I finally finished my website redesign this morning. Honestly I didn’t have to put too much work into it, as I simply modified some stuff from the Unwakeable Wordpress theme. For those of you wanting to know why I changed the look and feel of my website, I did so because I had a few readers who had emailed in saying the previous design was too big for their monitors, even at their maximum resolution (I take it they were running 800×600). Oh well, I like this look better. Lemme know how you like it.
The site has been getting some insane amounts of traffic this week. Today my site was even shut down for two hours by BlueHost, the folks who host it, because apparently I had a script running on the site that made it run adominably slow. Don’t know what it was but I fixed it.
Okay, enough with the techno-babble and onto real life.
- Tomorrow is the last day at my current job before I go to work for AT&T. Hopefully everything has come back okay because I would like to get all my orientations and training done this weekend, and have a seamless transition between the two jobs. Nearly doubling my pay (but taking a slight cut in hours) is always a good thing in my book. I look forward to my new line of work.
- On my way to Crimson House tonight, I was flipped off by a driver as I merged onto the James River Freeway in Republic. I don’t know why, because he was in the left lane and I was in the right lane. Dude then proceeded to speed up to about 80, pull in front of me and slow down to 65. There I received the bird again, so I just calmly followed the guy. I think I wasted about 5 minutes of my life following the crazy dude. Incidentally, this is the second middle finger I’ve received since I moved to Springfield in August.
- It is cold. The temp is 11 right now. They’re all saying it’ll warm up tomorrow. I hope to God it does — last night I suffered my first nosebleed in the U.S. and it wasn’t pretty — I say the U.S. because I got them all the time in Iraq. I hate them…I didn’t lose much blood from this one but still my nose feels weird.
- Dad still calls Best Buy, “Best Buys.” I still don’t know why.
- Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart’s track “Dancing in the Light” from their 1990 release Crank It Up (yeah, that’s some old-school Christian synth-rock for you) just began playing randomly on my iTunes playlist. I’m outta here to enjoy it.
You’ve only been flipped the bird twice since August? That’s way below average. Next time I see you, I’ll do it three times to get you back to average.
No no no. Below average is a good thing my friend.
Yeah, Oregonians are bird happy too. What was the average when you lived here? So like, do the cyclists flip birds too? Or do they punch the car before getting ran over?
Hey, I had kids throwing pennies at my car on the way home after they merged into my lane with me in it. I was pretty peeved. But I let it go and they went their way and we went ours. Yeah, I got the bird a lot from the car full of teens.
-Jas