Jordan Riane

A few years ago my top two wisdom teeth came in. No problems with them aside from the fact that they came in at a slight angle. They didn’t disrupt any of my other teeth, so I didn’t feel a need to go to a dentist to see if they needed to be removed. There was some pain here and there, but nothing that some aspirin couldn’t resolve.

My two bottom wisdom teeth have been coming in as slow as molasses. I can feel (with my tongue) a slight peek of the corner tooth on either side. It’s been like that for awhile. Also quite gross because a little bit of food can get stuck in the area, and I’ll end up having to get a tooth pick of sorts to get it out. My tongue, albeit long and masterful at the weird, is not made to be bent backwards nor is it designed with a pitchforked end to get out something from a teeny crevice.

Two days the right wisdom side started to really ache. The gum area was very sensitive and I put it off to be the wisdom tooth trying to pop it’s way out. Yesterday more pain arrived with trying to chew food on the backside. It was so bad that I had to adjust myself and chew on the left side and more in the middle of my mouth. Then I started to really feel the aching in my jaw, lower throat, and cheek though all on the right side. I popped some more aspiring hoping that would dissolve all pain in the area.

This morning I wake up and it hurts to open my mouth as wide as it can go. It’s also very sore when I close my mouth and put pressure on my teeth. I have this odd feeling that this is going to be the worst case scenario. I’m going to have to get it removed, or I’ll end up pulling a Cast Away and using an old ice skate to pop out the bad tooth. Looking around the internet, I’ve found several different variations on what the cause can be since my symptoms are all there, but I have a hunch that I may have an impacted tooth. Regardless, I don’t have any health insurance so I can only imagine how much it’s going to cost just to get an evaluation done, let alone surgery to remove the tooth.

My mom told me to talk to my old dentist whom I’ve been seeing for well over 12 years. They’ve received a lot of business from us (hello, family of five!) I mean in 2004 I spent about $2,000 for some dental work! I hope that they can cut me some kind of minimal discount, or if they can’t do that, set up some sort of payment plan for me. I’m going to try to get around to doing that today, but I might not be able to. I’ve got a lot of work on my plate right now and I want to make sure I get that done. :3

Well, I finally decided to finish up the design I had started the other day; I managed to integrate most of the coding into WordPress. Which was less than irritating because I also had to port on over a few template pages that are being used for a few pages. The best is that I managed to *finally* use conditional tags for the sidebar so that you don’t see the same useless crap on every page (though it’s yet to be configured to have proper information on each page; I’ll get around to that.) I also found a fantastic function to help with displaying child pages when on a parent page.

I’ve never been able to find a snippet of code that would allow me to show child pages, and still show the child pages while on a child page of the parent page (did that make any sense!) Regardless, if you’re interested in ditching a plugin you might be using, here’s the snippet of coding you can use:

post->post_parent) ) { $parent = $wp_query->post->ID; } else { $parent = $wp_query->post->post_parent; } wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$parent"); ?>

Anyway, I think I have most of site working properly. I haven’t tested it for valid XHTML and CSS, but I’ll get around to it eventually. It’s mainly the posts I have to clean through because I’m quite careless when I’m blogging, just not when I’m coding. Let me know what you think, and if you’ve got any suggestions/critiques, etc. All is welcome ;op

PS – This design is not fluid, and currently is not fully function in IE6 and is somewhat dilapidated in IE7.

One of these days I’ll get back into the habit of updating my blog more than a few times every couple of weeks. I do have things to write about, but I just never get around to doing it. By the time I remember, I figure it’s not even worth writing about it anymore since time has passed.

I haven’t been up to much lately–just work, going to school, and my usual Thursday outings. This pas Thursday was definitely a doozy. I went there with $20 and managed to come home with $3. I think that only happened because I had Amy buy me a few drinks too. And we didn’t buy as much beer as we had before. This time I opted for Jager Bombs and Cherry Vodka Bombs. Needless to say that despite getting home at like 1am, I was ridiculously inebriated. I admit that a few months ago I complained about drinking and how I thought it was just unnecessary. Yes, I am a hypocrite. But whatever!

New layout is about 85% done. I ended up scrapping the original design I had (though I’m sure I’ll save it to replace the current one when the time is near.) It’s really cute. Nixed my original idea to use dark colors and when with some more bright, cheery colors. I also vowed not to use fluid width–it’s all fixed and is *not* for IE users [at the moment.]

I’m in class right now using an outdated version of Safari (for Mac) and it actually looks perfect. Now if only IE would stop being a dickhead and just display it how it really looks without some stupid hack.

Other than that, life is pretty basic as of late. Need to play major catch up with my Office 2007 class though. I missed a.. “few” assignments… I have a bunch due this week, and a test. I have a bunch of work to make up for my Int Tech class too, since I haven’t been able to get there.

Time to go back to slaving away with Illustrator.

So a week ago I blogged about how I was going to put up a new design. Obviously that ended up falling through. I really did intend on putting up a new design! I still have Photoshop open with a few concepts I had started up. There’s one I believe that I’m going to stick to. It’s definitely different from what I’ve done thus far, so hopefully it’ll come out nicely once I start slicing and coding it out.

I ended up getting sidetracked with a side project, MyWHMCS, which is where I’ve been working on customized templates for WHMCS. I ended up getting an order form done, and am about 75% complete with the template for the actual system itself. I think a lot of time will just be spent cleaning up things that aren’t used like icons. I’ll also have to really organize and put out a detailed README file for it, because it’s pretty intricate. I think the only thing that really needs to be combed with a fine tooth brush is the stylesheet. It’s almost 1,000+ lines right now, and I’m not even done coding. I think what I’ll end up having to do is using the same table style (yeah, it’s for data so stfu!) rather than each one having their own styles applied. It’ll definitely remove a BUNCH of coding and ease that load time.

It’s a little later than I had planned on staying up. I’m going with the guys at work to a business expo in the area, and they got seats for breakfast which is at 8am. That means I’ll have to be up around 6:30am to get ready. I am not a morning person, so I wonder if I can pull off getting up early, AND getting ready to be out of the house by 7:45am at the latest. Aruuugh.

Holdfire Network ended up getting featured in a few different CSS galleries in the past week or so: css20.com, cssglance.com, cssbased.com, and cssgalerie.com.