okay okay okay, i'm alive. thanks for the emails asking if i was okay (i appreciate the concern, but, i did only just post on saturday.)
saturday afternoon, gigglemom and i were supposed to go to my cousin matt's daughter's 2nd birthday.
friday night i had gone food shopping for what i had to make and also went shopping for a gift.
so, after i posted my shank diatribe on saturday morning, i made my Swiss Almond Dip (lots of swiss cheese. lots of almonds. there's more stuff in it and it frigging rocks)
the party started at 3pm and we left at about 3:20 (it takes a while for me to get gigglemom ready, iron her clothes, hook up a new O2 tank, put her shoes & socks on and also try to get myself ready... not to mention cook at the same time and load up the car)
so we were running a little late. gigglemom had googled the directions and we were off... and driving... and driving... and driving... pretty soon we saw a sign on route 70 that said pemberton. that was way past where we were supposed to go.
as it turned out, google had the name of the street (Lacey Road) while in "real life" there was no sign for that. it wound up being route 539 or something - and by the time we found it it was fricking 5pm. which, for those of you not swell at math, was 2 hours past when the party started.
and we were heading down the road when GM had a huge coughing fit. sometimes she's okay after one of them, but, other times she gets knocked for a loop and needs to lie down.
this was one of those times, so, after all that.... i, gigglemom and the cheese dip headed back home.
(i had the cheese dip for dinner. it was fantastic.)
yesterday, i got it in my head that i want to redesign this site (right now i will most likely start on the open mic section.)
the bee is in my bonnet because i have to update the mics all the time and i am way behind in doing so. i shouldn't be, but, hell, i'm doing it for free and whilst i am not complaining, it's not the first thing on my list of priorities.
sooooooooo... what i did was bought a book on asp.NET (yeah. i have no idea exactly the deal is with it, but i am going to read up. see if i can't wrap this noggin around it.)
if i can create the open mic form to populate automatically when folks submit them (or at least have it so all i need to do is approve them and then i don't have to format anything after that and everything falls into the right spot) it would be key.
as i said, i don't know anything about asp.net... so, i'm only assuming that if i teach myself this that it will help me with what i just mentioned.
in turn, with my site as a guinea pig, this will help me figure out how to get the calendars on my clients' site to populate and all that without me having to go in and change things up all the bloody time (right now i have to go in and manually do this stuff instead of having some dynamic doohickies working.)
i should probably take a class in asp.net, there's one that starts in may, but, i bought this 50 pound book on it at barnes & noble.
so... there. that's what i've been up to.
nothing earth-shattering.
of course, if there are any asp.NET gurus out there that want to be my mentor..... **ahem**
Whatchoosayin'?? (3 yapped)
Too late to Rabbit-Rabbit?
Posted by Carol | April 1, 2008 8:56 AM
hi, i'm van and i'm a .net developer
[hi van]
Posted by furiousball | April 1, 2008 10:42 AM
Thanks for the update. My day is now complete;-) Sorry for being pesky! But, hey, you know you're loved!!
Posted by tricia | April 1, 2008 10:54 AM