The Blog With No Name

Our daughter is acolyting today, for the second time. She wants to look extra-good, so she asked her little brother (? mr. fashion sense himself ?) to help pick out her dress. So, by dint of an “eeny meeny miney moe…” or two, she is now wearing more or less a ball gown (I think it was her Easter dress). Between that and the acolyte gowns that are meant for people twice as tall as she is, I’m going to spend the entire morning at church waiting for her to trip. Or set the place on fire.

The boy wanted to look good too, or as he refers to it, “fancy.” So he’s little mister prep today, with his chinos and shiny shoes. The final touch will be hair gel and a good brushing. Yes, his hair can lie flat, for a few minutes. Did I mention his new red robe from Land’s End, that is two sizes too big? It’s his “king robe,” and he’s really getting the hang of tying the belt with the arms dangling down over his hands.

It is so entertaining to let small children dress themselves.

I finally today started playing with some cascading style sheets for my web site, which was WOEFULLY outdated (most of it still is, actually). Up and STOLE one from CSS layout techniques, what a nice person to let me do that. I did my Palm page and my Web Page page first. Deleted boatloads of old, dusty outdated “page not found” pages too. Very liberating. I cannot TELL you how cool Mozilla Firefox and HTML-Kit together are. Well, I could, but you’d get bored.

I’ve been reading the Discipline Code for our school district recently (the principal at the high school actually ::enforced:: the dress code a few days ago – gaggles of teen girls sent home wearing flip-flops, told to return with real shoes, ha ha ha…) and I came across the “Descriptions of gang and cult activity” …
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Her kid party was yesterday, at a bowling alley. Her guests brought school supplies for Lutheran World Relief’s Stand With Africa project in lieu of gifts for her, as she “has enough stuff.”

One girl showed off her pink bra to some of the little boys, and the reset button got hit a few more times than was absolutely necessary, but otherwise it was an uneventful party. Whew. The birthday girl even got a strike!

I have been bossless for the past two weeks. In this period of time I have figured out how to get the office laptop to print to my laser printer over the wireless network, which is pretty cool, and I have obsessed over the church web page, which I would dearly love to create in all CSS. I bought the Definitive Guide in a moment of non-self-control. I fiddled meyerweb.com ‘s CSS rollover menus. But I have a terrible feeling that some AOL person, or someone who hasn’t discovered the joy of Firefox, is going to look at the website and tell me that it looks like shit. Which, in a non-compliant browser, it probably will. Alas. Plus also, I am having a bit of a difficulty with the cascading part of CSS; some stuff is appearing where it shouldn’t (or rather, appearing in a manner that I don’t want and can’t seem to fix yet…) .
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