http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=169866
Seriously, the only way this could’ve been better is had it been Disney World instead. If I didn’t have a job and had a ton of cash to mess around with, that would be such an awesome project to undertake…
Sleep position gives personality clue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3112170.stm
This was kind of bizarre, yet interesting in the same light. Apparently they think I’m a yearner, but they’ve got the cynical part all wrong, oh who am I kidding?
The yearner (13%): People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.
Also, if anyone reads that and feels like hinting me in on what a “duvet” might be, that would be great. Silly foreigners and their different words for everything…
I’m doing some research for our next batch of Ink, Paint & Tears… strips and came across this fantastic quote, straight from the boudoir in Springfield to your home:
Yes, that timestamp is pretty much accurate, but at least I feel like I got something accomplished this weekend!
http://www.scottsevener.com/
I decided to take a break on the c-g design after dinner because I was still stumped and figured I’d work on this one instead, seeing as Lori finished the graphics for it, like, a month ago and it really should be done by now. Don’t even bother following that link in Firefox yet because the layout is all screwed up there, but it should be ok in IE … at least until I try to fix it for Mozilla…
I’ve seen most of these other places before, but being the Lego nut that I am…
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-lego-creations
Ok, so I’ve literally been staring at the computer for a good six hours now, trying to figure out this stupid mouseover nonsense for a new site design. Images are no problem, but I want to hover over a set of images and have several separate text elements change for each icon – basically to cycle through my current columns in a variety of categories. The script I have now works ok in small doses, but I keep breaking it with apostrophes and quotation marks (whether in links or the column text itself) and there’s just got to be an easier way to do this…
http://www.comedic-genius.com/temp/latest_new/
What’s killing me at this point is inserting the link to display each entire column – it won’t let me just be lazy and put the entire anchor tag in the variable, even though I know that I shouldn’t be doing it that way anyways. One would think that there should be a simple way in php for me to just name all of my variables, then swap them at leisure using javascript without the headache that I have now.
Maybe I just need a break – go “outside” or something! 😛
So yeah, to follow-up on my last post, I finally heard from her today…
It turns out that I was all concerned for nothing because she was fine – so fine, in fact, that she’d gone out and met someone else over the weekend and just hadn’t gotten around to telling me about it yet. Classy, eh?
Now like I said before, we weren’t technically even dating yet or anything – we went out once and had been talking pretty much every day for the past two weeks, but I don’t know, I guess I just don’t work like that. How can you honestly say that you’re giving somebody a chance if you’re always keeping an eye out to see if someone better happens to come along? Maybe the concept of “casual dating” is just foreign to me, but if I’m considering a relationship with someone, I don’t move on to the next person until I’ve made a decision one way or the other on Girl #1.
Then again, my options are limited and I’ve never actually had two girls interested in me at the same time…at least not that I know of…so perhaps that’s a clue right there… 😛
It’s kinda weird because I don’t think I’m even mad at her at this point – I’m just disappointed … to spend so much time talking about honesty and trust and the foundations of a good relationship, only to come back from a weekend vacation to find that she had managed to find someone else in a matter of three days is a bit insulting to the desired end result of a serious, committed relationship, if you ask me. Also, to have put off telling me as much as she did makes me wonder what weights the other things that we talked about truly had – I thought we were really having some good conversations, but is a chat session about monogamy really worth its salt if you’re having it with three different guys at the same time??? It’s just hard to learn that while I spent my weekend looking forward to sharing the pictures and stories of my vacation with her, she, errr, was doing other things instead…
I had a good chat with a friend at work today, but I think I’m sticking to my guns on this one – you only get out of something what you put into it, so if you want to approach dating with the mindset that the grass might be greener on the other side, although you may see a lot of scenery during your travels, you’ll never give the flowers beneath your feet enough time to bloom. I, myself, prefer to stick things out and entertain the challenges that surface as two people get to know each other, and albeit it can be lonely during the down times like this because not many others share my view, there have been a couple of gems along the way that have made it worthwhile.
You can’t dig for diamonds without the risk of getting hurt, and yet here I am, still digging…
Ok, so here’s an interesting question that came up today because I’m dumb with this kind of stuff – where does the statute of limitations apply with regards to returning calls / e-mails / whatever with someone that you might fancy, but aren’t necessarily technically “dating” or anything?
The situation is that I had been planning to talk with this girl last night when I returned from my trip, but could only ever get to her voicemail. I left one message, and then another several hours later because previously she did have problems with getting her voicemail. Today I held off for a while, but finally sent a text message with the hopes of breaking the ice, but never heard anything back. Here’s the thing – we’ve really only been talking for a week or two now, but she’s usually been pretty on the ball with replying to stuff like this.
And so here I ask my question, especially to the ladies that might be able to relate the other side a little better – does it seem like I’m just being desperate and need to back the fuck off or should a reasonable person be able to see that I’m just concerned about her and want to make sure that she’s ok? For the record, I am getting a little worried at this point that something bad has happened, but then again, I’ve also got the negative, pessimistic voice in the back shouting that maybe she’s just lost interest and has moved on already.
I like to think that she’s not that kind of person, but I haven’t exactly had the best of luck with being able to recognize this kind of stuff until after the fact. Keep your fingers crossed for me, or any other superstitous act of your choosing, for that matter…