Someone in NASCAR needs to stop Kyle Busch before he kills another driver. His temper tantrums are entirely out of control. I’ve had toddlers with better impulse control than he shows! His actions last night went well beyond “Boys Have At It” and I’m glad he won’t be on the track for the rest of this weekend.

I was on twitter and NASCAR voicing my opinion of that little creep right after. I hope they park him for the rest of races this season, levy a BIG fine and make anger management classes mandatory for him, at the very least. His attitude after was bulls**t, if anyone should have backed off on 3 wide it should have been him, he wasn’t racing for the Championship, Hornaday was. It’s time someone at NASCAR bringit to his attention that he needs to grow up and have some respect for other drivers. It’s not all about CryBaby Busch, no matter what “HE” thinks!

He shouldn’t be allowed to race even a remote controlled car until he has his temper under control!

We just bought a doublewide mobilehome in a Senior Park recently. It sure was nice to get out of the motorhome. We had no furniture or refrigerator, yard sales and craig’s list covered the furniture.I bought a fridge from a local used appliance dealer. What a deal, it stopped working right (freezer works great, no cold air in fresh storage) as soon as he left. The jerk won’t honor his 30 day warranty so now I’m using frozen bottles of water to keep the fridge part cold. I had almost save enough money for a new fridge when……..

I lost 2 of my cats to flea medications this past Saturday, August 27th and Monday August 29th. If you can help with a donation for thier cremation it would be greatly appreciated.

R.I.P. Skittles August 27, 2011

   

I’m still an emotional wreak and cannot even think, so if this makes no sense please forgive me.

I live with 7 crazy cats. I used to have a large house and yard and I cared for a feral cat colony. When I could tame them, I took them to the vet, had then neutered or spayed and tried to find them homes. 6 of them are my keepers that I just couldn’t part with when we moved into our motorhome. The 7th is our latest family addition. I caught him as he was about to run into traffic and now he is the new king of the house! The eighth cat is the ghost of my stepdaughter’s cat Bikini, she lived to be 18+.

When I found her, she had no fur, covered in fleas and weighed less than a half an ounce! She still only weighs about 3 lbs. Her daughter KK weighs in at about 19 lbs, the same as the big boys Skittles and Butter.

KK is also on LOLCats.com and she knows she is a Star!

He is a gentle giant so full of love! Keeps me warm in the winter.

Still afraid of the world, takes a long time to let strangers near, and when he does trust you he becomes a big lovey baby.

There are 2 chihuahuas, that belong to my husband, Sarge and Louie that the cats allow to live with us also.

As you can see we do have a full house!! Add in 4 computers and it does get crowded at times.  I wouldn’t trade them in for twice the space! Although at times the cats do try to help me work, so if you find a mistake somewhere in my work, “It’s the cats fault!” covers it all.

Check out my store named for the cats 8CrazyCats.com

Need Tips, Tricks and Freebies for website building?

Today I’m putting together a small list of web sites and free tools that I use for web design.

Free Software

The best free text editor I have found is Notepad++ from sourceforge.net This program is so small it will run on a flash drive and has support for all programmin laguages.

Need just a quick resize of an image or a screenshot? Try XnView, it loads fast and does jpeg lossless tranformations, batch conversions, other neat features for slide shows, screenshot feature gives you options for the whole page or to draw a rectangle to capture just the area you need.

The other software I use for screen shots is ScreenRip32. Unfortunately it will not work on anything newer than Windows XP, not even XP Pro, but it works great running from my flash drive! I used it extensively to build my first website to aquire the product images from the manufacturers’ websites when they didn’t have product image downloads available.

Web Sites

My favorite color wheel site www.ficml.org You can choose up to 7 colors and have them show in a column. That’s a very useful feature when choosing colors for a web page. You will see instantly if the colors work together. It also shows if it is a web safe color, web smart or an unsafe color which will not show correctly.

COLOR TIPS:
True silver color #c0c0c0, for a a bronze look try #bc4300

Codes not working right? Can’t find the error? No matter how long you stare at the code you just can’t see it? Try validating at www.w3.org

I still use sitepoint Check out some of the really cool things you can do with latest in CSS3.

Work with PHP and MySQL? My all time favorite PHP forum is atCode Walkers. Very helpful community.

One more for PHP is phpfreaks. Just reading the post and answers can sometimes solve your problem!

For MIDI and mp3 files I use ez-tracks for general tunes and rats2u.com for Holiday music. Be sure to use a disposable email to register as they do sell email addresses.

Best Tool of All

My Firefox browser! Loaded with all of the toolbars for web developement. I design and check my work with the tools in Firefox, then check the look of the pages in IE, Chrome and Safari. It saves a lot of time for me.

That’s all I can come up with for now. Until next time, see you later!

Wow, July has been so full of interesting things going on it hard to know where to start.

