Cripes

TNT's having a marathon of The Closer tomorrow (the show I mentioned I really wish I were watching more). I might tape it while I'm sleeping and out running errands so I can watch it later. I love that show.

Two more shows to add to my list: Vanished and Celebrity Duets. Both of the same reason: Queer as Folk *EG* Gale-the-officer is too nummy for words. And I NEVER miss a chance to watch Hal sing! *drools* I so want that man. I was really scared he'd be voted out the first night... but he's still there and can sing more for me, er, for America.

I looked into buying Dreamweaver tonight. Now that I have a job I thought maybe that would be a good investment to speed up website work. But, gah, over $300? I'm not that rich yet! LOL I'll stick to coding by hand in a text editor, thank you very much! Still, changing the punctuation in all the thousands of stories on the sites is going to take forever using the methods I use now. And I refuse to use my work laptop for sneezing-related stuff, naturally. Grr.

I bought Suize Orman(have I ever mentioned I LOVE that woman?)'s Young & Broke book off Amazon.com the other day. Now that I'm making money I want somewhere to put a bit of it. I've been putting $ into my normal savings account, which gives me about twenty or thirty cents a month in interest. Which is pointless. So I'm thinking of opening some other account but I don't know much about that or where to put it. So I'm going to read lovely book and learn, then maybe call the financial person who handled my grandparent's estate and worked for my mom's side of the family when my grandpa died.

Crikey

Just heard the news- Seve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, died.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html
So very, very sad. I feel so sorry for his wife and kids... and his zoo. I always loved watching his shows and documentaries and interviews. He was always so vibrant and spirited. We need more people like that looking out for our animals. Sad now.

To SF Readers & Writers...

Lately, (though I only just noticed it, sorry about that, folks) many different characters including quotation marks, tabs, apostrophies, and accented letters have been showing up badly (usually as question marks) in stories on various sites I run.

I've done a quick fix to the stories at the following locations:
tarotgal's Realm, the Sneezefic Archive, the Challenge webpages (132, annual challenge, weekly hatching, etc.)
And I've done spot checks to confirm that many documents now look correct. However, I have not checked them all and I'm fairly certain I've missed some problems.

So I'm asking all writers to check their stories. And I'm asking all readers to read carefully. If you spot any problems of any type with any of the stories or webpages in general (i.e. story listings, author pages, etc.) PLEASE let me know the following: Website you found the problem on, Title of story or title of page, place where the error occurs (copy & paste the parts of the sentence). E-mail all this information to tarotgal@livejournal.com

I'd really appreciate help with this. There are literally thousands of stories and I don't have the time to go through and read every single one. So please let me know if you spot any problems anywhere. Thanks!