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Ok ok, so I'm bad at updating this regularly. We've been busy.

To catch you all up:

1. We bought a house

It's wonderful! The roof went on a week late which caused some freaking out, but it all worked out in the end.

2. We painted the house (by "we" I mean Andrew, me, Nicole, Robert, Addy, Peter, Laura, Papa, Paige, Jennifer, LeeAnn & Ryan) I'll go over it more next post.

The living room got a two-tone stripe. It's beautiful and it makes me happy :)

The office we painted purple

The master bedroom we painted blue.

I'm in a bad mood

I'm going to see Mimi tonight to help her. That means I need to call Lauren & Andrew. :(

I'm really good at complaining.

Reasons I Love Andrew

This is a new section of the blog called Reasons I Love Andrew. I will add at least one new thing everyday.

It's still having a bug in Firefox, but I hope to clear that up soon.

I got the blues da na na na na

I cooked a nice (RE: I set the table nice) dinner for Andrew last night since he is feeling kind of blue. Let me tell you it was one sexy table. I converted out tablecloth to a runner and broke out the battery candles and the two tapers that bleed funny colors that Mom just gave us. I didn’t cook so well, but it looked nice. Justin, Ryan and tall Andrew came over too. But not for dinner.

Work is still really busy, but I really need to tell about what happened. So I made a right hand menu. Woohoo, I know. Here’s the backstory and an explanation. The server we are working on has been uber slow lately. I mean creeping. I don’t know if that’s the cause, but it couldn’t hurt to blame it. After all, it’s just a server. Anyways, in the new look of the website, everything is getting a right hand menu. We make them, put them in a folder and then link to an instance of them in the pages that need them (so we have one file to edit instead of editing several pages). I made one and linked it to the pages that need it. I noticed something and had to make an edit to the menu file. No biggie, I do it all the time. What was weird though was that the edit was not showing up in preview mode. Refreshing and dumping cache was not helping. I asked a coworker and my boss both of which had no idea what was wrong. The file showed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor, but not in a browser. It sounds a lot less strange that it was. John eventually fixed it by renaming the page that was linking to the menu and then renaming it back. I <3 John.

• Killer smile
• Sunshine
• Uh oh
• Bunny mag
• Spectacularly awesome
• Scarred
• Give blood
• Hopscotch
• John Lennon or Harry Potter?
• Resale value
• lowl
• Grumpy
• Back in the well
• Rehab
• Punk
• Evil is cute
• Poor Amy Winehouse
• Larry King
• This is an excellent point
• AFV breakdown
• Awesome
• This is a terrible pun. lol

Happy Birthday Nicole!

It’s been busy at work this week and last week. We are converting everything to a new design and structure. I like it. The beta server has been really slow though, so it’s taking a long time to do anything. Which is why I have not updated in a while.

I’m almost all better though! Woot!

Also, everyone love on Andrew because he is the best!

Pictures will come later today if I have time :)

Addendum to this morning's post

I know, two in one day. So sue me.


I wanted to put up some pictures.

• Great moments in Presidential Speeches
• Unsettling laugh
• Febreeze
• Xmas cat
• Cloning
• Rock-n-Roll hair
• What is baby food made from?
• Drink bowl
• Xmas gift
• Ninjas!
• Zombies!
• Russian!
• Sup?
• Laugh and die
• Chillin’
• Hiss!
• Cold!
• Happy
• yay
• Mondays
• Presidential thoughts
• Who doesn’t like Chuck Norris jokes?
• How cigarettes taste
• The importance of using the wrist strap

I have message sign-writer’s block

"This beer has been naturally carbonated in the bottle. A small layer of yeast sediment on the bottom is normal. For maximum enjoyment, store and refrigerate this bottle in the upright position. Slowly pour the entire contents into a glass, stopping just before the end. This will leave the yeast sediment behind."

So I got really excited about this label that I made. Woo hoo! I was really digging on it. I stopped to do something else, and when I came back to it, well, hot damn. It looks like a dinosaur egg. Time to try again. There was success, however. I made a logo that me and Andrew like.

Here are two pictures from PostSecret. I don't know how long they'll be up, so act fast!

• Pancakes
• Spaz

Today is very tech heavy (read:nerdy)

This is for all you Internet Explorer fans (and a nice laugh for all the haters).

I don’t know how many of you saw the exploded black blog of yesterday. Obviously if you did, you can see this now and I fixed it. If you didn’t, then I’m betting you either use Explorer or you visited late yesterday afternoon. Here’s the long story.

I made this (the one that you see) design up in Photoshop. I really like it. I think its pretty and vector-y. Since I use only Internet Explorer (IE) at work, that’s what I designed the blogger template in. All fine and dandy. Until, of course, I looked at it in Firefox. I don’t even know why I had to open Firefox. But as soon as I saw the stacked, black, exploded page with really no trace of what it should look like in it, I about had a fit. It had taken me a long time to code the design into blogger. It took me until this afternoon to make Firefox and IE look the same. It didn’t take too awful long to get the Firefox version to look ok. But, and here’s the frustrating part, there still was a 8 or so pixel difference in IE that was throwing the alignment off. When I’d fix it in IE, Firefox would push everything to the right. When I’d fix it in Firefox, IE would push everything to the right. I learned a valuable lesson. IE has no idea how to handle margins and padding correctly. It also will accept and implement crap code (I did it on purpose as a hack). I’ll explain.

