Author: Cupcakey

I think I might get back into web design. It’s been so long since it’s been a passionate hobby of mine. I miss having the clients, deadlines, and being proud of my work being seen by others. So I’ve set myself a goal. I’m going to be contacting the local business in the area that have website, and ask if they would like to have it designed (for free) so that I can build up my portfolio again.

I’m not sure if it’ll have a purpose (the portfolio, that is) but I really want to work on a site that’s not something I own. Right now I have three prospective websites, and of those three I’ve already contacted one. It’s been two days since I e-mailed them, so I might send a follow e-mail tomorrow.

In other news, it snowed last night. Have I mentioned how much I absolutely dislike snow? Well, now you know. I loathe snow, and we definitely got about 4″ or so inches of it last night, and through the morning. If you want to see a video from weather.com, check out their video on demand, Today’s Worst Weather: Ice and snow tough on travelers.

Despite hating snow, I love severe weather, so in essence I do love that it snowed. Just don’t tell anyone 😐

Throughout my life I always knew that there was something wrong with me. However, I’m not talking mentally or physically. I’m talking about my luck. No matter what the theme is, I always end up somehow getting screwed in the worst way possible–be it with a relationship, money, friends, work, or hell, a radar detector. Yet with that bad luck, I always happen to come across it with good luck or something. It’s rather annoying.

As I wrote about earlier this month, my car’s transmission decided to die on me despite the fact that it was fixed in February (and that was the 2nd time. The first time was in November 2005, and I had paid $2400 for it to be fixed then.) Partially I blame myself for taking it to Paul’s Brake and Auto (when I find the number, I’ll post it here so you can call the place and leave incoherent voicemails!) because his shop is the main reason for the transmission going out again. They were supposed to replace a cracked casing, that I was charged for, but ended up just using some sort of mechanic glue to “fix” it. Not only that but they broke the coolant switch, so this entire time I’ve been driving with no coolant fans, or a working gauge to tell me when it’s overheating.

Fast forward to four weeks ago when the transmission finally gave out. Took it to a shop out in Alsip (Illinois) where I had taken in a previous car, a 1988 Chrysler Lebaron Covertable Turbo, to get its transmission fixed (mind you this was about 2003?) Finally I get a call that my car can be picked up on Tuesday. My dad drives me up there to pick it up, we pay $2535.10 to receive the car, and Tony (the owner) shows us exactly what Paul’s Brake and Auto had fucked up and had not fixed. Said he’ll hold onto the trans for us, since we’ll be sending Mr. Paul the charges he gave to us, for shit he didn’t do.

Continue reading “Do you have bad luck?” →

For the past few days I’ve been sketching out a new project that I’ve been wanting to work on for quite some time. A few years ago I stumbled across Chicago Hardcore.net, and a livejournal friend of my ran Stolen Mixtape.com. Since then I’ve wanted to start up my site where others would be able to post shows, photos, media, and post on a forum that was geared towards Chicago’s hardcore music scene. When I was living in Louisville, I was also addicted to visiting Louisville Hardcore.com.

My main reasoning for wanting to run a website like the aforementioned is because the main one for Chicago was never updated. I didn’t want to have to google bands, or rely on myspace. I’m huge on RSS feeds, and with the Chicago hardcore site being so outdated, I wanted to basically run one myself, and keep it updated, and make it huge.

I’m not sure when I’ll actually “release” it but I just registered the domain name, and I’ve got a few things I want to get up and running right now. It’s been awhile since I’ve had a real project to work on aside from atourworst.org and holdfire.net. I’ll probably get a decent amount done today and tomorrow since I’m off from work. I was originally going to put it under Holdfire Network, but I decided that I did not want to use those resources, so I went ahead and purchased an account at dreamhost.com. I’ve used their services once before, and I was satisfied (although I didn’t stick with it) so I decided to take my business with them this time. I considered mediatemple.com, but if DH doesn’t cut it for me in the next few days, I’ll just get a refund, and go with MT.

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Edit: I ended up going with Dreamhost. So far things are going great. I ended up just googling for a pomotional code, and got the first package for $22 for the first year. I love the internet.

I’m a member of a couple of commenting sites, Despair.nu and Rouged.org. From each of them I’ve endured many ridiculously awful websites, but for some of them I’ve left legit comments, and others sites I just can’t bring myself to comment.

I received a comment on my previous entry, Site Updates from Lena of cherirose.com. Normally I’d be grateful for the comment, and will even visit their site to return the gesture, but upon actually reading the comment, I became annoyed, yet amused.

Hello my name is Lena and i am suppose to comment on your site so i am commenting. Nice blog site you have here. Plain and simple.

I, uh, uhm… ? So I sent her an e-mail giving her a “heads up” that a commenting network (eg: rouged.org) is for actually leaving legitmate comments, and not something that replicates a carbon copy of a spam e-mail. You visit the website, read the entry, and post a comment in regards to that entry. So of course I got your typical and expected snooty e-mail.

I’ve already sent several replies to her replies, but to sum it up she uses the ever-so popular excuse of “it’s the internet,” “get over it,” “I can do whatever I want,” and various other statements that I would say when I was twelve years old, and not twenty-nine as her website states.

Either way, for future reference: If you’re going to leave a comment on my site, please read the entry and comment in regards to the entry. Also make sure it’s because you want to comment not because you’re “supposed to comment.”

I’m currently doing some live-editing for atourworst.org so you may see some fatal ;P PHP errors here and there from activating new plug ins, and tweaking around some coding.

For the past few days I’ve really been trying to work on making this site more accessible and cleaning up pages to make things more ‘neat.’ I’ve added a new contact form, sitemap, as well as some new plug ins: Friends RSS Aggregator, Movie Ratings (though I’m having compatibility issues, so it’s currently deactivated until I get some support from the author), and an Events Calender (that reads from Google Calendar) but it was configured for PHP 5, so I’ll have to look into seeing if I can change it for PHP 4.x.

One thing’s for sure is that I’m really in the mood to start creating stylesheets for livejournal again. Might spend my day tomorrow working on a few to put up for download. This site needs some more content!

Edit: This disaster is a result of being up until 4:15am. I’ll fix this later on, for now, deal with horrendous CSS and random PHP errors. Can’t. Stay. Awake.