night before shenanigans

Saturday, 9 August, 2003 at 3:14 am

SM00 and Noelle and Tadash are here to sleep over until Knott’s Berry Farm on Monday. WOOHOO!! I’ve missed my yearly helping of Knott’s. ^^;; I wanna get a huge Snoopy shirt there. I kinda tore my kitty shirt I use for pjs. >.> Ooh, and we’re gonna go on Perilous Plunge, and Bigfoot Rapids, and ooh ooh, Ghostrider and Log Ride and Gran Slam and and and … ^^ Yay!!!

Oh yeah. Yoinked SM00’s Christina Aguilera album and got Beautiful and Fighter. w00t! *really likes Fighter* Also got these other two songs I really like. Make Over and I’m OK. :D And Walk Away is all right. I would say the order from most to least (but not dis) liked is Fighter, Make Over, I’m Ok, Beautiful, and Walk Away. ^__^

tv, Hayden Christensen, Jewel Staite

Friday, 8 August, 2003 at 3:09 am

I watched Life as a House today (missed the first 10/15 minutes of it).

Hayden Christensen can be kinda cute. *^^* But then again, I’m always for wearing black. :b So … rather contrived story, yeah, and the acting wasn’t mindblowing, (and that family and Josh … o_o what was up with them? ESPECIALLY the girl!), but it was just fun to see Hayden Christensen not being a whiny Jedi apprentice.

Once I watched … uhh, what was it called? Higher Ground. I watched an episode of that. I had no idea which character he was. @_@ But I saw Jewel Staite in it, heehee! And she was all … dressed in black. Well, in that episode, she wasn’t, but then they showed certain shots (from the past?) where she was, and I thought, ‘Cool!’ But then I never remembered to watch it again, and it disappeared anyway. T-T

Jewel Staite never seems to stay on a show very long. Space Cases, Flash Forward, Higher Ground, and Firefly (I saw one episode of that XD). Oh well.

You know, looking at this pic of Hayden with his natural hair color (on imdb.com, I didn’t go searching for it or anything), I’d have to say that I reeeeally like him with black hair more. :b But I looove black hair. Or really dark brown hair. Hehehe … ^.^;;

computer, floats, site stuff, a poem

Wednesday, 6 August, 2003 at 10:58 pm

Hm. How interesting. I left my laptop to eat dinner, and when I came back the screen was black, as that’s the screensaver I prefer. I touch the touchpad and the screen switches to a lighter shade of black. Yupyup. It meant my screen went blank. So I took out the battery and unplugged the ac adapter. As I unplugged it my laptop went “MEEEEEEW!” in a high-pitched tone, fading away at the end. O.o Is my laptop trying to talk to me again? (One time Daddy was trying to print something from my laptop and it said something like, “The printer cannot be found” even though I had the sound turned off. o.o) But anyway. Isn’t it stupid that my screen goes blank when I’m not even using it? >_< Grrrr.

Today went to Burger King with Mommy and got frozen floats. Woo, yummy! :D It’s half Icee and half ice cream. A real float. XD And it’s yummyy!! It costs $1.59 though. x_x

Also ordered from Amazon tonight. Finally! I got The Cardigans’ You’re the Storm single with Hold Me on it, yaay!, Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee, Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coehlo, Chobits vol. 7, and “Prelude and Nocturnes” (Sandman book 1). w00t. :D Yes, I seem a bit obsessed with Neil Gaiman, don’t I? Fuuun. ^-^

*ahem* Yeah. Site stuff: I am stuck on what else to write for SMC. o_o I’ve got “background,” “Christ,” and “personality.” Not much in personality, either. -.- Ahaha! Uhh … yeah. I do mean the section I’m writing, not me. :b I don’t know what else to write about. It’s been such a long time since I started this remake that I forgot all the sections I wanted to do. ^^;;;

Concerning the IAT layout: trying to figure out why the placement of things changes when the size of the browser window changes. O_o And also, as soon as I get around to it, I’ll put up a new layout here. ^^;; I feel like making a traditional blog layout complete with sidebar and such. Go me. :b

Now to close this, a poem Neil Gaiman wrote entitled (I assume), “Reading the Entrails: A Rondel”

They’ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate—
The cards and stars that tumble as they will.
Tomorrow manifests and brings the bill
For every kiss and kill, the small and great.
You want to know the future, love? Then wait:
I’ll answer your impatient questions. Still—
They’ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate,
The cards and stars that tumble as they will.

