viernes, marzo 30, 2001

hmm I got Greymatter all setup ready to go.. but I don't feel like moving files so it'll be Blogger for a while (if I see one more freaking template I will kill someone).

miércoles, marzo 28, 2001

It looks like she likes my Beanie Babies, specially Roary and Rocket. But we still need to catch her getting them so we can tell her not to do that. (hmmm I didn't know that those two are retired beanie babies.. maybe I should put them somewhere else hehe)

martes, marzo 27, 2001

CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview. A must read.
It must be something on Michigan's water, because I'm sick again. That would be the fourth time this year! I hate it, I hate it. At least I'm taking some medicine for free from the First Aid kit here at the office (they have everything on that kit, even Blistex).

domingo, marzo 25, 2001

I bet some people are upset that everytime J.Lo is on camera they only show her from the neck up. I bet it's cold at the Oscars.
The Oscars are on tonight and all I care about is what the stars will be wearing. Who's going to pull a J.Lo tonight? Oh, and I want Benicio del Toro to win (ay papi!).
Now I know why people are getting the iMac.
(plug) Here's another beautilful and simple layout for a blog. And go visit his other site, imako. Who cares if it's in Spanish, it's beautiful as well.
PlayStation 2 shipments hit 10 million: but I haven't seen a single one in-stock since the launch last year.

sábado, marzo 24, 2001

I just noticed that I can't remotely edit this blog. When did it stopped working?
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Well, no dog yet thanks for the wonderful work of the shelter. They told us that since the dog had a stray hold until Thursday, that she could get spayed on Friday. So fine, we can wait almost a week for the dog. But when we visited her a couple of times this weeks I noticed that she was sneezing some, and said to myself, "gosh I hope she doesn't get sick". Friday comes and Eitel calls to see if we could take her home and they tell us that the vet had an emergency and couldn't come, and that we have to wait until Tuesday. We stopped by yesterday to see if we could take her for the weekend and they told us no, that it was their policy, that they didn't ask the vet to come because they didn't have enough animals to get spayed (??? all I was saying to myself was yada yada yada). So okay, we left. We stopped by today and we couldn't find her anywhere on the cages so we ask the lady on the front desk where she is and she doesn't know either. After waiting for 5 minutes they realized that the dog was put in isolation (from the healthy puppies) because she got sick (I should be a psychic). Now we don't know if she can be spayed on Tuesday (probably not) and they won't let us take her home until she gets spayed.

We are so pissed, I mean, surrounded by sick animals on this little room while they wait for the vet on Tuesday is not going to help her get any better. And waiting over a month to get the dog is just not right (the one week we waited so far plus 2-3 until she gets better plus 1 week for the surgery). The question is, do we wait or just drop it all? I feel bad for the puppy but it's not fair for us to wait that long to get a freaking dog. I don't know what to think of all this. ugh!
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viernes, marzo 23, 2001

Paying bills sucks. I can't wait until I get all these credit cards paid off.
I guess we are not getting free tacos from Taco Bell:
Mir destroyed in fiery descent.
Bummer, I guess I have to buy lunch today.

jueves, marzo 22, 2001

After watching 10 Things I Hate About You, I've been listening to this song pretty much non-stop: "I Want You To Want Me" by Letters of Cleo (originally from Cheap Trick). Someone please make it stop!!!!!

miércoles, marzo 21, 2001

Tripod deletes acceptable sites from their servers. They blame a "technical error" for the problem. If that was one of my pages, I would demand a pop-up free site from now on (like I have that much power).
Some stats from my trackers:

800x600 - 47.05%
1024x768 - 41.24%
1280x864 - 4.84%
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Win98 - 77.65%
Win2K - 6.38%
Win95 - 4.89%
Mac - 3.44%
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IE5 - 88.43%
NS4 - 3.85%
NS3 - 3.15%
IE4 - 2.87%

martes, marzo 20, 2001

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".

Eitel and Cheyenne  Eitel and Cheyenne #2

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.

lunes, marzo 19, 2001

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.

domingo, marzo 18, 2001

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.

sábado, marzo 17, 2001

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 ;-)

shamrockHappy St. Patrick's Day!shamrock

viernes, marzo 16, 2001

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.

jueves, marzo 15, 2001

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).
test
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?

miércoles, marzo 14, 2001

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.

martes, marzo 13, 2001

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

domingo, marzo 11, 2001

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

sábado, marzo 10, 2001

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.

viernes, marzo 09, 2001

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.

jueves, marzo 08, 2001

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

miércoles, marzo 07, 2001

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!

martes, marzo 06, 2001

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.

lunes, marzo 05, 2001

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?

domingo, marzo 04, 2001

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.

sábado, marzo 03, 2001

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 :-(

viernes, marzo 02, 2001

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

jueves, marzo 01, 2001

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."

miércoles, febrero 28, 2001

Another reminder: Rent is due tomorrow, not in 3-4 days
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Sorry, I just can't stand watching the guy talk.

martes, febrero 27, 2001

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.

lunes, febrero 26, 2001

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!

domingo, febrero 25, 2001

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.

sábado, febrero 24, 2001

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.

viernes, febrero 23, 2001

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

jueves, febrero 22, 2001

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!!!

miércoles, febrero 21, 2001

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.

martes, febrero 20, 2001

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.
<plug>
Why don't you sign Eitel's guestbook? It's feeling lonely.
</plug>
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)?

lunes, febrero 19, 2001

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 :-(

domingo, febrero 18, 2001

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.