I was missing a “}“ initially. IE was like “Whatever” and Firefox was like “Nope. I can’t handle this” so it exploded the page. I found and fixed that fairly easily. Then I was left with the problem of the right column inching itself over 8 pixels. I tried every combination of margin and padding on every div box that I could think of. When one would work, the other wouldn’t. For a while I was over thinking it; adding something more complicated than I needed to (I was adding a div box just to space the columns correctly trying to float it without stacking it. After multiple failed attempts at it, I realized that I could get rid of the dev box, remove padding and margins from another and just make the other wider with the background set to repeat-y). Yay! It was much nicer code. But the problem with Firefox/IE and the 8 pixel drift was still there. This is when I learned the second lesson.

Adding a float:left to the css fixed the drift in IE but created one in Firefox. Getting rid of the float fixed it in Firefox, but messed it up in IE. After trying to figure out a way to have Firefox ignore the float style, I found an interesting tidbit of info. IE is stupid. It ignores errors in code. Firefox is smart. It ignores code with errors. Awesome, I just needed to code something bad enough that Firefox will ignore it but good enough that IE will still recognize it. So, I deliberately messed up on commenting the float out. // instead of /*. Firefox ignored it because it is not a correct command and IE accepted it because it has no idea what it is doing.

With all the money Microsoft has, you’d thing that they would come up with a browser that I can’t trick with a backslash.

Links:

• I think hamsters are cute
• The cat in the middle’s face is priceless in the second picture from the bottom.
• This cat totally looks like the Grinch
• These are the cutest rabbits I have ever seen.
• Dog training for dummies
• Wolverine

Surgery

So the doctor finally called me back (it only took two days). It seriously took 3 minutes of the scheduler’s time. Surgery is Thursady. Woot >:( Pre-op is on Monday.

More of my time these last few days was spent creating this look. So I don’t have a lot of content today.

I think I’m sick. I’m supposed to be taking antibiotics. I hope that clears up the cough.

Links:

• A trap
• The Doctor is in
• Oof!
• A real brother
• You know you want to
• Pugs are cute
• 5th row <-bad word
• Serious
• Jumping jacks fail <- I was laughing so hard I had to close the page
• Cars don’t like Queen
• Your face
• Jonas side effect

Rodizios and last night's tv

Andrew and I went to Rodizios last night for dinner. It was really good. They had this one cut of meat that quite literally melted in your mouth. It was awesome. Andrew liked it a lot. He said he liked it better than the Melting Pot, but I disagree. I like other things than just meat. If we go back again, I think I will keep my “salad bar” plate throughout the meal.

Funny but sad story: when we got home I flipped on the TV and the Obammercial was on. Like the very last two minutes or so. He was wrapping it up and I was like, that looks like he is in the Bank Atlantic center! So I called Dad and he confirmed. It’s sad that I can recognize the Panther stadium in like 2 seconds.

I also watched the Daily Show interview with Obama. I thought it was good. He answered questions without just restating the question in the form of a sentence. You betcha. I also saw the Colbert Report, and it was the first time that The Word was a fail. It really wasn’t that funny. But on a not political note, congrats Phillies. It would have been nice for the Rays to win, but, eh, neither team is the Marlins so I really don’t care. Also, Eddie got sent home on Top Design. I was scared for Nathan. I really want him to win. I heart Nathan. I like Ondine too. Preston, not so much. Eddie was starting to get on my nerves, but the judges were right. Nathan’s house would totally be more interesting.

Links:

• Painting
• Innocent looks
• Noble steed
• Moron
• Captain Serious
• Bath time blues
• Sith benefits
• Plastic Surgery
• Whoosh
• Feet not happy
  
  
• An awesomely fun game

Amazing Grace & Gilligan's Island

Did you ever try to sing the words from Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan’s Island?

Lauren told us that if you want to get a song that’s stuck in your head out, then all you need to do is sing the Amazing Grace lyrics to the theme from Gilligan’s Island. Her thing was that you are concentrating so hard on that that the other song dissipates. Yeah, well, baloney. I have that stuck in my head now. We tried it with Lauren, and it was kind of challenging the first time, but now that I’ve heard it, it’s almost as easy as Happy Birthday. Although, I think most of the concentrating the first time was figuring out how Gilligan’s Island went.

I'm a BravoTV junkie

I was watching Top Design on Bravo last night and I noticed something unusual. As the judges were talking, they were using big, complicated words. I didn’t really understand the guy at all. I couldn’t even tell from the context. “That’s so (insert big word). I mean, it’s like (insert a different big word).” I didn’t even know if he liked anything! And I thought TV catered to the lowest forms of intelligence.

Speaking of great TV, Project Runway was on too. We got home just as it was going off, so I made Andrew change the channel so I wouldn’t know the ending before I saw the beginning. So, sitting through the last 5 minutes of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and watching the ending credits roll, I switched back to Bravo just in time to see Kenley crying. I quickly switched back and made a mental note to fix the VCR clock to the right time. “Crap.” I thought. “They are sending Kenley home. I liked her.”

So I sat through Top Design until the encore showing of Project Runway. It was an ok one I thought. The clothes weren’t as nice as they had been all season, especially Jarel’s. OMG I thought the dress was going to fall off of the model! So, he won, but no one lost. Surprise! They all get to make collections and then next week, they’ll pick the three to go to Bryant Park. They did a similar thing last season with Ramey and Chris. I liked Chris. He was my 2nd favorite. This season I like Kenley, but not just because she’s from Pompano. I like Leann and Jarel, but they are not my favorites. I think Kato should win. I think she’s the best. Kenley makes 50’s style clothes, Jarel makes shiny brown clothes, Leann makes sculptured embellishments, and Kato makes pretty yellow things.