August 2002
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Friday, August 30, 2002 - 7:18 PM
Since I've lost 27 pounds over the last 4 months, hardly any of my pants fit me (except some from pre-motherhood). I spent yesterday and today finding new pants that fit. The new pants are a little on the snug side for what I'm used to, but I'll just let that serve as motivation to lose more weight.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 1:11 PM
It's here, it's really really here... off to play with the new laptop!
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 1:09 PM
My uncle had his brain surgery yesterday and is doing well. He's in ICU, but is breathing on his own and talking. He has all his motor skills as far as we know, but it will be awhile before we know if his memory was affected. Just thought I'd mention it here in case anyone read my original post about his condition awhile back...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 12:13 PM
My laptop is due to arrive by FedEx any minute and I'm waiting anxiously as I try to get work done. I hear a noise at the door, but I didn't hear a truck. I literally run to the door and there's a package and I see the Airborne Express truck drive away. The box is just a little too small to be the laptop and is labeled Dell. I'm thinking that they dropped off the accessories but forgot the...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 10:06 AM
I just checked the tracking at FedEx for the laptop. It arrived in City of Industry at about 8:05am today. That's only 20 minutes from here. Why isn't my package here yet?! Hurry FedEx man, hurry... don't you know I'm anxious? :-)
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 11:48 PM
Spent a few hours at the mall today looking for clothes. I found a few cute tops, but I need more pants. I'll have to go back again for pants and shoes. It has been a whole year since I've bought new clothes, so this is a treat for me.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 6:57 AM
I just checked on my order status for the new laptop. Woo hoo - it is in transit! Should be here today, if not then by tomorrow. How exciting! :-)
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Monday, August 26, 2002 - 11:27 PM
Gaetano busted the microwave stand's wooden door while he was supposed to be under his daddy's supervision. The wood actually split so there is no way to repair it. I mean we could, but it would break very easily. They were both properly scolded of course, but I'm still not over it yet...
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Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:41 PM
Ahhhhhh...another chapter done and only 5 left. 10 days left until TODCON now and I've a lot of prep to do yet, so I may not be posting here as often as I'd like. I'll do my best though to keep up.
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Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 8:21 PM
Well it is only 11 days left until TODCON and I've 4 pounds left to lose before I reach my goal. One less pound and I'll have lost 20lbs. since the last TODCON, so I hope I at least lose that. Yesterday and today I did a Salsa dancing aerobics workout for 30 minutes. I just got back a little while ago from a 1 hour walk. I'm guessing it was about 2 miles, but I'm not sure. I had a good idea for a...
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Friday, August 23, 2002 - 1:50 PM
Flipping through the book now and it looks fantastic! I like the new layout for this edition. Gotta read my chapter first of course – #7 Introducing Macromedia Dreamweaver MX in case you are curious.
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Friday, August 23, 2002 - 1:49 PM
Woo hoo!!! I just got my copy of the Macromedia ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit. Tomorrow my top should arrive (see today's earlier post) and it will be fun to see if they actually match in color as well in real life as they do in the pictures.
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Friday, August 23, 2002 - 1:07 PM
Oh no, not again... :-( Parents, please read this, and spread the word. My husband just called me from work to tell me that his co-workers 3 month old son died last night. The child is survived by his twin sister and other siblings. The father put the boy down in his crib with a bottle and left to the living room to play on the PlayStation with his other children. After the game he returned to...
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Friday, August 23, 2002 - 11:55 AM
I went to bed at 2am last night and woke at 5am. Then I worked until 8:30am and went back to bed until 10am. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. I need coffee...
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Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:37 AM
I just bought a really cute Guess top online. This is the first time I've purchased clothing online ever and I hope it fits me! You know, the top reminds me of something but I just can't seem to place my finger on it...
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Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 5:53 PM
Since June 1st, I've lost 21 1/2 of my total 25 1/2 pounds of weightloss. How did I do it you ask? Check out The Atkins Diet . I've been pretty strict with it and keep my carbs very low. It is tough being married to a gourmet chef; I blame him for all my weight gain ;-). So tonight I am celebrating breaking the 25 lb. mark and going shopping for a few new skinny clothes. I'll buy 'em snug since...
