Here are the pics of the dog we adopted at the shelter. She is a Lab/Retriever mix and only 3 months old. Her name is Cheyenne but we might change it. Now get ready to say "Aaaaaaaaaaw".

  

She's on a stray hold until Thursday so hopefully they will be able to schedule her surgery for Friday (she is getting spayed). If not then we have to wait until Tuesday to pick her up.

I'm sitting here at the training center taking a class that I took almost a year ago. So why am I taking it again? Because my leader wanted me to learn the new features of the latest software version. But the first day of training is by far exactly the same as before, so I'm really, really bored. And for some reason I can't check the email at work. Oh well, I just want to get out of here early so I can catch up on some talk shows that I haven't seen in months.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all
those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear
anybody laughin', did you?"
-- Homer Simpson

Eitel wants a dog so he is trying to convince me by taking me to the Humane Society of Huron Valley to see them. That's where we got our cat Fluffy almost a year ago. I'm still not sure about it though. I'm renting almost all the furniture in our apartment and I don't want a dog to start eating it all.

Why are they showing Real Genius and Dirty Dancing at the same time? Life is so unfair.

Today should be a good day to go to the grocery store and the gym. On a college town, people are probably at the bar drinking right now, and not spending their money on food ;-)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I thought I've seen the last of winter, but no. We are supposed to get two inches of snow tonight, which means that the drive back home is going to suck big time.

Testing IE6 Beta. Lets see, for some reason it has the Toolbars locked by default, so you can't resize or move them unless you right-click on the toolbar and disable it. Also you can delete just the cookies from the Options menu. Some popups script (like overLib) don't work like they should. It has a Personal Toolbar with the Weather, a Search area and the Windows Media Player integrated but it only plays music from the My Music folder. I'm trying to guess how many times it will crash before getting on my nerves (so far zero).

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Want to get rid of those annoying ICQ banners? Follow these instructions and install the ICQ Banner Killer. It gets rid of the ads and ICQAteBrowser. I just installed it and so far so good.

"I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'cover for me.' Number two, 'oh, good idea, boss.' Number three, 'it was like that when I got here.' " -- Homer Simpson

Want thirty free condoms?

It's the end of the world! I stopped by the gym right here in the apartments and did the treadmill, some weights and some floor work. I think I might do that every other day (lets see how long it will last)

Oh no! Winfiles is gone. *sigh* I don't like searching through C-net's download.com

Even monkeys are learning Linux nowadays.

This is what we get for electing Bush as prez. (can't you tell I don't like the guy?)

This is one dvd that I will definitely get: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

4LL Y0UR B453 4RE B3L0NG T0 U5

The last four blogs that I've linked in my bookmarks over there ---->
have gone in "permanent" hiatus. Hmmmm is it the kiss of death? Who's next?

As if getting those annoying ads in ICQ wasn't enough, now all I see are Britney Spears ads: "Pop Queens on ICQ: Britney Spears", "Britney Spears on ICQ: Get Photos and Meet Fans Here!"
bleh

I can't get my hands on the new Playstation 2 and they are thinking on making #3 already: IBM wins Playstation 3 contract.

AYBABTU!!!

hmmmm.. someone likes little girls. I don't know what to think.

Instead of doing Tae-bo I decided to make another wallpaper. I call it Reach. Hope you like it.

Weird referrals of the day: eat sh*t and Voyager sex.

I needed to get some contacts since I have only one pair left. So I looked at different sites and found 1stopcontacts.com. I ordered them Friday night and they got shipped via Priority Mail yesterday. Plus they don't call my doctor to verify the prescription. Cool, since I know what my prescription is (is right on the box duh!). The only thing I don't like is that I never received the confirmation email, but they do have a tracking page that shows the status and confirmation number of the shipment.

Alright, a little too late so I took some pics of our trip to the post office and KFC. WOW!!! How exciting!!! :P If you want to see them you can do so by clicking over here

This looks neat: KODAK: mc3 plays mp3, takes still pictures and shoots videos. I thinking is missing a cell phone.

Happy Birthday to my brother Carlos. He is 19 now, no longer my little brother.

I just bought some RAM: 256MB PC100 bringing the total to a whooping 512MB. Now I can use Windowblinds with no problems :)

About time that my direct deposit started working. Now I can get some groceries.

Somehow I'm on the Domain Deathmatch and against Betcha who makes beautiful layouts. So if you want to vote go ahead, if not that's ok too, I won't kill you or anything ;-)

I think I might try this: a 3 column layout that uses CSS and looks the same in NS and IE.

Happy Birthday to Islabonita! I finally got off my butt and bought a domain one-year ago. And why? Because the popups were getting on the way of the layout I wanted to do.. LOL

An odometer tax? WTF are these politicians thinking? They complain when cars polute the environment and when they become more efficient they complain that they are not getting enough money of the gas tax. I drive around 15,000 a year because public transportation here sucks. If there was a high speed train that would take me from AA to Detroit I would take it in a second. Is not my fault that the Detroit Metro area is so huge -- it takes about one hour to go from one end to another. And now they want to tax us. What about all the out-of-state drivers? Or the miles I get while going to Canada and Chicago? Oh, and if you are complaining about not getting enough money, then give away your 40% salary increase, Mr. Legislature.

