Apparently white text on a red background is NOT the popular choice for website design. I can only assume it was this reader impairing color choice that forced a certain host provider to pull the plug on The Ward again. I should have warned them, websurfers are fickle creatures. They’ll pick style over substance any day.
Perhaps Tony needs to start a separate fundraiser for Ryan & Greg?
No witty banter this morning, just a few links for you to go to and some thanks.
Why didn’t I find this blog sooner? If I keep stumbling on blogs like Ryan McGee’s I just may pack up and go home. Excellent use of vocabulary (O the envy), long posts that don’t wear you out reading them (never has an expanded entry hyperlink been used so effectively) and did I mention he also blogs about Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Too bad I found out about his clever review site now when Buffy is in its final season with only five episodes left. Oh well, maybe I’ll luck out and he’ll decide to rate the previous seasons released on DVD. If you haven’t read his blogs (and I’d be surprised if you haven’t) then be sure to visit them TODAY.
I’ve been tweaking my photo galleries a bit (I’m always tweaking something) and I wanted to point out JoEllen Drazan who has an excellent tutorial which finally gave me some insight as to which files I need to edit to adjust the layout to my photo gallery. I also stole an idea from PixelPoet who added text to the navigation of her galleries. I should have done this a long time ago as people always fail to click the second page of albums or the next page of photos – NOW THEY KNOW.
OK, school is calling and I’m late again.
Why is it when I have the least amount of money I actually owe the Feds for a change? I was going to file an extension, but there was no reason to delay the inevitable. Although, I wonder if Uncle Sam will agree to my suggestion of $10 per month as payment on my taxes. Probably not. The one saving grace about stress is that given enough of it a person either cracks or gains a weird sense of equilibrium.
At the moment I have way more debt than I need given my income. Normally, I would be going insane right now, but as there’s no immediate answer to my financial woes I can’t foresee things getting any worse. $5k or $25k amounts to the same headache if you only have change for a $2 bill.
However, there is a bright spot. Michelle & I are doing much better and we had ourselves a great weekend with Geoff & Kathy. We joined them Saturday night in Garland where Geoff entered the new Saleen in a evening car show. Usually local shows are pretty small, but the turnout that afternoon was pretty good. I snapped off a few photos for you to view. After the show we saw Anger Management the new Adam Sandler flick with Jack Nicholson.
Sunday we headed out to Ennis to catch the Nopi Race Wars. The weekend weather was FANTASTIC. Spent the afternoon in the sun, Geoff snapped off more car pics and I caught some of the event on video. I’ll post Sunday’s pics once I get a CD from Geoff.
More later.
Not a bad film really. You’re almost forced to see movies you’re interested in right away as the marketing machine behind the titles will generally give EVERYTHING away weeks after the debut. I had thought this movie would be pretty funny and I wasn’t disappointed. Don’t expect a wild hour of Adam Sandler shtick, this movie is a departure from the Billy Madison era of his career. To my surprise it was Jack Nicholson that drove the humor behind this film. To see Adam play the straight man to Jack’s erratic behavior really was refreshing and made an otherwise predictable movie hysterical at times.
The movie did drag in a few spots and I can’t say I didn’t know the outcome a third of the way through, but I’ll probably snag a copy on DVD just for the bridge scene where Adam & Jack sing “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story.
Michelle & I were browsing through the drugstore aisle the other day looking for something over-the-counter to treat her migraines.
Michelle prefers Advil so we were happy to see they actually had a product made specifically for migraines… or so we thought. I was curious to know what was different about this product versus regular Advil (which is really just ibuprofen). To my surprise the ingredients were the same:
“Active ingredient (in each brown oval capsule) Solubilized ibuprofen equal to 200 mg ibuprofen (present as the free acid and potassium salt)”
Uhm, excuse me, but in the dictionary under “redundant” it says “See redundant”.
And it’s not just Advil that markets like this. Michelle & I saw products by Tylenol, Bayer, etc., with labels specifically for migraines, but the ingredients the same as their regular products. I would have been somewhat impressed if the migraine products cost more, but the prices were even the same.
I have to wonder are people REALLY that stupid or are these companies just really smart?