daisy's alter egos
i've got a little dog. she's a puppy, and her name is daisy. well, sometimes. you see, she's got these other personalities. sometimes she gets an insane look in her eyes and goes crazy, running around the room as fast as she can and making bank turns off the couch. that's "crazy eyes." one has to watch out for that character, lest one finds oneself a victim, pawed, clawed, and slathered with stinking saliva. then there's "randall." randall has no spine and slides everywhere. you've already heard about him. my favorite alter ego is "madam query." she was born out of a strange little game my sister created which involved a rawhide chew "treasure." my sister couldn't think of the exact name of the lady that discovered radium (madam curie) so she called her madam query. madam query would invade my sister's sofa cusion "ship" to steal the "treasure," and my sister would steal it back. well, the little dog looks dejected and alone, so i guess i'll go play with it. :c)

slinky dog
we got a dog a few weeks ago. a cocker spaniel puppy that is the cutest, most loving little creature that ever walked the earth. she's also rather annoying, too, because she likes to trip people, bark at nothing, and chew on pencils. of course, this is not unique or unusual behavior for puppies. but she is different. we are convinced that her spine is double-jointed. she bends like gumby and can twist and move in ways we didn't think possible. one of her favorite ways to stretch is to slide head first off the couch, leaving her back legs on the couch but standing upright on the floor with her front feet. when she's done stretching, and she leaves, letting her back legs plop onto the floor behind her. it's like she's part snake. since she slids around so much, we gave her the nickname "randall," the name of the slithery villain monster from "monsters, inc." another alter-ego is "madam query," a pirate that invades my sister's barricades and steals rawhide sticks for treasure.

cascading stylesheets
i first discovered HTML almost 6 years ago. before then, i thought the method for making web pages was similar to a WYSIWYG editor. needless to say, i was miffed, but i learned that quaint little mark up language. and for years i saw mystical acronyms like CSS and dHTML sprinkled across sites like Webmonkey. but i resisted. i had no desire and no need to learn them. and that's the way it was up until just a few days ago. i realized that i was old school. and i'm not even 17 yet! i was like those old people who use their egg timers even when the all the numbers are worn off. so i resolved myself to learn CSS, a more efficient way to do HTML. and i did, and now i feel empowered. enlightened, even. so if you're a geek and want to feel alive again, go to Webmonkey and learn CSS. you'll be glad you did.

some rebel i am
well, i finally broke down and decided to use the angelfire blogging tool. for those of you that just tuned in, when i heard that angelfire had a blogging tool, but one had to pay to use it, i was indignant. i don't know why, exactly. i just didn't think it was fair. i rebelled. i didn't need them anyway, so started my own make-shift blog. eventually i got tired of it and decided to use this because i'm lazy and would rather do things the easy way than try to change the world. have you ever noticed how the apathetic are far less stressed than the ambitious?