design woes

After nearly a year of keeping my journal on livejournal, I gotta say, god *damn* am I tired of this design. And I’m still not nearly lj_design_wise enough to do anything about it. It continues to frustrate me. I mean, I have some pretty basic needs. I want a journal with a customizeable navigational column. Preferably *two* such columns. Livejournal pretty much in no way gives me that. But since there’s no sense in being Irish if you can’t be thick, I’m about to try beating my head against it…

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tired.

Very tired. I got up very early because I had an awful dream and then couldn’t go back to sleep because my tummy was upset. Sigh. But we went to see the vet this afternoon and he thinks Chanti’s probably got a mild kidney infection. He gave her some antibiotics and we’ll go see him again tomorrow afternoon to see if her fever’s down and if she’s doing better. (I expect we’ll be able to tell the latter ourselves, really, if dog antibiotic shots work anything like at the rate…

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250 photos

Today’s is the 250th* photo published on kitsnaps.com (). The site launched on February 3, 2006, so I’m not quite at a photo a day, but not doing too badly. Overall, not as strong as the earlier seasons, and the final episode left a bad taste in the mouth. I see why people said they couldn’t end it there: it feels like it ended on a lie, and that’s ugly. I hope the fifth season makes it work, but I’m not sure it will. There were several factors that felt…

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my brain is trying to outsmart me.

This is not fair. If I get to 3750 words, ok, that seems ok to stop at, ’cause that’s a chapter and it’s 15 pages and all that. But if the chapter doesn’t finish up until 3826 words, then I’m only 1200 words away from 5K! And it seems like heck, I shouldn’t stop when I’m only 1200 words away from 5K! My brain is trying to outsmart me. -.- 6pm, eta: My brain has won. 5200 words. I bow before the power of my brain. ytd wordcount: 33,300 miles…

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