(oh, and there are seven other states thinking about doing the same, I wonder which ones)

I wish I could go to SXSW. I think I will have to settle with "West via I-94" (which means going home after work).

Beware of the Naked Wife.

The No. 1 song in the US the day I was born (9/18/1976) was Play that Funky Music by Wild Cherry. Now that song is stuck on my head!

If you use Hotmail and have been getting lots of spam lately, read this. I guess I'm lucky, I rarely get spam on my account but I opened mine back in 1995 when M$ didn't own Hotmail.

Thanks to Eitel, I'm getting the cold, again. That's three times in three months! Stupid winter weather.

Is it Halloween yet? This is scary!

Things like the shooting in a high school in California makes me think twice about having children. If school is not safe for them what's left?

I wish I had a Spring Break that wouldn't use any vacation days and that would still pay. A girl can dream eh?

Hey, but that doesn't mean that I can't have the Siimpsons Living Room and Schoolhouse Diorama.

Is it me or The Simpsons are looking more like The Homer? Everything revolving about Homer and his stupidity, and I'm not getting the endings lately. I'm losing it!

I found Eden.. again! Looks cool, I dig the colors.

I just couldn't resist buying another digicam. We got the Kodak DC3200 for $175. At least this one is 1.2 Megapixels, the other one I have, the Afga ePhoto 780c it's only 0.35 Megapixels.

I completely forgot to watch the Miss USA pageant. Now I can't make fun of William Shatner :-(

I wonder why is William Shatner the MC of tonight's Miss USA pageant. If I recall correctly, they fired Bob Barker because he was "too old" for the job. I don't think Shatner is getting any younger.

They are interviewing this 87 yo man who calls himself the Disco stripper, Disco Ernie. He is from Indiana and I hear he is quite busy. LOL

I know this is old, but it always makes me laugh, in a "It sucks to be them" kind of way.

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The following is from a seminar called "Stress and Disease" by Dr. Nicholas Hall, an expert in psychobiology. He gave this example of a way of coping with job stress:

"When you have had one of those 'TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT' days, try this:

- On your way home from work, stop at your pharmacy and go to the section where they have thermometers. You will need to purchase a rectal thermometer made by *Q-Tip. Be very sure that you get this brand.
- When you get home, lock your doors, draw the drapes, and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed during your therapy.
- Change to very comfortable clothing, such as a sweat suit and lie down on your bed.
- Open the package and remove the thermometer.
- Carefully place it on the bedside table so that it will not become chipped or broken.
- Take out the written material that accompanies the thermometer and read it. You will notice in small print the statement that "Every rectal thermometer made by Q-Tip is PERSONALLY tested."
- Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud five times, "I am so glad I do not work in quality control at the Q-Tip Company."

Another reminder: Rent is due tomorrow, not in 3-4 days

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Sorry, I just can't stand watching the guy talk.

The Girl Scout cookies are here. I bought one box of Thin Mints (my favs), two of Tagalongs and one of Samoa. Now you have to guess how many days it will take me to eat them all.. heheh

Every morning my cat Fluffy follows me to the bathroom while I get ready, and pretty much everyday she gets up on the toilet and eats the toilet paper. I think that's so funny!

99 Minutes CD-R's might be coming near you soon. Imagine all the mp3 songs that you can fit in there.

Finally I found out why you can't see this page in Unix. Something to do with the way I set up the div layers. I guess I'll be going back to a mix of layers and tables. Got the code working but I'm not going to put it up today, because then I will have an excuse for not working out.

I took advantage of the $11.95 registrar transfer from Dotster and it finally came through today. I've heard good things about Dotster and you can't beat the price. At first I thought they were slow sending me the confirmation email, but after reading the instructions carefully, I realized that they first verify the whois information of the domain and then they send the email. doh! So it took about a week to transfer the domain. Bye bye register.com!

You would think that with all that money they have, some artists would know how to pick their gowns better, but obviously Toni Braxton didn't listen to anyone. She should've gone naked!

This solar photography looks so fake. If it wasn't for Physics I would've been an astronomer ;-)

Where did my weekend go? I want one more day :-(

I just want to know why the local UPN station has to show NBA, NHL and MLB games all year around. It pisses me off when there's a new Voyager episode and I can't watch it until the weekend. Same goes for Smackdown. I even hate it more when I can't watch both of them on the same week.

Another reason why you shouldn't use the stinky V-card feature in Outlook.

What's the point of getting a salary increase if it doesn't reflect on your paycheck? Also, I didn't realized how convenient direct deposit was until I had to go and pick up my check for the past four pay periods (payroll is all screwed up for some reason). Which means I have to stop at the bank inside Meijer and wait for the thing to clear. Sucks sucks sucks.

I better stop starting my posts with "I didn't know..." because it's making me look like an uneducated idiot! :P

I didn't know this was a frequently asked question =/
<link stolen=Betcha>

I didn't know people decorated ambulances with wallpapers. Anything to make the patient feel better, I guess.

