Ashes Fall

It’s finally happened, I think. Johnnie is totally overwhelmed. To see where her time went, she kept track for a week…

I haven’t hardly done my project for Flash Fundamentals because Becks was finally online for a day to do MCRime. I could be charging $30/hr for this stuff but I’m not. I do this stuff because I like to do it, not because I want to fail a class. I have a quiz today and a practical tonight that I probably won’t do very well on, and my project is due at 7pm. I spent about 20-30 hours on MCRime last week alone. The effing layout looks fine in FireFox and Safari, but crappy in I.E. so I need to make some modifications. However, the site can’t launch until I have a few days with the domain name anyways.

Mikey Way and related projects have become a full-time job. Mikey Way alone I spent about 40 hours last week into Monday. It may be just a fansite or whatever, but that thing has become my life and I love it. I really love it, and I love to watch good things happen to it (which, if things are going to go in my favor, I’ll start making some money soon). Mikey Way includes the main WordPress site, gallery, and forum. 8 hours was spent on the Media site (which will be a separate site from Mikey Way and is a partnership with Brandi), and 30 minutes (if that) on Brandi’s banner.

I’m also an avid reader of LiveJournal, Guitar Angel, Jemjabella, and Green Day Authority. I can be caught trolling Buzznet, YouTube, the WordPress Codex (yeah, I’m a nerd), and Absolute Punk.

And how much time have I spent in school? On campus, last week, 40 hours. Maybe 4 hours outside of class. And it doesn’t totally count because I’ve been known to work on the above things while in lecture and lab, as well as obsessively checking email.

I haven’t been to bed before 6am all week. I haven’t had a full meal in awhile. I’m about to clean off my couch and do sporatic naps.

I need to get my stuff in line.

Oh, but at least Michael Curry realizes he doesn’t take responsibility for himself or the stuff he does. In fact, he was quite vocal about it. I give him props for that, dude. Not a lot of people can admit something like that in themselves.

On the bright side, I get to see Kathleen on sunday!

Tags: Buzznet, Internet, Kathleen, Mikey Way Online, Online Life, Real Life, School, Websites

Kathleen’s sitting here laughing at me because I about just bombed this site. So, when I added on this domain to my account (the one that hosts Reason Enough and Mikey Way Online, my only account), I decided to make a new account so I could use GMail as my mail service for this domain. Well, what I didn’t realize was that I then couldn’t use the Affiliationally installation on Mikey Way Online’s backend. I thought, what the heck, I’ll just switch the user over and life’ll be good. Not so. The entire site was just….gone. Like, poof! No more! I panicked, changed it back, and refreshed, and nothing. I cried to Kathleen, and hit refresh, and the site loaded, causing me relief and a good round of amusement from Kathleen. Basically what this means is that I need to go home and use my own internet to upload a new installation of Affiliationally and then upgrade the current one. FTP access is blocked at school.

Alright, I’m on the school’s internet, right? Right. So I guess there’s a lot of students Googling today because I’ve been getting this message every time I try and use the Google search box in FireFox:

We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
If you’re continually receiving this error, you may be able to resolve the problem by deleting your Google cookie and revisiting Google. For browser-specific instructions, please consult your browser’s online support center.
If your entire network is affected, more information is available in the Google Web Search Help Center.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google.

Well, then. I guess a lot of kids are Googling from my campus today. Interesting.

Tags: Ashes Fall, Internet, Kathleen

I really need to start blogging more.

So the concerts were absolutely fantastic. You can read my reviews here: Birmingham, The Sloss Furnace and St. Louis, The Pageant.

Nick and I are driving up (well, Nick’s driving, I’m the passenger) to see Kathleen so I can give her her birthday present. I’d post what it is, but I’m afraid she’d see it prior to her getting it.

Tags: Concerts, Kathleen, My Chemical Romance, Nick