Although I love the sleek design of my Gallery theme, I think the necessity of finding two images per post was keeping me from posting as much as I’d like.

I’ve pared it down a bit, but kept a few features I liked best. We’ll see how long it lasts.

I intend to return to the wonderful world of fandom posting soon, but I just wanted to note a few things as we begin the new year.

I start a new job next week. This is HUGE for me, as I am leaving a position that is comfortable both professionally and personally. I can only hope the excitement of the new position will help overshadow any shortcomings that may come socially.

Speaking of socially…WOW! Since we’ve been out three weeks due to scheduled Winter Break and then plenty of snow days, I think it’s not too geeky to say when it snows it pours! There’s finally a little action from the eHarmony end, an open offer on the local end, and I’ve just had a fantastic (friends only) weekend with the promise of more to come (I have Doctor Who Third Doctor DVDs as ransom….mwa ha ha ha). I’d have to say that right now life is good.

Next post–FANDOM LOVE. I promise.

Mood: Giddy

After a horrible, horrible time dealing with hosting from 1and1.com, the site is working again, albeit with a new host. Because the site was loading so slowly, I decided to switch the domain to a new host, Bluehost. While unlocking the domain, somehow things got twisted and JennMiller.com got slapped with a DNS error that 1and1 stated would clear up on it’s own…as if! Anyway, I emailed 1and1 several times and received such ridiculous responses (one actually said that after a refresh, my site was working again…LIAR) that I finally decided that they can’t understand English at all. I finally got the transfer to go through after losing a week’s worth of accessibility and my Google status. I am going to move all my domains from 1and1 and never look back. I had five good years of hosting with them, but lately, their service, as well as their customer service has been so poor that I’d rather pay a little more and be happy.

Mood: Relieved

I changed the theme here to (hopefully) speed up the load time. Did it work? I can’t tell anymore, what with cache, browser fatigue, bugs, etc.

I have a couple more days to finish my Top 5 Doctor Who lists, so I think I’ll try to beat this headache instead.

Mood: Sick

Sean Bean finally returned to Crusoe this week.  I’m currently watching on Hulu, and I’m hoping it’s more than the cumulative 3.1 minutes we’ve had so far.  The show’s alright, I suppose, but let’s face it–I only watch for Bean.  SGA was another skip for me this week.  I watched the teaser that showed Shep and Ronon going camping, realized it was the McKay/Keller ep, and promptly deleted it from the DVR.  It still boggles my mind how this show managed to go from my #1 to an automatic delete.  Wow.  As usual, Merlin entertained, even though it was pretty much a filler episode.  Some relationships were heightened slightly, so I guess the ep had its merits.

I’ve been using the new WP for a month or so now, and with this newer version, I can use widgets.  I could never get them to work properly in the past, and to be honest, I didn’t care if they worked or not.  Now, however, you can hardly get through the directory without people calling their code “Plugins” but actually meaning “Widget”.  If you can’t run it as a plugin, you shouldn’t call it as such.  I think WP needs a separate “Widget” listing.  Luckily, some widget authors are willing to help you convert their code to standalone code, such as Peter from AVH Amazon, but most requests go unanswered.  There’s a widget that allows you to execute any standalone code, so to be assured that you can use that dandy new thing you’ve found, you’re almost bound to the use of widgets.  Grr, and OK.  As for the theme, if it won’t load properly, hit the site with a ctrl-f5 and that should do it.

Tuesday and Friday were snow days.  Hooray! 

Mood: Content

There are a few things I like about it:

It is fast
Switching tabs is smooth as buttah
Having the tabs on top was actually comfortable.

There are more things I don’t like about it:

It’s not a one-stop shop like FF (no extensions, ads everywhere, etc.)
It’s hideous
No right-click reload!!! For obsessive freaks like me, that’s a deal breaker.
Did I mention ads….everywhere?!? With Adblock Plus and Firefox, I didn’t realize there were so many sites displaying ads. Blech.
The “Most Visited” page is a curse. I want my site to be the first box listed, so now I have to reload my site repeatedly, thus driving up the cost of bandwidth usage (only not really, since I have a readership of, like, 2…maybe 3).

