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Thu, 2004-08-12 19:08 — jrearick
What a week. Monday I tried to get people ready for the camping trip this weekend, but not many people showed up. We tried again on Tuesday, and a few more people participated. Also, because of the State Fair, there are a lot of people camping. This was something that none of us were really expecting, but it caused a huge headache. Thankfully my parents are cool enough to help me out and get us a spot today.
My parents, though, are kind of overreacting about how this trip is going to go. They had me really clean the camper, grilled me on supplies as if I have never used our camper before. Last night I took my mom with me to wal-mart to get a few things for the trip. I had a list of what was needed, but it ended up taking 2 hours. I had 5 things on my list! This is why I don't like shopping with her. I managed to sneak Kill Bill II in the order for the troubles :-). With everything that happened yesterday, it felt like two days.
Tuesday, I had a dental checkup. They found two cavities (I eat too many sweets). I haven't had any for a long time. They grilled me again asking about my wisdom teeth, but they are not bothering me at all. I was able to get an appointment Wednesday to take care of the cavities. We decided to try out a new system for this appointment that would require no anesthetic. After a while I really felt it (not uncommon with that procedure), so we decided to do it the conventional way. They applied the anesthetic and waited a few minutes for it to take affect. They started again, and I felt it again. They then decided to give me another dose and worked on the other cavity, which wasn't as sensitive and was already treated. After that they decided to make sure that I was numb and waited for my lip and half my face to go completely numb. With the extra anesthetic my one side of my face was numb for over 4 hours. It finally came back about 40 minutes before church, so I was able to get a quick dinner out of the way before I went.
Church was nice, but it went quick. It did allow me to relax a bit so that is a good thing. I didn't hang around after church because I still had a lot of work to do on the camper.
I finally got the warranty issue figured out (I hope) with our G4 that has been going on for 2 weeks. It felt so good to get that out of the way. Though I have a new problem where one of these computers that I'm working on does not want to boot off the firewire drives. I'm determined to get this working before I leave work. When I get home I'm going to put things together and ready to load and I'm going to crash.
Also, my guestbook got SPAM bombed. I got 40 messages within 2 minutes of time. Thankfully, I have moderation on and I know my mySQL enough to DELTE FROM entries WHERE date > 200408120000; and deleted 40 things at once. I assume of bots figoured out my guestbook it won't be long until they find my blog and I will have to moderate anonymous posts. That would be a pain to get working, but I would turn anon posting off and have everyone register an account. I'm not going to do anyting about it now, but it's something to think about.
Speaking of anonymous posting, Colin's discussion in the previous entry made me think of some ideas to insult anonymous posters instead of having "Anonymous Coward $name". I could have in insult rotator to dish out a different insult at random. HAHHA. Okay, I'm too lazy right now to do it.
I'm so tired. I hope for a good weekend.
My parents, though, are kind of overreacting about how this trip is going to go. They had me really clean the camper, grilled me on supplies as if I have never used our camper before. Last night I took my mom with me to wal-mart to get a few things for the trip. I had a list of what was needed, but it ended up taking 2 hours. I had 5 things on my list! This is why I don't like shopping with her. I managed to sneak Kill Bill II in the order for the troubles :-). With everything that happened yesterday, it felt like two days.
Tuesday, I had a dental checkup. They found two cavities (I eat too many sweets). I haven't had any for a long time. They grilled me again asking about my wisdom teeth, but they are not bothering me at all. I was able to get an appointment Wednesday to take care of the cavities. We decided to try out a new system for this appointment that would require no anesthetic. After a while I really felt it (not uncommon with that procedure), so we decided to do it the conventional way. They applied the anesthetic and waited a few minutes for it to take affect. They started again, and I felt it again. They then decided to give me another dose and worked on the other cavity, which wasn't as sensitive and was already treated. After that they decided to make sure that I was numb and waited for my lip and half my face to go completely numb. With the extra anesthetic my one side of my face was numb for over 4 hours. It finally came back about 40 minutes before church, so I was able to get a quick dinner out of the way before I went.
Church was nice, but it went quick. It did allow me to relax a bit so that is a good thing. I didn't hang around after church because I still had a lot of work to do on the camper.
I finally got the warranty issue figured out (I hope) with our G4 that has been going on for 2 weeks. It felt so good to get that out of the way. Though I have a new problem where one of these computers that I'm working on does not want to boot off the firewire drives. I'm determined to get this working before I leave work. When I get home I'm going to put things together and ready to load and I'm going to crash.
Also, my guestbook got SPAM bombed. I got 40 messages within 2 minutes of time. Thankfully, I have moderation on and I know my mySQL enough to DELTE FROM entries WHERE date > 200408120000; and deleted 40 things at once. I assume of bots figoured out my guestbook it won't be long until they find my blog and I will have to moderate anonymous posts. That would be a pain to get working, but I would turn anon posting off and have everyone register an account. I'm not going to do anyting about it now, but it's something to think about.
Speaking of anonymous posting, Colin's discussion in the previous entry made me think of some ideas to insult anonymous posters instead of having "Anonymous Coward $name". I could have in insult rotator to dish out a different insult at random. HAHHA. Okay, I'm too lazy right now to do it.
I'm so tired. I hope for a good weekend.
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Be nice to anonymous posters. I'm still having issues with logging in to your site!
You should let me know if you are still having problems. I thought we had that all cleared up before. You seem to be very good at finding problems with web pages, though I haven't tested with everything. I don't have IE 4 or even 5 anywhere on a PC, or any version of Netscape since they are so old.
There has to be a reason to login. I don't care about typing my name in it's only 5 letters, that'd only save me like 1 second. I put all my friends blogs on 1 tab and I load them, cycle through them then load a new set of tabs and move on. The only reason site have to require login is to keep spammers and trollers out, theres really no reason to require people to login here.
Having logins here is supposed to be a convience if you want to take advantage of features it offers, not a requirement.