Month: May 2001

which is to say, I got 11+ hours of sleep last night, and that was just lovely.

I really wanted to do one more submission to the template contest, but it was not to be. I do still have this great idea, which maybe I’ll use for something else someday. who knows! but I did manage to submit 2 solid, passable templates, both of which work in the browsers I have to test with and validate as html 4.01. and it was good for me to work on something like that – a design with incredibly strict parameters (including my own rule that they validate) and a very short timeline.

and today was a solid productive day, too. I’m working on my personal development plan. god that makes me feel like a grownup. 🙂

1. supervisory skills (because I have no idea what the hell I’m doing with an assistant)
2. conflict management (because conflict is scary – see yesterday’s entry)
3. project management (because there’s waaaaay too much to do – which is why I’m writing in my blog, right?)
4. technical skills: PHP, database concepts, and XML (because I’m tired of being behind on the new stuff)

ah, lofty goals. tho I do hope I can get some of them done. wouldn’t that be something?

sleep is a really good thing.

okay, I finished another blog template entry. that does make me feel better.

just finished an entry to the blogger template contest. it’s not super-duper, but I like it. nice & simple – clean, even.

I was about to say that I’m really getting to be a fan of Opera…except for what it does to this editing screen. I really ought to take a screen shot, because it’s quite hysterical – I have this tiny text box up in the corner, with a vast dark blueness all around it. or at least, it would be hysterical, except for the fact that it’s really annoying. 🙁

so Chad’s free domain finally came thru – now I just need to put stuff on it. 🙂

and did I say that all of these services have different ways to remind me of my password(s), when (not if!) I forget them? and that “send me my password, because I’m a blithering idiot” isn’t working too great, because mail.com‘s alleged upgrade has completely screwed up my ability to send & receive mail?

I hate passwords. I have passwords for:

• my 3 webmail accounts
• my web host
• my domain registrar
• client hosts & registrars
• network login at work
• FTP account at work
• …not to mention all of the misc. things I’ve signed up for over the last couple of years.

grrr.

kind of a weird day. feeling a wee bit overwhelmed after 3 1/2 days off.

got an email from Nathan, who was in the old writers’ group (TWGTDNSIN) – he saw a copy of the Familial Q in the store, and wanted to compliment us on it. <sigh> I wonder, if I’d gotten that 3 months ago, when the group was in the throes of chaos, if it would’ve made a difference. who the hell knows.