I can’t do it, I just can’t!

No matter what I do, my SSI’s (server-side includes) won’t work correctly.  I finally figured out how to make the sidebar show up on every subpage, but it overlaps the div that contains all the content – even though I positioned the sidebar div and everything.  ARGH!!!!!  I KNEW this wouldn’t go well.  I’m not good at teaching myself anything more complicated than the simplest aspects of xhtml, apparently.  I have no clue how to fix it – can someone PLEASE help me?!  Anybody?!  *sobs uncontrollably* (Not really, but if it plays on your pity, that’s to my benefit..lol)  Srsly.  If anyone knows how I can fix the problem, please contact me.  You will have my love forever (which is the greatest gift of all, obviously).

My God, actors are NORMAL?!

So… remember that kid from the PBS series Wishbone?  You know…Joe?  Well, here is his MySpace..seriously:

Joe from Wishbone’s MySpace.

This is…kinda weird.  lol  Although, why I’m stunned that a former child actor could grow up into a normal human being with a bad job, I don’t know.  But it’s still weird in a cool kind of way.

Server-side includes and their mysterious ways

I have spent a large portion of the afternoon converting all the files on my site to .shtml extensions. Why? Because I’ve finally decided to grow up and get rid of the interminably long iFrame that served as the display for my content. The iFrame was elementary, and there was no way to accomodate the overflow of content on some of the pages. My text input was restricted. So I found a tutorial that showed me how to convert from iFrames to divs that would accomodate overflow. Glory, hallelujah! Unfortunately, my FTP program is being a bitch – it won’t connect to the server. *sigh* When frustrations are overcome, they are only replaced by MORE frustrations. Such is life. So I will have no idea if I even did all this crap right until my FTP is working again. The waiting is killing me!

I also spent $80.00 on a great graphics program at one in the morning. I sat up configuring, downloading, and eventually designing a graphic for my site. I used to do graphic design often, but I lost my old program and could never afford a new one till now (I can’t REALLY afford it now, but I splurged anyway). I am so happy right now! Sometimes I just need to forget all that is musical and just do something technological that requires left brain thought.

Inhuman, horrible thoughts we all have

Do you ever have those little thoughts run through your head that you KNOW are just terrible?  If anyone ever found out you thought such a thing, they would turn you in to the UN or have you beheaded for your cruelty.  For example, when you’re sitting in a line of cars because 50,000 pedestrians decided they’re going to class today, and you just want to run over all of them three times each?  Or you hear some little kid with the most annoying scream ever and you want to put a pillow over its face?  Yeah, we all have those thoughts.  You can say you don’t all you want to, but you’d just be lying.

Well, for the past few days, I have had such inhuman thoughts as this.  I, Cheri, am not at all happy for my co-worked whose daughter is going to have a baby soon.  Why?  Because said daughter MAY go into labor on Saturday… which means I will have to work said co-worker’s weekend.  I will get no opportunity to rest (and I NEED rest because I have been going nonstop for weeks!) if the woman goes into labor tomorrow.  I worked last weekend, I need to study for finals, I need sleep, etc.  Here’s to hoping that kid stays stuffed up there till Monday!

I shall offer up my vocal cords because they are less important.

I am sick.  Very.  Sick.  On Sunday morning, I woke up with a sore throat; on Sunday night, I had a fever of 101 F.  I still have the sore throat, minus the fever, but plus congestion and an ear infection.  But all this pales in comparison to what I found out today about a family member I am growing ever closer to.  I won’t say what exactly happened because I don’t have her permission, but you can trust me in that it is on the same scale as finding out your dad died or finding out your brother has cancer.  It’s very bad news, to say the least.  So on that note, please pray for my cousin.  She is going through a very hard time right now, and she needs all the prayers and positive thoughts she can get.  I can’t stop thinking about it – it’s one of the worst things I have ever heard in my entire life, and it has shaken me to my core.

I also would like to say that I got my first speeding ticket ever yesterday.  While it didn’t shake me to my core, and while it is utterly unimportant compared to what I said above, it still made me mad (mostly at myself).  So, I suppose you’d say that the entirety of my family could use prayers right now, as we all are experiencing tragedies, both small and large.  But God will see us (especially my cousin) through all of it.  God can do everything because He IS everything.  =)