If you have an E-bay account and you suddenly getting all these telemarketers phone calls, it's because E-bay decided to reset all the preferences to "yes" due to a technical glitch. This was back in January, but I went back in today after reading a thread in Metafilter and low and behold, they were changed to Yes. Sure, a glitch. When it happened a month ago my settings were just fine and dandy. Stupid E-bay!!!

I'm having trouble deciding who is the worst MC for an award show, The Wayans Brothers or Jon Stewart. Man does Jon suck!

The Grammy's are tonight and a bunch of people are going to be protesting just because Eminem is going to be there. People, if you don't like Eminem's lyrics, don't listen to them! Last I've heard we live in a free country where we can listen to whatever we want.

I've done the Advanced Tae-bo tape for two days in a row (well, not the whole thing, just the cardio part.. around 35 minutes). I plan on doing it during the weeknights so I can have the weekends free. Lets see how long I can keep it up.

Where was I when all these place tickets' prices from United were up for grabs? I could've been in Paris by this time next week.

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Why don't you sign Eitel's guestbook? It's feeling lonely.
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To those who have Blogvoices, turn it off! It makes your site take forever to download, and I have a cable modem!

Why do I keep having these high school dreams? It has been two days in a row now, that I was going back to high school to keep on studying (what? I dunno, I already have my bachelor of science). Maybe I miss wearing the uniform (navy vest, white polo, plaid skirt, white socks and black shoes)?

MTV is showing a mini Daria marathon. I forgot how much I enjoy watching that show.

I usually don't eat breakfast, I just get up and head straight for work, but today I have a four-hour meeting and I need all the energy I can get. This meeting is going to be long and probably heated.

Dale Earnhardt dies after a multi-car accident on the Daytona 500. Such a sad story :-(

endorphine.net has some cool wallpapers. Go and download them now!

Somebody please stop me fron downloading fonts from Font Flood! I've downloaded 200 already.. to a total of 734.

Gladiator was good. If I had to decide between Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for Best Movie on the Oscars, I would be killed first because I can't decide! They are both awsome.

Finally I get the change to watch Gladiator. The only two things that bug me about the movie: Russel Crowe's deep voice and Joaquin Phoenix's mark on his upper lip.

It wasn't me

*does a happy dance*
I got a raise! And it's retroactive to January 1
*dances some more*
That means I will have some extra money laying around. Should I pay more bills or spend it?

And since I want to be l33t, All your base are belong to us

Want to apply for the next Survivor?

"You must be willing to travel at your own expense to be interviewed in April or May 2001 (or as otherwise scheduled by Producers) at one of the following locations nearest you; New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Dallas, Texas; Austin, Texas or Miami, Florida."

So, if you live in the middle of nowhere you are screwed.

If you really want to know how to survive in the Outback, read this article on Time magazine.

Survivor spoiler for the West Coast: Mitchell gets kicked off, eventually, after a double tie with Keith. I just can't believe that bitch of Jerri is still in. God I can't stand her!

Eitel got me a perfume for Valentine's day: 360 for Women by Perry Ellis. Awww how nice of him. Love you baby!

Happy Valentine's Day!

It looks like with each new version of Windows the amount of RAM required for installation doubles. According to some beta testers, the minimum requirement for the upcoming Windows XP is 128 MB of RAM and a Pentium 3 processor. Better get that memory now while is still cheap (128MB for ~ $60US)

I saw today Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It was amazing! Those fighting scenes and the flying all over the place makes you go wow!

The new Game Boy Advanced looks neat. I bet Eitel is going to ask for one. And the cool thing is that it's backwards compatible with the older games.

I guess I forgot to blog this before, but lisette put up the cutest blog layout. I think the best layouts out there are the anime related ones.

There are around 12,000 users connected to Napster right now, and I can't think of a single song to download.

Facts of the Day:

- Oreo Cookies: The creme filling used in one year could ice all the wedding cakes served in the United States for two years! That's 4,724,000 three-tier wedding cakes.

- In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

- Celery has negative calories — it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

- The striped skunk can fire its musk stream accurately for up to 12 feet, and even farther with a cooperative downwind.

- The original name of Pepsi-Cola was Brad’s Drink.

- An article titled "The Game of Golf for Women," which ran in an 1894 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, contained this droll comment about the sexes playing the game: "A gallant gentleman will not cheat a woman, and a woman at all worthy of consideration will not cheat anyone at all."

- The names of the six Gummi bears are Gruffi, Cubbi, Tummi, Zummi, Sunni, and Grammi.

Start saving now, because in April The Sims: House Party is scheduled to come out. Look at these screenshots. The last one is too funny lol

<sarcasm>
Boo hoo.. no more Baywatch
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I don't know if this works, but if someone wants to try it:

Preventing People from Linking to Your Images
Add the following to the .htaccess file:
# Rewrite Rule for images
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://
You would replace the above with the domain name and path of the page that is referring to your domain. For example: www.their-isp.net/users/mypage/
The RewriteCond directive states that if the {HTTP_REFERER} matches the URL that follows, then use the RewriteRule directive. The RewriteRule directive will redirect any reference back to the referring web page.