Fun, Fun, Fun!

February 1, 1998

I upgraded to the latest version of Frontier the other day... but after I did, I didn't try publishing any more pages with it. Probably a good thing at the time, because I just spent an hour or so this morning banging my head against the monitor and trying to figure out the correct way to do a background image.

I had been cheating, using a "background" element in the #prefs which worked okay, as long as I kept the same background on every page. But this morning when I tried to do that, it gave me a macro error. I tried all sorts of things, and finally went to the web tutorial on Frontier 5's web pages, and looked at the "Handling Images" section. It still took me several tries to figure out that it needed to know where in the heirarchy the darn image was, but once I got the right reference and took out the quotation marks, it worked like a charm.

It's also going to make setting up this month's template (which I haven't done yet, but will do shortly) much easier, since I was going to keep the winter theme on the main page for a while, and just use the purple roses for February's entries.

I'd best get back to getting the last of last month's pages published and setting up the new template. I don't even know the names of the image files yet. *sigh* I'll get there... eventually.

Well, I think I've got the new template just about done. The graphics are there, but I don't have all the sizes in yet, so there's a little more tinkering to do. I'm going to publish this and see what I've got so far...

Close... I forgot to change a few things, but they're not hard to fix.... okay, all done now. It wasn't as hard as it might have been otherwise. Of course my evaluation copy of HomeSite 3.0 had expired, so I couldn't use it to look up the correct background color. I have 2.5 registered, but I wasn't about to pay another $40 to upgrade. I liked it better when it was run by just one guy, even if it was slower in being updated.

Why should Allaire jack up the price $40 (the new version is either $70 or $80 and I think I paid $30 for mine, at most)? I didn't want their Cold Fusion markup language in it, and I don't use it anyway. Oh well... I don't even know if I'll reinstall version 2.5, since I can do most of the HTML by hand anyway. All I really used it for was the image tags and hopping back and forth between the code and the page. Admittedly, there were some nice features in 3.0 that I liked and would have used, but I wouldn't pay $40 for them. Part of me thinks Allaire just doesn't want people thinking they put out "cheap" software, and so they priced to to fit in with their other products. Anyway.... I'll quit griping now.

Drat! Mom went out and got KFC for a late lunch & early dinner, and I was out in the dining room with her, eating, when I faintly heard one of the sound files that Jevim and I play back and forth to each other on IRC. I was nearly done with dinner, so I decided to finish up before running off. I finished, pushed in my chair and threw away my trash, heard an ICQ message come in, and came in my room just in time to see his nickname disappear from my IRC notify list. *sigh*

He left me a message saying he had a bad headache and was climbing up into his loft to lay down a while. I was tempted to call him, but we've been on the phone quite a bit this last couple weeks, and besides, I figured if I called, he would already be in his loft and it would be a pain for him to answer the phone. I can wait for him to have a nap and hopefully get to feeling better. I may not want to, but I can wait...

What I'd really like to do is to climb up in his loft after him and lay down behind or beside him and wrap my arms around him, or run my fingers through his hair until he falls asleep, then cuddle up to him and go to sleep too. We did take a nap up in his loft last April when I went out to visit him, and it was rather nice.

All this talk about naps makes me want one, even if it's just curled up with the bear Jevim gave me. I had some none-too-pleasant dreams this morning... going to doctors and hospitals and having them say they wanted to do a heart and lung and something-else transplant (I'm not sure what the something else was, now), and wanting to do this test and that test.

They did do one test, which seemed like a very clear looking echo-cardiogram, where they could see the damaged valves, and so on. Echoes aren't that clear (it's an ultrasound, like they do of babies, if you've never heard of them), which is what made me think of the heart catheterization. I don't know if the images were a memory or something else, as I really can't remember being able to see the monitor they were looking at, except when they first prepped me.

The first part of the dream wasn't really bad, but I would wake up (not usually from fear) and then when I'd drift back to sleep, the dream would pick up again, roughly where it left off. Each time, it got closer and closer to when they were actually going to do the surgery, or the heart cath it seemed they wanted to do first. I eventually gave up and stayed awake, not wanting to go through that again. By then I'd been in bed over eight hours, but I hadn't slept quite that long, so I was still a bit tired.

In one of the interludes -- probably a point where I'd awakened and then went back to sleep -- my friend Delina was driving me to the hospital, back in California. We drove down the street where one apartment I lived in for several years was, and stopped at this house where there was a small white kitten, with orange patches. Delina brought her to me in the car, and she curled up on my lap and purred as I petted her, and nuzzled up to me, cute as only a kitten can be. I guess I must have left her in the car when Delina dropped me off at the hospital entrance, because I don't remember seeing her again.

I wish I had a kitten, but then again, I really don't. I just wish my cat were still as cuddly as she used to be when she was a baby. I had a laptop computer at the time, and I would lay on the floor and play games on the local bulletin board systems. She would come in and lay on whatever body part was most convenient -- sometimes my legs, or the middle of my back, and one time up on top of the baseball cap I was wearing at the time -- and go to sleep. Or try to lay on the keyboard, up against the screen.

Now, she's all grown up, way too smart for her own good -- she teaches mom's not-too-bright cat to do bad things -- and very independent. She does come up on my bed in the mornings, if I sleep too late for her liking. Sometimes I wonder if she worries that something's wrong with me when I stay in bed late, because she'll walk all over me and 'talk' to me until I show some sign that I'm alive and awake. Once she's sure I'm okay, she either lays down on the body pillow beside me, or tries to crawl under the covers to lay down near my legs.

She does spend a couple hours a day sleeping on top of the monitor, or just watching me, when I'm at the computer, but except for allowing me to scratch her head on occasion, or letting me pet her when she lays down with me in the mornings, she's seldom very loving. I just called her and she came running, and jumped up on my lap after I'd called her name a couple more times, then she hopped right up on the desk and onto the monitor. Mom rattled something in the kitchen, and she was off again, quick as can be. *sigh*

When I last went to visit Delina and the crew up in Minnesota, they had a fairly new kitten (she was maybe three or four months old when I arrived), and she would sleep in my lap when I was at the computer, or try to type for me. I don't know if she's still that way... she's a couple years old now, but I'd like to have a cat like that.

Okay, I think that's quite enough for one entry, don't you? *smile* TTYL...

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