I’m just getting over a stomach flu. It pretty much kicked my ass on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday wasn’t a picnic either. I hate being sick. I was even too sick to write, draw or play computer games. Bleh.

Did get a little reading done though.

Very quick email exchange with Rael (Blosxom author) and it’s fixed. Yay. Thanks, Rael.

Tower Records/Video was having a 25% off sale on everything in their store. I figured that was a good time to pick oup some of the DVDs I’d been wanting to buy for a while. I got Buffalo ‘66, Akira, the Cell, The Fifth Element, Queen of the Damned and the third season of Buffy. I coulda got stacks more, but on my way into the Records/Video store I saw that Tower Books next door was having a 30% off everything sale!

If had have known about that, I woulda brought a list. :) But since I didn’t, I grabbed what I could remember from my wishlist. Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell), Technoromanticism (Coyne), Cryptonomicon (Stephenson), The Matrix and Philosophy (Irwin), Managing and Using MySQL (O’Reilly Pub.), Programming PHP (O’Reilly Pub.). Just some light reading. heh.

I hate bugs. I’m not sure what I did, but somehow I killed the datestamp on my blog entries. :/

It must have something to do with the flavour templates.

I swear. Fridays are the longest day of the week.

Well, until I leave work at least. ;)

Ok. It’s “good enough” to be the live page, so I’ve flipped the switch and am using the new layout full-time now. It’s still UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

Man… remember when 80% of the web said that? :)

Ok. So I stumbled upon a quicktime video out on the net of a girl stacking cups… competitively. She’s freakishly fast at this odd event. I mean seriously freakish. She might be a mutant. (No offense, Emily.) The video is hosted by a company called Speed Stacks. The Leader in the Sport of Cup Stacking™

That’s right. The Leader in the Sport of Cup Stacking™… with the ™ and everything.

On their About Us page, they say: “As more and more Physical Education teachers introduce cup stacking units in their classes, they see first-hand the benefits of this sport, not to mention the excitement being generated by students.” Huh. I wonder if this is going to cut into the number of young hopefuls who pursue athletic careers in the realms of speed-typing and card-shuffling.

In their Store (yes, they have a store page) they have all sorts of sport stacking paraphernalia, including Super Stacks. “These cups are specially weighted - just like the pros use.” Pros.

Did I mention they’re talking about stacking cups?

Whilst futzing (sp?) with the layout, I’ve been forced to re-read much of my recent blog posts. Many typos and other errors. I need an editor or something.

Or an Assistant! Yeah…

I’m redesigning the home page again. Yes, again. Shut up!

I’m mostly simplifying and opening it up a bit… so I can cram more shit on the front page. heh. :) If you so desire, for some wacky reason, take a peek. I’m still mucking, but that’s the basic idea.

Might be messing up the current page a little bit because I am also changing some of the embedded objects that both the current/old and new pages use. Oh well.

Sometimes I sit on my couch and think “There’s nothing to do.”

Then, I respond, “No way! You’ve got a bunch of hobbies and projects! WTF are you on about?”

A little stunned by the response, I say “But… that’s kinda the problem. I mean I have a three books I’m reading, a pile of comics, unfinished artcrap, perl scripts to write, a stack of unplayed computer and PS2 games, stalled writing projects, friends I could be hanging out with, movies to watch…”

Then, I go, “Dude, STFU. You’re all whiny and shit for no reason. Don’t you realize some kids in Ethopia don’t have ANY hobbies besides playing starving and here you are whining about too much-”

And I’m all, “Get off my case, man!”

It continues on till I notice that I’m talking to myself and at least one of me sounds like an annoying geek. (Little do I know, all of me sounds like that! ;)

Then I go back to wondering what to do, say “fuck it” and take a nap.

What?