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Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 4:18 PM
Dan said, "Dude, you gotta get a Dell!" and so that's what I've done. Just put my order in for my first laptop ever. Of course I couldn't go with the standard 4150 model; I had to customize it. Estimated ship date is 8/30. I sure hope it gets here in time for TODCON .
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 9:09 PM
I decided to take a picture of my burns, because I'm insane and have little shame. Be warned, you should not view this picture unless you are wearing sunglasses. My leg is very white! The burns are worse on my thigh, with about 20 splotches all over. My wrist bubbled already and I accidentally scraped it. Can we say, "Ouch!"? The burns are way worse than what it looks like in the...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 5:10 PM
My mom has this story she likes to tell me about that when I was about 2 years old I was by the front door and about to get out and she ran to grab me just as I stepped out the door. I'd have fallen down a step about 8 inches or so and probably would have gotten hurt if it weren't for mom. She was badly scraped and bruised on her arms, legs and I think even her face. Thanks mom, I've returned the...
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Monday, August 19, 2002 - 11:21 PM
Proud mama moment here! For the last few weeks I've been trying to teach Gaetano how to properly ask for things. He repeats each word after me and the sentence is always, "Can I have some (more)______ please mama?". As the weeks have past he's said: "Can I have" , "Can I set go!" (we play a game of ready? set? go! and somehow he decided that is how he should ask me...
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Monday, August 19, 2002 - 8:16 PM
Spoke to my Aunt and found out that my uncle is having surgery next Tuesday as long as his diabetes is stable. The prognosis looks good according to the doctors. The tumour is near the part of the brain that controls memory, which may explain his recent memory problems. If anything is at risk it would be his memory, which I'm told is better than losing your vision, speech or mobility. I'll be...
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Monday, August 19, 2002 - 2:35 PM
A friend of mine just emailed to tell me something and I just gotta share it because I find it rather interesting. My friend, we'll just call her Lisa to protect her true identity, is about to become a dancer...ummm, some would call it a stripper. Well, this is what I find rather interesting; to be a stripper you must have a license to be a one. Some cities require it, some don't. So the city she...
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Monday, August 19, 2002 - 11:15 AM
So, yesterday I was taking a nap and the telephone rang. It startled me, I jumped up and then I hear POP and my right leg hurt on the inner area of the knee. I have a pretty high threshold for pain; labor was easy. This was about 3pm and by about 10pm I finally noticed the leg starting to hurt. I didn't notice that it hurt this morning, I got up and hurried down the hall to work. It wasn't until...
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Saturday, August 17, 2002 - 2:44 PM
Earlier today I approved 3 new ASP.Net-VB Script snippets by JoJo Caine the alter ego of Adrian Senior. His Rounded table corners snippet is in 2nd place for the most downloads currently. I'm sure these will be popular amongst ASP.Net developers.
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Saturday, August 17, 2002 - 2:44 PM
I just got off the phone with my cousin and have just now found out that our uncle has a brain tumour. My dad and his brother haven't spoken in over 20 years and hence I missed out on having a uncle. I saw my uncle Phillip 2 months ago for the first time in years where I was able to speak to him. On some levels it was like no time had passed and on others it was like we were strangers. I really...
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Friday, August 16, 2002 - 9:45 PM
I was just looking at an old email account clearing out messages when I came across one that I thought would be appropriate for this site. It is one of those annoying chain emails where they ask you to send it to people, blah blah blah... but this one was actually kinda cool. It is called I'm Just a Mother? .
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Friday, August 16, 2002 - 6:20 PM
I've been fooling with CSS filters a little lately. I know they're proprietary, but it would be really wonderful if they make it into CSS3 (even by different property names and/or possible values). Anyhow, in case you're interested, here's a link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/filter/reference/reference.asp and be sure to click the Show Me button on that page....
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 9:25 PM
Ok, so you may be wondering, how I came up with the idea for DWmommy. Truth be told, it wasn't my idea; it was Massimo Foti's idea. It's sort of a long story, and one I'd rather not explain tonight. To make it short, he suggested it basically because I'm often a nuetral party and someone people seek advice from. :-) One friend suggested I turn this site into a Dear Abby type thing for...
