after much strenuous brain-expanding and such, I finally agreed with myself on a new layout for my site.
I think it’s more eye-catching, and while the graphics took me all of 10 minutes to create (I already had the paw-brushes made from some project a long while ago), it manages to NOT look like I just made it the other day 
the paw-print background is actually really cute, I think, and I love how subtle it is. I was worried it’d be too busy, then realized if I made the actual paws/stars really light, it wouldn’t be too busy. the MG2 script I was using for my drawings works like a dream with the new layout, and I edited the stupid problem where if you’d click on a medium-sized picture to seemingly LARGEN it, it would just shove you back to the gallery page the picture was on. Now it opens a full-size version in a new window. yaaay that was a problem I thought about over lunch and figured it was probably linked separately, and lo and behold, it was!!
brendan was actually playing with my hair through most of the hard scripting of the site, which was really nice. I love having my hair played with =^.^=
I also managed to embed my LJ on there, though I had to disable links (a simple disabling of the header div in the external css box for paid accounts) since there wasn’t a way I could find to easily open those links in a new window. my friends would probably appreciate the privacy, anyway. my commission information is updated, in case you prefer the less-expensive receipt doddling service I provide (only $2!!), and I added the exorbitantly expensive $50 acrylic painting! yay! I also decided to charge an arm and a leg for my detailed grayscale realistic images, since they take a while. I really enjoy doing them though and feel guilty for charging so much when I love drawing them so much 
but they’re superior in quality, I think, or maybe not! who knows!
aaanyway –
lemme know whatcha think!!
in case my previous link hint wasn’t enough of a clue, here’s another link:
yaaaay! my new layout!
aaaand…
as you know, cheese is good.
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
I work in tech support in fremont. You get a lot of idiots calling, and most of them are tolerable in the humorous way. I got one today who I discovered was the very last bit of my fuse (which has lasted since last December!!) anyway. this is my rant. enjoy.
this is from months of pent up swear-words I have not allowed myself to repeat externally (outside my brain/iming with coworkers).
1.) I DON’T GIVE A SHIT IF YOUR OTHER UNIT DID IT THAT WAY. our unit does it -this- fucking way, and I wouldn’t tell you to do it this way if your way were WORKING, you DUMBSHIT.
2.) don’t EVER tell me I’m wrong. I’m the one helping your ass. If you knew how to do it, would you be calling like the stupid asshole you are?
3.) RF is the one that screws in — you obviously know nothing about screwing.
4.) I hope you do fucking electrocute yourself trying to set your drive to slave, you stupid cheapskate who won’t even give true technicians their due. They get paid to do it FOR A REASON.
5.) SPEAKING of recording to dvds, I DON’T GIVE A SHIT if a vhs lets you overwite it ten bazillion times. DVDs are not VHS. DVDs are DIGITAL — do you get mad because your DIGITAL watch doesn’t have hands? It’s got date, time, alarm and even STOPWATCH capability, but it doesn’t have hands? go stick your cock in a meatgrinder, nobody needs your genetics screwing the pool
6.) yea, I’m a chick, and I don’t give a shit if you’re sexist. If -you- need help, maybe you’re a girl by your own standards.
7.) go stick your broken out of warranty machine in your ass for all I care. Bitching at me about your state of affairs isn’t going to make me suddenly MORE LIKELY to forego all RMA procedures and magically FIX your unit for you. If anything, you’re likely to end up on my favorite “FUCK YOU TOO” list.
8.) I’m sorry your half-brother’s aunt’s cousin’s uncle’s brother died, but that isn’t going to suddenly make your unit work again.
9.) we make HARDWARE. if your SOFTWARE is screwing up, what the hell do you expect us to do?
10.) DON’T FUCKING LIE. it’s like going to the doctor to find out if you’re pregnant — if you pretend you’ve never had sex, you think he’s gonna figure it’s another immaculate conception? for that matter, how’ll you keep yourself from GETTING pregnant if you pretend like you DIDN’T have sex? shitforbrains. SHIT FOR BRAINS.
11.) whining to my boss isn’t going to suddenly extend your warranty period, so go get ms. immaculate conception up there pregnant and she’ll deny it to the day she births and probably even after that, and you’ll be happy to have FINALLY gotten some even though the chick didn’t even notice and you’ll be OUT OF MY HAIR
12.) if I’m suddenly nice you can BET I’m being my most sarcastic.
13.) RCA cables. they connect DVD players to televisions. it’s like not having to wind up your watch to keep the time going. better picture, better quality recording, everything’s BETTER. If you’re getting a dvd player, get a tv while you’re at it, and you won’t get shitty quality on your shitty tv and you won’t have to bitch about it.
okay most of that didn’t make sense, but shit, I’m fucking TIRED of jerkoffs who know more than I do yet need help setting up a dvd burner. As for those of you who don’t know where to plug a usb cable, well, you’re probably the worst off. Get off the computer, find an abacus, and have fun counting the beads.
when I worked at fry’s, the hardest part for me was when someone left and started working somewhere else. didn’t expect a lot of that here, since fry’s had a lot more turnover than liteon does. It’s most especially difficult since it’s Brendan, who’s basically one of the few guys who I think is cute/hot but I don’t have a crush on. He’s like a cousin, or something. I’d say brother, but all the guys who were brotherly for me tended to be uhm — well you know
anyway.
