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Even though I did very little this weekend, I think the excitement of getting the new dog has really thrown off my day count already. I know in my head that its Tuesday, but for some reason it just feels later in the week. Unlike normal, though, I don’t feel like it’s some other day, it just feels like it should be like a late Tuesday, like Tuesday 2.0 or something.

Finally, I got my music detection to work again, somehow the plugin had gotten disabled in Windows Media Player. All is good now.

So yeah. If it wasn’t clear before, we got a new dog. When Knight came over to visit on Sunday, everything went well and he’s now living with us. Its a little wierd to have a second dog, and its funny how quickly I’ve become attatched to him. He’s very similar to Ia, and at the same time quite different. He’s much calmer than her (thank god) and is more apt to just sit and be in our presence. If you pet him, he doesn’t get all squirrely and twitchy. He just sits there and loves it. That’s not to say that Ia doesn’t love the petting, I think she loves it too much and just can’t sit still. I also have begun to suspect that she’s incredibly ticklish. Thats at least a really believable excuse as to why she squirms so much when you start rubbing her ribs.

24 is on tonight! I’m so excited I’ve been playing with 24 video files for the past week or so. The file types that I downloaded are proving to be a bit of a pain in the ass, but eventually I’ll get around all the problems and get what I want out of them. Maybe I just need some different software.

I got a new credit card the other day… Hold on now… Hush up and let me ‘splain. I got this mailer for CapitolOne (you know, “what’s in your wallet?” “the no hassle card”) and I started reading and for one, it has quite possibly the lowest APR I’ve ever seen. My car has a higher APR than this thing. My house has a higher APR than this thng. Anyway, it had the option to request ballance transfers to it upon credit request, so I decided if they were willing to take all my current credit cards (that have much MUCH higher APRS), and transfer them over to this one, then I’d go for it. Well, when I put in the application, it accepted everything, including the ballance transfers, but it didn’t tell me what my potential credit line would be (it promised anywhere from $500-50,000). Well, when it came in, it was 1/3 more than the combined ballances I owed on the other two cards, so I’ve since canceled all other cards, transfered all ballances (save one last payment to Discover) and am now down to one credit card, that hasn’t been activated yet. I’m going to see if we can survive without activating it.

See, we usually end up living off the credit card at the end of each month and paying it off at the beginning of each month, so in effect, we’re not really indebting ourselves, we’re just living 2 weeks off of our pay period. It’s hard to explain. Anyway, now we’ll have to see if we can push that two weeks and live without activiating cards (Heather has an inactived card as well). When we go on long trips, we’ll take them with us, but we’ll save activating them for emergencies.

Anyway, I know I get bored reading other people’s journals when they go to far, so I guess I should call it quits on this entry. I know what MTV has done to attention spans. So get out there and have a great Tuesday.

If you’re a 24 addict like me, feel free to stop by and watch tonight. Only 6 episodes left this season!

Ah Friday, and a lazy one at that. I had a lot of stuff to do, but the high priority stuff seems to have either been resolved or be slightly less priority today. I’m sitting back listening to the Office Space soundtrack. I be pimpin.

I’m trying to make a new “24” logo, but I need to convert the AVI to something that I can easilly get screen captures from. Thats turning out to be more difficult than just getting the video in the first place. Damn DivX.

I lost my drive to post, and why the hell doesn’t Semagic recognize my music anymore?

damn I need to pay for more icons, I just made three more, even though they’re not animated and they’re from some goofy avatar creator. I still like them so suck it!

me

peloquin

heather

I’m in the office, talking to Steve about Nur and food, I say “She doesn’t understand why we don’t like the food she eats.” and his only response is “Shut up and pass the bacon.”

Ah, another crazy day in the office.

I Think it’s going to be another one of those days.

I still have a lot of crap on my plate for the day, I’m going to try to pawn one simple, yet time consuming, task off on Steve and Nick. Hopefully one or the other of them has their car here today. 😉

I’m finishing up the brochure for GALMAC, and going to continue progress on the web site. I ran my progress build by Craig last night and he was pleased with what he saw. He an I come to web design from different angles, so it’s nice when we see eye to eye on something. I’m going to try to clean it up a bit, but mostly, I’m going to try to make headway more than anything else.

