Entries for July, 2000

no webmistressing

http://ankh.diaryland.com/nowebmis.html

Ahh! It's July already! That's just not fair. July crept up on me before I even fully realized we were into June. Methinks my brain needs a tune-up. *sigh*

I felt like doing the webmistress thing, and so tweaked HTML and tried (and failed) to do anything at all with JavaScript. I had a plan, knew exactly what I was going to do with my site. Went over to TSFV, where my site is hosted, and lo and behold it's down. Ahh!

You do know why it's down, don't you? Come one, try.

Some might believe the notation at the site, and try to tell me that the staff is updating security. Bah! I say. That has nothing to do with anything. It's the imps. There's a little devil that sits over my shoulder just because he knows that anyone reading over my shoulder bugs me. He sees me updating my webpages offline and phones his devil buddies out of state. "Hey Earl!" says the demon behind my shoulder, and the other replies, "Hey Jimbo. Same old, same old?"

"You got it," says Jimbo the evil demon behind my shoulder with one of those evil laughs like cartoon villains have. The devils break into hysterical laughter until they choke on smoker's coughs from all that sulphur and smoke. Then Earl the out of state web devil takes down the sever just before I connect to attempt an update. That's why TSFV is down.

(Where the hell did the previous come from?!? Is "hell" too accurate?)

Or maybe it's a guardian angel watching benevolently over me, Celeste whose name means heavenly. Someone telling me to take a break from stories that, while satisfying, are not all that life has to offer me. Someone giving me perfect chance to chat with friends and relax in the hope that everything will be nice and peaceful in the end.

I haven't heard from Lu all day. I hope she's okay. I should wend my way over to her abode tomorrow and poke her awake with a wadded-up Tshirt. Watch cartoons on her TV until she wakes up, that's the ticket. Yeah. And try to cheer her up. Yeah.

tired but here

http://ankh.diaryland.com/tiredbut.html

Whew, here I am, ready for a night to hazily remember later. I'm behind on all my roleplay stuff and kinda dread catching up. Thing is, I keep trying to be all things to all people, simply because I don't know which way I want to go yet. I'm going to have to choose sooner or later so I don't drive myself absolutely frenzied over a silly website. I mean, yeah, it's great, I have wonderful friends there whom I'm missing deeply... but if I fall off the face of the roleplay earth but keep my friends, I'm a happy chica. Definitely beats keeping up the RP but losing pals, for sure.

I watched "Akira" today, which is supposed to be a landmark anime film. I don't get it. I'm Miss Psychic Dimension Theory to some (Campus Crusade types; I think I annoyed them with my quantum hypothoses), but this flick is over my head. Would have helped if I'd had my mind on the TV and not somewhere in Tahiti, but that's me for ya. Interestingly, it's getting harder to concentrate for an extended period of time, and I think it correlates to my absence from my much-adored roleplay and writing. Therefore I've downed God only know how many Mello Yellows in effort to stay awake tonight and play on the Internet. My eyelids want to collapse, but tough noogies, I'm staying up and that's that. Nyah. *g*

I'm trying to whip my main website into some semblance of order but I'm not sure how well I'm doing with it. When it's done I'll link to my diary from there, and you diary-reading types will get a link to my site proper to poke around and generally enjoy yourselves. At the same time, I'm creating a mini version of my website for my relatives. Here's the deal: I've given my website URL out to my extended family, but it's a redirect URL. Therefore I'm creating a website for the redirect to show to my relatives while keeping my main site away from the kinfolk. They don't need to read my diary! Perish the thought. Perhaps I should take up one project and then the other instead of working on both simultaneously, but they're interrelated. Hm. I'll get something figured out, you'll see.

I. Am. Sooooooo. Tired. I may actually hold my eyelids up with my fingertips and type one-handed if this keeps up. But I'm getting sick of being away from my friends online, and this -- getting onto the Net -- would be the cure what for ails me, if I can stay awake long enough. Peh-heh, hiss spit yowl and don't fall asleep.

Where's more Mello Yellow?