Congratulations, Brendano, and I’m proud of you and happy that you’ll be doing what you want to do FINALLY. You had a rough couple of years, and actually being able to do what you started out doing before life fucked with you is an awesome accomplishment. It’s startling, but unexpected, since we all knew you wanted to get out and go on to bigger and better things. It’s no less painful though, and I’m going to miss you here for a long time. You’ll be like that arm the veteran is missing, but keeps feeling.
*hughug*
I’ll miss you :\
you’d better stick around — the kid likes to fall asleep on you…
seems that I’m using these IMs at work:
lorikitty@gmail.com – google talk
lorijean2000 – aim
lorijean2000 -msn
and these IMs at home:
lorikitty@gmail.com – msn
t3hlorikitty – aim
t3hlorikitty – yahoo
lorikitty – dalnet
lorikitty – xfire
45932969 – ICQ
hope that makes things easier for everybody, so ya’ll know where I’m talking to you from 
so we had the kid and he’s cute and big for his age (already fittinginto 6 month clothes, and he’s only 2 and a half months ) and gotback in touch with his auntie and uncle FINALLY (I finally rememberedmy aunt’s last name, looked her up on whitepages.com and found theirnumber) and now we’re in touch and gonna STAY that way this time. =-.0=I disappeared inside me and I think that had a lot to do with it. Ikept trying to remember maggie’s last name while having those months tomyself of no work, but I never managed to until now. being pregnantwarps your memory big time anyway! he wasn’t really very red at all,but he sure was hungry all the time, heh
it was awesome awesome to see my sister again, and my brother in law.they don’t seem to mind my incessant chatter much. the hubby andbrother in law got on pretty well from what I saw, having aconversation on their half of the table. Jaiden was his usual gigglyself
*wiggle wiggle*
(copied from myspace blog)
in Reno, Jaiden’s junior-nina (his nina’s sister vicky) gave Jaiden a plastic bracelet, the kind the just slip on, no latches or anything. He likes to put it in his mouth. His nina was showing him how to hold it, and switch it from one hand to the other, and then she would pretend it was a steering wheel. He aboslutely loved it. He’s still waving it around, throwing it — the best part is it’s improved his grip, and taught him how to hold things. He keeps trying to hold his bottle, and he’s pretty good at it for a few minutes, but then it always falls and makes him cry. It’s really cute seeing him hold it and getting blankets tangled up in his hands while trying to grip the bottle
yay! on the way to work I got a flat. bleh. was on 680 heading to Fremont, and right after the Landess exit my car started going “thoomp thoomp thoomp” and we figured out I got a flat (was with the best-friend, Laura)
sooo, I sneak over all four lanes of highway to the side near the Calaveras exit, set my blinkers on, and go crazy calling people to tell them HEEELP
meanwhile, my mind’s going 2 million miles an hour, wondering what to do. I know I need a spare, and a jack, and one of those doohickeys that turns the screws on the wheel. so I tell Laura to call people at work for help and I busy myself with the trunk, pulling out the spare and the jack and the doohickey that turns the screws. I’m not sure how to use the jack, but I know how to take the screws out, so I set laura to figuring out how the jack works while I loosen the screws enough to unscrew them by hand (Cause that doohickey is unwieldy!)
soooo Laura and I finally figure out you have to turn this lil thing on the front of the jack like a screw, and it’s a sloooow process getting the car high enough to take the tire off, but WE DID IT! and then we got the spare on, and the jack lowered (we couldn’t figure out the quick-release so we just unscrewed it slowly). By the time the jack was loose enough to pull out, we realized the spare was flat :\ I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to look like that or not though, so I just drove the car off the calaveras exit and went to a 76 at the end of the exit. They changed the tire and gave me a brand-new one for 95 bucks (including tax I guess). The whole thing made Laura and I late for work by an hour and a half, which isn’t too bad considering these things can take a while.
sooo, I’m all proud of us now, cause WE CHANGED A TIRE! and neither of us had any idea what we were doing!
haha, liteon tech support is awesome we figure things out together =^.^=
(shutup brendan and royce )
aaanyway
as for the tire thingy, it was only worn out in one spot and it was on the other side of the tire near the car, so whenever I checked I couldn’t see that it was worn out, and the threading on the far side was fine so I didn’t think it’d wear out unevenly — in any case, the car’s going in for a “check-up” soon (maybe the end of the week?) and the other three will likely get replaced also.
I didn’t know tires wore out unevenly =o.O=
sooo, anybody who thinks they have okay hunkey-dorey tires, MAKE SURE to check the OTHER SIDE (somehow, how the hell do you do that anyway??!?)
also, that stupid metal stuff sticking out of the tires on the other side cut my middle-finger 
just a flesh wound! but it’s annoying having this bandaid on when I’m trying to type >.<
on the way in to work after we got the tire fixed, I got a caffeinated soda and some chocolate, so now I'm HYPER HYPER HYPER and typing a bazillion miles an hour hehehe
left friday, came back yesterday, and I SLEPT FOR 12 HOURS STRAIGHT! (cept to feed the kid at one point)
kid’s all baptized now, and fussy cause his nina kept giving him attention.
post piccies later.
*runs off to work*
oh, btw, was in reno! with Jaiden’s god-parents and everybody else there (and my in-laws came along too)
