I posted this on my Metazoica blog, but I think I'd like to post this here too. Just in case people who read here do not read my Metazoic blog, and want to check out the Metazoica site. This video I created shows you how to view the site. So far, I've only worked on 2 categories (families), and I've just been a bit too busy to work on any more. Today especially was too nice to stay inside and work on the computer, so I used that time to finish my bird cage. Anyway, here is the video:
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Update On My Bird Cage
Well it is a sunny day outside, not a single cloud in the sky, and it was rather warm too. The perfect kind of day I figured I could finish putting the poles up on my cage. The cage has been sitting undone for quite a long time. I like to work on these outside, so I've been waiting for a day just like today. I took my unfinished cage outside to drill the frame in, and it looks pretty darn good so far! Took a lot of work to get the screws drilled in place. It's not as easy as it may look! But I've got all 4 poles in place now, all I have to do is order the acrylic sides, and a solid wooden back, make a hood, and I'll be finished. This cage still is not what one would call "professional quality", but it's good enough for me. Since I am the only one really going to be seeing these birds and stuff, the cages do not have to be professional just yet. Though when I get started on the gecko, tree frog and dart frog cages, I'm going to have to be a little more careful. Those cages are going to need constant misting, so I have to build it good enough for that. There can't be any gaps at all, everything has to be measured perfectly down to the last decimal. Partly because I don't need misting getting on the floor and also because these smaller animals are excellent escape-artists.
I also have an acrylic sealant that I used to seal up some of the cracks. This way the birds don't get hurt if they happen to get on the floor level of the cage and their toenail might slip into a crevice or something to that effect. So maybe next month I will be getting some varnish and some paint-on water sealer. Then maybe the month after that I will be ready to get the acrylic siding. We shall see!! I still need to make something in the way of a groove to put the acrylic in so it doesn't slip and the birds don't figure a way to get out.
In other news, my web designer finished the Meet The Mammals section of Metazoica. I invite anyone to check it out. So far, it looks great! Or I think it does. I still have to give the instructions given to me by the person who designed the template to my web designer, and see what he can do with it. He's been very good so far. I really like him. He said that I need to create a more eye-catching site and I totally agree with him! I need to start with the banner and work my way down. I've been thinking of a 3D-movie type banner, with some animals from the site racing across with the word "Metazoica" in the background. That would be very eye-catching!! People love 3D animation now. I don't like anime, but I can agree about the 3D animation. So I thought why not have a 3D animated banner for the site? There's no reason I could think of that that wouldn't work! But that's just one of the improvements I'd need. I'm trying to go by some of his boss's suggestions. He knows what he's doing, I'm sure. At first I was going to have a flash banner, but after I thought about it, I thought an animated banner would be better.
That's not the only change that Metazoica is going to be going through. I'm also going to have a members section where I will have movies about some of the animals. I've been thinking more along the lines of having them cartoony-style, like the animals on the movie Madagascar. Only less of the extreme features. Have them look somewhat real and somewhat cartoony. I've also been thinking of having some video games up. And a rating system for members to rate each animal on the site. That should be cool!
I recently wrote to the creators of the new inxs.com site and suggested they put up a section where members can upload video onto the site. He wrote me back and said that sounded like a great idea. Then he hit me with a trick question. He asked me if I have any videos already up on YouTube. I was thinking he meant like INXS videos, which I do not have yet. I was not sure they were legal! Though I've seen other people post some. Since my skills as a still photographer suck tiger balls, I thought instead I could take videos of INXS when I go to the concerts, and post them up on inxs.com. Everyone raves about my videos. Though mostly because they are funny. I will also be adding comedy to these videos as well. It's not going to be all concert clips. I told him I have videos I have done on YouTube, but very little has to really do with INXS. But I told him he is more than welcome to check out the videos I do have, strickly to show him what I can do with videos. I looked back again at some of my other videos that do talk about INXS. I heard the video again that talked about the site being up. I was like "Oh my! I hope he doesn't take that the wrong way!" LOL! That video was supposed to be funny. I was making fun of myself in the video more than the site or INXS. So far, one other fan has seen it and taken it seriously. Oh well. I still kinda hope that the site manager considers my suggestion. If not, well, I will continue to share my videos here, on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.
I also have an acrylic sealant that I used to seal up some of the cracks. This way the birds don't get hurt if they happen to get on the floor level of the cage and their toenail might slip into a crevice or something to that effect. So maybe next month I will be getting some varnish and some paint-on water sealer. Then maybe the month after that I will be ready to get the acrylic siding. We shall see!! I still need to make something in the way of a groove to put the acrylic in so it doesn't slip and the birds don't figure a way to get out.
In other news, my web designer finished the Meet The Mammals section of Metazoica. I invite anyone to check it out. So far, it looks great! Or I think it does. I still have to give the instructions given to me by the person who designed the template to my web designer, and see what he can do with it. He's been very good so far. I really like him. He said that I need to create a more eye-catching site and I totally agree with him! I need to start with the banner and work my way down. I've been thinking of a 3D-movie type banner, with some animals from the site racing across with the word "Metazoica" in the background. That would be very eye-catching!! People love 3D animation now. I don't like anime, but I can agree about the 3D animation. So I thought why not have a 3D animated banner for the site? There's no reason I could think of that that wouldn't work! But that's just one of the improvements I'd need. I'm trying to go by some of his boss's suggestions. He knows what he's doing, I'm sure. At first I was going to have a flash banner, but after I thought about it, I thought an animated banner would be better.
That's not the only change that Metazoica is going to be going through. I'm also going to have a members section where I will have movies about some of the animals. I've been thinking more along the lines of having them cartoony-style, like the animals on the movie Madagascar. Only less of the extreme features. Have them look somewhat real and somewhat cartoony. I've also been thinking of having some video games up. And a rating system for members to rate each animal on the site. That should be cool!
I recently wrote to the creators of the new inxs.com site and suggested they put up a section where members can upload video onto the site. He wrote me back and said that sounded like a great idea. Then he hit me with a trick question. He asked me if I have any videos already up on YouTube. I was thinking he meant like INXS videos, which I do not have yet. I was not sure they were legal! Though I've seen other people post some. Since my skills as a still photographer suck tiger balls, I thought instead I could take videos of INXS when I go to the concerts, and post them up on inxs.com. Everyone raves about my videos. Though mostly because they are funny. I will also be adding comedy to these videos as well. It's not going to be all concert clips. I told him I have videos I have done on YouTube, but very little has to really do with INXS. But I told him he is more than welcome to check out the videos I do have, strickly to show him what I can do with videos. I looked back again at some of my other videos that do talk about INXS. I heard the video again that talked about the site being up. I was like "Oh my! I hope he doesn't take that the wrong way!" LOL! That video was supposed to be funny. I was making fun of myself in the video more than the site or INXS. So far, one other fan has seen it and taken it seriously. Oh well. I still kinda hope that the site manager considers my suggestion. If not, well, I will continue to share my videos here, on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.
"I Hope You Never Get A Dog!"
This is a video I did for this person who trolls my guestbook on my Chihuahua website every year. She's done it for the past 2 years, and I am expecting her again soon. She always says something to the effect of "I hope you never get a dog!" I always find it kinda funny because I know who she is, and I know exactly why she believes I should never get a dog. So, I decided to make a mocking video about it, explaining the whole idea. At the end, I ask the experts about how I am with my dogs and if I should get another dog or not. I mention that only these experts are the ones whose opinions count to me. So far they have no complaints. So if they have no complaints, neither do I. But it makes for a funny video anyway. Enjoy everyone!
Monday, April 12, 2010
When Opportunity Knocks
Funny how I was thinking about this last night when I was watching a program about hording. They said that excessive hording always coincides with excessive shopping. I couldn't agree more! This one woman the show was portraying last night happened to mention that if she goes shopping and sees something she wants and doesn't get it right then, she does nothing but think about it until she does get it. That triggered a memory of something that I remember from my teen years. A big thing that taught me a lesson I will never forget! Well, it was big to me! To others, it may just sound like something insignificant. But being a teenager with her heart set on something, it was a big thing to me.
