I gotta get in the habit of working out. I hate working out. I also hate the fact that my ass has expanded just enough to make my pants into Floods.

Hrmph. Ten freakin’ pounds to lose.

Well, it seems I put way way too much on my plate this semester. While it isn’t really all that much; one in person class 2x a week, one on line class that takes up way more time than a regular class, one full time job and one part time job … I just don’t have the energy to LOOK for the desire to STUDY.

I dislike my full time job, passionately. Nobody there is happy, ever. My bosses are not helping things, and often they make it worse.

Other events include the fact that my dog injured himself sometime last night. I was in bed and heard him cry out. I got up and touched his legs, feet, head, face, jaws, neck, back, stomach (etc.) trying to locate the source of the pain. He was limping (favoring the front right leg - not paw).

I took him to the vet (where I work my part time job). One of the doc.s looked at him and verified my theory that it was his “elbow” or “shoulder”. Since we cannot determine if it is a bone or soft-tissue problem, BUT he does put some weight on it (he is walking) she didn’t think an x-ray would be able to tell much at this time. I left with my still-gimpy dog, a bottle of Rimadyl (for temporary relief). I will not give this to him long term, since it can have ill effects on his LIVER.

Anyway, I left with the pain meds, and some glucosamine chewies that he really seems to like. I hope he finds some relief and that it was just a pulled muscle or strain and not anything severe. He’s an old dog (13 years old in Feb. 2009) and I want him to have a happy rest of his life.

That sums it up. I have to leave for work at the vet very soon (in about 15 minutes - not that it will be relevant when you will be reading this), and then I get to come home and study for two exams (one on line to be completed by 10 pm tonight, and the other is Tuesday evening after a full day of regular work).

Happy up-and-coming-no way to avoid it - Monday

I made a new masthead. I like it… I hope you like it too.

Movies I have recently enjoyed… either on DirecTV or NetFlix:

The Invisible (2007)

The Lookout (2007)

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

Ok… I am a bit late in sharing the news. I have had an iPhone 3G since the day after they were released. I have been having too much fun with it to log in to WP to talk about it. 

I have many (goodies) accessories to go with it, and will come back to give details and reviews about some of the things I have tried.

I hope to re-design a header that is actually a GOOD design very soon. The one I have up now is crap, but I wanted to put SOMETHING up.

I have sold quite a few dishwasher magnets on ZAZZLE… check it out at www.zazzle.com/slimeyapple its price is very fair and everyone could use a clean / dirty dishwasher magnet!

I just installed Flock, an alternative to web-browser juggling. It seems unique to me, and helps you out by putting all of your accounts and services in an easy access side bar. Log in and out of facebook, flickr, weblogs, gmail, and many many other services available to us on-line.

Flock is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux. Get it now and stay connected!

Well, as much as I adored Gdisk, it somehow stopped working, and now I cannot access the crap I had stored therein. (Most of it was just there as a transfer from work to home - or home to work, and I had retrieved it as I needed it).

There is an alternative if you need remote webspace for backup or storage. Mozy.

Mozy! (free 2 GB of storage) check it out.

Dear Apple,

I would like to make a GUI-based suggestion regarding iTunes. When I browse through my music in the “info” window - there is no way to preview the song being viewed.

Sometimes, I RIP my CDs in a location where I am not connected to the internet, and this causes me to have to enter the information (or at least use a plug in to verify) for the tags.

If there was a PREVIEW button on the interface of the info window, that would be sweet. (See Illustration below)

Once again, I had managed to screw up my template.
update… 6 May 2007
That is the one thing I am not so happy with about Wordpress. Actually, it is the ONLY thing.

When I decided to start this weblog, I wanted to check out Wordpress rather than use Blogger (which is what I use with some other sites I have managed).

For those other sites, I authored and designed all of the CSS and HTML that corresponds with it in a text editor. For this site I hacked up a theme by someone else in the “ready-made” cheater templates. (I only hacked it a little bit, because it is truely a nice theme).

I think I have it all back in place, and now I can continue with regular writing. actually start writing on a regular basis.

Finally, after MONTHS of hoping, wishing and searching; an application that seeks out updates for ALL of your (OS X) applications at once.

AppFresh is an utility that keeps all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and makes downloading and installing them a breeze.

AppFresh covers software updates from Apple and third parties and can be used as a replacement for Apple’s own Software Update application to provide one central place to make sure you’re up to date.

Ok, I’m convinced! get it!