Things are not getting better, but worse. Now, in addition to my other symptoms, I'm getting my annual autumnal sinusitis. And the goddamn Cowboys won, too. And I still haven't been to sleep, despite hours and hours of trying. So I decides the hell with it, I'm just go down and redesign my main page. Take off the big graphic, put something smaller up, do some other rearranging.
I realize that this is not a task to be attempted while in the throes of sleeplessness, but I'm also a foolhardy guy, and I know that I have backups... well, I will have really soon. OK. I have backups.
I'm not really sleepy, just more like miserable. No pains except for the sinuses, just a general malaise. Like the feeling that something bad is going to happen. OK, I checked the backup files, that isn't it. Someone recently used the word enervated and that seems to fit, kinda. I feel like my face is flushed, but I'm not hot. I hope that this isn't a new communicable fatal disease. I've been forcing fluids like crazy, but output is not up. Huh. I weigh six pounds more than I did this morning. Retaining fluids. Hmm... no pitting edema, I'm not in congestive failure... enough of that. Now you all know that I have some diagnostic skills... I'll do what all the doctors I know would do... I'll wait and see.
One of the best doctor jokes I know... the doctor is talking to the patient in a bed. Doc says, "We can't figger out what's wrong with you, but we'll know for sure when we do the autopsy...."
On to paint shop pro...
OK, y'all have a new interface, I hope y' like it. Smaller grafix, atheist link, more streamlined, everyone should be able to get to the latest link without scrolling... gee, all it really needs to be perfect is some animation... Ouch! I felt that! OK, OK, that was just a little joke... you can take a Joke. can'tcha?
I really have been toying with the idea of having some grafix on my journal pages, but once again decided against it. Conserve the bandwidth, all that crap. Besides which, I couldn't come up with a decent and unique idea for a simple graphic. I will reserve that right for the future, however, if you don't mind.
I wonder who came up with the original idea for the HTML calendar? Anyone know? I stole it from Jay, I think. I don't know if he got it out of his head or if he stole it too. Actually, I shouldn't be talking about stealing. All of this HTML "code" is out there, and no one that I know of has ever been resentful about anyone else using their HTML ideas, even though it could be considered intellectual property. Images and text, of course, are copyrighted everywhere. If anyone got the copyright on the calendar HTML, they sure could sue a lot of people. But it sure does make negotiating things like journals easy!
Ahhhh.... October! Another month of my life gone by. Sorry, yours too...
Once again, I'm gonna attempt to sleep... there will be more later.
Up and around... slept four hours, couldn't sleep any longer than that. Bummer. Going to go work on the lawn mower some more, try to get moving some way or another. I hate not feeling good. Sometimes even I (who really should know better) take good health for granted. Not this week!
Well, I did get some stuff done. I actually fixed the door latch on the van! I've been working on it on and off for the last 6-7 months, and it had me stymied until today. And it was a trick! The Ford engineers tricked me. They wanted me to go to a "qualified Ford Mechanic" but I fooled their asses, huh! Of course, we've had to roll the window down to get out of the van for the last six months...or is it seven? Well, no more!
I cleaned up the kitchen, started baking some bread and started cleaning the rest of the house. I filled up two barrels with trash so far, got more to go. Once I get started throwing things away, I'm a demon. And I usually throw things away that I regret later... Nah, make that always. I'm going to haul a dead dryer up the stairs and out to the street, and an old love seat that I've had since 1972. Lotta memories with the love seat. Toss it. I've got a lot of good memories, too, why keep the bad ones?
I figgered out why I'm retaining fluids... I've been eating salted in the shell sunflower seeds for the last two days. I normally adhere to a very low-salt diet. So I'm gonna quit eating those damned things... Damn, but they're good!
Well, I'm gonna got do the things I said I'd do, be back later probably...
MMmmm! Good bread! I usually use half wheat and half white flour, and sometimes it's too dense, but this time it's just right. I did get a lot of stuff done this evening, cleaned up my former computer room, finally hooked up my printer, got Steve to help me get the old dryer and the old love seat up and out to the curb. Getting some room down here, and some small sense of organization. Very, very small.
Lacee and Packy were over here for a while, I hadn't seem them in a long time. Lacee is still the cutest girl in the world... Karen and I are going to do the hot tub tonight, even if we are both feeling crummy. It just might make us feel better...
'til tomorrow...
I just realized that I have been doing this for six months now! Half of a year... 1% of my life, I've been toiling away on this journal. Am I any richer for it? No, not financially... but where it counts, I've made a few new friends! And there's still the possibility, of course, that I will be discovered and made instantly rich!