When I was a teenager, I loved penguins! In fact, I still love penguins. I'm a bird-lover, what can I say?! I also loved collecting plush animals from the World Wildlife Fund Endangered Species collection. They were my favorite because they were so real looking! One day I went to the mall, and there at Waldenbooks was a collection of WWF plush animals that they were selling. They had a whole bunch of them all displayed on a stand, but the one that caught my eye the most was this full-sized emperor penguin. But there was one problem, that penguin had a price tag of $40. And at the age of 14, $40 might as well have been $1000 to me! There was no way I could have saved that much. And I feared that by the time I could raise that much, the toys would be gone. Well, I had to leave it put, but if I didn't know any better, I would have shoplifted that penguin!! But I knew that was wrong so I didn't do it. I left that store empty-handed, and went home, but when I did go home, I thought of and talked about nothing but that some day I was going to get that plush emperor penguin.
Well, for the following 3 months, until summer, I continuously went back to that store just to see if that plush penguin was there. Sure enough it was! All that time, it was still there. Well, my grandma somehow heard of my dilemma, and she wanted to offer me $40 to paint and finish the drawers in her bedroom, so I said OK. It was now summer vacation, and I was going to stay there a couple of weeks and work on her drawers. The weekend before I left for grandma's, I went back to that mall to see if the penguin I wanted was still there. Sure enough it was. I figured it has been there for 3 whole months that maybe it will still be there when I get paid in 2 weeks. I managed to have it almost finished in a week. And then grandma went nuts one day. So I spent the rest of that day just working on her drawers so I could go home the next day. I didn't like staying at her place when she was going nuts. She'd start crying and get freaky sometimes and I didn't like it. Don't get me wrong, I loved my grandma! But I hated it when she would get all nutty.
The very next day I headed for home, and I got some extra money that I had been saving that I thought would be good enough to cover the tax on that plush penguin. Then I caught the bus back down to the mall, all the way singing to myself "I'm going to get my penguin!" I was high on anticipation! It was bright and early when I took off, I was going to quickly run down to the mall, purchase my penguin, run home and go back to sleep, caressing with my new plush pet! That bus could not get there fast enough for me. When it finally reached the parking lot, I ran out of that bus, all the way into the mall and back to Waldenbooks, all with the greatest excitement. I fully expected to see that shelf again, with all the plush animals sitting on it, including my penguin, just like I saw them only one week before, and every time I went there for the previous 3 months. But when I got there, all the plush animals, including my penguin, were all gone!! It was like an arrow had pierced me right through the heart! Just when I had finally got the money to purchase this item, it was gone!
The first words that came to my mind was of course "Where are they???" So I asked the clerk. He told me the plush animals were not selling very well, so they sent them back. I even went so far as to tell the clerk how I'd scrimped and saved for 3 months to get that penguin, and about the job I did for grandma. All he could give me was a half-assed apology, which was more like a brush-off. I asked him when they would ever have those again and he said "Maybe at Christmas." Well, you could imagine my disappointment. There I was with the money I had saved for months, and the last bit I worked so hard at. And nothing to show for it. I was really upset! That's probably the most upset I ever have been in my life. At least at that time. It taught me a lesson too! It taught me that from then on, when I see something I really want, I need to find a way to get it right then! Because it won't wait till I have the money. I had just seen that penguin only a week before, and up until then, had been there for 3 full months, so the thought of asking the store to hold it until I got paid didn't even cross my mind. I figured it would still be there then. But the clerk told me they had just sent the plush animals back only a couple of days before I got there to purchase it.
Just FTR, in case anybody was wondering, Waldenbooks never did get those plush toys back not even for Christmas. And today, you can't get those plush toys anywhere! I've looked! Even on ebay they don't have them. I looked on ebay, Amazon, even on the World Wildlife Fund's own website. They are nowhere now. Even stores that used to always have them don't have them anymore. So that was one opportunity that I completely missed out on, and would never get back again. Just goes to show you! When opportunity knocks, you'd better answer the door! To this day, I wondered what GOD's plan for me was there. Why was I not able to get that penguin, even though I wanted it more than anything? I guess I will never know for sure.
When I was a teenager, I loved penguins! In fact, I still love penguins. I'm a bird-lover, what can I say?! I also loved collecting plush animals from the World Wildlife Fund Endangered Species collection. They were my favorite because they were so real looking! One day I went to the mall, and there at Waldenbooks was a collection of WWF plush animals that they were selling. They had a whole bunch of them all displayed on a stand, but the one that caught my eye the most was this full-sized emperor penguin. But there was one problem, that penguin had a price tag of $40. And at the age of 14, $40 might as well have been $1000 to me! There was no way I could have saved that much. And I feared that by the time I could raise that much, the toys would be gone. Well, I had to leave it put, but if I didn't know any better, I would have shoplifted that penguin!! But I knew that was wrong so I didn't do it. I left that store empty-handed, and went home, but when I did go home, I thought of and talked about nothing but that some day I was going to get that plush emperor penguin.
Well, for the following 3 months, until summer, I continuously went back to that store just to see if that plush penguin was there. Sure enough it was! All that time, it was still there. Well, my grandma somehow heard of my dilemma, and she wanted to offer me $40 to paint and finish the drawers in her bedroom, so I said OK. It was now summer vacation, and I was going to stay there a couple of weeks and work on her drawers. The weekend before I left for grandma's, I went back to that mall to see if the penguin I wanted was still there. Sure enough it was. I figured it has been there for 3 whole months that maybe it will still be there when I get paid in 2 weeks. I managed to have it almost finished in a week. And then grandma went nuts one day. So I spent the rest of that day just working on her drawers so I could go home the next day. I didn't like staying at her place when she was going nuts. She'd start crying and get freaky sometimes and I didn't like it. Don't get me wrong, I loved my grandma! But I hated it when she would get all nutty.
The very next day I headed for home, and I got some extra money that I had been saving that I thought would be good enough to cover the tax on that plush penguin. Then I caught the bus back down to the mall, all the way singing to myself "I'm going to get my penguin!" I was high on anticipation! It was bright and early when I took off, I was going to quickly run down to the mall, purchase my penguin, run home and go back to sleep, caressing with my new plush pet! That bus could not get there fast enough for me. When it finally reached the parking lot, I ran out of that bus, all the way into the mall and back to Waldenbooks, all with the greatest excitement. I fully expected to see that shelf again, with all the plush animals sitting on it, including my penguin, just like I saw them only one week before, and every time I went there for the previous 3 months. But when I got there, all the plush animals, including my penguin, were all gone!! It was like an arrow had pierced me right through the heart! Just when I had finally got the money to purchase this item, it was gone!
The first words that came to my mind was of course "Where are they???" So I asked the clerk. He told me the plush animals were not selling very well, so they sent them back. I even went so far as to tell the clerk how I'd scrimped and saved for 3 months to get that penguin, and about the job I did for grandma. All he could give me was a half-assed apology, which was more like a brush-off. I asked him when they would ever have those again and he said "Maybe at Christmas." Well, you could imagine my disappointment. There I was with the money I had saved for months, and the last bit I worked so hard at. And nothing to show for it. I was really upset! That's probably the most upset I ever have been in my life. At least at that time. It taught me a lesson too! It taught me that from then on, when I see something I really want, I need to find a way to get it right then! Because it won't wait till I have the money. I had just seen that penguin only a week before, and up until then, had been there for 3 full months, so the thought of asking the store to hold it until I got paid didn't even cross my mind. I figured it would still be there then. But the clerk told me they had just sent the plush animals back only a couple of days before I got there to purchase it.
Just FTR, in case anybody was wondering, Waldenbooks never did get those plush toys back not even for Christmas. And today, you can't get those plush toys anywhere! I've looked! Even on ebay they don't have them. I looked on ebay, Amazon, even on the World Wildlife Fund's own website. They are nowhere now. Even stores that used to always have them don't have them anymore. So that was one opportunity that I completely missed out on, and would never get back again. Just goes to show you! When opportunity knocks, you'd better answer the door! To this day, I wondered what GOD's plan for me was there. Why was I not able to get that penguin, even though I wanted it more than anything? I guess I will never know for sure.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Still Learning The New Site
I've got so much on my plate, I just go into inxs.com when I can. I got people who want the Metazoic site finished NOW. It's just me working on it now! So I juggle it into my schedule when I can. But I also have to live a little thing called life. I don't want to disappoint my viewers, but I am a busy person. I work on Metazoica when I can. I'd like it to be faster myself, but since it's only me working on it, I can only do it at my pace. I barely have much time to get into inxs.com. Most of my time online is spent doing the Metazoic site, or with fans and other people I enjoy. I don't go into inxs.com with the intent of conversing with anyone. Particularly not strangers. So, my friends from Facebook, or MySpace, if I haven't responded to you, please accept my apologies. If they want to say anything to me, they know where to find me anyway. I think by now all my friends know about this blog, and they all can reach me in Facebook or MySpace.
