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Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Not a lot of time here, I'm just waiting for a ride home. The title graphic for the new diary page looks great! Now I just have to make the rest of it look as good and keep the theme for that page going strong.
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by Tabby at 4/30/2002 12:01:00 a.m.
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Monday, April 29, 2002
There's nothing like a regular job to really make one appreciate weekends! Ah, it was a nice couple of days off. The good news is I have been able to get some work done on the new site. What's going to be really cool there is the new diary page. It's going to have a very different look from this one, but then that's the point of designing a whole new site.
The bad news is, well, I can't believe how many troubles I'm having with that damned camera, and I haven't done anything to it! I treat it better than I would if it were my own, and I treat my own stuff very, very well, thank you very much. Ugh. And after all this dreaming of what I could do if I had a good camera to use. Well, I'm not giving up hope just yet. It's given me some stuff to work with already, hopefully I'll be able to get more.
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by Tabby at 4/29/2002 01:09:00 a.m.
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Friday, April 26, 2002
That's it, I'm off for the next couple of days. Hopefully I'll spend some of that time working on the new website. It will be a problem doing much of it without the web access from home, but with enough advanced planning (I didn't ask in time for this weekend), I have been offered a computer and access that will allow me to do the stuff I can't do at home. The easiest part will be the graphics. It's getting guestbooks, counters, and archiving a whole bunch of stuff that'll be the problem. Oh, and getting my new journal page set up (this one will likely go the way of the dodo, unless I decide to go with tabbyjungle.com as the URL, and that's not likely).
So, let's hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend, and I'll be back soon.
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by Tabby at 4/26/2002 12:05:00 a.m.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2002
Okay, I'll be honest. I really like this job, but if I win the $20,000,000 (Canadian) lottery jackpot on Friday, I'm outta here! The office I'm sitting in right now has a balcony, and when I stand on it I can see my dream condo (based entirely on the view, of course). Not that I actually plan on winning, but it's still always nice to dream. And just because winning is so improbable that you should never base your life around it, it's not impossible. I once knew someone who won $5 million. If I ever am lucky enough to win, I hope unlike her I'll at least pay back the person who buys me lunch the day I go to pick up my cheque (no, it wasn't me that bought her lunch, it was someone else).
They say lotteries are a tax on the stupid and/or the mathmatically inept. If you buy a ton of tickets for each draw, sure. But I buy one, sometimes two if it's a really big jackpot. If I can't afford that, I'm already starving anyway.
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by Tabby at 4/23/2002 11:12:00 p.m.
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Monday, April 22, 2002
Boo! I'm off work now and using this chance to keep you all updated. First off, I have one of the greatest bosses who's offering to let me use his computer to get online when I need to, and trust me, that's going to be very useful when I get further along in developing my new site. I've got a page done with a basic look, but I'm not sure if I'll keep it that way or not. After all, this is going to be my biggest and most ambitious site yet, so I've got to make sure everything is perfect. Besides, if I follow my usually custom and give it a complete makeover two weeks after I put it all up, that'll be a hell of a lot of work to do. I've got enough to worry about just getting it done in the first place.
Anyway, it's getting late and I want to get home, so I'm off. Keep checking back, because I won't be gone for long.
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by Tabby at 4/22/2002 11:43:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Remember how I was talking about getting temporarily disconnected from the Net? It happened yesterday, finally, after about a month and a half. Anyway, the only connection I have right now is at work, so I'll try my best to update before and after my shifts.
Stay tuned though. This will give me the time to design the whole new site.
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by Tabby at 4/17/2002 03:17:00 p.m.
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Monday, April 15, 2002
I'm very tired, but like that's anything new.
The weather around here has been... annoying. Friday and Saturday it was beautiful, Sunday morning it rained, Sunday night it snowed heavily. Yeesh.
Friday. Don't get me started on the traffic I had to face Friday when I went down to work to pick up my first paycheque from them.
I'm very tired. I think I should go to bed now.
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by Tabby at 4/15/2002 04:22:00 a.m.
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Thursday, April 11, 2002
Oh, this is just too cool! I've been offered a whole bunch of space to host a website for free! And that's ad-free too, thank you very much! All I need to do is design that merged site I've been talking about, put it there, and register a domain name. Oh this will be good! Can you tell I'm excited? Of course once I do this I will have to work on doing some real writing in journal part, not just this coming in and writing something short nonsense. More like I used to do at the Tabby Diaries when the mood struck me.
