they are. One of my personal favorites is the whole Jung/Personality Type quizzes. They traditionally have 16 types based of off four letters (Extraverted/Introverted, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving). I used to pride myself being INFJ (which is the rarest of the 16). I recently took the test again and got this:
I’m now an INTJ (which they call a Strategist). I’ve moved from being Feeling to being a Thinker. Now granted, the break from Thinking vs Feeling is 53/47 (as is Intuitive vs. Sensing, but since that didn’t change, I’m not worrying), but I have this feeling that the move is apparently part of growing up.
Oh no, I’m growing up. I’m getting old.
Somewhere in my head, I’m changing. I’m using my head and not my passions. It’s odd though, I always considered myself a warm, open person so moving to Thinking which uses the words like “Firm” and “Impersonal” makes me feel almost dirty.
Maybe I need a test that takes like 150 questions to further shape the test. Any suggestions?
Why I like Disney (Part 1 of many)
May0
- I’ve decided that I’m gonna try a continuing blog-thread that will spring up from time to time. I’m often asked why I like Disney. I’ll give one reason each post.
Because I like the man himself.
There’s something you can’t deny about Walt Disney, the person. He has passion, drive, and keen senses. Three qualities that I either want, or need to enhance. If anyone has gone through the One Man and his Dream exhibit in Hollywood Studios (which i normally dub The Studios), you would understand the turmoil that he had to go through (losing Oswald, war time, putting all his money in Snow White, etc.) and he still persevered.
I’m still amazed by what one man’s ideas accomplished. Without Walt Disney, we probably would have a very different view of animation, or even color. Disney was an experimenter; he didn’t want to follow the other movie producers.
I guess I just want to make an impact like Disney did. One day when I am old, I want people to think highly of me like they would of Walt Disney. I’m already convinced that I won’t make a huge impact, but if one person I know (or they read an article of mine) went, “He’s a good (insert noun here)” I would be happy.
Oh Family Guy, I love how nothing is sacred.
Oh and the Family Guy reference (“Are all the Jews gone yet?”) is hysterical.
Upgrade!
May0
Wordpress has been hounding me for months to update my Wordpress from 2.6 to 2.7. If anyone recalls, I actually had a meltdown the last time I tried to update my website because I lost all my posts and pages. Luckily for me, I read the instructions correctly. Yay for paying attention. Funny enough, I took so long to upgrade that I’m actually running on 2.8.
Anywho, today was one of those days where I felt like I kept doing several thousand things and yet time didn’t pass me. It’s odd, I haven’t had that feeling in such a long time. I got almost everything done today (even fixing this website!). I’m going to continue checking things off of the To Do list.
I love those weekends.
iStrain
Apr0
I have finally gotten around to rate most of my music on my iTunes. It was done before, but when I transferred all my music to my other external hard drive (which I hear is a no-no) only 3/4ths of the album covers and none of the ratings transferred over. I spent the past six months rating all the music. Now there are only 3 subjects to rate: Patsy Cline, Fleetwood Mac, and the new Franz Ferdinand album. The first two are obvious, the latter is because I haven’t had a chance to sit down and listen to it.
Getting to the point of the post: I could never stay on iTunes too long because after a while my eyes would start to kill me. Small black text on white background? For shame. Funny, because I am typing this on Word and have no problem, but when the text is like six point font it just hurts. That and the fact that I have more than 7000 songs (my iPod claims 8,221, but my iTunes says that there are about 7,700. I’m not sure what the disconnect is). I would have to rate about 100 songs a day and then die a little on the inside for the sake of organization.
I don’t understand why Apple has to be so stingy with their color choices. I’m sure there are people out there that can’t see or read iTunes and prefer something like Winamp with the option of skins. I just want a dark version of iTunes that comes with it. I don’t want to download some third party skin mask thing. Why isn’t there a tab for changing the colors or something?
Now that the ratings are done, it’s time to add album covers, album titles, track numbers, and year of release. I’m taking my time on those.
Over and Under
Mar0
There are some days when I just feel like everything overwhelms me. I have so much to do that I can’t do anything. I had that day on Monday. Then Tuesday rolled around and I was gaining a little bit of momentum. By Wednesday, I had put myself on a strict To Do list with specific times when things had to be done. And you know what? The structure actually worked. I got everything that I wanted to done, plus minor things that I squeezed in when there were small gaps.
Now I have to mention that some things on my timed to do lists are a little stupid. Today I had a break from 1:15 to 1:45 where I played Animal Crossing. Between 1 and 1:15, I was eating lunch. Sometimes I just had an odd gap (which i normally don’t) but between “Go to bank” and “Review CD” I had a 30 minute gap, so I went to Staples and shopped the clearance section. I bought a file cabinet thing for $20.50, marked down from $80. Now I have to decide where it is going.
Anywho, what’s the point of this post? Well, sometimes life can get to you. My way of dealing with it is by planning, making lists, and giving myself some time to breathe in intervals of the day. Whether that means vision breaks away from the computer monitor or stress breaks from working, I allot time there.
