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05 February 2006 @ 03:13 pm
 
Happy Birthday [livejournal.com profile] skarman! Hope it's a good 'un!

I kinda... vanished for a coupla days there - sorry. ToaMK was promised for Friday morning and it's now Sunday afternoon and it'll be a few hours yet before it's postable. I had an attack of the "this sucks!", which should really be my trademark, and I've been working on it since that moment. Well, in the spaces between watching Gilmore Girls and going grocery shopping with my sister (10am-5.30pm in Tescos, it's like a world record or something). Gilmore Girls - seen all of season four now, I kinda had a marathon viewing overnight when I woke up at 2am and couldn't get back to sleep. Shopping... well, my sister owes me a bunch of money and my car's MOT is due in a week so of course instead of paying for the repairs or something sensible, she offers to pay for my groceries. Money is insanely tight right now, I've budgeted everything and I'm fine. So long as petrol prices don't skyrocket and I only spend eleven pounds a month on food. (Yes, a month, not a week, a month.) I'm fine with it though - I really am. I suck at maths, when I applied to transfer my credit card balances this morning I had no clue what my monthly take-home pay was, which would be okay if it weren't for the fact that I also had only the vaguest concept of what my annual gross income was. So I'm learning about money. This is fun. (And kinda underscores the derisive laugh with which I responded to my Secondary School Depute Headmaster's comment "Maybe you should consider doing a joint honours degree in French and Maths. Strathclyde University offer an excellent programme....")

Be proud of me - I just said No to my sister. She phoned me (while I was typing this) and asked me to babysit. Today. Like, now. I said no. Okay, I feel guilty about saying it and pissed off that I feel guilty, but still I said no.

Anyway, back to the original point of the post - I'm having real life issues right now which are keeping me away from the computer a lot, and I can only apologise for the apparent cold shoulder - so not the case, I'm just... trying to work out other things and not being very successful in working them out.

Right, I'm off to go try to add closure to Anika's tale that doesn't read like crap. Wish me luck!

ETA almost forgot, I got an email from the GT about her site yesterday morning. She wants me to check a piece of JavaScript I wrote for her, but rather than using what I did, she inserted it using a Front Page gimmick. Does anyone know if Front Page web-bots work on browsers other than IE? I want a solid reason for her not to do this (not because my feelings are hurt, but because it adds a whole other two lines of code that she really doesn't need in her site). And does it make me a bad person that I haven't replied yet?

A Meme. From [livejournal.com profile] acme54. *g*

You Are Animal

A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.
You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.
But you sure can beat a good drum.
"Kill! Kill!"
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[identity profile] jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com on February 5th, 2006 07:44 am (UTC)
Frontpage will work in any browser, but she's asking for a world of trouble when she's using that program. In order to publish with Frontpage, she needs to have server extensions installed, which are notoriously fickle creatures that frequently need to be reinstalled, which can result in data loss. Not a problem if you're using Frontpage as a simple design tool, because you can just republish, but if you're using webbots and special extensions like navbars, you can lose those forever (I've seen people delete and recreate them after an extension reinstall and still not be able to get them working properly -- we've had to wipe their entire account and then reinstall the extensions fresh). Seriously, if you can find a way to do something that doesn't involve Frontpage's special features, do it.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on February 5th, 2006 07:52 am (UTC)
Cool - that definitely sounds like a sold reason for her not to use the FrontPage gimmick. I really can't stand that programme but she's left it so late in her coursework that for simple design it works for her - it's just when she tries to add the gimmicks to it that she's struggling. Thanks!
[identity profile] skarman.livejournal.com on February 5th, 2006 08:50 am (UTC)
Hey Mara,

thanks and yes, it was a good one. Had all my favorite people around me, well, virtually at least :-) Ah, the wonders of chat programs, for when your friends are scattered around the world.

As for the income issue, I think most of us know that intimately. I've neglected it for years and it's bitten me in the posterior too many times to count. I've managed to clean it up a little, made a spreadsheet with income/outlays and such and am currently managing quite well to put money aside and stay inside the budget. I would suggest you do something similar, starting with lining all the monthly outlays like utilities/rent/loans etc. Then check out what you usually buy for household/food and the prices; save your weekly/daily supermarket bills and start checking out what you absolutely don't need every time.

I did all that for a month or two and suddenly, I'm managing my money better! I'm not yet where I want to be but it's getting there. Budgetting is an ugly word, but it's necessary :-(

Take care!
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[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on February 5th, 2006 10:51 am (UTC)
It sounds as if you are having a rather scary financial crisis!


Gabrielle
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