I'm competing in <a href="http://nanowrimo.org/" title="External Link: NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo »</a> once again, only this time I will endeavor to <em>win</em>. For those who are not familiar with the event, NaNoWriMo is a competition to see who can write 50,000 words for their own story throughout the entire month of November. It's nothing truly special and exciting, but I suppose it's more of an event to get people to write than it is for people to compete against each other.

Last year was absolute disaster for me, as I neither plotted, nor planned the story out. Normally stories come to me, but without some key plotting, it falls through. This year, however, will be different, as I've plotted most of it, and I also have some handy-dandy articles on Grammar, in which case I knew almost everything I read. I thought I'd be learning something new, but I suppose not.

Now, once nanowrimo.org stops being the slowest site on the face of the Internet, I will update my profile and install the plugin again. :D Win!

Not dressing up this Halloween; this in no way means I believe I'm too old (or some such nonsense) but because I have no money to buy a costume, and I don't have much of a wardrobe to pull something out of my back pocket.

Movies, candy and creepy music are awaiting me this night, however. Sure, it's not truly exciting, but still: candy, candy and more candy is the key, including the spirit. :D

<strong>Oh, and sorry</strong> for the long(gggggg) time of no blogging. Lack of internet, time and motivation hit me and honestly, I'm so tired of typing and being in front of a computer, I just want to sob into a huge bowl of warm water and soak my eyes and fingers.

…is actually the name of a site I know, and I just realized this. Alas, I am too lazy to edit it, so it'll stay. On topic, I have a million excuses as to why I didn't blog, but I forgot them because I was traveling in Spain and some Spanish man picked me up and made me his (willing and happy) slave for a week. Or something.

<strong>I was accepted as a developer</strong> at <a href="http://thefanlistings.org/" title="External Link: The Fanlistings.org">The Fanlistings »</a>, along with three others! :D It's definitely spiffy enough to <em>squuueeeeee</em> about!

<strong>Indiana Jones marathon</strong> tomorrow! As my Dad got the new one, I had to devote a day to watching all of them, since I've never watched them; this means that I actually have to keep my antsy ass in one place for at least six hours.

<strong>I cleaned my room</strong> and it's shiiinnyyyy! I usually devote a whole day to it, at least once a month, but still; it's nice walking on vacuumed carpets and laying down on clean (and hairless!) sheets! :D

<a href="http://cutthisbullet.deviantart.com/" title="Deviantart.com">dA (deviantArt)</a> is bombtastic (and yes I know I linked to my own account, shut up), no lie! I also love the photography (and illustration) there, it's amazing. Or maybe it's just <a href="http://mehmeturgut.deviantart.com/art/after-massacre-70319364" title="External Link: 'After Massacre' by mehmeturgut">this deviation »</a> that makes me giggle almost hysterically. Which gets me thinking about how many favorites I have, as I had to <em>dig</em> that one out. *mutters*

<strong>Oh, and new layout</strong>. I'm not one for devoting a whole entry to something I see as pointless (at least with my own site), so yeah. And it's rotating images!

I'd thought I'd have more <a href="http://lyone.net/questions-comments-and-whys" title="The 'Questions, Comments and Whys' post">» irritation on steroids</a>-type posts, but I think when I think of Lyone, I'm in a good mood, instead of the other way around. D:

<strong>I hate most smileys</strong>, but anime smilies irritate me the most. Honestly, I had to ask a friend what the added <samp>;</samp> and <samp>^^^^</samp> (that one was a bit exaggerated, blame it on my possessed fingers) were, and she answered "they're sweat drops". My response? "…so?" WHY have "sweat drops", when you can just say "I'm nervous" or "I'm angry", because I'll understand you a whole hell of lot better that way.

<strong>I hate feminism</strong>, and I hate women who think they've been "wronged" when a guy tells them they're lower than sheep. Honestly, <em>it's not that bad</em>, and even if it were, joining an activist group about it isn't going to solve a damn thing. Men have been wronged just as much as women, and I do believe women have more rights and can get away with a whole lot more now than before. When <em>you've</em> been assaulted in an inappropriate manner by <em>two different guys</em>, then come and talk your bullshit to me.

<strong>Flickr and WordPress</strong> are <del>one of</del> the slowest services of the planet of the internet. Bloated WordPress will probably always work like a snail, but Flickr takes the gold.