Yeah, I know. I might as well be known as a cyber-hermit. You all know by now how I got this way. Or you should. Now, anyone who isn't on my Facebook or MySpace, I have NO interest in conversing with. :) Anyway, I was thinking about the new INXS site. They have where fans can upload pics. But since I am such a lousy photographer, they should have where the fans can upload videos. When I go to concerts, I'm going to be taking videos, not still pics. I only have one camera, and it is so old, and eats up batteries like nobody's business!! If I thought I was any good at photography, I would get myself one of those $1500 cameras and equipment. But my skills as a photographer SUCKS!!!! I'm much better at making movies. Of course I will be condensing these films so I can post them up to YouTube. I will also be in the films, adding a bit of comedy and narrative relief. But don't expect me to film the lead singers, whomever they may be. My primary focus will be Tim!! He is the only one I really go there to see. I still don't give 2 shits about Brandon Flowers!!! All I want to see is my favorite men of INXS. I may capture some JD if he is there for my JD loving buddies. I will also be posting these videos up on Facebook for my friends to see. Those videos will be longer. YouTube only allows 10 minutes, so I will only be posting 10 minutes of the video there. But Facebook allows up to 20 minutes. I can much easier fit 2 hours of concert into 20 minutes. We'll see what happens. :)
Yeah, I know. I might as well be known as a cyber-hermit. You all know by now how I got this way. Or you should. Now, anyone who isn't on my Facebook or MySpace, I have NO interest in conversing with. :) Anyway, I was thinking about the new INXS site. They have where fans can upload pics. But since I am such a lousy photographer, they should have where the fans can upload videos. When I go to concerts, I'm going to be taking videos, not still pics. I only have one camera, and it is so old, and eats up batteries like nobody's business!! If I thought I was any good at photography, I would get myself one of those $1500 cameras and equipment. But my skills as a photographer SUCKS!!!! I'm much better at making movies. Of course I will be condensing these films so I can post them up to YouTube. I will also be in the films, adding a bit of comedy and narrative relief. But don't expect me to film the lead singers, whomever they may be. My primary focus will be Tim!! He is the only one I really go there to see. I still don't give 2 shits about Brandon Flowers!!! All I want to see is my favorite men of INXS. I may capture some JD if he is there for my JD loving buddies. I will also be posting these videos up on Facebook for my friends to see. Those videos will be longer. YouTube only allows 10 minutes, so I will only be posting 10 minutes of the video there. But Facebook allows up to 20 minutes. I can much easier fit 2 hours of concert into 20 minutes. We'll see what happens. :)
Friday, April 9, 2010
INXS Website's New Vibe
Looks like there isn't going to be any forums or anything of that nature. But they have got where we are allowed to post on pics and other bits on the site. Pretty cool!!! I had a look at the mods of the site. Doesn't look like DonnaG is one of the mods, but it is full of her supporters. This is the list of mods I got today:
Drumbaby
Aussierocks1
duran2inxs
Libby
Dees
I only know Drumbaby and Aussierocks1. They're pretty cool. The rest I don't know, or don't like at all. Duran2inxs, she's one of those fans who thinks her shit doesn't stink. I don't like her at all! She can seem nice at first, but she's only nice to you as long as you agree with everything she says, or you give her something, or you're one of those other fans who is very popular, or has had drinks with the band. Libby, I only spoke with her once, and that was enough! I don't like her either. I didn't like how she approached me. She approached me like a rabid gorilla when she thought I was talking about her on here, which I wasn't at the time! But she approached me like a madman anyway. She'll probably read this again, and approach me the same way, but if anyone wants any proof of how evil she can be, I still have the e-mails she sent when she *thought* I was talking about her. I'll post them up if I have to. Dees I have no idea who she is, but I know she's a DonnaG supporter. So I think I'll stay away from her too. Gosh, I hope they cannot see my ISP #. Those last 3 I'm sure will share my info with Donna! Scary. If DonnaG finds out where I live at, I'm surely going to report their asses. You can bet on that!
Well, now. Everyone knows I live in Ocean Shores, but only my friends know exactly where. And these friends I trust. I know they wouldn't divulge where. I have made a few posts, on some pics mostly. I hope my inquiries didn't go to these people!! Then I know I'll never get any assistance. I signed on to create a new account, but for some reason, I couldn't get it to send me the confirmation e-mail. So I wrote to the people behind the site. My friends told me they're probably getting thousands of messages, and not to expect them to respond. Some of my friends said that they were able to sign in using their old login info. I didn't think that was possible with me because before the old inxs.com site shut down, I deleted my account there. I'm so glad I did too! I wouldn't have wanted to pay for another year only to find out the site would shut down in the middle of that year! Everything happens for a reason. Perhaps I felt deep down inside that would happen so my interest in INXS waned off a little. Maybe. Who really knows?
Well anyway, I tried it, and sure enough, I was able to sign in with my old info. But I didn't want to be known as "TKGsChihuahuas". That was my old screen name, and I had it when I was breeding chihuahuas. Now, I only have 2 chihuahuas, both are spayed/neutered, and one papillon, also spayed. I'm not a kennel anymore. So I changed the name. I still show up under the fan info as "TKGsChihuahuas", even though I changed it to Timmyfan1. That kinda sucks!! I had to use "Timmyfan1" because "Timmyfan" was already taken, by me in the other account I could not get verified! It's silly! But oh well!! As long as those last 3 people on the admin list cannot access my info, I don't care what happens!
Drumbaby
Aussierocks1
duran2inxs
Libby
Dees
I only know Drumbaby and Aussierocks1. They're pretty cool. The rest I don't know, or don't like at all. Duran2inxs, she's one of those fans who thinks her shit doesn't stink. I don't like her at all! She can seem nice at first, but she's only nice to you as long as you agree with everything she says, or you give her something, or you're one of those other fans who is very popular, or has had drinks with the band. Libby, I only spoke with her once, and that was enough! I don't like her either. I didn't like how she approached me. She approached me like a rabid gorilla when she thought I was talking about her on here, which I wasn't at the time! But she approached me like a madman anyway. She'll probably read this again, and approach me the same way, but if anyone wants any proof of how evil she can be, I still have the e-mails she sent when she *thought* I was talking about her. I'll post them up if I have to. Dees I have no idea who she is, but I know she's a DonnaG supporter. So I think I'll stay away from her too. Gosh, I hope they cannot see my ISP #. Those last 3 I'm sure will share my info with Donna! Scary. If DonnaG finds out where I live at, I'm surely going to report their asses. You can bet on that!
Well, now. Everyone knows I live in Ocean Shores, but only my friends know exactly where. And these friends I trust. I know they wouldn't divulge where. I have made a few posts, on some pics mostly. I hope my inquiries didn't go to these people!! Then I know I'll never get any assistance. I signed on to create a new account, but for some reason, I couldn't get it to send me the confirmation e-mail. So I wrote to the people behind the site. My friends told me they're probably getting thousands of messages, and not to expect them to respond. Some of my friends said that they were able to sign in using their old login info. I didn't think that was possible with me because before the old inxs.com site shut down, I deleted my account there. I'm so glad I did too! I wouldn't have wanted to pay for another year only to find out the site would shut down in the middle of that year! Everything happens for a reason. Perhaps I felt deep down inside that would happen so my interest in INXS waned off a little. Maybe. Who really knows?
Well anyway, I tried it, and sure enough, I was able to sign in with my old info. But I didn't want to be known as "TKGsChihuahuas". That was my old screen name, and I had it when I was breeding chihuahuas. Now, I only have 2 chihuahuas, both are spayed/neutered, and one papillon, also spayed. I'm not a kennel anymore. So I changed the name. I still show up under the fan info as "TKGsChihuahuas", even though I changed it to Timmyfan1. That kinda sucks!! I had to use "Timmyfan1" because "Timmyfan" was already taken, by me in the other account I could not get verified! It's silly! But oh well!! As long as those last 3 people on the admin list cannot access my info, I don't care what happens!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The New INXS.com
Well, I stopped into the new INXS website, and it seems to be OK. However, it apparently would not accept my old e-mail address. UGH!! So I had to use my Yahoo e-mail. I mostly reserve that e-mail for Facebook notices. Well, I signed up and I never received the verification e-mail. So I wrote to the manager of the site. Strangely enough, I can still view member-only content. I even left a message on Timmy's page, just to see if I could. I did! I don't understand it. I know I said I wasn't going to comment much, but my comment was directed to Tim, not the fans. I said I wasn't going to have much contact with the fans (outside of those that are on my Facebook or MySpace page) and I won't. There are no blogs or forums. I guess they decided they weren't going to put up with that this time. I had a look at some of the fans on the site, and I noticed even the guys have their own profile. Amazingly enough, JD is even on there. Don't know yet if he is still counted as a member of the band. Though it looks like he may be. We'll see! Maybe they just excluded him from this tour, who knows?