Bottom line: I though about using it as a quick browser, but why get out of sync with FF, which I love and will have to rely on when uploading, editing, designing, etc.? NOT SWITCHING.

Mood: Blah

I skipped SGA, so I guess the love has really left me. I’m sad about that. At least we got “Turn Left” (Doctor Who) tonight. Now I’ve seen that episode at least 10 times, but having it on air is just cool.

The aforementioned dinner fell through, but Dad assures me that we’re going tomorrow. I can already taste the greatness. I beef.

[Edit: Because I hate this theme, I'll be getting a new one tomorrow, or at least going with my own that works. Iframes? Seriously?!? Ugh!!!]

[Edit Edit: I like this theme. Since I didn't create it, there may be bugs I don't know about. See any? I know that in my IE7, the right sidebar gets smooshy in places, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why or correct it. Oh well. Use FF or Opera anyway ]

Mood: Accomplished

Ooh, speaking of HOT MESS. Project Runway. Blayne. I think I’ll just call him “Mango”. Why? Well, he LOOKS like Mango, he SOUNDS like Mango (liciousnness….blech!), and above all else, he f’n IS Mango. Seriously, let the tanning go. He is the color of a overripe mango. And he annoys me. Yup.

Mood: Amused

I’m watching S2E2 of Torchwood and if it’s as good as S2E1, I’m going to be very glad. Others have said plenty about James Marsters’ trip to Cardiff, and I don’t have much to add, but I’ll agree with the fact that there seems to be an abundance of Jack kissing this series, and, well, YAY! I wasn’t the biggest fan of Series 1, but so far, so good.

I’m in a bit of a conundrum with regards to my television viewing schedule for tonight; new Project Runway/premiere of RW/RR Challenge: The Gauntlet III . I can’t stay up until midnight to watch both, but I can’t pick which one to watch tonight. It really is like Sophie’s Choice. Really.

Oh, one more thing.  PRODUCT WARNING:  Do NOT buy Pillsbury Reduced Fat Cinnamon Rolls.  It’s like someone took some plain canned biscuits to a class of kindergarteners and let them shove little chunks of cinnamon into them with their paws.  Blech.  The name alone-Cinnamon ROLLS- suggests, I dunno, ROLLS of some kind.  I don’t get it.

After a great visit with bigbenalpha, indiecowboy, and Jonas (who is just purrrrr-fect), I started to get into the holiday spirit…a little.

I’m finished decorating, which actually consisted of me throwing a few things around. Seriously, I spent about six minutes, total. More importantly, I’m in serious love with Robin Hood. It’s just one of those shows that gets into my soul and I can’t explain why. I know Ben hates it, but I don’t care. I love him, and he loves me, dammit. I love it so much, I made a vid this weekend. It’s a Robin Hood vid with a really beautiful song by Jimmy Eat World. It’s an angsty little thing, and it’s more of an introductory vid, but for those who don’t want any spoilers for Series 2, it’s off limits.

I have a long week ahead including a 12 hour work day Tuesday, a field trip across three states Wednesday, and possibly a trip to the vet on Friday (Istar is having a few asthma attacks again), so if I’m not around, that’s why.

Have a hauntingly good month!

Music by: Korn

Runtime: 3:11 Size:16.9 MB

Download Full Vid Here

I think the best way to describe this vid is to say that it’s a General/ BroYay vid. I started it as a general vid, but while clipping all 23 episodes, I found that the many storylines fit the lyrics in different ways, with the “Exploding Man” being the most prominent. I tried to include as many Heroes as I could, but not all made the final cut (Claude did, of course). Hope you like it!

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Carry on…

I’m going to see if I can get rid of some of the 2.2.whatever bloat and speed things up

Ooh, I almost forgot! There’s a chance I’ll get to see Narayan this weekend. He’s coming back to the USA today and will pass through on his way to his mom’s house. Yay!