<strong>I hate getting mad and then finding I'm not as mad as I thought</strong>, I really do. I have a whole lot of mean bones in my body, I just can't seem to hold onto them worth a damn. Boooo me!

As I stated in <a href="love-could-be-a-busy-thing" title="Entry 'Love Could Be a Busy Thing'">» this entry</a>, I'm not lacking in hobbies or things to do; however, creativity comes in weird and outrageous forms, such as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVp57Pn9xEY" title="'The Roasted Testies' at YouTube">this video »</a> my sisters and I made yesterday. "The Roasted Testies" is something that came to mind a couple of months ago (along with the whole boy band idea) but they built onto it, no doubt. It took thirty to forty minutes to make, but two hours to edit the damn thing (and a sacrifice of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)" title="TV show NCIS at Wikipedia"><abbr title="Naval Criminal Investigative Service">NCIS</abbr> »</a> *cries*) in which I found myself breaking down and wishing I had a Mac for about an hour to use iMovie.

Tomorrow is <strong>three</strong> weeks of no Coke…or soda in general (and I'm not counting the tiny sips once a week I steal from my Dad) and that stuns me. The only time I truly miss it is when there's nothing else to drink. Like right now, for instance.

<strong>It's October</strong>, and I swear last October was three months ago, not a year. Time really does fly when you get older, but I have a feeling the computer helps. :P

A serious cut of my sites is going down soon. I keep saying this to myself, but perhaps saying it to Lyone might help. The overall upkeep of it is stressing, so one or two (or eight) sites might not be making the cut.

Instead of doing the dishes right now, I'm doing this because this is funner and doesn't involve gooey Sloppy Joe's from last night. Procrastinating, <abbr title="For the Win">ftw</abbr>!

A couple of months ago I started working on a fix of for <a href="http://codegrrl.com/faq/what-happened-to-flinx-phpfanbase" title="External Link: What happened to Flinx at Codegrrl">Flinx »</a> (the Collective version), which started as nothing serious (I happened to start it on a internet-less day). However, it's turned into something I'm enjoying and finding useful at the same time. First off, it's a complete revamp of the actual script, with multiple categories, with possibly a multi-site version. The only thing left to do it test it, edit it, beta test it and then release it.

Despite it's very heavy development, I'm wondering if it's worth it. Would it be worth the hassle, or is it a one hit wonder script that's better left dead? Also, Flinx Collective happens to tie into <strong>PHPFanBase</strong>, which needs a rewrite itself (or possibly the "Dead" stamp and a move on, in which both I'm not touching). The likes of <a href="http://scripts.indisguise.org/" title="External Link: Enthusiast">Enthusiast »</a> (and NinjaLinks coming soon by <a href="http://jemjabella.co.uk/" title="External Link: Jem of jemjabella.co.uk">Jem »</a>) would most likely make this a useless script also (call me stingy, but I find having several scripts of the same thing to be a bit useless and too time consuming), so that gives me another thing to think about. This wouldn't be my first script, but it would be the first script I've released publicly, and I want to make sure it'd be useful to <em>somebody</em> and of course, worth the hassle of the upkeep.

<strong>Monday:</strong> The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Worth Week, <abbr title="Crime Scene Investigation">CSI</abbr> Miami
<strong>Tuesday:</strong> NCIS, The Mentalist, Law and Order: <abbr title="Special Victims Unit">SVU</abbr>
<strong>Wednesday:</strong> The New Adventures of the Old Christine
<strong>Thursday:</strong> Smallville, Supernatural, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

(This doesn't include regular reruns each day of TV shows (Family Guy, Simpsons, Little House on the Prairie, etc))

I think I might be a bit <em>too</em> obsessed with TV. I've always loved cinema, but this list (compiled in my mind just recently) made me think just how much time I devote to TV. It's not as if I haven't the time for anything; I clean everyday (think modern house maid), I read, I write, I code and design on the web, I dabble in photography, I watch movies, I'm learning Spanish, I ramble and rave about fashion (a look at my desk and a hear at my conversations could tell you that), so I'm not completely lacking in hobbies.

I guess I just have a love for a lot of things, and that makes me wonder if I could possibly love just one more thing.

I may or may not be online. I'd like to say I'm going on vacation to Alaska to hang with the wolves, but I'm just hanging around the house and pretending to have some importance in life. Woo for me!

