I found this on digg. It’s funny to me because I was battling some of this crap the past couple of days on a page on my company website.
Aaron just ran up to Meri and said “poo poo potty” and he grabbed a book (!) from his bookcase and went and sat on his potty and he actually pooped in it! Weird to be so happy about someone pooping huh?
Aaron has been peeing in his potty at least once a day for tha past 2 or 3 weeks but this is the first time he’s pooped in the potty. He’s growing up so fast.
As of yesterday, I am officially a business owner! I got my license in the mail.
Did you know that business taxes run July 1 to June 30? I didn’t either! I submitted the paperwork for my business license on June 22nd and got a temporary (7 day) license and that ran out yesterday. Then I got two things in the mail, my permanent license and a tax form! The tax form was for July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006. I thought it was kinda funny that I got my permanent license on the same day that I got my tax for for the previous year, even thought I wasn’t technically in business yet; on the business license form, I stated that I wanted my business to officially be open as of July 1, 2006.
These are the simplest instructions available. I found this after googling around for how to fix this and how to configure that and the occasional “WTF was that?! how do I fix that??“.
Now wasn’t that simple?!
All kidding aside, I spent the better part of a few days trying to get all of the cofiguration files tweaked and then get the Apache/PHP/MySQL stuff running locally so that I could view my websites without FTPing them to the server and debugging the errors from there. A friend of mine directed me to this site and I’ve since installed the apps on two machines. XAMPP takes all of the guess-work out of getting these services installed on your PC.
The last few days have been a bit rough for me.
Thursday night, I went to bed at the normal time, around 10 I think.
Friday morning, I got up at 4 and was at work by 4:30 (yes, a.m.). I had some work that I had to get done and I did, so the early day wasn’t a waste. I figured I would go to bed early that night to make up for my lack of sleep the night before. That worked out pretty good and I even got to sleep in till 7am Saturday morning. That’s when the work began!
At around 8:30 Saturday morning, Meri, Aaron and I went and got a yard of mulch for our neighbors that are moving in about two weeks. Meri and I “helped” (read: did it all) him spread it throughout his gardens. We finished that load pretty quick and the sun wasn’t out so it wasn’t bad at all. Then it was decided that maybe, possibly, perhaps he needed a second load of mulch, this time only 1/2 yard. So I drove my happy, dirty ass up there and got more mulch. Lucky us, there is no real difference between a half and full yard of mulch to the guy in the bulldozer. So he filled up my truck with about 3/4 of a yard of mulch and I grumbled my way back to my neighbors yard. I spread that for him. Physcially, he was there but he moves pretty slow…Meri watched us and commented later that for every shovel load he moved, I moved about 4. He’s older (and slower) and has a stomach in front of him to slow him down. He bought us a ton of food that night so that was nice!
Sunday, I lazed around until about 9:30 and got off my ass and started doing all of the yard work. I hadn’t done that for 3 weeks and it definitely showed! My grass was high/thick in two or three areas. Even on the highest setting, my lawn mower cut off a few times. I edged with the weedeater and went through more line than I should have gone through in 6 weekends of yard work! I have no clue why. Mowing, edging, blowing, and watering took me about 3 1/2 hours! I *forgot* sunscreen (again) so I’m pretty burnt in some areas. As I was mowing and watering, I wore the lawn aeration shoe attachments. That was a damn workout! I was walking around, moving the hoses and stepped on one of them with shoes! These shoes have 12 two inch spikes on the bottom. So now I have to repair the hose. Such a fun weekend!
Meri and I are worried about the kind of neighbors that we are going to get whenever someone buys our current neighbor’s house. The last set of new neighbors we got aren’t very friendly or ever outside. We are seriously thinking about putting a “for sale by owner” sign out in our front and just seeing if we attract any attention. If we sold the house, we would rent either a house or a townhome somewhere. We’d like to be in Germantown but everything there is so expensive. We’d take all of the money we made on our house in Jax and dump it on whatever we could find that had the highest yield. But that probably won’t happen until one of our other neighbors puts their house on the market (in August).
In other non-busting-my-ass-outside news, I have a decent, wouldn’t mind if other pople saw it, version of my business site up. Check it out. I am not satified with the colors of the site so they will change soon. I’m going to order some business cards this week and start trying to do a little marketing (to show profit motive ). I’m only looking to get my feet wet on a few, small websites. I don’t even know what I would charge for some easy stuff. I need to get an invoice together also. I started filing all of my business expenses in it’s own folder. I hope I can keep all of that kind of crap separate and organized. Yay new business. Now I have to find a *sucker* er, client.
Just fair warning, I’m ranting about geeky stuff regarding web design/development…
I read a chapter in a book on HTML and CSS design about how to make your website(s) “standards compliant”. I said what the hell, let’s do it. So I started with the contact list page of PeopleArray. I ran the validator from the website of the group that defines what makes up the web standards (World Wide Web Consortium or W3C). I went to the contact list, let it load, viewed the source and copied it, pasted it into the validator and let it rip. The first few passes produced a ton of errors. Some of the errors included no alt’s on my image tags, I had a closing div but it wasn’t ever actually opened and then some id’s of some elements were duplicated (I made those classes and updated the CSS accordingly). Now I have one error…and I have no clue how to get around it AND I can’t believe that this isn’t allowed in the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE. You ready for this? the onClick property isn’t allowed for anchor tags! WTF?!
So I looked it up and found this page. This page shows all of the allowed properties for different tags under this DocType. The only on* properties allowed for an anchor tag are onBlur and onFocus! No onClick. So now I’m trying to figure out how to get around this. onBlur doesn’t work, maybe onFocus?
EDIT: onFocus isn’t the answer. I guess this part of the website won’t adhere to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional (of Strict) standards.
Lately I feel like I do less work between the weekends than I do on the weekends. Last weekend, I (we) put up two ceiling fans, changed the oil and rotated tires on both vehicles, watered the entire yard and pulled up all of the bark mulch in the back yard play area. This weekend, I helped my neighbor, who is moving very soon, lay/spread a yard of dirt and lay a pallet of sod. We started at 7:30 am and finished at 11:15. They are great neighbors who have helped us on more than one occassion and even let us borrow all of their stuff! Most notably, their Little Giant ladder that enabled us to paint the living room. Those Little Giant ladders rock by the way! They are totally worth the $400! Someday, someday soon, we shall have one…right after I get my nail gun and air compressor.
Aaron peed in his potty twice yesterday and at least once everyday this week! He’s so cute. He sits on the potty naked, staring down at his “pee pee”, concentrating. He got super-excited last night because of my reaction when it actually happened. That was the first time I had seen him use his potty. If you don’t find peeing cute, wait till your baby does it the first few times!
Ok, I’m having kind of an off day today. I’m pretty torn between doing my job in which I have to look at gnarly OS/400 screens like the one below and working on my website(s), also pictured below.
I should be able to do web stuff so I can feel productive at work AND get to work on pretty web stuff (and pad my resume at the same time).
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I’ve decided on a name and a purpose and done my first bit of legwork.
My company name is going to be Platinum Grade Consulting. My purpose will be two-fold:
Last night, I got the paperwork from the Bartlett Town Hall. I still have to fill it out and turn it in. I’m pretty excited about this. This morning, I registered the domain platinumgrade.com.
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