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Screen resolution, colors & irritation – oh my!

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I am becoming increasingly irritated with my monitor’s screen resolution.  I changed it to see how a client was viewing his new site with a high res setting, which was way too small for me  (2500 x something) and when I went to change  mine back to my previous settings – 1400 x 900 – I couldn’t. No matter what I did it just wasn’t happening. What the hell? Nothing else has changed. No new drivers, no updates to ANYthing. I am stuck with 1680 x 1050 (not ideal) vs 1360 x 768 (huge everything!).

I can read content ok, but things aren’t as pretty as they could be to me. The majority of websites look like crap… patterned backgrounds not wide or long enough, sites that aren’t centered. Heck, even some of my own site(s) aren’t as attractive which compels me to redesign them, NOW.  It’s throwing me off in my own design process. I usually average my sites to look best @ at least 1024 x 768 even though the current trend is 76% higher than that.

Along with the screen res issue, now that I have my laptop side-by-side with my desktop, the color differences in monitors is just as annoying. My large monitor is color calibrated, vibrant & saturated with stunning graphics, but when I cross-check sites on other computers the view is discouraging (and ugly).

What to do?

I realize that I have no control how everyone else views the web… their screen resolution, color settings and the browser that they use ( don’t even get me started on browsers!), I can only do the best that I can. But this damn screen res setting on my pc definitely needs a solution asap!

Any suggestions? Anyone?

Food Gods Gone Wild

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blechI don’t know what the deal is lately… are my Taurean stars aligned to the left of the Goddess Ceres? or am I in a retrograde love/hate relationship with the Angry Food Deity? I can’t stop eating this week! I have no idea why. I am possessed. Searching for that magical food that will satiate me longer than an hour. Of course, I don’t buy things that would probably do the trick – no sweets, no big fluffy cupcakes, no ice cream—I guess that’s a good thing.

So I eat a piece of yummy bread w/PB & bananas… have another yogurt… slurp on a few more SF popsicles. Grab another mozzarella stick. Apple? oh I s’pose, might as well chomp that sucker down too.

It’s not so much the content as the action. The wanting to eat. See? If I had my damn edamame beans it would be a no brainer. Nope, still not available.

Oh well, this too shall pass… right? Like, before I gain a kazillion pounds?!
(Yes, I am exercising – so maybe I’ll just gain 1/2 a kazillion lbs)

No more beans…

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beansI am crushed. It’s a sad, sad day… my staple (besides yogurt), my Imperial Edamame Beans are no longer sold at Sam’s Club. My 4 lb box containing 8 perfect sized bowls of podded beans is nowhere to be found.

Seriously, at 99 cals & about 8 gms of protein, they were the ideal snack-a-rooni. Now what? I used to get about 4 boxes a month. Dagnabbit.

Oh well. I shall survive… just barely, but I’ll try.

On another note – Windows 7. Mumsy bought a new pc and other than setting up the basics, I could have played with the new OS much much longer! Very cool at first glance. I don’t know about from a working standpoint, but the shininess and newness was pretty slick. Personally, I won’t convert until I get a new pc entirely. I’ll be due in about 6 mths or so. Just the tower. The memory available now blows my mind. And I thought I was pretty hot stuff 3 yrs ago with 4 megs of RAM… ahhh, technology.

And finally – painting colors & my prints. Since we’re remodeling Jennie’s old room into a guest room, I am once again tormented by what color to paint the walls. Seems pretty cut n’ dried – all neutral-ish except for one wall. The main “gallery” wall that I plan on hanging my Shag prints. I think I have 3 or 4 (yes, you know me & prints), but with all of the vibrant colors that he uses, I’m trying to remember which ones I have and of which “color scheme” they are. Actually, I think I have an orangey-pink-red one as well as an all-around blue, teal, greenish one, so I think it will be pretty much a crap shoot what color I paint the wall. Maybe a limey-but-not-blinding greenish… it’s a very bright room… we shall see. I’ll surprise us, k?

Alritey, time to make the donuts… OH, and if I don’t see you, have a marvelous Thanksgiving!!

on my list…

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Poor little KittyKitty blog. One of these days — definitely needs an overhaul. But not as bad as Mumsy, her blog died and I have NO idea how to fix it and no one in the WP forums has answered my pleas for help.  :(

*danger*danger*

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Geesh, if I had to go somewhere in the morning, I would be totally freaked out by now. That’s all they’re talking about on the news (what news??) snow snow snow 8″-12″ by morning. As it is, I wish it would begin already… kind of exciting.

Then, I was making a pot o’ coffee, opened a new pack of filters, plopped it in – what the hell? It was tiny and only went about 1/3 high in the basket. I looked at the package and the suckers were labeled “for up to 4 cups”. Why didn’t I see that when I bought ’em? I know that they were on sale, 2 fer 1. Dagnabbit.

Blahblah. I have a couple of Clementines sitting here waiting to be eaten. I also have a loverly pomegranite that I have to eat soon before it shrivels up but no time is a good time to tie up my hands for awhile. Is that bad or what?

Fire & Poop

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The fire is for the flaming newspaper that I was reading over a candle in my office this morning and the poop is for what was floating along with other gross tidbits on the basement floor this evening. Ok, so maybe it was just the corner of the newspaper that was on fire, but it was enough for me to freak and shake it all over the place to put it out, leaving pieces of soot on the floor.

The poop situation was worse but not as bad as about 8 yrs ago… (8 years??!!). Well, it was disgusting and that’s all I’ll say about that.

Then Rosie insisted on her evening tug-o-war game. It is truly a work out for me as well as for her. She’s really really strong, and tugging on a hard dumbbell shaped toy back and forth with her actually makes my biceps and shoulders sore.

Finally, I made a pot o’coffee and have been searching for a good movie to watch & relax & maybe get a little work done while it’s on… pffft! A kazillion channels and there’s not a suitable film in the bunch. bleh.

Speaking of work – just finished up a fun site today. One down… OH! Oh-oh-oh! The Badgers & Marquette are on! What the hell am I thinking? BIG rivalry those two.

Ok then, I’m outta here. xoxo