Wednesday, September 3rd
August has come & gone, and the weather is more like autumn than it's supposed to be, cool & rainy, as the remains of Gustav roll through. I wish I had hot chocolate, but I don't, and I'm not in the mood to go buy any. Perhaps later. Normally, this is perfect weather for me. It's lovely. But today it seems ominous. And that's no good at all.
There's a long list of things I need to get done, from website-things, to drawing, to paperwork. But really, what I want to do is sit somewhere comfy and do nothing. Oh well, perhaps some other time.
I don't really care to share the list at this time - seeing as it's very long, some of the things are pseudo-secrets, and the rest are very boring, but when I get the list down to a manageable size, I might share.
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Tuesday, September 9th Again, it's been almost a week since I updated, and again, I really didn't forget, I really thought it had been 3 days. I get confused easily.
Maybe I'm just too young, but I really really don't get it when people don't bother to look for the truth of a thing. I can understand believing whatever's in front of you ... until there's something that says maybe that's not the case. But then, regardless of how attached to your idea you are, shouldn't you sit down and say "Maybe I should look at this closer."? Really, shouldn't you? I don't get it. And if you find out it's not true, how do you keep believing it anyways?
Grrrr.
In other news, my life is going ok. I was going to tell you a decidedly boring story about a thrift store, but the anger and confusion got in the way. So, no story for you. Maybe some other time.
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Thursday, September 11th A story about a frog. The other day I went to work... as I do. When I got to the highway, I glanced over to my driver's side rear-view mirror, and realized there was a frog clinging to it. I was stopped at the stop-light, and he didn't jump off, so I figured, Whatever, he can stay there if he wants. And so then I drove to work (work is a 40 min drive total, about 30 of which are on the highway). So I drive all the way, the frog is just sitting there, hanging on. I park my car, listen to the rest of the song, and look over to see if he's still there, and he's just staring RIGHT at me. I wish I'd had a camera at the time, I would have taken a picture. And that's my story.
And so, because I have no picture of the frog-that-rode-to-work, here's a picture of a cricket. Someone told me they're called camel crickets?, but I don't know if that's true or not.
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Thursday, September 18th An actual whole week this time. So, time for the weekly update I guess.
So Monday I got paid, and I wanted to check and see how much money I had, in case I had enough to go spend alot, and I go to log into my online banking stuff, and I can't remember my password. They make you change it often (like every 3 mo., I think), and I tried everything I could think that I might have changed it to. None of it worked. They have a self-reset thing, where you reset your password and everything, but I'd never bothered to set it up, so I couldn't do that. And, of course, I tend to do things in the off-hours, so I couldn't call them that day. So the next afternoon I call them and it all works out. It was mildly frustrating. I set up my self-reset thing so that I can reset it if I ever forget again.
Also, this morning I was outside on my lovely patio, and there was a fuzzy caterpillar, which I find odd in September, and he was going southwards really really fast. Like the caterpillar version of running. And so I'm kinda watching him, and I see this spiderweb up ahead, and sure enough, he walks right up into it. The spider's all excited and whatnot, and I get to watch the spider wrestle with the caterpillar, until the spider finally gets enough strands around the caterpillar that he can't really struggle anymore, and then he starts wrapping him up. Yum, caterpillar. It was far more exciting in person.
There was a little bit of fog (or mist?) outside this morning. I got a couple of neat pictures, but I haven't put them on my computer. Soon, though.
I'm also re-writing my code on my other site. I was going to just change the colors for the holidays, so I wanted to get it all figured out before it was actually time to change everything, and of course, going back and looking at my old code, I thought to myself, "Why did I do things this way? It doesn't make any sense!". So, I'm fixing it. Fortunately, I reduced the number of html of files on that site drastically, so it won't actually take as long as it potentially could.
That's all for now.
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Saturday, September 20th So here's some pictures of that fog. It's been foggy for the last 3 days or so, in the mornings, and it's very pretty.
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Wednesday, September 24th Perhaps I was mistaken in the idea that online banking was supposed to make my life easier. I think I must have been. I'm not stupid, I'm not computer illiterate, I should be able to adequately use systems that are designed for ... you know ... use.
I have several bank accounts, across 2 banks. (There is a reason for it, really, they aren't redundant.) I had/have online banking with both banks, and everything was fine and dandy for many many months. Then I decided that I needed a money market account so that I could actually make interest on my money. There was ... difficulty ... setting up the online access to that -- but really, how often do I need to check that? It's essentially a savings account, the paper statements work fine. So I didn't fuss over it. Then I needed to change some other stuff on an account, and well, long story short, I can't log into either account at that bank. My other bank makes me change my password frequently, and I forgot what I had changed it to, & I neglected to set up the 'self-reset' thing, so I had to call them to have them reset it, and got logged in... and then I wanted to log in just now... and I couldn't remember what I'd changed it to, but this time I'd set up the self-reset for just this circumstance. It is ... well, it doesn't ... work.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Maybe I'm not as good at using online stuff as I thought. Maybe I'm out-of-date. Don't know, and don't really much care. I don't care to invest hours trying to log into my online accounts anymore. It's just easier to call them and ask. That has never seemed to pose this kind of trouble for me.
