A bunch of June 2005 entries
Tuesday, June 07, 2005: Today and yesterday, I’ve written some perl scripts that automate my journaling. This new buggy script probably opens up all kinds of crazy security holes to my journal and my web host! The cool thing is that you can comment on my entries and make fun of me, etc. So try it out and hopefully it will work. I’m still working on the script and you may encounter problems.
Friday, June 10th, 2005: In yet another attempt to make believe I have a Live Journal, I changed my journal’s color scheme to match theirs tonight. And I changed a few things on the layout to make it look a little nicer. It’s pretty bad that I have a journal and all I do anymore is talk about what kind of changes and updates I’m making to my journal.
I expect this weekend to be boring, yet productive. No Galactic Picnics for me. I moved my office into the basement earlier this week. I’m trying to completely clear out the two upstairs bedrooms so that I can finish the renovations in preparation to sell my house, then close them off for the summer so I don’t have to cool them. I’m most likely moving to Oregon soon. Maybe this year, maybe next. Maybe never. Anyway, my weekend will probably be spent moving the rest of everything to the lower levels of the house. Here’s my new, cold, damp office:
Sunday, June 12th, 2005: I swear, this is the last journal entry specifically regarding the modifications on my journal. As well as my own journal scripts worked, I decided to scrap it all and go with this somewhat cool PHP program. It’s called WordPress and it can’t be too bad since I found it on Rob T. Firefly’s site. This is my first attempt at working with PHP, which is something I’ve wanted to get into for quite some time now. I got a new PHP book for Christmas last year so maybe I can finally put that to good use. I’ve also transferred my entire homepage over to phonelosers.com, if you didn’t notice. I can’t have bradcarter.com but I can at least have my own domain, dammit.
This hasn’t been the wildly productive weekend that I was hoping for. I’ve sat in front of the computer for most of it. The last 2 days I’ve been woken up by people on Freecycle coming to pick things up. Fucking early birds.
Monday, June 13th, 2005: Went to McDonald’s for breakfast, the post office and then to work. Stopped by my parents at 1pm to let Sandy out. Hung out there for a little over an hour, working from their deck. Went to Target this evening to pick up some plastic boxes for packing.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005: I was driving around today, saw this sign in East Alton and took a picture of it. Strikes me as kind of funny, a proof reading business who apparently hired Jed Clampett to design their sign. I posted the picture on notla.com.
There was another picture I tried to get while driving through this one neighborhood of a really old man wearing nothing but some crazy tie-dye rainbow shorts while mowing his lawn but it came out horrible since I didn’t stop the car to take it. It would have been a great picture too.
I tried to drive into the neighborhood where all the mansions are but was turned away at the guard house. This is the first time I’ve ever actually seen a guard in there. Then I went to Steak N Shake to get a milkshake before I went home. I’ve been addicted to their shakes for about a week now, stopping in there every day for a shake.
The weird part is that today as I was walking from the car into the building, I thought to myself, “Maybe I’ll see my old pastor in here today, from the church I grew up in. Just a weird, random thought. I sat down at the counter and IMed Linear on my phone as I waited for my order to be taken. Someone says to me, “Hey, I know you.” I look up and there’s Pastor Daughterty, who I haven’t seen in several years now. I’m so psychic. I caught up with him and his wife for a minute or two and then went home.