EYEHEARTZOMBIES

I think I’ll save another discussion of the CMS built for my work until after the meeting this Tuesday. They’re coming over to show me/us how we’re using the product incorrectly. Yeah, that’ll be a fun day.

We’ve been busy, the last few days, in our personal lives; it’s been enjoyable, though. We went and saw Dodgeball last Saturday with Elaine’s mom after getting all-we-could-eat ice cream at the local Blue Bell ice cream factory. It was a fun movie; nice to see Vince Vaughn in something else. Apparently this got us onto a Ben Stiller kick, ’cause we’ve watched two more of his movies this week: Duplex and Along Came Polly.

We picked up a new toy for Poly this past week, too. It’s a furry, stuffed hedgehog. When you squeeze it, instead of the customary squeek, it moans. Poly loves it. It’s about a quarter her size, so she has problems carrying it around, but she does anyway. Crazy little dog. I’ll try to get a picture soon.

I started reading another Dean Koontz. This one is By the Light of the Moon. So far it’s about a pair of people (a man and a woman) who were attacked in their hotel rooms, injected with a syringe full of stuff by a kindly-looking older man (who was later killed in an exploding car by “agents” of some kind). They meet up and begin to flee the area, which the old man told them was a good idea (cemented by his fiery death) with the infected man’s autistic brother. The stuff gives them apparently psychic powers; she begins to see visions of birds and other ominous sights, he gets sensations about people off of things they have recently touched. I’m about halfway through it.

I’ve also started trying to help more people in Textpattern and web design in general. I’ve been helping Henry with his web site and I’ve volunteered my services over at the forum. I’ve also worked out a hack for using the article image function of Textpattern that let’s you specify an image to be associated with an article. If you specify a non-local image (one on another server), it doesn’t generate an alt attribute, which will invalidate your page. With my hack, it generates a blank one. Not any better for blind people or people who have their images turned off, but it does let your page validate.

Today is July 4^th. It’s our first Independence Day as a married couple. It’s funny how that piece of paper and those two rings make everyday things seem a bit more special the first time around. We went up to Elaine’s mom’s house to blow up fireworks last night (we’re still there) and we’re going down to a friend’s house tonight to watch the city’s fireworks display, since they live just a block or two away from where they set them off. It should be fun and we haven’t seen them in awhile, so it’ll be nice to visit with them again.

There have been a few changes made around eyeheartzombies this week. I reworked the about section of the site so it’s a bit faster to get to the information you want, and easier to get around once you have it. I’ve also tweaked the CSS to display some things the way I wanted them to be originally, but hadn’t ever gotten them to be. I have a few other additions/changes I want to make, so things might be a little strange over the next few days, but it’ll all keep working.