<strong>Tooth aches kill</strong>, they really do. I hate them, and it seems I'm the only one destined in my family to have bad teeth. Because crooked and gapped teeth isn't enough, is it?

<strong>I'm learning Spanish</strong> and being in my seemingly first year of it (it's being self-taught, so I'm going by what my sister <em>should've</em> learned), I'm realizing that Americans can't talk worth a damn. Even Spanish people (back in the 70's, which was when the book was made) spell cities and words the same way that some European countries do. We fail, we really do. I would try changing my language and spelling to the right way of things, but that would mean adding all those words to my browsers dictionary, which I'm entirely too lazy for.

<strong>One week and two days</strong> since I last drank coke, and I'm <del>hating</del> loving every minute if it. I'm trying to see how long I can go before I guiltily take that first drink. I could go forever without it, honestly, but it tastes good. D:

<strong>I'm typing this on a Windows Vista</strong> and so far so good. Except I can't install my <del>hacked</del> Adope Photoshop CS on here, which miffs me. And it feels cluttery, but it's very shiny, and it's very fitting for the computer retarded (as if I don't understand what "Add/Remove Programs" could ever be! *slaps hands to face*). I'm still harcore "WINDOWS XP FTW BITCHES!", but I wouldn't mind an <em>extra</em> laptop with it.

<strong>Supernatural sucked, Smallville rocked</strong> is all I'm saying. I love Sam, but not only has his hair needed a good hairstyle for the past THREE SEASONS, but the new character's actress is horrible. Smallville was awesome, however, and it's definitely opening up several leads to a new season. :P

I've been avoiding the 2008 Election (and politics in general) like the Plague. With religion, I believe politics is just a dog-eats-dog world, and makes the United States looks like idiots. I love my country, but I admit, we're a whole bunch of American-rednecks who thinks we're on top of the world and everyone else should be bowing down to us. In and all, that makes me sad and because of that, I avoid politics.

However, <a href="http://blog.haley.nu" title="External Link: Haley.nu">Haley »</a> <a href="http://blog.haley.nu/on-sarah-palin" title="External Link: 'On Sarah Palin' as blog.haley.nu">made a few good points »</a> on McCain (one of the candidates) and his vice-president. Like her, I was all for Hillary, not just as a woman, but because she had something worth-while to say. I'm not going to vote for Obama because he's black and I'm not voting for McCain because he's a white man and I want to carry on the tradition. I don't want to vote for either, because neither of them have said a damn thing that will help this country. United States is in a pithole from hell that Bush dug, and unfortunately, zeroing in on Gay rights (or lack therfore), birth control rights or even the war on Iraq is not going to change a damn thing.

It's sad, because anyone would think after going through <em>so much</em>, that the United States would endeavor to keep what happened before from happening again, but we as a whole must be suckers for our own punishment. Upon hearing my Dad's opinion on what would happen if there's an apocalypse made me even more sad; it showed his lack of trust in any other country but our own: if another country has something big and better than us, we should go to war with them. If that's not an Bush-attitude, I don't know what is.

Another point would be Global Warming; there's not one point, because, as we cannot technically solve the problem, that would only mean we don't know what the problem is. To say it's all man-made is stupid: the world is <em>old</em> and like my old pajama pants, they're going to be falling apart eventually. <em>But</em>, that's not to say it's all nature-based. Like those afore-mentioned pajamas, with a little help, I can make them almost brand-spanking-new. Global Warming is happening, and just because there's seemingly no reason as to why, it doesn't mean we can't help.

Now that <em>that</em> is out of the way, I'm going to ignore the fact that I mentioned anything about an election or it's problems. 18 or no, I will also endeavor not to vote, because I so did <em>not</em> purposely forget the voting pamphlet when I got my ID.

People over at <a href="http://animefanlistings.org/" title="External Link: The Anime Fanlistings.org">TAFL »</a> have a really bad habit of displaying the "You link me = I link you" rule, and never before has it annoyed me as it has now. Out of 40+ sites of trouble checking, I have only come by <strong>three</strong> who have not used this rule (and two didn't even have the "rules" pages).