I’ll come to you tonight, dear, when it’s late,
You will not see me; you may feel a chill.
I’ll wait until you sleep, then take my fill,
And that will be your future on a plate.
They’ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate.

you don’t do anything

Wednesday, 6 August, 2003 at 5:59 pm

Ugh. If it’s not my laptop display freezing, or the wireless networking not working for some weird unknown reason, of course it has to be power outages that render the modem incapable of connecting. -.-;; It’s really stupid. Ever since Daddy installed the wireless network, the entire upstairs has been having power shortages, and lights will dim, tvs will blink off for a split second, and the computers go on the battery backup (complete with BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! buzzzz).

In the past few weeks, the power even stays off for minutes on end, and nothing works. Today the power was out for a little while. It came back after 20 or so minutes. But now, for some reason, the internet cuts off and I get disconnected from the network. That means the modem and network router both get cut from the power supply somehow. O.< And I keep connecting and disconnecting and so I couldn’t say how many “Cannot find server” pages I got today. -_-

To top it off, even after the modem and/or router start working again, my laptop doesn’t pick up on the network signal for a few minutes. I have no idea why. At Noelle’s house it connects aut-o-mat-i-cal-ly. ¬_¬

Spent most of today working on a new layout for IAT. :D Since it’s the only thing to do, really, on my laptop sans internet. >_> First I was making it a frames layout, then figured it’d be less to load if I did it tables, since the “background” is 25 or so small images, and use side-scrolling and pop-ups. So now I’m writing up the stuff and messing around with div positioning. ^^;; How fuun.

pink layouts, emperors, and a Sandman quote

Monday, 4 August, 2003 at 2:59 am

You know what’s odd? I’ve been to … three different bookstores, and all three had only one volume of The Sandman series, and not the same one, either. And most definitely not the first one, either, otherwise I’d have it. >:

Today I finished the new layout for my diary (which you are still not allowed to read, SM00). I think I got tired of the black and darkness of the Tsuda layout, because this one’s PINK, and has white text. Well, it’s kind of a salmon/red pink. Not too bad, I don’t think. I don’t really know, I don’t hate pink, so I can’t tell if it’s bad or not. The only thing I don’t like is that I needed almost 15 images to make the layout, and I used div layers. ^^’ I’ve got a policy for my diary: simple coding, few images, simple layouts. It’s ’cause I use Netscape 4.5 (or is it 4.7?) to update my diary. Ah well. Maybe I’ll get tired of it quickly.

After dinner watched The Last Emperor with Mommy. O_O Umm … Good movie. Very. Asians look kinda cute in 20s/30s styles. ^__^ I want a haircut kinda like that wannabe pilot lady. Not so short in the back, though … I’m talking about the one she had when she first showed up. I didn’t know there was a Manchuria during World War II. Saw some footage … asked Mommy, and she said it’s probably real. *shudders* She asked, “What’s worse? The killing of [I forget the number] by one person or one million killing 200,000?”

Mm. Anyway.

“Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, ‘casualties may rise to a million.’ With individual stories, the statistics become people—but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. Look, see the child’s swollen, swollen belly, and the flies that crawl at the corners of his eyes, his skeletal limbs: will it make it easier for you to know his name, his age, his dreams, his fears? To see him from the inside? And if it does, are we not doing a disservice to his sister, who lies in the searing dust beside him, a distorted, distended caricature of a human child? And there, if we feel for them, are they now more important to us than a thousand other children touched by the same famine, a thousand other young lives who will soon be food for the flies’ own myriad squirming children?”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

You know … that doesn’t make much sense to me. Of course, it can’t help that both times I read it was after midnight. But it’s still worded so nicely …