Web Design

I’ve been building an ecommerce website using the Interspire Shopping Cart software, the website is live at www.vitabuilding.com. The store frontend is done, now it is just tweaks to the backend. Getting the invoices and packing slips templates to my client’s preferred format is my next challenge.

I’ll be adding an about us page this week. The company founder was a professional motorcycle racer when he was younger. He sent me some great photos that I will be adding to the page with his bio.

I have the facebook and twitter pages up, head on over and take a look. Vitabuilding could use more likes on facebook and more followers on Twitter. Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I started my education in webdesign when I was 56 years old. I think I had been waiting for the internet to reach the complexity it has now, support for the Rich Internet Applications. When I first started using computers in 1972 there was no real internet, it was just a means to pass data between computers with a black/gray screen and a white/yellow/green blinking cursor for entering data via the keyboard. No color, no mouse, no images. Boring, boring, boring comapared to todays internet. I read too much Science Fiction as a child, I still want the computers and data storage of the future.

Social Media

I’m learning the social media world as I go along, with all of the other SEO I have learned I hope to get more pages listed in Google than it is now. Luckily the site already had some back links and page rank at the time of launch.

The blog I read most often is ViperChill it has great marketing information. What a inspiration Glen is.

If he can achieve what he has at his age it gives me hope that I can succeed even at my age!! 3 times older, but not as savvy when it comes to the new social media game. I’m learning, slowly, but learning none the less.

Science

I took a couple of hours the other day to catch up on the posts from my favorite blog Cocktail Party Physics Cocktail Party Physics is a group science blog that aims to create a salon-like virtual space where contributors and readers alike can chat about the latest news and ideas in science — with a twist. If we can make it fun, funky, unconventional, and blur the lines between traditional disciplines — both within the sciences themselves, and science and the arts, literature, pop culture, history, and every other aspect of our culture — so much the better. We need fewer barriers and more bridges in this world.

Faux-French avatar Jen-Luc Piquant is the tres chic hostess who presides over the festivities with a suitably jaundiced eye and cool panache. Her “guest list” of regular contributors consists of Allyson Beatrice, Calla Cofield, Lee Kottner, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, M.G. Lord, and Jennifer Ouellette.

It’s fun, it’s entertaining, it’s educational, it’s for women by women, and you might just learn that science isn’t just a subject you hated in school.

Flex Development

I’m so excited, I received my signed copy of Larry Ullman’s book, Effortless Flex 4 Development, I have just started reading it so I’ll keep everyone posted on how I manage learning a new skill. I still need Flex Builder 4 software, should have it in a few days. Then the fun begins, I get to play!!!

Without Larry’s PHP books I don’t know if I could have made it through my advanced PHP class, what easy to use, reader friendly books. He has a style of writing that makes you want to learn more. As Abbey on NCIS says, They are like Pistashios, you can’t eat (read) just one! Started with PHP, onward to Flex.

While taking a photography class I met Gloria Jean, we became friends and as I got to know her better I found out she had written a book “Hot and Hairy, A Day In The Life Of A Hairdresser”. She sent me her final draft to read just before she sent it to her publisher.

I couldn’t stop reading it, I laughed so hard I cried, I laughed so hard I scared my cats, I laughed so hard I woke up my husband (he thought something was wrong), then I laughed some more. My Dad’s sister, his 3rd wife and one of my sister were all hairdressers, so I had seen thing in the shop and heard some stories. Gloria Jean brought back memories and brought new ones to life. If you are a hairdresser, have one in the family, dated one, have one as a friend or go to a hairdresser you should read this book. Not only will you have a great read with plenty of laughs, you will gain a new understanding of the beauty business and people!

In Gloria Jeans own words:

“If you have ever wondered what really goes on in beauty salons, now is your chance to get in on the action! Being in the beauty business for many years was an eye opener for me, in more ways than one. Hairdressing in the salon brought fascinating insights from people from all walks of life. Hot and Hairy is my character study of human nature. My personal experiences with clients from all over the world showed me that we are all more alike than not, and we are all cute!

In reading Hot and Hairy you will recognize, experience, and relate to the pulse of what people think and feel; their wants, their unexpressed hopes, fears, desires, hurts and dreams… their romantic and loving relationships… their likes and dislikes, and more! And as an Artist, Sculptor, Angelmaker, TV Make-up Artist and Hairdresser, and with Near Death Experiences opening spiritual sight, I got a profound glimpse into people’s beautiful hearts.”

Award Winning Writer Gloria Jean

Her website:Gloria Jean

This is just one of the reasons I keep going back to school, without the class I would have never met Gloria Jean.

The web design classes led to needing graphics for websites, that led to Photoshop classes, then I needed photos, that led me to photography classes. Each class has allowed me to make lifelong friends, making my life much richer!! Plus I gain more knowledge. This can be true for online learning also. I have friends that I have never met in person but would give them the shirt off my back if they needed it. They are always there to talk to and show their support for me starting a new career. Giving of their time and experince to help me!!!

I hope to be able to pass on knowledge to you my readers through my writings and enrich you also!!!