I find it's <del>a bit like a case of copying if every fanlisting has this rule</del> annoying and irrational because a) it's not a required, and b) while it's a required rule for almost all networks to list <em>all</em> members, they still tend to display it anyways. It comes along the lines of:

<p class="tc">"You are not required to have a site, however, you are required to link back. If you do not, I will not link your website."</p>

<strong>WHY?</strong> I understand the whole links and hits thing going on (especially if it's a clique) but a fan<strong>listing</strong> is more or less "a listing of fans"; no where does it say "a listing of links". I thought that people who create a fanlisting for something they love you know…love it, not have a million and eighty rules about linking back to the fanlisting you <em>love</em>. A fanlisting in which I have to enable JavaScript to work, search around for the damn navigation (thanks, I really appreciate the whole "Click the stars to navigate!" reminder – it makes it <em>so</em> much easier) and when I finally get to where I want to be, I have to scroll all the way down to find what I'm looking for.

I know <a href="http://rain-dance.org/" title="External Link: Rain Dance">Amber »</a> <a href="http://rain-dance.org/trouble-checking-woes/" title="External Link: 'Trouble Checking Woes' at Rain Dance">touched on this »</a> a bit before, but it's still annoying me to no end. Usually ranting makes me feel better, but my eye still hurts from all the twitching it's been doing. I could just talk to a senior staff at either network, but what's the point? It's nothing serious; while part of me wants to make a dramatic exit to the trouble checking world because of this, helping out is more important to me than complaining about the things that annoy me…to other people, that is.

(Happy entry coming to a internet near you! Or something.)

Before I blow the top of my head off with the amount of angry steam boiling inside me, I'll take a quick minute and ask (rhetorical) questions about the things that more or less are bothering me.

<strong>It takes one to know one</strong> is a saying that goes through my mind when our neighbors call us selfish and are implying that everyone <em>but</em> them is. Sorry, but it <em>does</em> take one to know one.

<strong>To all babbler mouths:</strong> shut the hell up. Don't talk about shutting the hell up, just do it. Talking about people behind their backs will hit you back tenfold, believe you me.

<strong>Rejections make for bad timing.</strong> Why is it <a href="http://thefanlistings.org/" title="External Link: The Fanlistings.org">fanlisting »</a> rejections come at the worst time possible? Is it enough that my life is slightly askew and a 45mm would come in handy right about now? *eerie pause* I suppose not.

<strong>I have never met someone who wasn't goo goo gah gah over a crush</strong> and I seriously doubt I ever will. Telling us about said crush isn't enough, so therefore everyone in hearing distance <em>must</em> know about everything going on with you two, only leaving out your sex life (which is kind of the only thing worth hearing, anyway).

<strong>Acting your age is overrated</strong>, I hear, but when your 25 years old and still acting like a 14-year-old, I think it's time you wake up and smell the damn adulthood. There's no reason to be freaking out over "having some dick" or "uploading myspace pictures", when your <em>25 years old</em>!

<strong>End</strong>. That felt good, and honestly, the anger and wrath inside me needs to be released. I rather do it to poor old Lyone, then to some stranger walking down the street who happens to run into me.

<abbr title="The magazine Gentleman's Quarterly">GQ</abbr> <strong>makes for happy times. But maybe it's the men.</strong> It could be, and I try to talk myself into that, but it's the clothes <em>and</em> the men. WIN.

Thanks to dear old <a href="http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/update/index.html?from=hurricane_tracker%255C" title="Hurricane Fay at weather.com">Fay</a>, I might be without out internet for a good few days. Never mind the power which I doubt will be very lasting, or the lack of communication (my "area" makes for bed reception all around), or the feeling of wanting to change shirts every five minutes, or the lack of canned goods my parents failed to buy, but the lack of internet might kill me. (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tesserini/2740672216/in/set-72157606650235139/" title="Lexion, my computer">Lexion</a>, who was born in late 2006, lacks the necessary components to actually have wireless internet (thanks crap computer, for the wonderful router you house)).

However, honestly, I'm hoping we have power by Friday/Saturday; it's not the lack of activities we can do, but the strains of it being ridiculously hot and humid (and the inability to make it better) might makes us all scratch each others eyes out.

(Yes, the layout has changed. I'm not sure if anybody notices or <em>cares</em>, but there you go. I like this one a lot for the fact that when I use to my sister's 1024 by 768 laptop and view Lyone, I am greeted with a slightly smaller but sufficiently pleasing layout (I knew there was a reason for resolution-friendly websites!) instead of suffering claustrophobia with several other sites. Or the fact that you get to view my <del>amazing</del> skills via Flickr.)