So... whatever. It won't matter 1000 years from now anyway.
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Monday, September 29th I love America.
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There's a long list of things I need to get done, from website-things, to drawing, to paperwork. But really, what I want to do is sit somewhere comfy and do nothing. Oh well, perhaps some other time.
I don't really care to share the list at this time - seeing as it's very long, some of the things are pseudo-secrets, and the rest are very boring, but when I get the list down to a manageable size, I might share.
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Tuesday, September 9th Again, it's been almost a week since I updated, and again, I really didn't forget, I really thought it had been 3 days. I get confused easily.
Maybe I'm just too young, but I really really don't get it when people don't bother to look for the truth of a thing. I can understand believing whatever's in front of you ... until there's something that says maybe that's not the case. But then, regardless of how attached to your idea you are, shouldn't you sit down and say "Maybe I should look at this closer."? Really, shouldn't you? I don't get it. And if you find out it's not true, how do you keep believing it anyways?
Grrrr.
In other news, my life is going ok. I was going to tell you a decidedly boring story about a thrift store, but the anger and confusion got in the way. So, no story for you. Maybe some other time.
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Thursday, September 11th A story about a frog. The other day I went to work... as I do. When I got to the highway, I glanced over to my driver's side rear-view mirror, and realized there was a frog clinging to it. I was stopped at the stop-light, and he didn't jump off, so I figured, Whatever, he can stay there if he wants. And so then I drove to work (work is a 40 min drive total, about 30 of which are on the highway). So I drive all the way, the frog is just sitting there, hanging on. I park my car, listen to the rest of the song, and look over to see if he's still there, and he's just staring RIGHT at me. I wish I'd had a camera at the time, I would have taken a picture. And that's my story.
And so, because I have no picture of the frog-that-rode-to-work, here's a picture of a cricket. Someone told me they're called camel crickets?, but I don't know if that's true or not.
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Thursday, September 18th An actual whole week this time. So, time for the weekly update I guess.
So Monday I got paid, and I wanted to check and see how much money I had, in case I had enough to go spend alot, and I go to log into my online banking stuff, and I can't remember my password. They make you change it often (like every 3 mo., I think), and I tried everything I could think that I might have changed it to. None of it worked. They have a self-reset thing, where you reset your password and everything, but I'd never bothered to set it up, so I couldn't do that. And, of course, I tend to do things in the off-hours, so I couldn't call them that day. So the next afternoon I call them and it all works out. It was mildly frustrating. I set up my self-reset thing so that I can reset it if I ever forget again.
Also, this morning I was outside on my lovely patio, and there was a fuzzy caterpillar, which I find odd in September, and he was going southwards really really fast. Like the caterpillar version of running. And so I'm kinda watching him, and I see this spiderweb up ahead, and sure enough, he walks right up into it. The spider's all excited and whatnot, and I get to watch the spider wrestle with the caterpillar, until the spider finally gets enough strands around the caterpillar that he can't really struggle anymore, and then he starts wrapping him up. Yum, caterpillar. It was far more exciting in person.
There was a little bit of fog (or mist?) outside this morning. I got a couple of neat pictures, but I haven't put them on my computer. Soon, though.
I'm also re-writing my code on my other site. I was going to just change the colors for the holidays, so I wanted to get it all figured out before it was actually time to change everything, and of course, going back and looking at my old code, I thought to myself, "Why did I do things this way? It doesn't make any sense!". So, I'm fixing it. Fortunately, I reduced the number of html of files on that site drastically, so it won't actually take as long as it potentially could.
That's all for now.
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Saturday, September 20th So here's some pictures of that fog. It's been foggy for the last 3 days or so, in the mornings, and it's very pretty.
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Wednesday, September 24th Perhaps I was mistaken in the idea that online banking was supposed to make my life easier. I think I must have been. I'm not stupid, I'm not computer illiterate, I should be able to adequately use systems that are designed for ... you know ... use.
I have several bank accounts, across 2 banks. (There is a reason for it, really, they aren't redundant.) I had/have online banking with both banks, and everything was fine and dandy for many many months. Then I decided that I needed a money market account so that I could actually make interest on my money. There was ... difficulty ... setting up the online access to that -- but really, how often do I need to check that? It's essentially a savings account, the paper statements work fine. So I didn't fuss over it. Then I needed to change some other stuff on an account, and well, long story short, I can't log into either account at that bank. My other bank makes me change my password frequently, and I forgot what I had changed it to, & I neglected to set up the 'self-reset' thing, so I had to call them to have them reset it, and got logged in... and then I wanted to log in just now... and I couldn't remember what I'd changed it to, but this time I'd set up the self-reset for just this circumstance. It is ... well, it doesn't ... work.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Maybe I'm not as good at using online stuff as I thought. Maybe I'm out-of-date. Don't know, and don't really much care. I don't care to invest hours trying to log into my online accounts anymore. It's just easier to call them and ask. That has never seemed to pose this kind of trouble for me.
So... whatever. It won't matter 1000 years from now anyway.
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Monday, September 29th I love America.
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