Well, at least the new site is up and running and looking pretty good. Can't really expect anything to work on the first day. It's pretty cool that they allow us to comment on the bands' individual pages. I just left one message to Tim, telling him I'm showing him some lovin'!!
Ya know, I had a dream about Andrew last night! LOL! I dreamed that he came to my home, and we had dinner. I made him my famous home made pizza and he loved it. Then next thing I knew he and I were sitting in the living room and we were watching television together and making comments about what was coming on. We were just like 2 friends conversing. I loved Andrew, but I remember feeling in the dream that I wish it was Tim there instead of him. But I still liked Andrew. hehe! That's a weird dream though!
While inxs.com was working on their site, I've been adding a few entries to my Metazoic site. I've got 3 working right now. It's good for a start.
Well, at least the new site is up and running and looking pretty good. Can't really expect anything to work on the first day. It's pretty cool that they allow us to comment on the bands' individual pages. I just left one message to Tim, telling him I'm showing him some lovin'!!
Ya know, I had a dream about Andrew last night! LOL! I dreamed that he came to my home, and we had dinner. I made him my famous home made pizza and he loved it. Then next thing I knew he and I were sitting in the living room and we were watching television together and making comments about what was coming on. We were just like 2 friends conversing. I loved Andrew, but I remember feeling in the dream that I wish it was Tim there instead of him. But I still liked Andrew. hehe! That's a weird dream though!
While inxs.com was working on their site, I've been adding a few entries to my Metazoic site. I've got 3 working right now. It's good for a start.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Culling Friends
Very theraputic. Everyone should try it. Well, I normally don't do it. I don't like to. But for me, it all started this morning when I got a friend request from someone named Rachella Browna. I always accept every friend request because I like to give everyone a chance. There have been times when I've accepted requests even from people I knew all along would not work out. I do it anyways because that's my nature. Anyway, this Rachella she was just starting out, when I accepted her request, she had only 5 friends. I didn't know her, but then I have a lot of people as Facebook friends that I didn't know at first. And many of them turned out to be OK people! So I just came right out and asked this girl if she is an INXS fan. I didn't expect an answer right away. So I carried on about my regular day. Well, by this afternoon, I still hadn't heard from her and I was getting rather curious. So I went back to her page, and I noticed now she has over 100 friends!! Wow!! What a fast worker!! I tried to look for the message I left on her page, just to see if she'd responded to it and I just didn't know it. I went all the way back to the beginning, and the message I sent her had been deleted. Not only that, but one of the people she requested an add from had written her another message asking "Who are you?" That it's self told me a lot about this person! She's just whoring friends! Young people typically do that! They will go around to hundreds of random people and send them friend requests, just so they can go to school, college or where ever, and point out to others 'Hey! Look at my Facebook (and/or MySpace) page! I have a lot of friends! I rule!!' It's a status symbol for them.
Well, I always look for the mutual friends box, and I looked for hers and noticed she didn't have one. Which told me she and I had no mutual friends. That, coupled with this message from one of her "friends" and the fact that she had deleted my post, all told me this person is just looking for people for the numbers, not to really be friends with them. So, I wrote one last message to her saying "OK, bye!" and I deleted her from my friends. I updated my status on Facebook saying "I ain't that fricken desperate for friends on here!" So I went back and culled a few more people, most of them were people who probably only had me in their friends for the same reason. To me, friends are friends, not numbers to be displayed as a status symbol! I'll NEVER be that desperate for friends!!! I like to build lasting friendships with everyone on my list, I treat them all as equals. I usually do not send requests to anyone, for the simple fact that I feel like I'm forcing myself on them. Don't ask me why I feel that way! I just do!! I've been that way since I was a kid. I don't send requests, but I always accept them. But today, I did some culling, which is something I don't normally do. I do it like once in a blue moon. Today was one of those days where I said I'm going to do this. So I did. There was one person I've had since the beginning, and I deleted her because we've NEVER communicated in any way and we had nothing in common. I've been meaning to get rid of her, but I just never got around to it.
So today, I went from having 94 friends on Facebook, to only having 89. :) But I'm not unhappy.
Well, I always look for the mutual friends box, and I looked for hers and noticed she didn't have one. Which told me she and I had no mutual friends. That, coupled with this message from one of her "friends" and the fact that she had deleted my post, all told me this person is just looking for people for the numbers, not to really be friends with them. So, I wrote one last message to her saying "OK, bye!" and I deleted her from my friends. I updated my status on Facebook saying "I ain't that fricken desperate for friends on here!" So I went back and culled a few more people, most of them were people who probably only had me in their friends for the same reason. To me, friends are friends, not numbers to be displayed as a status symbol! I'll NEVER be that desperate for friends!!! I like to build lasting friendships with everyone on my list, I treat them all as equals. I usually do not send requests to anyone, for the simple fact that I feel like I'm forcing myself on them. Don't ask me why I feel that way! I just do!! I've been that way since I was a kid. I don't send requests, but I always accept them. But today, I did some culling, which is something I don't normally do. I do it like once in a blue moon. Today was one of those days where I said I'm going to do this. So I did. There was one person I've had since the beginning, and I deleted her because we've NEVER communicated in any way and we had nothing in common. I've been meaning to get rid of her, but I just never got around to it.
So today, I went from having 94 friends on Facebook, to only having 89. :) But I'm not unhappy.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The INXS Curse
I'd better not bad mouth INXS again, I think they voodooed me! Last night I had to go out because my looney sister didn't put her school money in the bank! So I had to go and do it myself so her book purchases wouldn't bounce! She never listens! I told her to put that money in the bank, she could have done it after she got out at school. Unfortunately at our bank here in town, you cannot make after-hour deposits. So, I had to hurry on over to the branch in Aberdeen to prevent the account bouncing and us having to pay an extra $28 for each bounced item. I asked Anna why she didn't deposit the money herself and her only answer was she was hungry and wanted to get home and eat. Also yesterday, I noticed INXS.com had a ticker on their page counting down the next 2 days. I kept saying "I hope this leads to something and it had better be good!"
Well, as I was walking out the door to go to the car, I was trying to keep the dogs from following me out. I tried closing the door really quickly, so quickly that my left hand was caught in the door way and I didn't even know it!! I wound up slugging my 2 middle fingers between the door and the frame, and it hit pretty damn HARD!!!! My fingernails immediately turned black! It hurt so damn much it induced me to laugh! Believe it or not, I have this whiny laugh when I am in pain. I couldn't do anything about it then because I had to hurry into Aberdeen, but the pain and lack of mobility in those fingers made driving extremely difficult!! How I made it, I don't know!! Even now, trying to type this blog is torture! It's taking a lot longer than it normally does for me. I was thinking INXS had cursed me because I said that about their countdown page. I blame that and I also blame Anna for making me go out there as well!! Instead of her depositing the money herself while she was in Aberdeen like I told her to yesterday before she left for school!!! The only good thing about this is that I am grateful that it wasn't my writing hand that was hurt.
Today, it still hurts like Hell! There's no swelling, but it still hurts bad!! I just want to stay home today!! Stay home and look at my pics of Timmy and dream of the new website. I wonder what the site will have? I don't know what I want to see personally. But will there be any fan interaction like last time? I don't know why I care about that at all! LOL! If I did go back, I think I'd find that I'm the most hated fan on the planet. Like I said in my bullying video; mostly, if not entirely, because I don't follow these so-called "popular fans". I'm not into that. I like whom I like and that's it. I don't like someone just because they have interaction with the band! In fact, those kinds of fans I have found to be the worst! Because most of them think their shit doesn't stink. I don't think I'll be interacting with the fans at all. And most of my writing will probably be here on this blog. But they are more than welcome to read here if they want to! I don't mind at all.
