More Of Life, Lack Of Time, And Genny!

Guenevere, actually. But she goes by Genny for short. That's right folks, I have my car now, and have been teaching myself how to drive a stick-shift on my 45-minute commute to school every day. It's fun. Aside from the fact that I don't have a radio (It worked....then it didn't, and hasn't, so no music or nothin'), and since I got gas this afternoon the Old Girl's conked out on me randomly a couple times. Needs some drygas, I think. And taking her over to a friends shop tomorrow afternoon to do a little touch up on a couple rust spots before winter, change out a door for one in better shape, a headlight for ditto, and other miscellany.

But anyway. Halfway through the semester already! w00t! I'm sort of feeling on top of things this week, too. I've got stuff well underway for Lit. class Friday, stuff for Technical Graphics I've got the weekend to work on, etc.

And, in other news Go Red Sox! Eight games straight in post season to win the world series! And there was a full lunar eclipse tonight, as well. Viewing conditions here were quite good, clear and crisp, though I didn't actually watch much of the eclipse. And I still haven't quite got my website's stylesheet straightened out, but I think I'm missing some 'class="class_name"' bits in a few places on my pages, so yeeah. And it's bedtime (way past, actually, it being quarter to one), so Good Night, People!! I'm feeling way too happy for no reason right now!!! Yeah.

Aesthetic Uglyness And Other Oddities

I was just realizing the other day that this blog is incredibly plain, boring, and otherwise pretty clinical in regard to it's aesthetics. It also occurred to me that I could do something about that, because it couldbe spruced up with pretty widgets without detriment to overall use, presentation and load-time, and said graphical improvements would probably increase general appeal. Always a good thing.

So, sometime in the next couple months, I will attempt to grok blogger's code and work on revamping things around here. At the moment, however, I'm re-working/formatting the CSS stylesheet for my website. It was pretty convoluted and hard to read. In addition to having things in there that appear to be for no reason at all. (Well, they were originally, but that's because I borrowed a stylesheet I liked to learn from.....) So I'm spending a couple hours un-spagettiizing it and making it so I know what actually does what.

Fall Is *Deffinitely* Here

I can tell. See, here in New England we have this special hunting season, we call it Leaf Season, when lots of people from other places come up here by the busload for the sole purpose of shooting at our leaves. I should think it would be annoyingly easy, too, since they're such nice bright colors.

But what do I know. I live here. It is a convenient way to tell that fall is here, though. Leaf season and Fall always coincide, for some reason.

Ah, now, in other more important news, I finally have my car. Yeah! Went and retrieved it (along with the last of lots of spare parts) this afternoon, and she sits in the driveway. Waiting to be driven.

Anyway. I've gotten in the habit of staying up far too late over the past week or so, and it's not a good idea. I'm going to bed, since it's already later than it should be.

In Search Of A Title

Or, I'm too tired to come up with one and why am I blogging right now? I have no idea. I just finished up some stuff for Lit tomorrow, so I don't have to do it tomorrow morning....I'm listening to random mp3s (Switchfoot at the moment)....and....not thinking. I should be going to bed, so I can get up tomorrow. I don't have class until 1300, but I have to go by the bank and stuff to transfer monetary, um, funds, out of my account for the next school payment and my car. Yeah! I'll have it as soon as we can get it registered and inspected.

I've also been spending way too much time lately fiddling with dbmix and xmms and trying to get pytone (my usual mp3 player) to output to dbfsd via mpg321, but I'm having trouble figuring out how. I think I need a shell script in between things to make it all play nice....

Yeah. Anyway. Time to catch up some small bit on sleep.

This Is That Time Of The Year....

The weather gets nippier, the leaves start turning, Apple Cider is in abundance (for only $3.19 a gallon, lower, sometimes!), and my brother and I stop leaving our windows wide open all the time.

It's also an awesome time to go hiking, since the weather's cooler and the leaves are pretty and all that. So we hiked up Tumbledown Mtn. (just north of Weld, ME) yesterday with the Youth Group. We had a great view from the top - if you happen to like thick fog. It was kinda cool, actually, though being in a cloud is a tad chilly this time of year. It was fun.

And, of course, no time of the year would be complete without a computer problem, so I borked up Mom & Dad's iMac last week for them in the process of trying to find OS 9's multiple users feature so my little brother can't bork up the iMac. Brilliant, I am. But anyhow. I just got it booting up again, now for the fun, fun task of restoring things more or less back to their previous state. Which involves lots of time reinstalling drivers, copying a truckload of apps and files and miscellaneous kit back in from my server and then making it all work nice. Although it does force one to organize and straighten things out a bit, which that machine really needs.

So have a happy fall, and I'll refrain from cracking bad jokes about saying hi to the ground for me when you get there.