eeek…

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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! 😛

“Be it real, or be it underminded…”

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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…

Statute of limitations on caring?

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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…

things I’ve learned this week…

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  • Sometimes good customer service is only a smile and a polite word away.Today I called Sprint to see about finally changing up my cellular plan because A) I was way overdue anyways and B) I managed to exchange about 80 text messages with a special someone over the course of about seven hours yesterday alone…and my old plan only allotted for 100 over the entire month! Luckily I got a very friendly rep on the phone who hooked me up nicely – not only did she drop my Vision charges down to $5 / month from $15 after I mentioned that I might just drop the service because I really only use it for messaging anyways, but after learning that I was also willing to renew my contract with them for another two years, she gave me a new plan that bundled roaming and my nights & weekends so I’d be saving another ten bucks there, too! After adding on an extra eight for some more text messages, I’m still coming out twelve bucks cheaper than before; nights and weekends now start at a staggering 6pm, and Scott is once again a happy Sprint PCS customer.
  • Replacement parts for my elliptical are fucking impossible to find.Earlier this week I had to cut one of my exercise routines short because the handle bars on my elliptical started slipping. As it turns out, one of the spring washers that keeps them tight broke – three months after buying the thing – and now until I get a replacement, said torture device is pretty much useless. I tried using a regular washer that I picked up from Lowe’s yesterday and that worked for a while, but tonight it started slipping about 15 minutes in and I can’t see anything else that can be done other than just order the replacement parts. Sure, they’ll probably send them for free because it must have a warranty of some kind, but that’s still a good week minimum without it and I shouldn’t go that long without exercising. I might even be forced to do the unthinkable – go outside.
  • It might be nearing time to buy me a new laptop.In typing this post, I just learned that neither my down arrow, nor the delete key seem to be working anymore…and I think there’s at least one other one that’s being goofy as well, but I can’t remember which one at the present time. Coupled with the classy, red line exactly one pixel wide that runs down the left side of my display, I’m thinking that five years might be just about all that this little Dell has in her. Lord knows how much food and drink I’ve spilled in her over the years and let’s face it, these things just don’t last forever anymore. Great – another prize for my bonus to fight over come April…
  • Enthusiasm is a dish best served…period.Despite my energetic post about getting my writing kick-started again last week, I honestly haven’t written a damn thing since … at least not as far as columns are concerned. Even tonight, sure I could’ve probably finished a column or two, but instead here I am blogging – go figure! I still don’t know what my problem is – motivation, a lack of organization, or perhaps simply too much stuff on my plate – but it’s not like I didn’t get anything done this week. The calendar is now officially done and up for sale, last night and again this evening I made some progress with the graphical frontend for the new Just Laugh, and I’ve even spent a good deal of time talking to a new girl that I’ve recently met and am growing rather fond of (more about that in a minute…). I think I just need to sit down and do it – it sounds simple enough, but look where it’s gotten me so far lately! Maybe I’ll pack up old Sticky Keys here and see if I can fit in a few paragraphs here and there on my trip down south this weekend.

    That’s right – what better way to spend quality time with family than to bring along the old compruder…

  • It’s all about COMMUNICATION.You know that girl that I mentioned a few minutes ago? Well, I certainly don’t want to jinx anything by letting loose here too soon (also, I’m not sure if she’s managed to stumble onto this page of mine yet or not), but I will say this – despite what anybody wants to say about playing games and not tipping your hand and keeping your cool, the best practice – in my opinion – is to simply talk to each other where romantic intent is concerned…as much as humanly possible, really. Maybe such “strategies” work well for other people, but I’ve always been a sucker for honesty and trustworthiness anyways, so it just seems to me that when one is trying to build a new foundation with somebody, it would make sense to start off strong from the ground up. I can probably count on one hand the number of people who I can honestly say that I’ve had truly open lines of communication with over the years and it really shows in the friendships that I have with those people. Plus, we actually know what each other likes and doesn’t like instead of guessing, which is a plus!

    I think at the end of the day, it’s a whole lot easier to just say what you mean without sugar-coating things – the trick is to find someone who you can actually say those things to. No bets just yet, but I’ve got a good hunch about this one. More news as the story breaks… 😉

AND LASTLY…

  • I don’t think that I’m giving my fish the attention that they deserve.

I was going to be done, but I just glanced over and noticed a distinct lack of fish in my fishtank this evening. There’s currently only three left, plus the plecostamus, and that can’t be a good thing. This is going to sound mean, but I was kind of ready for some new fish anyways – most of these guys were kind of traumatized from the move last year anyways. I’ll have to make a trip over to the good PetCo next week one night after work to see what they’ve got to offer. Hopefully they’ll have something big – those are always more fun that the little ones to me anyways…

new Dave Barry book!!!

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Dave Barry’s Money Secrets

Finally a new calm for my humor fix … it’s been way too long since Boogers Are My Beat, which I think I purchased right when I got down here two and a half years ago. I can already tell that this one is going to be just as good as the rest, as this is a writer who calls his entire audience a bunch of stupid morons (with regards to money, anyways) before he even gets past the Introduction…and I like that. Almost just makes me want to stay home and read all day…

a not-so-sticky situation…

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Ok, folks – need some ideas!

I want to hang Christmas lights out on my balcony along the railing of the screen, but I can’t seem to get anything to stick to the damn thing. I’ve tried those special 3M cup hooks, regular adhesive tape, putty – you name it. I really don’t want to use a type of glue, as I am renting and I can only imagine the headaches if it won’t come off later. The railing is pretty much a flat piece of aluminum that runs the length of the balcony – no ledges or really anything to work with, unfortunately.

About the only other option that comes to mind would be to run ornament hooks / paperclips / wire through the screen and tie them up, but I’ve done that before and it has a tendency to tear out squares of the screen over time. Help!!!

Under the Sea

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Went to The Florida Aquarium for the first time with my Dad today. Pretty cool place – better than a lot of aquariums I’ve visited. A lot of junk pictures until I remembered to change the shutter speed on my camera, but there’s a few good ones in there…

http://www.comedic-genius.com/gallery/flaquarium