Well, as I was walking out the door to go to the car, I was trying to keep the dogs from following me out. I tried closing the door really quickly, so quickly that my left hand was caught in the door way and I didn't even know it!! I wound up slugging my 2 middle fingers between the door and the frame, and it hit pretty damn HARD!!!! My fingernails immediately turned black! It hurt so damn much it induced me to laugh! Believe it or not, I have this whiny laugh when I am in pain. I couldn't do anything about it then because I had to hurry into Aberdeen, but the pain and lack of mobility in those fingers made driving extremely difficult!! How I made it, I don't know!! Even now, trying to type this blog is torture! It's taking a lot longer than it normally does for me. I was thinking INXS had cursed me because I said that about their countdown page. I blame that and I also blame Anna for making me go out there as well!! Instead of her depositing the money herself while she was in Aberdeen like I told her to yesterday before she left for school!!! The only good thing about this is that I am grateful that it wasn't my writing hand that was hurt.
Today, it still hurts like Hell! There's no swelling, but it still hurts bad!! I just want to stay home today!! Stay home and look at my pics of Timmy and dream of the new website. I wonder what the site will have? I don't know what I want to see personally. But will there be any fan interaction like last time? I don't know why I care about that at all! LOL! If I did go back, I think I'd find that I'm the most hated fan on the planet. Like I said in my bullying video; mostly, if not entirely, because I don't follow these so-called "popular fans". I'm not into that. I like whom I like and that's it. I don't like someone just because they have interaction with the band! In fact, those kinds of fans I have found to be the worst! Because most of them think their shit doesn't stink. I don't think I'll be interacting with the fans at all. And most of my writing will probably be here on this blog. But they are more than welcome to read here if they want to! I don't mind at all.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Maybe This Is IT?
I keep going back to inxs.com and seeing the same thing I saw when the count down stopped. I'm starting to believe that this is it. This is the new website. Perhaps we were the wrong ones in thinking there was going to be something like what we had before. Maybe there isn't going to be a forum, no blogs, no band bios, no fan interaction, no videos, no pictures, no discography, no nothing! I'm thinking this is the whole bowl of wax; a free newsletter that you sign up for. And they send you alerts saying "this is when INXS will be going touring, and where they will appear", and yadda-yadda-yadda. I'm beginning to believe that! Because for days, it's said "It's Finally Here", and that means it's here at last. This was the final wait. Well, maybe it wasn't what we expected, but I guess this is going to be it. Maybe there is no more. hm. Rather dull if you ask me! But then again, who did ask me? LOL! Maybe INXS didn't want to deal with having a big, spectacular site that they would have to monitor or something. I don't know.
**********************UPDATE*********************************
INXS has just announced on Facebook that the new site should take off in 48 hours TOPS. We'll see about that! I just want to alert all fans to keep their eyes open. Maybe something will change.
**********************UPDATE*********************************
INXS has just announced on Facebook that the new site should take off in 48 hours TOPS. We'll see about that! I just want to alert all fans to keep their eyes open. Maybe something will change.
Metazoica Now Being Updated
Well, now that I have picked my web designer, he has been hard at work. I like this guy a lot! He is a very hard worker, and is doing everything he can to make this site work. I was so glad this time I let my instincts do the picking. If I had done that when I was picking someone to do the UMG Productions site, I would be 1000% more happy with the work than I was and right now, the site wouldn't be having a problem. My instincts are impeccable, what can I say? I never would have hired the guy that I did hire if I had used my instincts then. I used my eyes and ears then. Not good! He made himself sound like he was the answer to all my prayers, like he was my work angel sent from Heaven. There was another guy who I liked a lot better, and I should have hired him! But I felt this worker was good because so far, he has been very quick to respond to my requests without putting up too much of a battle. He does exactly what I want and when I want it. That other guy, I couldn't even get him to remove those banners I kept telling him I didn't want!
I took down my last post about Timmy blocking me. I found out what the problem was, and I mostly did that post to be funny. But I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea about how I feel about Tim, and I was afraid that's what that post would be doing. I still like the guy a lot. Besides, I found out it wasn't that he was blocking me. I tried donating to someone else on that site and I still found that I couldn't. So it wasn't Timmy blocking me at all! LOL! I was only kidding anyway when I said that!!! If I can't tease Tim Farriss, who can I tease? It was the site it's self that was blocking me, because what I have is not a real credit card. So I said what the hey! I cut my hair for leukemia awareness, that it's self was a huge sacrifice for me. I just wish I could have done a lot more.
Well, barring a few problems, the new Metazoic site should be up and running soon. That's why I like this guy, I have a knack for being able to tell who is good and who is not, when I rely on my instincts. And I knew this guy would be good. I even told him that later on, I might want to hire him again to do the UMG Productions site. But I better draw out a plan. A much better plan. I think I know exactly what I want for that site. This one though I have to discuss with my supervisor. Even she is upset that the site is now down. Fortunately we are also very good friends, so she hasn't fired me yet over this. LOL! I told her about this guy the other day, and she agreed I should hire him to redo the UMG site. Well, I wrote to the old web designer, and am giving him one last chance to respond. If he doesn't respond by the end of this week, he's going to be toast!
I took down my last post about Timmy blocking me. I found out what the problem was, and I mostly did that post to be funny. But I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea about how I feel about Tim, and I was afraid that's what that post would be doing. I still like the guy a lot. Besides, I found out it wasn't that he was blocking me. I tried donating to someone else on that site and I still found that I couldn't. So it wasn't Timmy blocking me at all! LOL! I was only kidding anyway when I said that!!! If I can't tease Tim Farriss, who can I tease? It was the site it's self that was blocking me, because what I have is not a real credit card. So I said what the hey! I cut my hair for leukemia awareness, that it's self was a huge sacrifice for me. I just wish I could have done a lot more.
Well, barring a few problems, the new Metazoic site should be up and running soon. That's why I like this guy, I have a knack for being able to tell who is good and who is not, when I rely on my instincts. And I knew this guy would be good. I even told him that later on, I might want to hire him again to do the UMG Productions site. But I better draw out a plan. A much better plan. I think I know exactly what I want for that site. This one though I have to discuss with my supervisor. Even she is upset that the site is now down. Fortunately we are also very good friends, so she hasn't fired me yet over this. LOL! I told her about this guy the other day, and she agreed I should hire him to redo the UMG site. Well, I wrote to the old web designer, and am giving him one last chance to respond. If he doesn't respond by the end of this week, he's going to be toast!
Friday, April 2, 2010
OK, I'm Over It Now
I was angry with INXS last night because the website was not yet launched. But I think I am over it now. I don't feel so angry anymore. One of my Facebook buddies reminded me of a morbid, but valid point. Timmy's wife has cancer. So the last thing on their minds is the website now. Timmy at least, now has greater worries. The health of his wife should preceed ALL else! When she mentioned that, I thought about it and I was like "she has a very good point there", so I saw no need to feel all that anger toward the band anymore. I have some wonderful Facebook friends!! Some of the best! I couldn't believe I didn't even think about that at a time like this. So, my apologies to Tim and his wife if I seemed insensitive in any way. Most of my last video was meant to be funny, rather than just a solid rant. People think I'm funny when I'm pissed off, so I capitalize on it. What can I say? Anything for a laugh.
There was a little bit of miscommunication with my web designer and I didn't even know it until this morning. I told him when I started this project that I'd been using Yahoo's own SiteBuilder to supply my Metazoic site with pages, and that was how it's done. That's how I was doing it. Well, this morning I started to discuss the other pages on my site, and he gave me this quite surprised "What??" I told him I have over 100 pages on my Metazoic site and still growing. Well, then he basically asked me why I didn't bring that up before and I told him I did. I wanted to know if Yahoo's SiteBuilder would clash with the work he's done so far and he said it would. So I told him I want to be able to add pages as I need to. I'd better not bother him with anything else. He was afraid his boss would fire him. I told him to send his boss to me and I'd be happy to explain this situation. He said he couldn't. So, he had to deal with him himself. He told me his boss was going to take away his 10% for the job and give it to the actual workers for overtime. I told him *Maybe* I can compensate him for that 10%. It was partially my fault. I should probably have made myself more clear when I said the site will be growing and adding more pages. I thought he knew what that meant!!
