monday, monday
afternoon

i should be doing some more housecleaning, but instead i'm sitting here in d-land, again...i spend entirely too much time here, hence my frustration at friends who don't update as often as i'd like. but how can i hold it against them, when they're out doing things that they'll eventually turn into wonderful entries?

you can see how i might be conflicted.

i want everybody to have lots of fun, but i wanna hear about it as soon as possible.

oh, enough of this...

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boring tech update:

ok, here's what i've been up to as far as playing around with my code goes...

narrowed the navigation menu and kind of partitioned off different items (notes can still be left with the link in the profile, but i prefer the g-book...it's prettier to look at!)

replaced the jpeg of the tooker painting with a gif. it's much clearer.

dropped my guestmap. oh, it was a lot of fun, but a whole bunch of messages got deleted all of a sudden (including mine, how rude) so i felt it was time to dump it, all part of trying to unclutter my page...if you ever saw my last layout you might remember it got a little...busy, shall we say.

now if you click on "site of the week" you go directly to it, bypassing that mod squad thingy...i kept it, cuz i really like it...i'm sure it'll be back someday. but i know that in our modern computer age nobody's got the time to waste on one extra click.

about once a week i change the lyric in the jonifags box...haha, hank wakes up and gets a surprise!

what else...oh, just piddly little things that most people don't even notice...figured out how to make "head count" the same font as the rest of the menu, i'm underlining the entry titles now (it just looks nicer)... put the revised mixtup logo on the page...see, THIS IS BORING SHIT!

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going to the store, and then i'll be back. i've got three crumpled-up pieces of paper with reminders of items for entries...i love getting those out of the way...

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ok, that was just some warm-up stuff, the real entry begins now...

ok, first, some more funny names... these are usually customers at work...

a woman with the last name of "sheesley"

a fillipino guy, first name: pacifico

a girl, first name: ovie

a last name: leavmouth

linda leaf

there was a manager at one of our local stores who had the last name of "massengill"...yes, they DID call him a douchebag...

i found the village voice website, it's really complete. so i called to see if i could cancel my subscription and get a refund. done. so i'm getting a check from them for $217.37! yowza!

shaved off my beard, i'm down to a goatee. i always love to do this, cuz i go from looking older to having more of a baby face. i like having a beard, i feel it gives me a little more character, but the increasing amount of grey hair is always a little depressing. besides that, a friend recently told me "Yeah, I never thought the shaggy look worked for you. It kinda made you look, forgive me, homeless." so now i'm young and beautiful again. now all i have to do is lose about 10 lbs., (stop laughing, rob!) and i'll be perfect.

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i re-did my super-popular banner for roadiepig...the first one i did for him didn't do too well. here's the new one...

you can click on that, it's a linkadinkadoo.

like roadie said to me, "Maybe I need to put one up involving lesbian sex. That always seems to get people's attention.

Or re-name my diary crimsonfariecutsmyselfWeezerfan#1. That seems to be what many of the banner ads are saying, anyway...

The people who read my 'journal' like it, so that's all that matters."

yeah, but it's always fun to have someone new drop by. here's roadie again, with a funny little note...

"Hey again Michael!

I went ahead and sent this one in to Andrew, and it's now up and running.

I made one mistake though- I didn't specify how many ads I wanted to run, so he used up the rest of my allotment (that would 18,000). Oops!

Oh well, it's already getting hits around 2%, so I will just be saturating the market for the next week or so....

Thanks again for your help. I'll let you know how this one does..."

good grief, 18,000! that's more than a week, pal.

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here's a little story i've been promising someone...

i wish i knew what everyone looked like out there. i recently saw a pic of someone i've been reading, and i was kind of shocked! not that he has three eyes or anything, but i guess i had made up my own version of what this person looked like...i wasn't even close.

so last week at work i waited on this young man. i thought "hmmm, i'll bet this is what j.r. looks like. (j.r. is a local lad going to school down in l.a. we've been following each other's diaries, and the closest i've got to a physical description is that some of his friends call him "harry potter!") so this kid had kind of long hair, was wearing a brown thrift-store leisure suit (ironically, i'd say...hey, j.r., are you preppie or punk?) and i decided, yeah, that could be j.r. (he didn't look anything like a teen wizard, by the way.) the kid was dropping off some "work" for me to do, and as fate would have it, his last name is the same as j.r's! i almost blushed...not sure why. i told j.r. about it, and it wasn't a relation or anything, just a weird little moment at work...one of many.

i got this from the paper last week -

HOUSE UNBEAUTIFUL: Rocker Jackson Browne, a man with an apparently independent mind, disses the davenports of his contemporaries in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. "You let this camera in this rock star's home," says Browne, "and he's going to show you his crib." (This means a living space, not one of those beds with slats that might pose dangers to small-headed occupants, but then again, that's not often a problem with rock stars.)

"It's interesting to see what horrendous taste some of these people have in home furnishings. They may have all the money in the world, but you say to yourself, 'I can't believe the guy would live with that couch.' "

love it love it love it! how true. that's why i used to enjoy reading architectural digest , just to see what bad taste people with millions of dollars really have...

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saw a diary last week that was on a couple of hundred favorites list! how could this be? the guy wasn't even in any diaryrings! but then i saw he had over 800 entries...so i guess if you keep writing, someone will notice. plus, he probably networks like a mothafukka...

and have you ever seen that diary by that gay guy in san diego, the one with the husband and the kid and the cats? it's so ...middle-class. now, i shouldn't be making fun of anyone, but it's all so...normal. anyway, he does these VIDEO entries (taking the kid to school, a co-worker's birthday celebration) it's pretty funny. oh, maybe i'm just jealous, could that be it? i'm not so sure if gay life is supposed to be "normal". i'm not about pride parades and rainbow stickers or even gay marriage (two little grooms on top of the cake always makes me giggle, sorry boys!), but who am i to judge? this whole "assimilation" issue confuses me...it's like what happened to punk in the late '70's. you end up dismissing one set of rules only to adopt another..."you can't do that, it's not...punk, gay, p.c., christian, etc." (take your pick.) oh, someday, i'm gonna get all my thoughts on this subject together and really go off.

but i'm no role model...i'm not out to everyone at work...(i always think everyone's guessed by now, i never did find that "right girl".) i'd better quit here, i'm just gonna end up with my foot deeply embedded in my mouth...

that said,

why are bagboys always so hot?

and the ups man?

and short mexicans?

why is EVERYBODY so hot lately?

WHY?

i need therapy...

who doesn't?

hahaha...bye, y'all!