Ree’s musings

Funny how I can read a blog entry about "idiot truck driver(s)" and all I can think is "Oh God, I hadn't even thought about that!"

By which I do not mean "idiot truck drivers". I mean "if the roads suck this bad for my little car, those poor truck drivers are going to be in deep shit."

Is it so hard to realise that truck drivers are, oh, human? They're people under hard deadlines. The winds get howling and an empty semi-trailer just rides the breeze. Then you get a jackknifed rig and everyone complains.

Funny how nobody complains when all the latest material goods arrive at Wal-Mart on time. Foolish citizens.

My pet theory is that they're all jealous because they ride wimpy widdle cars and the truck drivers get to peer down from their lofty roaring perches. There's nothing like riding a Peterbilt, man.

Ah'm not dead yet. Ah'm getting bettah.

Sorry for the radio silence. I was busy trying to dig my frontal lobe out with a spork. In my cold-medicine--addled state, I must have thought that would relieve sinus pressure.

That was my first cold with a nose stud and a doozy besides. I have never ruined so many tissues. Ewwwww. Luckily a change of jewelry helped somewhat.

Aren'tcha glad I'm back and chattering?

*give or take a handful of years

Not this site, obviously (*knock on wood*). My main website dealiemabob. Actually I have two hosted with the same company. One site returns the host's 404. I can't log into it by FTP either. Now the other is denying my FTP login, though thankfully HTTP is still functioning -- or else it's a really good cache. Eek.

I've been methodically sorting my bookmarks of hosting sites. That host has already given me a world of trouble. Their support forum has been down for over a month, for ****sakes. If my last site's HTTP goes, so do I. Because I am a web diva and I don't have to put up with this shit. I have to admit that until now, they've been worth every penny I paid. Now? Not so much.

Ganked from Elenbarathi.

What's the oldest possession you own?
Some hardcover books that belonged to my biological great-grandmother.

What one possession have you owned the longest?
Doopy Dog, a toy my father gave me when I was three days old.

What's the most expensive possession you own?
Own outright? My laptop.

What's the most precious (to you) possession you own?
So many things. Possibly a ankh pendant of Egyptian silver or one of the Black Hills Gold bits my father gave me.

What's the rarest possession you own?
My sense of humour? Seriously, I don't really do "rare". Probably some out of print paperback.

What's the oddest, strangest, or silliest possession you own?
A foot and a half tall Pikachu suitable for Pika-butting.

What's the newest possession you own (not food)?
Some Christmas gift or another. Probably Johnny Cash's last album.

Which of your possessions most sums up your personality?
Computer or bookcases.

I am occasionally the dimmest bulb in the chandelier. Found this while trying to organise my stuffs online:

"If ever you want to read something funny, read [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]. If ever you need a book on which to write an ongoing plot summary as you read, for a class, for the love of mashed potatoes, pick ANYTHING ELSE. Somewhere I still have a notebook full of 'I think they're just throwing the plot out the window. But there's a sperm whale! Hi, sperm whale!'

The text game is even worse."

I swear I'm sentient. Sapient even, after caffeination. I must have been off djew that -- oh -- year. *headdesk*

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I talked with a Tser last night. Anything else I could mention pales considerably next to that dear dragon.

(Been keeping notes in this private entry. Making it public now that I think I've found all the whitespace errors. I suspect I'll be picking tiny nits out of it for some time to come, though.)

LJ crossposts from Tabulas have some extra code at the button, making a large space at the foot of the entry. It should drop the last <p><br/><br/></p> at least. It puts a BR at the end of each line, plus a line return which LJ translates into a linebreak. This results in way too fucking much whitespace for each ENTER when typing the post.

LJ posts are dated according to time on the user's computer (Xanga's are by server time, adjusted for user timezone) but since crossposts use Tabulas' server time, they don't line up correctly with LJ-native posts. This can result in an error msg for the user if they try to post to LJ and their current time is earlier than the timestamp on their last, crossposted entry. (It's not a serious error, but it requires the user to backdate the new entry -- which means it won't show on LJ friends pages, which IS important -- or manually rearrange the entry timestamps.) Tabulas stores the user timezone offset, so it should accordingly correct the timestamp on LJ crossposts or send the timestamp the user sets on the Tabulas entry; either should work nicely. This should be minor to fix, but then I'm no programmer either, so what do I know?

Xanga also sticks extra space at the end:<p>[two line breaks -- translated BRs?]</p> With that removed, formatting is otherwise fine. I tested with Xanga Classic (free) and Premium in case there were differences; I didn't notice anything (and I was looking) but I also didn't have Premium's extra posting screen crap enabled either.

I personally wouldn't use STRONG for entry titles (I'd go for H4 myself), but that's semantics. The look of it is nice, I admit, and B is deprecated, so that works.

Tabulas itself crossposts to Xanga and LJ, *then* previews the Tabulas post, if the Preview checkbox is selected when crossposting. Um... there's ways around this (post as private without crossposting, preview, then edit and select the crossposting you want), but it'd be gravy if it handled itself instead of requiring special user tricks.

Holy cheese. I mentioned Kare in my roleplaying last spring? So I did. There it is in black and white (thankfully, since coloured text makes my eyes bleed -- damn weak eyeballs).

I wonder if I should attempt to explain that or just let it go, being so old. It's about the last thing that locale ever got out of JJ, though, which makes it a sort of focus point -- see where I was and then get back into it if I shall.

Choices. Dammit. My sister gets the reference, I know that, but I'm not sure it's more than a passing "who? eh." to the average person.

And if Jaina doesn't shut up in her little blog thing I'm going to delete the account. Two somewhat lengthy entries a few hours apart is just too much posting for a fictional character, particularly when I've not posted at all today!

I am sulky. Idiot characters. I ought to write her into losing a pinky.

How long have you had that gushing tribute to moi on your Elfwood page?

"Ree is special, in many ways. She has style, and she's got a mysterious amount of experience under her belt. Don't let her small library fool you - she's got more, stashed somewhere. Also part of our RP group, and the one you can blame for some of the poetry in Ivory... go on, give 'er a hug. You know you wanna."

Yeah, I don't think my face will tone down to normal for a week. Compliment overload, augh! Don't you people know I'm allergic?