sunrays and saturdays

Is anyone else getting something strange on the LJ homepage?

EDIT: I guess it's fixed now, but damn that was weird. The only thing on the homepage was a 100x100 PNG image of a tower-looking thing.

If you've had LJ for over a year, look back to one year ago today and link back to and quote from your entries of that day.

If you have more than one year, go back for the same day for each past year and quote for them as well.

If you've had LJ for under a year, quote from the first month you had LJ and then halfway through the time you've had it.

January 28, 2006:

-no entry

January 28, 2005:

Entry 1: "Most normal people don't give a shit what the liquid water content of a cloud is down to the hundredth of a gram per cubic meter. Only meteorologists and physicists are that damn crazy."

January 28, 2004:

Entry 1: "The temp outside right now is -1 fahrenheit. The high is supposed to be 3."

Entry 2: "I'm really overly careful about attachments in emails...so much so that I actually called my Mom once before I opened a message from her to make sure that it was legit."

January 28, 2003:

Entry 1: "I ordered a large pizza and there's two pieces left."

January 28, 2002:

Entry 1: "I wanted to get some Lucky's or Silvers, but they were 70 fucking bucks each! I got TWO nice pairs of jeans (one Tommy Hilfiger, the other LEI) and a tank of gas for that much."

It's time for a cool down/hydration break after working outside for the last two hours. The builder of this subdivision brought some topsoil fill dirt in a dumptruck but left it in a huge pile so that it's our job to spread it around. You see, instead of laying down sod for the lawn, he just left bare ground figuring that the grass would fill in on its own. Well that was a stupid idea. We have more weeds and stickers than grass, and a few good rainstorms have washed huge ruts downslope to the ditch. The natural soil here is mostly clay, and the recent drought has made it rock hard so the grass is not only drying out but is also having trouble getting established in the areas that are still bare. The purpose of the rich top soil is to fill in the ruts and hopefully give the grass a chance to quickly grow into it to prevent more erosion. Jeremy and I have spent several hours in the past two days getting the dirt where it needs to be. Now Jeremy's at work all day, so the job falls to me. Woo. Hoo.

On an unrelated note, today is my journal's fifth anniversary. Yay!

I bought 12 months of paid time for my account. This is the first time I've ever put any money into this thing, but I think it is worth it. Livejournal has been good to me in the last four years, and I can totally manage paying $1.67 a month when I know it will be put to good use. Getting 12 more userpics doesn't hurt, either. There's no better way to commemorate this than with a new userpic.

This makes two nights in a row of the next door neighbor blasting Green Day through my wall. You know it's loud when you can understand every word that Billy Joe says. *sigh*

I've entered like 20 or 30 schools for the Livejournal Schools Database. I got the ones down that I actually attended (that's more than most people in itself), and then I thought...why stop there? They want the list to be as complete as possible, so I started plugging in all the high schools I knew about. There were schools I visited for various competitions, sporting events, and music festivals over the years. It would be cool if they could just swipe the Facebook's lists, since they seem to include high schools that no one is even from yet.

I know I'm a huge nerd for doing that, but I had nothing better to do at the time other than to drink my coffee. :) Hey Pratt people on here, tell me what schools I missed...

( schools! )

How hell am I getting spam in my Gmail account if the only place I've used it online is Livejournal for reply notifications? Those fuckers are resourceful, I'll give them that.

I made pumpkin pie!

Out of your LJ friends & friends-of lists, who...

... was born the same year as you?
I think a bunch of them were, but here's the ones I know for sure:
in_a_box
phooka
somefantastic
fairytaleworld
fromtheinside
radgirl
sherbetlemon

... is the oldest?
Probably sugarplumkitty.

... is the youngest?
It's a close one, but the youngest is perdita_x

... lives in the same city as you?
rawbery79
jgrams
tikicult17

... lives in the same house as you?
Nobody, although I do practically live at Jeremy's (jgrams) place now.

... have you known for the longest time?
Probably a tie between in_a_box and fairytaleworld.

... have you known for the shortest time?
grandfromage is the newest recruit to my friends list.

... do you think you know the most about?
in_a_box or jgrams

... do you think knows the most about you?
in_a_box or jgrams

... have you chatted with online (real time)?
in_a_box
jgrams
fairytaleworld
reclusivity
somefantastic
sarahbanana
katelemon
rawbery79
tikicult17
beccau (I think)
deathofsanity
missescargot
trombone

... do you love?
all of you!

... do you admire?
all of you again!

... is the most gorgeoussssss?
halt_donotenter claims to be hotness, but I have yet to see a picture of that girl. is hotness personified.

... is the most poetic?
stellar_cari

... post the best pictures in their entries?
krets posts the most hilarious pictures (some that he photoshopped himself), somefantastic uses pictures in the best and most interesting ways, g3k posts hilarious comics, and both krets and dvisions post the best photography.

... have you cried over?
A few of them have posted really sad things about family losses and such that have brought a tear to my eye, and a few have them have done some bad things that have made me cry, but I don't think I want to go through and list them all out.

... have you had an argument with?
Argument in what sense? I've had debate type arguments with some, but I've also had angry type arguments with some, too.

... have you talked to on the phone?
in_a_box
fairytaleworld
rawbery79
jgrams
tikicult17

I'd love to talk to some of you other guys on the phone sometime (*cough*sarah*cough*). I think we'd have some kickass conversations.

And these people have left me voice mails:
I don't have voicemail....

... have you met face to face?
jgrams (knew him in real life before online)
in_a_box (ditto)
fairytaleworld (ditto again)
rawbery79
tikicult17

... have seen your bedroom?
My current bedroom? jgrams and tikicult17
Old bedrooms? in_a_box

... have you watched a movie with?
in_a_box
fairytaleworld
jgrams
rawbery79

... have you ever eaten a meal with?
in_a_box
fairytaleworld
jgrams
rawbery79
tikicult17

... have you been in a relationship with?
Uh, this is kind of an interesting topic, actually, but I don't feel like going into it. I think it depends on how you define a relationship.

... have you hugged?
in_a_box
fairytaleworld
jgrams
tikicult17 (I think?)
rawbery79 (I think?)

Today is my journal's three year birthday! Woohoo! It's hard to believe that I've had it this long. I'm not one of those people who switches names all the time, but I guess I've never had a reason to.

I just ate my Pop-Tarts, and I'm still hungry. I've only been at work for 20 minutes, so I'm going to have to go find something else to eat before long. Maybe I'll take a little trip down to the Union and get something at the coffee shop while I'm there. Mmmmmm.............coffee................

*bangs head against wall*

Note to self: KEEP YOUR ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE UPDATED AND RUNNING.

I finally got around to reinstalling my antivirus software today, and it has found 10 infected files since then. Two were under the name Win32:SecondThought, one was under the name W32:Revop, and I can't remember what the other seven were. Regardless, FUCKING SHIT. None of it has seriously affected my computer or its performance that I know of so far, but it still pisses me off. Why the fuck do people write those things anyway?

Anywho, while all this craziness was going on, I managed to redo my journal layout again. I'm much happier with this one, so I think it'll stick around for awhile.

GAAHHH! Now the goddamn text isn't moving over to the right like it was earlier! Why do I put myself through this shit?

UPDATE: Now it's moving the text over on my friends page, but not on my main page. My livejournal is on crack tonight.