So the past week hasn't been any busier than average, but all in all, it's left me somewhat mollified. Saturday was amazing in the sense that I got my new USB cord via my wonderful Dad (who happened to celebrate his <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tesserini/2764100010/" title="External Link: Dad's 50th at Flickr">50th birthday Wednesday »</a>), although the original problem came up <em>again</em>; long story short, I need a memory card and a memory card converter. Yay, more money to spend! :O

Monday passed by without incident and my Mom stayed home Tuesday and Wednesday (which was fun; she's a hilarious drunk and a ironically critical movie critic). Tuesday had my Dad, Mom, Nikki and I dressed up and heading out to a court day to give testimonies. It was <del>nerve wracking enough to make me want to vomit all over the defendants lying ass</del> OK, but my Dad took us out to lunch, which was fun. Wednesday was his birthday and despite jones'ing for some herbal medication, the neighbors came by and cheered him up. Thursday passed by and included me playing in the mud and water and avoiding (but not really) the Coke that was in the house.

And yeah. Not too exciting, but enough to say: <del>I was too lazy to blog</del> I was too busy to blog. Anyway, I am off to watch the 80th movie Channing Tatum has played a sport in. I hope he'll do hula hoop sports soon! D:

<ol>
<li>Stay out till 3-4 o'clock in the morning and kick my sister out of her own bed.</li>
<li>Sleep till 2-3 in the afternoon, immediately get up because you <em>have</em> to do your laundry before going to work (despite having been off the day before).</li>
<li>Refuse to pick up my sister because <del>you drank all night</del> you have to go to work.</li>
<li>Throw the clothes that were in the dryer on top of the washer <em>without folding them</em>.</li>
<li>Act like a hurricane has nothing on you by destroying everything in your path.</li>
<li>Refuse to clean out a kitten's sleep box (that'll incidentally take off <em>30 seconds</em> of your life) because you have to go to work.</li>
</ol>

Did you guess this is all from one person? This whole "bitch!queen" act this person has going on has got to <em>stop</em> because, well, there is only room for <em>one</em> "bitch!queen" in the house, and you're not it, person.

<strong>Edit (some four hours later):</strong> So upon installing Wamp Server on my computer (because Xampp decided to just <em>die</em>), I went smoothly through the process of installing and acquainting myself with the program, before realizing: I have no username and password. So upon looking in on phpMyAdmin, I found it and was greeted with this message at the bottom of the page:

<p class="tc">"Your configuration file contains settings ([blank] with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole."</p>

*roll eye* That sounds like my 8-year-old neighbor telling me last year "you really need to shave your armpits." Yes, 8-year-old MySQL database persona! I will fix it because I really should!

Before I start off my half-ramble, I will mention: new theme. It's not done (I kind of stopped mid-process and forgot about it and just haven't felt like dealing with it) and I probably won't be attending to it anytime soon. Part of me wants to get rid of the ugliness and another part of me wants to be a bitch and leave it up in all it's glory. D:

Enter ramble, I have been thinking of ways to better parts of myself. As I figured I couldn't better myself as a whole (call me lazy), I wrote down half of a list of what I would like to accomplish:
<ol>
<li>Over accomplish in my coding. I talking <abbr title="Hypertext Mark-Up Language">HTML</abbr>, <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheet">CSS</abbr>, <abbr title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</abbr>, the likes. I'd like to see where it could get me if I think outside of the box.</li>
<li>Exercise, exercise, exercise. I don't nearly get enough, and I honestly think this is part of my weight problem.</li>
<li>Get rid of the caffeine addiction. This will probably fit right under the "Most Likely To Never Happen As Long as Caffeine Exists" category, but it's worth a try, eh?</li>
</ol>
Of course, I latched onto number one because it happens to be the easiest, and I truly feel I'm accomplishing at least one third of it. As I work with <abbr title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</abbr>, I'm trying to go outside my boundaries; I am currently working on handling errors better (when not to display those naughty "CANNOT REDECLARE function.getMyGrooveOn in /path/to/what/I/don't/want/displayed/" errors), working with displaying categories through <em>two</em> tables and finding my way out of the blocks of <samp>if</samp> <samp>else</samp> that are literally cluttering up my pages. Here's to working at <abbr title="Hypertext Mark-Up Language">HTML</abbr> and <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheet">CSS</abbr> and <em>trying</em> to exercise.