First, I had traded a Zelt to a Kamerad for a 300 GB hard drive for my computer… it was a small chore to put in, involving ghosting the old drive (a 80GB which was bursting at the seams) and a few phone calls to said computer Kamerad! When the ghosting was done (it took a couple hours), I then went and installed the HD in the box. Fun stuff–I need to break down and buy a computer tool kit as much as I am into this crap. Eventually, it fired up (after I found the wire I’d knocked loose and plugged it back into the video card) and I was off. DAMN, it is FAST. Way faster than when new… WAY FASTER. Of course, it helps that it now has 2GB of Ram in it. I shouldn’t say this, but this computer is an 8 year old eMachines T2080 and with this update it is still rocking along. Fast! Yaaaaay!
Once I was going, I decided to do something productive, I click the icon for InDesign and lo, it tells me “Hey fat bastard, you moved to a new hard drive or computer and in order to make sure you’re not some pirate scum (“Arrrgh!“, says I!), you must re-activate this program.” Frak! That ended up meaning a lot of work and such. Oh well, after a while, I was back up AND had installed the Office XP I had bought from Chris this last Fall and hadn’t had the room then to install it. Woohoo! Fast, lots of room; a pleasure to work upon! Coolneß! So, I even let the damned thing do all the Microsoft updates I’d been holding off on. Including IE8 (it keeps telling me to restart, but I haven’t had time today, been busy).
Work Done
So, today I have worked on 3 sites. The first is for my friends at K&D Repair… I had a major fight w/ GoLive in that it kept messing things up. I finally got the “poison pill” out and it’s working. Gave it a new look, added some rollover effects and some real good directions, etc. Added weather info just now for S&G. Next was the finish-up and hand-over on a Rockhounding Club site: I finished it a while back, but their web person (a friend of mine) needed some help setting up his part. He’s a good Jedi Padawan. Last, I did some work on a Roman-period craftsman’s site… this one is MUCH harder, as he wishes it to look just right to showcase his work. He’s done masterful things in photoshop, the trick is to make it all work on the web. We’ll get it there. The framework and structure of a website is the most important thing, followed by the “feel” of it and then details.
Hot in Here!
Damn, it’s hot in my office. The ding-dong who designed these places messed up the ducting or something–the back two rooms are SWELTERING in the summer on all of them. I like these places and I AM going to do something w/ the ducting; a fan in there perhaps.
A damned funny t-shirt I saw
Actually, there were three of them… You should get one. I never thought I’d wear a shirt with Hillary Clinton on it… this site is at http://www.gasstationgrafix.com/missme/
Here are some of the pix of these shirts… DAMNED FUNNY! I want them all!!
Oh yeah we do!!
Then this one of the best President we had in my lifetime!
Ronald Reagan, oh how we miss you!
And, well, one of my lesser-favs in politics, but she was right!
Hillary was RIGHT!? Damn!!
So there, I have posted some. I need to post more and all, but am too tired when I get home. I need a new desk chair as mine is wasted and hurts my back. 🙁 What I’d REALLY like is one of those tape recorders that will export to text, so when I am driving and have one of those thought processes that I want to blog, I can remember it. I miss a lot that way (part of it is laziness!!). So anyway, w/ fond adieu….
Ende!
RiB