I’m ready for the weekend, damnit. I’m ready for a day or two off. I’m looking forward to meeting Knight, but we’re suspicious that Erika intends to leave him with us on Sunday if everything works out. I don’t really have a problem with that, I just don’t know if I should expect it or not.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, yesterday was Ia’s birthday. Happy Birthday Ia!

well, time to get to work.

The icon brigade continues. I tell ya, when I actually scrape up the cash to be able to use more, I’ll already be overloaded again. Sheesh.

I finished the initial build of the new nav content for the web page I’m fixing, but it’s taking a day and a half to upload. I want to have Heather and my boss check it out. They both have pretty discriminating taste when it comes to navigation. Its based in part on what I had on the old SOVA page, but updated with some stuff I learned on the D&D page. See? all those useless pages I create have a purpose. I learn from them and use the code I create or customize for them and apply it to web pages that count for something. But yeah, for some reason, its taking for farkin ever to upload. I’d like to think it would be done before the end of the day, but it doesn’t look like its going to make it.

If you want to check it out, the link is http://www.art.unt.edu/new2. The part I finished is the pull down menus at the top. The page I was given had all that in Flash, which was pretty, but not very functional, especially for screen readers, which we have to code for when doing University pages. tell me what you think.

Anyway, it’s about time to go. If the page isn’t up yet, it’s because its STILL LOADING!!!

So, yeah. I rented Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow on Saturday for the Xbox. I have to say, if I had the money I’d be tempted to buy this bitch. Unfortunately, one of the things its most touted for is the multiplayer, which I can’t really partake in. I could get together with three other people, pull together TVs and Xboxes and do LAN four player, but since I don’t have, and don’t intend to subscribe to Xbox Live, I really won’t ever get to play the multiplayer. I’d like to try out the multiplayer, but I don’t see it happening often enough to validate a purchase of the game. I’d have to rent it almost 8 times to make buying it worth while. So yeah, I think I’ll just finish up the single player, maybe hold on to it long enough to do that, as Hastings does pro-rated late fees now, and then return it. If the opportunity comes up to do some Multiplayer before I have to take it back, then I’ll do that. If at a later date we’re having a multi-xbox, multi-tv game-a-thon, then I’ll go out and rent it and encourage the other xboxers to do the same. Otherwise, I’ll enjoy the story and move on with life.

It’s been a really cool game though, almost exactly what I’ve been looking for. I very well may have to buy the original (since it’s only like $12 new) and play the hell out of it. I’ve heard there are a lot of differences, but it’s still high stealth, and that’s what I’ve been itching for. I have no idea how far through the game I am right now, I’m in Indonesia so if anyone’s played it all the way through and know how much more is after Indonesia, feel free to pipe up.

In other news, we’re negotiating the adoption of a new dog (did you think I was going to say child?). Someone here on LiveJournal needed someone to take a dog off her hands and her description of the dog sounded like a perfect match to our Ia. I’ve been emailing the owner back and forth now since yesterday and things are sounding pretty good. I know it’s going to be tight on our budget, as things are already pretty tight, but Heather is confident that we can make it work. We’ll be buying double food, and there will be two trips to the vet, but I guess if we have to make sacrifices for something, it might as well be another living being. So great, we’re going to be a 5 animal family. Pretty much the only thing at this point that could sour the deal, would be if Knight and Ia don’t get along, which again, from the descriptions, I don’t think is possible.

The dogs will have to move to the kitchen as there won’t be enough room in the living room for their cages, but I guess that’s not too bad. It just means they’ll have to go further on the carpet with wet tootsies when it’s muddy or rainy outside. It’s not too bad though since the two floors they’d be running on are both crappy carpet that we don’t care that much for anyway. I hope they get along famously and I hope five animals isn’t too many for us.

How many animals do you have?

So if “The days of being lazy and taking security for granted are over,” then why am I getting snipped at for telling someone it’s more secure and safer to send email in text format rather than html format? Some days my job just confuses me.