[premptive note: this is not only about javascript, which was the original intent of this post. No, instead, it is about two and a half hours of my nutty life from the two and a half hours it took me to write this thing, due to all the various interruptions.]

First of all – thank you all for your comments on the last post, once again, I didn’t expect anyone would care. :angelicwink

Secondly, I think I’m going to claw out my friggin’ eyes.
Yes, that is what Javascript will do to you.

…. or else that’s what I wrote about an hour ago when I started this post before I got to talking to the very sweet Chris about my javascript problem. And finally, in between him and me (he and I? Me and him? :lol:), my homework is now a running program, once again! ;-)

The lesson for today, children, is that capitalization is very important when it comes to variables and arrays and what not. An equals sign is also equally important in arrays. ;-)
It’s funny how your brain will translate for you the things you see that are incorrect because you know what they should really be.
Such as typos, I often miss them because my brain reads what it should be instead… tonight my teacher had written, on a handout, “onlick” instead of “onclick.” It was quite funny. But I totally didn’t see it the first thousand times I read over that paper. :eek:

ANYWAY – here’s my new Java-scripty-thingy, again with boring html removed…. As you can see, today’s date should be highlighted 24/7/365. :-D

Dude, I keep hearing things… it sounds like someone’s in my basement. It’s starting to creep me out (which isn’t necessarily an easy thing to do)…

…later – I have no idea what those noises were… :?: :?: :?:

But it’s amazing how much laundry one man can generate in just one day alone. And it will be even more amazing what I do with it since I’m out of laundry soap until I can go to St. Louis on Friday. Oxyclean away!!

Hmmm… the past two days I have been working on those candles. I topped off the ones Kris and I did and they actually look quite nice now! Just one top-off is all it’s taking and I am now at a total of three and a half dozen finished candles and four that need to be topped-off. I have left 6 jars, 15 pounds of wax, and a lot of color and fragrance, and probably 452 wicks left. I am thinking of dropping off one at Carrie’s desk tomorrow to have her test it out.

In other news, I’ve been working on another script today. Hehe, yes, today. It’s not anything anyone else would really be interested in (most likely), it’s something specific I need for stegenevieve.net to manage marriage records. But it’s really cool the way it’s coming together, I’ve been learning more about the UPDATE/SET of MySQL and implementing a “queue” type of feature for submissions that will have to be okayed by the admin and therefore updated. So active=0 originally and after updating by an admin active=1 and it’s therefore displayed to the public. Of course, if the admin selects it instead to say active=0 when submitting, it is then deleted.
Now I want to implement an “email me on submission” feature into it and a search feature, and then I think I’ll be ready to go. :idea:

In yet other news, Yahoo is starting to tick me off. :floppy:
I run a site there for this very sweet woman, for her non-profit organization. She’s been hosted there for over two and a half years now, she picked them out. So last week, she emails me and says that the site is down, sure enough, there’s a 404 error.
So, of course, immediately I started looking for a support area (never needed one before), and maybe I’m just blind, but I never could find exactly what I was looking for. So I filled out some form and told them what was up.
After a couple of days, I’d gotten no response and the site was still down. And before you ask it, I assure you that the domain is fine – it’s registered through May.
So I emailed them from the tech contact on the Whois information from her domain address that is accessible when I log into the Yahoo account. I still have not received a response. :grr:
Why haven’t I called them? Simply put because my name’s not on the account. Why haven’t I had her call them? Because she’s away in Florida for ooooh, I guess another week. Yeah.
So I ended up today changing her nameservers to my reseller and gave her an account. That was earlier, I would suspect that by now, the change would be reflecting on whois.sc even though it wouldn’t be completely propagated yet. No such luck, it’s showing the domain as “inactive.”
This is stupid, too, because I was just getting ready to do a redesign on that site. Especially if I can get her away from Yahoo where I can use some php. (We’ve discussed moving her before, but decided for now to stay where she’s at for various reasons, even though she has another site with me.)
Yahoo better have not messed up that domain, or so help me… I’ll get them.

Further frustrations arise from a project I am working on for a woman out of Florida. It’s a simple thing, she’s trying to get me some big image files of OLD newspapers so that I can put them online for her transcription team (who is scattered around the country) so they can work on them online (it’s cheaper for her that way, too) and anyone else who needs them can view them. The problem is that she doesn’t have the 75 cds, she has already sent them to another woman who said a while ago that she would do this – but she’s taking forever and not getting anything done, hasn’t even been acting interested after the “honeymoon period” until I got involved. Now she’s all taking forever to send me these cds and is asking all sorts of dumb questions about how I am going to do this, etc etc. The feeling we get is that she’s now regretting not doing this in a timely manner – something about her and her husband having a webdesign business. I guess she feels she could get business from this (fat chance) and possibly $$ from this project as well (not happening). :evil:
But here’s the thing – she’s wanting to know if my computer can play DVD’s – well yes, it can – so then can she put several cd’s worth of images onto a dvd and send that to me? Well no. :lol: It is my feeling that doing that will actually make more work for me, if it works at all… I would think then I would have to use a screen capture and probably end up with bad images since they would probably not be full size (we’re talking big images). Am I right? ‘Cause what I saw of the DVD I made for Susan the other day at mom’s is that it puts everything into one DVD file and there are no separate images on the cd then.

Okay, enough rambling for tonight… This ended up being a lot longer than I had originally thought…

:pawprint: Oh my gosh! I know what the noises are… I wrote that last sentance and then heard them this time to my right I turned around and saw it – a mouse! I haven’t seen a mouse in this house since before we got rid of Kat! And that was….. two years ago last month I guess (when we got rid of her).
That little disease-carrying creature was in the corner by the outside door, I scared him back behind Steve’s speaker box that is no longer in his truck and he came back out and I scared him back in. Then I called the dog and had to say to him, “Rimshot, you stupid dog, where are your cat-like reflexes now!?” He ran away scared when I moved the speaker box to which the mouse ran out, across the door, and behind the old chest of drawers that was my dad’s when he was little (aka Val’s big filing cabinet). I lost him there. He’d better not be under there, chewing into my files. I shot the can of air under, just to make sure. Grrr… he’d better not be under my piano either. He’d better be back in the basement where he belongs.
I tried to wake Steve up and I asked him where the mousetraps are. He says we don’t have any. He’s lying. He always lies in his sleep. :cute:
But I need those mousetraps, I have to make an example out of this mouse, just like I did the last one. Errr… okay so maybe it was less than a year ago I saw a mouse in this house… but that one was already dead, so he doesn’t count.
I WILL get that little buger. I don’t need him running around my house chewing things up and spreading his fleas or whatever else he might have.

Now I am making something to eat. :-D
I was okay, but then I threw up. No, not because of the mouse. Well, indirectly because of the mouse. I got so excited trying to catch that little disease carrier that I got to coughing and yup, that did it.
I’m probably the only person I know that throws up and then is suddenly hungry and ready to eat. I could never be bulimic.

Adding to list of stuff to get this weekend…. toilet paper… laundry soap… mouse destroyer…

[Edit] I just saw that little butt-munch again, doing acrobatics on some spare wire shelving from upstairs that is down here (I keep putting it in the closet, Steve keeps getting it out). I tried to smack him with the broom but he braved the leap of death instead and then I think he ran under my closet door. So I assume that’s where he’s living. Greeeeaaaaaatttt. [/Edit]