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I got all the books I had previously listed on the site up and linked with my All Consuming site. I’ll randomly add the other books I have sitting on the shelf, but for now I am pleased with the listing. I got all the previous listed blogs linked via blogroller. I added a hit counter that isn’t obscene, but so I can at least see who else other then myself reads my blog…

So as I stand up to cheer and marvel at my coding skills I notice some off pixels when viewing from Safari on OSX…son of a bitch!!

Well tonight I plan on fixing that little tidbit of code and adding a new “category” of posts. What pray tell might I be conjuring up now? Well I have:

• Recycled Music
• Concert Reviews
• Ideas
• Random entries

Now I want to add “Book Reports”. As if writing them in school, or should I say plagiarizing them in school wasn’t enough. I figure I read like a mofo [mother f**ker], why not post some reviews eh? (no I am not from Canada).

So off to report land I go!

And I have success

So I blew up the blog one more time in the middle of everything…thankfully I made a copy of the updated changes. :)

Well now I just have to finish adding my books to All Consuming and I am all set! The idea here is that I will no longer have to manually add and move books, I can host that content outside the site. Further, I have a blogroller now I can add and remove links without worrying about botching my layout.

I might be turning into a CSS whore…I /had/ to make a few changes and rather then use tables…I just made a billion little boxes to get what I wanted. Ahhh the power of code!

And so it begins

I added a few links, changed some things around, fixed some code errors, tried to add some features…and I broke it. :(

Somehow in the updating of a post, blogger decided to fubar my template. The good news is that my CSS style I cranked on for days I still have, and I have a backup. However, all the changes I made last night…I have to do all over again!

Yeay, the beauty of the net and free hosting sites.

Good content to come…

Where things are just blah

I don’t have anything special to say and I am not feeling overly creative at this moment…but I feel like I need to vent. I just don’t know what I need to vent about. How’s that for a nice start to the week?

No this is not a “the world is out to get me” post or rant of sorts; just a “I feel like ‘blah’ and I want to go home, crawl in bed and pull the blanket over my head…then fall back asleep.” At this moment I would prefer wrestling with a down comforter that never seems to cover me everywhere unless I lay on a diagonal in my full size bed.

Maybe all those comments about my brain feeling like mush were mistaken as wishes that are now being granted by the genie in the bottle I found years ago…damn here I am with a brain turning to mush when I could have wished for a million wishes. I hate when that happens!

Anyone else having a day like that? How about just hating days like that?

Today’s Horoscope:

Puzzles, riddles and intrigue most of all are at the very top of your list when it comes to what you enjoy on a daily basis. So if anyone foolishly entertains the thought of trying to outwit, trick or manipulate you, even just for a moment — well, let’s just say you’ll be able to straighten them out without even blinking an eyelash. With the stars emphasizing your whiplash tongue, they won’t stand a chance — even if you weren’t already a Scorpio to start with.

– Infospace.com

But so can anyone

So today I saw a post on a local club/music board (that really is a poser haven now) about Texas being the “fattest state”, taking over for Michigan…more specifically Detroit. Drama ensued because someone didn’t like the ranking system or how the statistics are calculated; whatever. The point is that I couldn’t help myself so I had to respond to the insanity with an insane comment:

Support cannibalism!

Anyone 18+ more then 100lbs overweight gets chopped up and

– “healthy” edible parts sent to starving nations

– Fat used to create fuel for new cars that run on human fat

Children under 17 that are more then 50lbs overweight

– Parents charged with abuse

– Kids sent to fat camp

Of being sick and tired

So if being hung-over like I never have before wasn’t enough of a bad sign to start the year off…how about getting the worst cold/flu that I have ever had? Oh did I mention that previous to that I had a nice little bought of insomnia to finish the year off? Damn I feel like a mess.

A few days before NYE I started having trouble sleeping at night. Thursday night was the worst, I got 4 hours of sleep in two 2 hour sessions. Friday was NYE and I took it easy during the day and partied like a rockstar with my roommate and friends…ala Pimp ‘n Ho theme party. After 5 drinks or so and 4 shots of tequila I was toast. Thankfully we stopped for grub on the way home or I would have been a lot worse off then I was, and I don’t even want to think about how worse that would have been.

I woke up around 10am NYD still feeling a buzz, but no hangover…yet. Then it was time to start screaming out random dinosaur names. If you don’t know what this is, think about screaming from the bottom of your stomach “Brontosaurus!”. Yes, it was pt [puke time]. For the next six hours (yes I said SIX) I wasn’t quite like a Swiss watch, but about every 30 to 45 minutes I crawled to the bathroom for another verbal assault on the Mesozic Era. I finally had the strength to try soup around 9 pm…I woke up around 11 am feeling just fine.

On my way home from work Tuesday I was a wreck; I was cold and shaking non stop. I got home and changed into some warmer clothes and jumped under my trusty polartec fleece blanket to get warm. Eventually I felt better, then I felt very weak…hot…sweaty. I felt like I had no energy and my body wanted to wave a white flag; I went into survival mode. I know, a little dramatic but something told me that this was not right. So I pulled out my camping gear, got the first aid kit and took my temp 102. I took some Motrin to reduce the fever, drank a lot of liquids, took a shower and went to bed.

I woke up soaked and felt just fine; go figure. I went through about the same routine just without the massive fever the next night…with one exception: I couldn’t sleep.

I woke up around 2 am for no reason. I ended up reading a little bit and the I got online and specked out 5 different configurations of a Mini Cooper. Colors, ultra sports package, no package, financing vs. lease…the list goes on. Eventually I got tired of looking at the computer and put it away. I still couldn’t stop thinking about things I wanted to take care of today…bills, tasks at work, unanswered emails…books…eventually in the mess that was my mind I fell asleep.

What a rollercoaster of a few days 2005 is turning out to be.

“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

– Baltasar Gracian