Days of My Life

If you are one of the lucky people to know me personally (heh!) who’s thinking of getting me something for this Christmas, please do not get me a Starbucks gift card. Don’t get me wrong, I love their coffee, and I’d appreciate your thoughts; however, I don’t have the time to visit Starbucks when I do go out which is usually once or twice a week. When I do go out, it’s usually for work… staff meetings, events and so on. And when I’m done, I usually rush home to use the restroom. Besides, Cosco has Mocha Freeze for about a buck.

So yeah, get me an Amazon gift certificate or something instead.

Call me paranoid, but I used to turn wireless off at night even though I’m using WPA2 for security reasons; besides, why keep it on when it’s not used at all?

Looks like I can’t do that anymore because of the ol’ man. His day and night has been switched for a while now. Since he can’t go golf during Winter, he sleeps practically all day with the dog outside in the livingroom, and he goes on the Internet after midnight reading posts by his high school friends on a Korean social site called Daum. And yet, he often complains he can’t sleep at night!

Continue reading ‘Day and Night Switched’ »

As you can see on the top, I’ve added a couple of more pages.  I finally got around working on my poetry pages; basically, I had to go into every one of them and change the CSS reference to point to the new one, They still are static pages, though.  I’ve also updated my about page with a little more content, though it’s not completed yet.

I like the fact that I can allow comments on pages.

I was drinking Chivas last night with a few guests. Either I was drinking too fast on an empty stomach or the cold leftover burger I ate that morning didn’t agree with me.  Whatever it was, I threw up big time… not in front of them fortunately.  I haven’t thrown up like that for quite a while now, though.  Boy, it felt good!

I may not be able to build a site using PHP from scratch, but I’m fairly competent in making modifications and fixing others’ codes; in other words, I understand PHP well enough to do such things.  However, my skills are not being recognized at work.  For example, I’ve asked our developer to add CAPCHA to our forms on the public side of our site, but he made a made a mistake by putting one of the on the administrative side.  He charged us $150 for three forms which in my opinion is kind of ridiculous.  I mean, once he was done with one form, the others would have been just copy & paste. Continue reading ‘Unrecognized and Undervalued’ »

Last night, a friend of the family took my mother and I to the Hall Street Grill bar/restaurant which has been around in Oregon for over 20 years. While their food and service were above average, their front entrance isn’t wheelchair-accessible — no ramp or anything. So I had go to the back of the building in a freezing weather and enter through their kitchen corridor which was filed with boxes and stuffs. People were nice enough to clear my path; nevertheless, isn’t a public restaurant supposed to be wheelchair-accessible / ADA compliant? Even their website is totally not!

On top of that, my wheels got all muddy from getting stuck in the grass on the way out to my car, because the front bumper part of someone’s Cadillac was blocking half of the sidewalk!

Yes, I’m still sick. My cold seems to be very persistent this year. It turned into body aches last week, and I lost my voice for a couple of days up until yesterday. Now it turned into coughing. Bleh! At least it’s not flu, I guess…

I was yet another cartoon character in this dream with a pretty big family. Suddenly, an alien ship of some kind crashed into the room on the second floor, so several of my boys and I grabbed our shotguns and stormed into the room. In the next scene, I apparently rarely escaped myself to the first floor where my wife and daughter were, but the alien, whom looked like that ice guy in Batman, was already there when I reached them. So I fired a few shots at him which was ineffective, and then he fired at us — ice of some sort.
Continue reading ‘Another Weird Dream’ »

If you recall, I switched to Kaspersky from ZoneAlarm sometime last year. However, I haven’t really purchased it until today, and I saved 30% on a two-year license using their “switch” promotion. If you have been using some other software and want to switch to Kaspersky, fill out the form. It says it will take one business day, but the process appears to the automatic; i.e., you will receive an e-mail within 10 minutes containing direct links to their online store with discounts. This “switch” promotional page is not advertised on their homepage as far as I know… I had to dig through their forums.

It’s kind of embarrassing to write the details of those dreams, but I’ve had a couple of them in the last two days straight. In the first one, I was actually a woman and a lesbian at that engaging in such erotic activities. In the second dream, I was going around looking for strip joints in, I think, Hawaii, where I actually went to one by myself when I was around 20. Heh!

I must be pretty lonely these days…