Domestic Geek

I'm sick of using Blogrolling. I paid for the service a year ago because I wanted more control over the styling of my links. After paying the fee, I couldn't get any decent answers out of them as to how their code is set up. I got "we don't do css support questions" from them. I wasn't asking css questions, jerkwad. Then there was the whole blogrolling outage last September where the news page says "the server migration went well" and then everybody goes on vacation or something. No news for 4 days as to the problem. I could've sworn I wrote about all of this on my blog, but it must've been in other's comments as I can't find mention of it anywhere on my site. Oh, well. I found some sites last night that describe how to set up a blogroll as another EE site. I just need to know how one could show the sites as recently updated or not. That's one of my favorite features. Worst case scenario, I'll just hand code them, y'know?

Here's links for future reference:
—Lisa-Jill EE Blogroll Tutorial
—Dave's Chalkboard EE Blogroll

OK, I'm really going to go nap now. Thinking I'm blowing off work this afternoon at this point.

I know I said I wasn't going to talk about work anymore, but I just had to get this out:

I slept a good portion of yesterday afternoon in preparation of pulling an all-nighter at work so I could have the rest of Tuesday and all day Wednesday off. I had plans to get there just after the closing staff left and, even though I'd have to put away the food orders when they got there, I was going to do two days' worth of dough.

Marcus bought a new vehicle yesterday because his poor truck is ready to throw a rod and the transmission loses 2nd and 3rd gears when it gets warm. He got home about 10:30 pm. He needed a ride back to the car dealer to pick his truck up so it wouldn't sit there all night. The dealer is pretty close to the places where we work. Timing was almost perfect. By the time he showed me the new vehicle and we drove over there, it would be just a little later than I had planned on being at work.

After I left Marcus and drove to work, I pull up in front of the building and nobody is left. SCORE! This is going to work. I should've suspected something was going to go wrong at that very moment. I went inside, got my supplies ready, turned on the tap to fill the water bucket and . . . nothing. No water. Nada. Not even a dribble. Maybe the faucet is bad again and they turned the water off. I tried every faucet in the store. No water at all. Damn it! I went ahead and prepped onions and peppers. Still no water. I gathered all the half-full water bottles that staff had left everywhere to rinse the peppers. I rearranged the walk-in to make room for dough and the food orders. Still no water. I figured out how much dough I'd have to make for the next three days. I weighed out sugar/salt cups for the next three days. Still no water. I sat for 15 minutes brainstorming web design business names and making today's to-do list. Still no water.

By now, it's 1:30 am. I'm pissed and frustrated beyond belief. The first food delivery hasn't even shown up yet so that I could put that away to kill some time. I gave up and went home.

So much for the best-laid plans, eh? Now I'm torn as to what to do. I don't want to waste the gas to drive back over there again today. There won't be time to get two days' worth done before rush, either, since I can't show up until after noon. This totally sucks. I'm going back to bed. Maybe I'll have better clarity about the situation later. Yeah, right.

Sorry if things go a little wonky around in the next couple of days. I'm trying new things on the old blog. I'm absolutely determined to get part of my web business going (blog design) and I need to learn as much about Expression Engine and Wordpress as possible. If you see the site offline message, it means I screwed something up and I'm trying to fix it. That happened today when I was trying to make a second weblog in a new directory and suddenly both URLs went to the same page. I'm noticing Expession Engine documentation is not the best when explaining how to do things. I don't know if it is because most of the people using it are more programming savvy than I or what. If it wasn't for Marcus, I'd have dumped this long ago.

Things at work are getting absolutely stupid. I don't even want to talk about it anymore. It'll just make me more angry. I'm on the verge of snapping, so I need to get away before I get my butt fired.

So, I need a name for my web design business. Any ideas? (serious ones, Marcus!)

I'm doing my daily blog surfing and read about The DivaCup™ over at Thought Bubbles. It is some kind of menstrual cup that is an alternative to using pads or tampons. Sounds intriguing. I wonder if they really work. Kind of pricey, though. Has anyone ever tried one?

I was driving home from school last night and saw that gas had jumped to $1.97 a gallon! They were warning on the news that prices were going up, but it was still really bizarre seeing that as a price for the cheap gas.

Just another reason I need to start working from home for a 2nd source of income rather than driving to the North side of town 6–7 days a week. At least if I have to drive to meet a client, I can factor in gas to meet them as a business exprense.