This is big, so I want to do it properly. I'm going to take my time and design one of the best sites I've ever come up with. With just one, promotion will be a lot easier too. That was one of the more frustrating aspects of having so many. One of the reasons I let the Diaries die is because I put so much work into it, draining myself creatively, only to have nobody sticking around and reading it (but then, maybe my writing wasn't good enough). I think January did it for me. I did a storyline that took so much out of me and nobody was there to see! Well, with just one site that will change. I will get the people there! I don't care if it's a lot of people. Heck, I have one regular reader here and that's enough to keep me going (thank you, by the way! Whoever you are, you never comment or sign the guest book, but I know you're there and appreciate you).
There is one question left though. What do I do will all my other sites? I'm big on personal history, and they mean a lot to me. Do I keep them up as archives of a sort, to show my website origins? I don't know. I'll worry about that when the time comes.
Oh wow, I'm excited!
Ack! I forgot to mention a bit of irony! The Tabby Diaries. I don't know why, but since I've stopped updating it I've had a whole whack of hits there from Google searches. Bizarre...
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by Tabby at 4/11/2002 03:22:00 a.m.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
It's good that I'm readjusting to the new job with the set schedule again. It's going really well though, even though I still worry whenever I make a mistake. That's the thing with training, "Oh no! Is that it? Are they going to see I'm a bumbling fool and let me go?" I know I'm smart and capable, I know I'll be fine, but I will still worry until after the final test. Ack! Yes, a test! How long has it been since I've had to take one of those? Way too long. Throughout school the mere idea of a test was enough to send me into a panic. It's nice to know that some things never change.
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by Tabby at 4/10/2002 04:29:00 a.m.
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Monday, April 08, 2002
I'm enjoying the fact that I'm not putting as much time into my websites these days.This way when I do get around to doing them, it's not because I'm feeling obligated. I really should merge everything though.
I should also try to get more sleep.
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by Tabby at 4/08/2002 04:12:00 a.m.
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Sunday, April 07, 2002
Well, the new job has gone pretty well, I must say. The weekend is over and I have to go back to work when I wake up (I'd say tomorrow, but I don't want to confuse anyone with the date). I'm sure it wouldn't be so bad if I actually did anything this weekend.
The thing is, I'm not usually big on video games. I might play a little bit here and there, but that's really it. One of my roommates got this game called Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat for his Xbox, and so guess what I did for several hours the last couple of nights? I can't believe I played a video game that much in two days! The good thing is I won't really have time to do it again until next weekend. I'm sure my eyes will appreciate that.
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by Tabby at 4/07/2002 05:23:00 a.m.
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Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Hee hee hee! I'm doing this from work right now! But I'm not that naughty. I'm on a break so it's okay to do this.
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by Tabby at 4/03/2002 06:42:00 p.m.
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The good news is (WHOO HOO!) today I did stuff at work! It made the time go by so much faster, and I'm now starting to feel useful and like a part of the company. I'm not finished training yet, and there is still a probation period, so nothing's set in stone yet that I'll be there in three months, but if I'm not it won't be on any lack of trying on my part.
That was the good news. Where there's good, there's bad. What's the bad news? Oh my god, I've got a job! You have to understand that I haven't had a "normal" job with regular set hours in over a year now (why do you think I had the time to do so many websites?), so this is going to take some getting used to. Setting my alarm clock every day, having to be in bed for sure by a certain time, having to be somewhere! Oy. I'll readjust though, especially when I get that first paycheque...
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by Tabby at 4/03/2002 12:48:00 a.m.
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Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Okay, so I've been in training for the new job. Yawn. But soon things will be getting better. Enjoy it slow like this while I can. I did have to leave really early into my second shift though. I got very sick that day, and it lasted all night. The next day I was feeling better, but not enough to really eat or anything until after I got home from a full shift. That was a little over two and a half hours ago. Now I've gotta get to bed, and in just over four hours I have to wake up to get the kids to school, then I can go and try to get as much sleep as I can before I have to get up again to go back to work. As long as I'm working these shifts, I'd better not have to get up with the children every day for school.
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by Tabby at 4/02/2002 03:18:00 a.m.
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