The Normal Heart is finally over, and I have my life back. Such as it is; the past few days have been spent relaxing and playing Destroy All Humans, which is quite fun but I'm not sure I'll be buying it.
ICQ Lite 13Anyway, after Thursday (which is when I have to return the game), I'll probably get back to work on the Lair. There is only a week and a half until I leave for PA, and I'm quite psyched about it, though it does mean I have to be careful about getting food at the store; I don't want to get a bunch of food that will just sit here for a week. I'd rather not come home to a stinky apartment. :)
My car is in dire need of a tune-up. It's sorta sputtering on the road, I don't have as much power as I usually do, and it stalled at a red light earlier today.
Fortunately, my mechanic is awesome. He's a good mechanic and a hell of a nice guy.
Unfortunately, he's in the middle of nowhere, and I've got a show tonight.
I'll be dropping the car off in a few hours, and my dad will then give me a ride to the theater. After the show, either I'll get a ride from an actor or he'll pick me up, and I'll crash at his place for the night, and then he'll take me in to work (saying as I work for him, it's pretty convenient). Then we'll drive out to the mechanic's tomorrow afternoon, I'll pick up my car, and then I'll go to tomorrow night's show.
*sigh* I hate being without my car.
But on the plus side, this is my last weekend for The Normal Heart, and after that, I have just two weeks until I leave for Pikeman's place, and then we're off to MacWorld Boston 2005. Hot diggity damn. :)
This really isn't news; I got a haircut a month ago now.
However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that I wait perhaps a bit too long between trimmings; since doing this show, I've had no less than a dozen different people comment about my haircut (including people I've met only once or twice).
For some reason, I'm just finding it incredibly amusing. :)
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I was thinking that I might get a small Lair update in this week before Thursday (the next performance of The Normal Heart), but this weekend absolutely exhausted me. As a result, I'm going to just take some Me Time and rest up. I'll work on the Lair, but I won't update it this week (after this weekend, I'll be done with the show, thankfully).
I'm going to be doing a small update to the site in the next few days (hopefully early next week). It'll just cover minor stuff, like replacing all the PNG files with JPGs (which will have the dual purpose of reducing a bit of load).
I'm also going to redo the front page. The more I see it, the less and less pleased I am with it as it currently stands. : I think I'll go back to my previous layout of having the six most recent Rants and Reviews spread out horizontally; with the much shorter descriptions (which are now the first 33 words of the article, rather than the totally arbitrary amount it used to be), it doesn't work too well to have them all vertical. This also means I'll probably switch back to a two-column listing of jokes.
Depending on how much time I have, I might add some more content to the site (hopefully I'll have time to write a review of something).
For future updates, something that I want to do is rate all the content on the site (though it only really only be seen on a few pages, like the Jokes and Rants). Everything would get rated either G, PG, PG-13, or R. There would be two things that would change depending on the content rating:
Though the content rating sounds like it could be a pain in the ass, it really won't be hard; the system will assume something is G-rated unless it is told otherwise, so I won't have to worry about getting every page, just the more profane stuff (and that only generally happens in Rants and Reviews, both of which have preliminary $content_rating values in place).