I have another problem with telling a friend something I think she should know. But how to tell her?? I have no idea! I don't like to pry, but I also don't want to see this friend hurt. I truly care what my friends think. But I hate to see them hurt by someone, and I'm afraid that's exactly what will happen to this one.
There was a little bit of miscommunication with my web designer and I didn't even know it until this morning. I told him when I started this project that I'd been using Yahoo's own SiteBuilder to supply my Metazoic site with pages, and that was how it's done. That's how I was doing it. Well, this morning I started to discuss the other pages on my site, and he gave me this quite surprised "What??" I told him I have over 100 pages on my Metazoic site and still growing. Well, then he basically asked me why I didn't bring that up before and I told him I did. I wanted to know if Yahoo's SiteBuilder would clash with the work he's done so far and he said it would. So I told him I want to be able to add pages as I need to. I'd better not bother him with anything else. He was afraid his boss would fire him. I told him to send his boss to me and I'd be happy to explain this situation. He said he couldn't. So, he had to deal with him himself. He told me his boss was going to take away his 10% for the job and give it to the actual workers for overtime. I told him *Maybe* I can compensate him for that 10%. It was partially my fault. I should probably have made myself more clear when I said the site will be growing and adding more pages. I thought he knew what that meant!!
I have another problem with telling a friend something I think she should know. But how to tell her?? I have no idea! I don't like to pry, but I also don't want to see this friend hurt. I truly care what my friends think. But I hate to see them hurt by someone, and I'm afraid that's exactly what will happen to this one.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Timmyfan Discusses: What's The Deal INXS????
OK, nobody seemed to be interested in my April Fool's joke, so I took it down. I was shocked that inxs.com was supposed to be launched today, and it wasn't. I was upset and so were a lot of my friends. So this is a ranting and raging video. My sis said that I spoke so loud that she was trying to read and couldn't concentrate. Well!!! I was pissed!! I'm sick of waiting for INXS to do something and making promises and nothing happens. I was thinking it was a cruel April Fool's joke when the site did not appear once that ticker was done counting down. Ya know, one of my Facebook friends brought up, when the countdown started, that it was ironic that inxs.com was going to be launched on April Fool's Day. So I guess, ha-ha the joke's on me. But at the same time, I'm a little bit angry.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
I Let Another One Go, But I'm Not Upset
I had to let another potential worker go last night. Usually that kind of thing upsets me, because I don't like to tell someone "you're fired!" but this guy pushed the wrong button. I never would have known he was like that. He wrote me a note last night to clarify what I want. Upon first reading it, I was like OK. So I will write back to him and give him more info. But then I got to the end of the note, which he wrote "I am trusting you won't turn around and use my page on your site without payment. Don't let me regret it." All this when I already told him in the previous letter that I wasn't going to be using these mock-ups on the site! It pissed me off when he said this!! It kinda hit me like an 18-wheeler on the highway! At the very first instant, it didn't register, so I continued to write the note giving him a better explaination of what I wanted, at the end of that letter I wrote "Why on Earth would I use your page when I said I wasn't going to???" Then the more I thought about what he said, the madder I got. I almost was not going to do this, but I did. I wouldn't have felt better if I hadn't. I wrote back to him again with this message:
"Listen, let me do this, I'll just let you go. I believe that the relationship between a worker and employer is sacred. And if you cannot trust me to keep my word then there's no relationship there. I'm sorry. I wish you all the best. Please disregard my offer to accept your work. Thank you."
As angry as I was, I tried to keep a civil and professional position. I'm serious, he really burned me up with that remark. He may be a young 20-year old who does not yet know that what he says sometimes can lead to harsh consequences. I was that way when I was 20 too. And it wasn't like I didn't tell him that I would not use these pages on the site. All I needed was a visual. I only need that because my understanding of coding and anything related is so poor. I need a visual! I wouldn't ask for it if I didn't need it so much. Well, as I said in my last blog, I knew this was not going to be an easy choice. So many people have sent me such wonderful ideas, it's going to be tough to choose the right worker for the site. But this is the first time someone I was about to hire has ticked me off and I've let them go because of that. No one else has ever talked to me like that when I was about to hire them. I treat all of them with the greatest respect. Some people can feel it I guess while others can't.
It was supposed to rain today!!! But it's sunny out there!!! I hate it! I've seen the damn sun all damn week!! It has wreaked havoc on my sinuses!! My nose is constantly bleeding now!! I knew this would happen! It almost is never rainy at this time of year here. It rained last night, but this morning, it's sunny and cold, the worst kind of weather for me. The weather girl said last night we were supposed to have rain ALL WEEK!! I knew it was too good to be true. Instead we got the stupid sun!!! And I thought it was moist here all the time. Before we moved here, that's how it was. That's why I moved here. That's what happens when I move to a place. I've always been unlucky in that way! The first year, it's fine, it rains when it's supposed to. But after being here for a year, the sun starts to show up all the time. And now it only rains at night. The days are sunny, cold and dry! Wanna bet when we move to Bozeman, it's going to stop snowing? Those will be worse days, because there for sure it gets sunny, cold and dry!!! And stays that way for months.
"Listen, let me do this, I'll just let you go. I believe that the relationship between a worker and employer is sacred. And if you cannot trust me to keep my word then there's no relationship there. I'm sorry. I wish you all the best. Please disregard my offer to accept your work. Thank you."
As angry as I was, I tried to keep a civil and professional position. I'm serious, he really burned me up with that remark. He may be a young 20-year old who does not yet know that what he says sometimes can lead to harsh consequences. I was that way when I was 20 too. And it wasn't like I didn't tell him that I would not use these pages on the site. All I needed was a visual. I only need that because my understanding of coding and anything related is so poor. I need a visual! I wouldn't ask for it if I didn't need it so much. Well, as I said in my last blog, I knew this was not going to be an easy choice. So many people have sent me such wonderful ideas, it's going to be tough to choose the right worker for the site. But this is the first time someone I was about to hire has ticked me off and I've let them go because of that. No one else has ever talked to me like that when I was about to hire them. I treat all of them with the greatest respect. Some people can feel it I guess while others can't.
It was supposed to rain today!!! But it's sunny out there!!! I hate it! I've seen the damn sun all damn week!! It has wreaked havoc on my sinuses!! My nose is constantly bleeding now!! I knew this would happen! It almost is never rainy at this time of year here. It rained last night, but this morning, it's sunny and cold, the worst kind of weather for me. The weather girl said last night we were supposed to have rain ALL WEEK!! I knew it was too good to be true. Instead we got the stupid sun!!! And I thought it was moist here all the time. Before we moved here, that's how it was. That's why I moved here. That's what happens when I move to a place. I've always been unlucky in that way! The first year, it's fine, it rains when it's supposed to. But after being here for a year, the sun starts to show up all the time. And now it only rains at night. The days are sunny, cold and dry! Wanna bet when we move to Bozeman, it's going to stop snowing? Those will be worse days, because there for sure it gets sunny, cold and dry!!! And stays that way for months.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
I Never Figured This Would Be Easy
I'm still in the process of trying to find a designer for my Metazoica site. I've been deleting people who I didn't feel clicked with me, and I know I've broken a few hearts in the process. Well, today, to help me make a final decision, I asked all the applicants to turn in a mockup page displaying a picture and the text to accompany, par my specifications. So far, I've gotten a couple of submissions. I got one guy who couldn't do a mockup until April 19th. I told him I absolutely could not wait that long. Much as I liked him and knew he could do a great job on the site, I had to let him go. I told him I was sorry. I have a lot of other applicants whose raw work I'd love to see. And I felt it wouldn't be fair to leave them hanging on for an answer until the 19th. Some of them are rather impatient, and want answers NOW!!!!
Well tonight, one of my favorites submitted a mockup, and he did rather well! He made a really dynamic, eye-catching website for Metazoica. I added him to my favorites on the site, and I added him to my MSN messenger. I also added him to my Facebook. I really like his work! But he hit me with a trick question tonight. After I had viewed the mockup site, and told him how wonderful it looked, he wanted to know right then if he could begin working on the site. I told him as much as I'd love to say yes, I cannot. I still have to think about the other applicants. I have to save time for them to show me their work. I hated to let him down, but I felt it would have been rude of me to just hire him without giving the others an opportunity to show me their work. And I told him all this before he made the mockup. I hoped it was clear and he understood. I told him I could not make a final choice until the end of the month. That's plenty of time for others to submit their work for me to review. Well, he backed off, saying he was no longer interested in working with my project, that he has a couple others to work on. It struck me like a lightening bolt. I thought he understood!! But I was wrong in thinking that I guess. I just want him to realize, I did not reject him voluntarily!! He rejected himself from my project! I told him he was actually quite close to winning the position. But he still wasn't interested. He said he needs a job right now. I feel bad for sure, but it's his choice. And I surely don't want to keep him from a sure job. So, I took him off my list. I hated to, but he made his choice.
