MILES to GO || before I sleep

The sign for California State University Northridge on Plummer and Darby has mysteriously vanished (the frame is still there, though). I'm starting to worry-- we're not really going to change our name back to San Fernando Valley State College, are we? SFVSC doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "CSUN." Maybe it's a bad frat joke?

Prices have gone up at the Arbor Grill, but only 15 cents for my favorite breakfast burrito (no meat, sour cream instead of salsa). I think it's to make up for the sales tax increase from the other day. I don't mind though. While I was getting my burrito, one of the chefs and I talked shop about future breakfast options: pancakes and French toast! I suggested they try some challah or raisin bread, and he said he'd look into trying it, considering Rye's not suitable for French toast and the wheat didn't taste very good. We also talked about varieties of vanilla, but it occurred to me that even though I like the thicker Tahitian extract, I doubt they sell that in large jugs good for a school! Oh well.

I'm in San Francisco as I type this; the weather is beautiful and I still can't microwave enchiladas without fossilizing at least one corner.

I posted WDKY26 at FFnet, Dragonfayth, and MediaMiner. Dragonfayth was giving me some issues with a fatal mySQL error, but I think I resolved it. Problem is, the site is still spitting out mangled/incorrect update dates, so my fic isn't on the Recently Updated page, nor does the story in My Stories listing show the right updated date. But believe me, it is updated there. I've checked it while logged in under both my admin account and a Test (non-admin) account.

Where else to upload it to? FicWad is apparently broken, I think I need to upload more chapters at AnimeXX before I can upload this one, DeviantART sucks for fics (actually, almost anything fan-made, but that's another story) and it's much easier just to link than post it on LJ (but I will if people want me to; it's not as long as some previous chapters that I had to span across numerous posts, but that's no guarantee that I WOULDN'T have to for this chapter).

(Aside: now that I've seen the music video for this song, I'm never going to think of it the same way again. I think I'll always be grinning and imagining Workout Barbie dancing. Or something like that.)

I don't want to spend my entire Spring Break indoors. I may be broke, but I did get a 7-day MUNI pass, and I intend to use it! (I should have already used it today, but I didn't. Does anyone wanna catch a movie with me later tonight? I think I could manage that....)

Couldn't find my :CueCat. I think either I or Mom got rid of it, unaware of the intrinsic value of a barcode scanner for organizing our lives. So, a birthday wish: a good barcode scanner. Maybe another :CueCat, which I'd have to modify (eep!) to work with Delicious Library 2. Probably not a big deal, but I don't want to waste even $15 if I might screw up. Better to invest in something I don't have to play with?

It's boogie time! *dance dance*

 Call on Me by Eric Prydz from YTMND Soundtrack, Volume 1 (Rating: 0)

Good Web Site: YPops.
If you have Yahoo! Mail and are sick of not being able to download your emails to your computer, get YPops. It works with practically every email client out there, and it does what Yahoo is making people pay $19.95 to do (what it used to do for free). This also works if you don't want ANOTHER email, or maybe you just can't get another one (GMail, anyone?)

Bad Web Site: Apple.com
No matter how hard I try, I can't download the Apple iTunes for Windows update (4.9). I have viewed the page in Avant Browser, IE, and Firefox, but I still can't see any download button (one time I caught a brief flash of it, but it disappeared). I have made sure that no images, flash files, or ActiveX files are blocked without notification, and I've gone through ALL of my McAfee logs for Privacy Service. Nothing. Bupkis. I finally submitted a feedback to Apple.com, but since it's not the kind they can reply to, who knows how I'll fix this problem.

Same goes for the iPod software. There's supposed to be a button there, but it just ISN'T. And somehow, other people don't seem to be having this program. Allow me to voice: WTF!?

All praise Saint Mamono, Goddess of the Code! I don't know how she did it/thought of it, or whatever, but she got me both the iTunes and iPod updates by digging around in the source code. And amazingly, IT WORKED! Thank you, Mamono! (Hey, I want more WDKY icons, or I won't show you the finished Winter icon I told you about!)

I also want to get the album artwork for my songs, but I really, truly can't figure out how, and all the tutorials on the Apple site seem to refer to the newest version of iTunes, which doesn't have half the menus described (that I have). Amazon.com apparently has something to do with all this, but what the heck do I know? I have a lot of album artwork in my My Music folder (don't know how it got there), but I think that was for another program...?

Wait, wait... the tutorial I read was mis-Googled and referred to a Widget for OSX only, iTunes Catalog, which has NO PC equivalent. Still, I'd like to get the artwork... (Got this program called iTunes Art Importer, which accesses Amazon.com's database. It's a pain to work at times, but it DOES work!)

Okay, so I have icons to work on, communities to update, fics to write and edit and post (WDKY coming at ya!) and things to find... er, remember all those Google parody sites we found a while back? I know one was Gizoogle.com, but what was the other one, where you could search names and come up with stuff like Seto Kaiba is god and things like that?  Googlism.com!

WHEE I WON! My first ever eBay auction and I won a pair of beautiful Azurite earrings. I'm totally thrilled, because I was under the impression that finding jewelry from my namesake (least, I think that's what it is) would be expensive or impossible. But I won these earrings, and I'm in the running for an Azurite and Hematite bracelet. All that's left is a necklace! ^_^v

What Doesn't Kill You Chapter 17 is now up at FFnet. Go read it, fo'shizzle.

That FO post I was talking about is a skosh bit delayed, but still coming. I guess you're looking forward to it?