Why can I not stop making changes to the site!? Just when I was done getting things looking ok in IE, I go and change the portfolio layout to a tabbed box (which I had wanted to do for awhile, but still). So now I must deal with IE-related nonsense again. Blar. I don’t know why I torture myself like this: I looked at how it looked in Opera and there were a few minor padding issues. I will not deal with it now.

UPDATE: IE was actually an easy fix, but then I realized that the search box was messed up on the blog. 2 hours later realized it was a CSS issue where one div was too big and overlapping the sidebar so you couldn’t interact with the search box, or text, or links. Entirely my fault.

Bentley

In other news, its hard to make sure I run when the weather is blah. I think I was meant to be living in a warmer climate. I blame the Puerto Rican influence.  Also, today is the last day to hang out with my sister and her puppy Bentley.  This means I either have to wait until she’s back to see them again or I have to make the trek out to Pullman and the middle of nowhere.

Turns out that IE does not recognize the specific stylesheet unless you have it right after the normal stylesheet.  And pretty much everything worked ok once I changed that, except some of the list style types were not showing up for whatever reason. Now all of them except one are showing up correctly, and that one will have to stay looking weird in IE 7 for now.

Yesterday I saw the movie “The Proposal“, which was ok as far as rom-coms go, but mainly made me want to go hiking again and visit Alaska. Afterwards, we went to the Good Fries Place for a nice stout and fries, which makes up partially for the bad summer weather in Seattle right now.

Now I need to stop playing with the website for awhile and start learning advanced functions of Excel for ZAAZ. Today is pretty much full of graduation events, Father’s day events, and a game night. Should be fun.

The good news: IE 8 seems to retain (most) of the CSS goodness that my Firefox CSS displays.

The bad news: IE 7 is ignoring my updates to the IE-specific CSS file. More investigation needed here. Still sore from yesterday’s hike, and now wishing I had a pet chipmunk.

Also I promised I would link to Brazen Lungs, because they are a talented band worth listening to. Check it.

So I decided to cave in and finally start a blog using Wordpress within my site.  The goal is to write about different things I’m dealing with at work and other web/database-related things.  With the occasional happenings from my life tossed in. I spent half my time altering the CSS on this theme and unsuccessfully upgrading to the newest version.  It seems I was not the only one who encountered the White Screen of Death.  Either way, I’m sticking with this for now. We’ll see if anyone reads besides me though.

The rest of tonight will be spent playing with my sister’s dog, Bentley:

Bentley and I