I asked everyone to submit a mockup, it'll help me make my final choice. This has not been an easy, or even a restful, journey. I hate telling people I am not interested in their services. Especially when someone has so much potential. I just sit here wondering how many more people are going to react like that one did before I make my final choice?? LORD have mercy!! I may have no one left to choose from and I'll have to continue to do the site myself. UGH!!! Oh well, I've managed this far. But it would have been nice having the site professionally done. I'd just rather not post the job on a place like elance, they don't allow you to ask for mockups. And I am sooooo poor in figuring out internet language, I need a visual aid just to understand. I don't want to risk hiring someone like the guy who did the UMG website! I won't go through that again!!!! If I remember correctly, he wouldn't even do a mockup.
Well, in other news, one of my Facebook buddies told me about Joan Rivers saying shit about fat people in general. I made a video telling her what I think of her saying that (fun or not), I told her to kiss my ass. Well, I was never a fan of her's anyway, but the comment she made on Twitter just downgraded my opinion of her. Well, it struck a chord with a couple of Joan Rivers fans already, LOL! I have the feeling there will be many more! hehehe! Oh well. Like I said in an earlier video, it just goes in one ear and out the other! hehe!
Well tonight, one of my favorites submitted a mockup, and he did rather well! He made a really dynamic, eye-catching website for Metazoica. I added him to my favorites on the site, and I added him to my MSN messenger. I also added him to my Facebook. I really like his work! But he hit me with a trick question tonight. After I had viewed the mockup site, and told him how wonderful it looked, he wanted to know right then if he could begin working on the site. I told him as much as I'd love to say yes, I cannot. I still have to think about the other applicants. I have to save time for them to show me their work. I hated to let him down, but I felt it would have been rude of me to just hire him without giving the others an opportunity to show me their work. And I told him all this before he made the mockup. I hoped it was clear and he understood. I told him I could not make a final choice until the end of the month. That's plenty of time for others to submit their work for me to review. Well, he backed off, saying he was no longer interested in working with my project, that he has a couple others to work on. It struck me like a lightening bolt. I thought he understood!! But I was wrong in thinking that I guess. I just want him to realize, I did not reject him voluntarily!! He rejected himself from my project! I told him he was actually quite close to winning the position. But he still wasn't interested. He said he needs a job right now. I feel bad for sure, but it's his choice. And I surely don't want to keep him from a sure job. So, I took him off my list. I hated to, but he made his choice.
I asked everyone to submit a mockup, it'll help me make my final choice. This has not been an easy, or even a restful, journey. I hate telling people I am not interested in their services. Especially when someone has so much potential. I just sit here wondering how many more people are going to react like that one did before I make my final choice?? LORD have mercy!! I may have no one left to choose from and I'll have to continue to do the site myself. UGH!!! Oh well, I've managed this far. But it would have been nice having the site professionally done. I'd just rather not post the job on a place like elance, they don't allow you to ask for mockups. And I am sooooo poor in figuring out internet language, I need a visual aid just to understand. I don't want to risk hiring someone like the guy who did the UMG website! I won't go through that again!!!! If I remember correctly, he wouldn't even do a mockup.
Well, in other news, one of my Facebook buddies told me about Joan Rivers saying shit about fat people in general. I made a video telling her what I think of her saying that (fun or not), I told her to kiss my ass. Well, I was never a fan of her's anyway, but the comment she made on Twitter just downgraded my opinion of her. Well, it struck a chord with a couple of Joan Rivers fans already, LOL! I have the feeling there will be many more! hehehe! Oh well. Like I said in an earlier video, it just goes in one ear and out the other! hehe!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
A Loss of Thought
I don't know what to do. I have been in the midst of hiring a professional to redo my whole Metazoic site, particularly the Meet The Mammals section. I want to make that section a little more streamlined, and I tried to do it all by myself. No such luck!! I suck when it comes to programming! So I noticed Yahoo has joined with a site called Odesk. It seems to be a good site where you can find professionals and hire them for a specific job. I set a rate and got several responses. I can only spend so much on this project. It's not like the UMG project where there was nothing but books to purchase (the site is still down and I'm thinking of moving it to a different server!) But I only have one page devoted to selling some things, and even that is just a hobby. I haven't sold anything yet, and I really don't expect to. Not saying I couldn't fulfill my obligation to, but that's not entirely what Metazoica is all about. It's a virtual zoo. I take donations that keeps the site up and running. That's also the extent of it. I will also have a members area in the future, to showcase videos and even video games depicting these mammals. That's something I've always wanted to do. But that comes much later. Right now I want to just add a few simple features to the site. I have eliminated a couple of people for whatever reasons. Mostly because their quote was too high, or they didn't have the skills I am looking for. I cannot spend too much on this site. However, I have one worker who has offered to redo the whole site for $350 and I am almost considering taking him up on his offer. But then I had another person tell me that programmers from India don't know what they're doing. I wasn't sure whether to take his word or not! My last programmer was from Pakistan, and he didn't seem to know what he was doing, and he abandoned my project! So, I'm not going to pick someone based on their location. It could have been some kind of hijinx or bitterness even. I don't know.
There's another guy that has applied and he also sounds great! He can do this project and I like his prices on animation. I might also consider him, if nothing else, for the help in animation! I did tell him in the future I plan to have movies available about some of the more interesting mammals on the site. He can do movies at $300 each! Not bad!! Well, that's one of the better prices I've seen for animated movies. I wonder how the movies would look at that cost?? Of course whoever does the movies would have to be able to add furry textures on the animals. I wouldn't want it any other way. And I'd want exceptional quality. Oh well, not now. Later!
This is a very tough choice, though I think I am going to go back and eliminate some more workers. I hate that part!! I know how Timmy used to feel on Black Wednesdays when he was doing Rockstar: INXS. Eliminations are always difficult! I hate to destroy a person's chances of a job. But I want someone who can really make me smile with this work. I even spoke to one of the applicants last night, and he sounds good too! UGH!! This is not going to be an easy choice. But it's something I have to do. I want to narrow the field a little more. I want to make the right choice. This time, I'll let instinct do the thinking. hehe! I don't want another worker like the one that did the UMG Productions site!! I want someone who will always be there when I need them, and do what I want them to do. That last guy, he never even removed those banners I kept telling him I didn't want! They were an eyesore!! I want someone who can do a better job, and make Metazoica a real eye-catching site. Maybe I'll go with the guys who wanted to revamp the whole site. That would be a nice switch. Like I said, this isn't going to be an easy choice! What to do? I don't know! Someone's going to get this job. I know the others will have other work sources, so I guess I need not worry about that. I'd like to give some young sprig starting out a chance too. hehe! That'd be good on them. Ohhhh but this is one of the hardest choices I've ever had to make.
There's another guy that has applied and he also sounds great! He can do this project and I like his prices on animation. I might also consider him, if nothing else, for the help in animation! I did tell him in the future I plan to have movies available about some of the more interesting mammals on the site. He can do movies at $300 each! Not bad!! Well, that's one of the better prices I've seen for animated movies. I wonder how the movies would look at that cost?? Of course whoever does the movies would have to be able to add furry textures on the animals. I wouldn't want it any other way. And I'd want exceptional quality. Oh well, not now. Later!