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 8:47 PM
Hello there! I've just made this site publicly known on the Dreamweaver newsgroup moments ago. What have I done??? :-)
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 2:00 PM
Lately people have had their undies in a bundle on the Dreamweaver newsgroup. I can understand some of the frustrations, but I think people spend way to much time worrying about the way that people post. If there is someone whose style you don't care for, add them to your block list. If you learn to use your newsreader wisely, you'll not be bothered by stupid things. Can't we all just get along?...
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 12:05 PM
I spent most of yesterday working on the book, trying to get a bunch of writing done. I did quite a bit of research as well. So far it has been a lot of fun working on this project, despite the hard work.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 6:58 PM
Yesterday was my niece Francesca's 6th birthday. We spent most of the day getting ready for that with last minute gift shopping and all. I'm way behind on work now though, and shouldn't have stayed there so late, but hubby wanted to hang with his family. Actually, for a nice change, I had a pleasant visit. Today Dan helped me learn how to make ZIP files on the fly so my co-author could download...
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Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 10:15 PM
I'm absolutely determined to keep each page of this site XHTML strict. In doing so, that means that a form tag cannot have a name attribute. Well that just messed me up! I'm not worried about older browsers at all, which means I can use document.getElementById(). Unfortunately due to my typlexia I was using getElementsById()(notice the extra s) and was having no luck so I moved to...
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Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 4:39 PM
I've spent today working on the archive for records older than 3 days. It has been quite challenging but I think I finally got it. I'll know for sure once I add a few more records and do some further testing. This time however I had to enlist the help of Dan. Thanks Dan! :-) My issue was that I was getting bad dates returned by the SQL I used. I needed to enclose the date variables in # marks and...
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Friday, August 9, 2002 - 7:31 PM
Woo hoo; I did it! I figured out how to make it so I can have multiple entries for the same day here and only make the date show up once. I'm so proud, LOL! I didn't even harrass Dan for help. Next I need to get the navigation going and then the archives. Fun, fun, fun... I still wish this was being done in CF and I just might convert it for practice later on. After all, absolutely everything is...
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Thursday, August 8, 2002 - 5:25 PM
I'm just now starting to feel better. Being in pain all day has messed up my head and I can't concentrate on work. I've not gotten a darn thing done today really. Ok so I got a few things done but not enough. I better hurry up and get work done before company comes over tonight...
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Thursday, August 8, 2002 - 6:45 AM
I had way too much to eat last night and I'm paying the price. I woke up a little while ago with the worst belly ache. I've only had about 4 1/2 hours sleep and it was entirely restless. I really shouldn't have had brocolli cheese soup so late at night, but it was so darn tasty.
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Wednesday, August 7, 2002 - 9:30 PM
Things are going well... some exciting new things are coming to the DWfaq Store (especially in a couple more months). I wish I could say more, but I can't just yet. Tonight is my sister-in-law Maria's 23rd birthday so we're taking her out to T.G.I. Friday's. She has no idea what I do for a living at all. In fact, all of my husband's immediate family just thinks that I design web pages. I think...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2002 - 7:30 PM
We had an absolute blast at the zoo yesterday! We fed the goats and sheep. Gaetano was really excited and not at all scared to let the animals eat from his hands. There was this smart little monkey there that reached outside his cage and used a branch to sweep some sunflower seeds close to him so he could grab and eat them. After the zoo, I was supposed to come home and work but I needed some...
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Monday, August 5, 2002 - 12:30 PM
I'm playing hookie! My husband has the day off, and wants to take our son to the zoo. Originally they were going to go without me so I can get some work done, but I'm jealous! I've been working hard lately, so I'm going to ditch work for a few hours. I'll take some pictures and upload them later so you can see how much fun we had... I'm outta here!
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Sunday, August 4, 2002 - 4:00 AM
I think I just really need some sort of outlet now. Being a work-from-home mom and the lack of adult interaction can take its toll. So I've decided that this is the place where I can just talk about whatever it is that's on my mind or happening in my life. Some of this will be work (Dreamweaver) related, and a whole lot of this will be personal. I fully intend to brag about my little boy –...
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