This is a very tough choice, though I think I am going to go back and eliminate some more workers. I hate that part!! I know how Timmy used to feel on Black Wednesdays when he was doing Rockstar: INXS. Eliminations are always difficult! I hate to destroy a person's chances of a job. But I want someone who can really make me smile with this work. I even spoke to one of the applicants last night, and he sounds good too! UGH!! This is not going to be an easy choice. But it's something I have to do. I want to narrow the field a little more. I want to make the right choice. This time, I'll let instinct do the thinking. hehe! I don't want another worker like the one that did the UMG Productions site!! I want someone who will always be there when I need them, and do what I want them to do. That last guy, he never even removed those banners I kept telling him I didn't want! They were an eyesore!! I want someone who can do a better job, and make Metazoica a real eye-catching site. Maybe I'll go with the guys who wanted to revamp the whole site. That would be a nice switch. Like I said, this isn't going to be an easy choice! What to do? I don't know! Someone's going to get this job. I know the others will have other work sources, so I guess I need not worry about that. I'd like to give some young sprig starting out a chance too. hehe! That'd be good on them. Ohhhh but this is one of the hardest choices I've ever had to make.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Stand Up Against Fat Discrimination
There is a new group on Facebook, and I'm hoping all who have weight issues will join me in this group as well. This is a group about standing up against fat discrimination. Even if you don't have weight issues, please join, and show you support fat acceptance. Fat people are being discriminated against all the time, for jobs, medical insurance and even having fun in amusement parks, movies that have seats made only for skinny folk, and we cannot even go on a helicopter ride because they tell us we're too fat. If you are sick of this, if you have relatives that are overweight, or friends who are overweight, or if you yourself are overweight, and you're just sick of the discrimination just because you weighed a few extra pounds, join this group on Facebook! If you are sick of going out of your house and you can't go a single block down the road without some jerk calling you a fat name, join this group. It'll give you some support. If you are trying to lose weight, this group will give you words of encouragement, and even show you the best way to lose weight. If you are a jackass who gets his jollies making fun of fat people, don't join! The group leader warns you will be deleted. But I urge anyone who has a friend, family member, or who is themselves overweight, to join this group. You'll be glad you did!! Here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Lets-stop-fat-discrimination/107247585967873?ref=mf
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Lets-stop-fat-discrimination/107247585967873?ref=mf
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Sweepin' The Clouds Away
Well, today we got a big surprise, it's sunny today, and it was supposed to be raining. Well, I want to say happy St. Patrick's Day to all my viewers. My ma traditionally celebrates this day with a dinner of corned beef and cabbage. She's almost 50% Irish in background, so she kinda grew up with her grandma carrying on this tradition. Oh boy! I personally HATE corned beef and cabbage!! Funny eh? I guess the Irish genes are just not that dominant in me. hehe! That's a joke BTW. I definitely have those well-known characteristics, I am a little bit sweet and a little bit salty at times. In my case, more than ma's, I have a lot of characteristics thrown together giving me a balance in my temperament. I'm almost 50% Mexican, so I have a lot of that Latin temperament as well as the Irish on top. I also have the rather hot temperament of the Scottish as well. A lethal combination. But I also have some Scandinavian softness added to my background. It's probably that that prevents me from completely flying off the handle and staying that way. But then it's run over again by the French/Italian in my background, which can also be quite temperamental. I get angry, but I get over it rather quickly. Sometimes when I blow up at someone, I usually think back and say to myself "Oh GOD how I wish I hadn't done that!" LOL! Sometimes when I get pissed, I can really get PISSED!!! That's when I do the things that has me wishing I hadn't done them in the afterthought. hehe! I'm still working on cooling off. Well, today I am celebrating with making some mint-chocolate cookies. I found some Andes mint chips in a store, and I thought that would be cool made up in a batch of my famous deep chocolate cookies. Where I usually add chocolate chips to that batter, today instead I am going to add mint chips. It's gonna be GOOOOOOD!!! Yes I admit it, I like to splurge in sweets once in a while.
Well, I found out Hutch's Strangest Party is going to be sending condolence cards to Timmy's wife, Beth. I think that's a very nice thing to do and I would love to send her a card myself. So I will definitely be a part of this. I never met the woman, and I barely know Tim! But shoot, I cut my hair for people like her. I feel like I need to do something great in addition to cutting my hair. Cutting my hair was a radical change for me! I'm so much more used to having it long. Well, last night, I had Anna dye my hair, kinda turning the clock back a little. As if that's some big thing!! I've been gray since I was 10 years old!! My ma was an early grayer and so is Anna. She just doesn't have as much gray hair as me. Everyone seems to like my hair better short. Maybe I should keep it this way.
I also got another interesting e-mail, from the so-called "Better Breeders Corner". Apparently their forum has been hacked. Looks like karma is rearing it's ugly head for them! I can only look at that message and laugh. Well, I laughed for a while, then I tossed it away. I don't ever go in that forum, and have no interest in what happens to it or anyone else in that forum. Well!! I do have a few buddies in there, and I do care about my buddies. But the rest I couldn't care less about. Most of the people in there are the dirty dozen mob. And they like to look up other peoples' personal info and put it on the forum. Ya know, the time and effort they put so much into poking their noses in other peoples' business, would be so much better spent doing something useful, like I put some of my time into helping out with Leukemia awareness. Oh but look at whom I am talking about. Most of the dirty dozen don't even know how to hold scissors, much less how to use them. And I doubt they care anything about leukemia awareness. If it doesn't affect their cats or dogs, I doubt they care about it.
Well, I found out Hutch's Strangest Party is going to be sending condolence cards to Timmy's wife, Beth. I think that's a very nice thing to do and I would love to send her a card myself. So I will definitely be a part of this. I never met the woman, and I barely know Tim! But shoot, I cut my hair for people like her. I feel like I need to do something great in addition to cutting my hair. Cutting my hair was a radical change for me! I'm so much more used to having it long. Well, last night, I had Anna dye my hair, kinda turning the clock back a little. As if that's some big thing!! I've been gray since I was 10 years old!! My ma was an early grayer and so is Anna. She just doesn't have as much gray hair as me. Everyone seems to like my hair better short. Maybe I should keep it this way.
I also got another interesting e-mail, from the so-called "Better Breeders Corner". Apparently their forum has been hacked. Looks like karma is rearing it's ugly head for them! I can only look at that message and laugh. Well, I laughed for a while, then I tossed it away. I don't ever go in that forum, and have no interest in what happens to it or anyone else in that forum. Well!! I do have a few buddies in there, and I do care about my buddies. But the rest I couldn't care less about. Most of the people in there are the dirty dozen mob. And they like to look up other peoples' personal info and put it on the forum. Ya know, the time and effort they put so much into poking their noses in other peoples' business, would be so much better spent doing something useful, like I put some of my time into helping out with Leukemia awareness. Oh but look at whom I am talking about. Most of the dirty dozen don't even know how to hold scissors, much less how to use them. And I doubt they care anything about leukemia awareness. If it doesn't affect their cats or dogs, I doubt they care about it.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Timmyfan: The Night After
I put this video together last night, it adds a bit of comedy relief to my "cutting my hair" video. I haven't had short hair in over 15 years, so I thought I would play a little on that, and show what I was first thinking when I saw myself in the mirror for the first time after cutting my hair. This is strictly for comedy, nothing else. I'm not trying to make fun of people who are bald or have short hair. I'm sure not making fun of Timmy or anyone with leukemia. My sis Anna almost ruined this video because she took my whining too seriously. That's how it is in this house. hehe! Anyway, hope you all enjoy it. :)
Friday, March 12, 2010
Tim Farriss For Leukemia Awareness
Tim Farriss sports a new look with his "hair-dresser". He shaved his head for charity. He did it for leukemia awareness. He did that, and is asking for sponsors in his cause. I could not give any money myself, but I did what I could to show him I am backing him up in his quest. I cut my own hair. I made a video of the event myself and placed it on YouTube. My hair was growing, it was down past my hips. To cut it was a huge sacrifice on my part. I wanted to let it go down to my feet! But I wanted to support Timmy in his cause.
It wasn't until after I recorded this video and put it together that I found out the reason Tim was going for this event. His wife, Beth, also has been stricken with leukemia. I cannot tell you how sorry I was to hear that. I told Tim my thoughts and prayers are with him and his wife as well. Hope she can get better. I truly do. Also, I am hoping to hear something about another friend who was striken with cancer, and hope all is well with her. I haven't heard anything from her in about 2 years, and I have been quite worried about her. So I did this for her too.
I have said in the past that if Tim ever became bald and weighed 300 pounds, I would still love him!!! LOL! Well, I know he doesn't weigh no 300 pounds, but now the little bald guy comes out. And I think he's just as cute as a button!!! I want to kiss his little bald dome!!! hehehe!! He looks better than me! My hair hasn't been this short since I was in high school! And I was skinnier back then! I look terrible! But, it's for a good cause. It's the best I can do right now. Anyone who would like to support Timmy in this venture, go to this link: http://my.imisfriendraising.com.au/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=343735&langPref=en-CA
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