02/05/05: It has been a very very very long time, for intermediate updates you can check out my Live Journal, I think I updated that a few times. The biggest things going on are my getting ready for my Appalachian Trail trip next year, and my sprained ankle which refuses to heal. I hope to complete my Europe pages tonight, but I have been hoping to finish them for awhile now. Julie is off doing amazing things in Ecuador, I'm still working at the pet hospital. Sometimes life just doesn't seem fair ::dryly::.

07/05/04: I have finally sat down and hammered most of my link and pages for the Europe trip out! Of course now I have to fill them... Right now the only page I have up is the London one, which is also likely to be the longest page since I by far have more photos and textual material for it. I was ill for a long section of the middle of the trip and as our adventure progressed we as a group tended to take fewer photos and make fewer notes. Which actually isnt such a bad thing since we had tons and tons and tons of photos of London! Anyway, I will try and have Paris up by tonight, but definitely no promises on that. At the same tiem I think I have fixed most of the other little problems that were irritating about this site, let me know if you can find anymore.

06/10/04: When the site is updated I will probably always have some new text here. In addition to just now having regained control of this site (after not having control since April), I now have a shiny new job! I am a vet tech (they say "pet nurse" ::shudders::) / receptionist for Bainfield Pet Hospital. Now, I don't want to get any flames about this, it is the best job in the area and I am still paying off this past years little trip overseas, also trying to save for another one, maybe ::wide eyed:: Hi Anna!!! Email me, Ive lost your address.

02/02/04: As a random unrelated to anything else observation, CSI Miami really isn't nearly the show the original one is. Whenever I get around to working on the nav frame, I will also be adding a page of "Wanted" characters...people I have either lost track of over the years and would like to see again...or people I would like to see arrested. Possibly both in a few cases. I will also post pictures if avaliable (anyone have any of Melinda & Israel?). I'm back in school working on Chem II. So far it has been very trying. I am also back in Texas with my immediate family. That can also be very trying. Otherwise not too much is happening. Also, listening to the television (which plays almost 24 hours here) in the background, I have to wonder exactly what population demographic most of the commercials are aimed at. I can only come to the conclusion that the people responsible for their creation believe most of the population is stupid and have senses of humor stunted at the 4th grade. On the other hand, Someone pays a lot of money to see movies like The Nutty Professor, so maybe I just grossly overestimate my peers.

01/15/04: Welcome to the new year. I have survived my adventuring overseas, and returned to my happy domicile...oh wait! Where do I live? Tennessee? Texas? Both? Time will have to tell... I have fragments of a journal better detailing my European travels, currently it is in a sort of pending state, eventually I should have it, along with some choice photos, linked off the nav menu.

12/10/03: Wow it looks...different around here.

12/07/03: FOUR DAYS LEFT!!!!! Of course, when I get home I have to find another job. Buy why dwell on inconsequentials? I'm still working out my plan to go be a bum in the Keys.

11/26/03: My entire family is diseased.

 09/09/03: Still no job. I don't think I was meant to be employed. Clearly forces in the universe are acting against me. Fortunately I can take refuge in good poetry and bad fanfic. Doesn't everyone? It's been about 3 years since I indulged in some serious television watching (while waiting for someone to call back on the 3 or 4 hundred applications I've put in), and I must say I have been severely dissapointed. With the sole possible exception of LA Law: SVU, one or two CSI episodes, and the occasional history channel special, there is absolutely nothing on television worth wasting the electricity to run it on. But ohhh...Willow just showed up on Angel so maybe I can add one more show to the worthwhile list. On the other hand this is Angel after all, so perhaps not. It's either this, Big Brother take 16 or something, or some Tennis show. I'm not sure there is a lesser evil here. Not that I really spend that much time watching the television while it's on, mostly I'm absorbed with the computer, the television is the requisite background activity so I can feel like I'm multi-tasking or something. In other news I have now begun to suspect that I am not now, nor ever will be, eligible for any sort of Masters program on the planet. But hey! I haven't looked into, um, online classes. I wonder how that avenue is... "I got my Masters from www.shackled.com!"....but then you get down into the "what in?" questions and everything is pretty much downhill from there.

 09/04/03: Still no job. I put a longer quote on the quote page, it was to long to bother formatting. I was amused with it though. Still chillin' in Tn. Later.

 09/02/03: I put up a new quote. I don't know how often that is going to happen because the formatting is a real pain. I keep misplacing my formatting tool and forgetting how to find it ::disgruntled::. And it is a real pain to do it by hand in the code. Cut and paste is only fun for so long. The upswing is that I am greatly amused. Hi Julie! The job hunt is still on. So is the grant search come to think of it...

  09/01/03: Typing with fingernails is a rare pain. Its like trying to type with the blunt end of a fork or something. But everytime I get all resolved to cut the suckers off, someone else who has never seen me with nails grabs my hand and has this long touching moment with themselves over my fingertips. I mean, come on people, so I bit my nails from birth from 23 years of age. Fingernails are not all they are cracked up to be. The only thing I have found them good for is amusing myself with a variety of interesting colors of paint. Which seems to apall relatives almost as much as not having them in the first place. Why would I want to do them all with the Same paint? Where's the personal statement in that? I mean, one color says "Look! I found this one boring color of Revlon at Wal-Place and have carefully applied it to my claws...just like thouands of other people." It takes much more thought and consideration to find 4 or 7 different colors you like and apply them in tasteful and pleasing layers and alternations. Well, I suppose the point is that it takes more thought and consideration than I am willing to devote to the matter. Though I still think neon yellow and red and blue glitter is a perfectly reasonable accent to deep purple and green. It's almost a rainbow. How can you go wrong with that? So in other news I'm still on the job hunt, though I think I'm onto a lead at the local video store. We will see. I wish...well, that wouldn't be very politic. BTW: I have a new link avaliable for, well, mainly for my mother ::grins::. Or it will be active later tonight anyway. Also ::solomnly:: a while ago my sister went through alot of effort to code her very own web page, and never had a place to put it up. So, even through she Really doesn't want me to go to any extra effort on her part, I feel sorta sibling-like obliged to host her page off mine ::wipes away a sentimental tear::. For my sister after all. So watch the left side for a new link coming soon.

  08/28/03: The journey has been...hot. But I am still alive after all. Summer was interesting. I can't say I'm exactly motivated to do much writing at the moment. Too many distractions, too many of them not especially great. Just in brief, I Did graduate, even if it took FSU most of the Summer to come to this realization and send me a diploma. I didn't walk, because I spent my commencement ceremony in the car on my way to North Carolina to catch an awesome job at a rafting outpost. Not too great for my career future, but enjoyable and interesting. I am not in school this Fall, due in part to the need to find funding for the European adventure this xmas, but mostly due to Tenn Tech charging 3000 on top of the 1500 tuition normally costs just because I wandered out of state for a year or four. 4500 to go to second rate engineering school for a semester? For a Biology degree? Mind you if they hadn't been giving me a hard time I would be telling everyone about this stellar University I was attending ::drily::. I dropped all my classes and withdrew on the first day, about an hour after I registered, they hadn't even accepted me as a real student yet, and they tried to charge me 1000 for the honor of breathing their air for an hour. Not even classroom air, office of the registrar air. I think not. So 1 hour and some soggy tissues later the matter was resolved to my satisfaction. The art of crying on demand is something every self-respecting semi-broke person should actively cultivate. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, what's really working for you with this angle is the appalled uncomfortable factor. They want you out of their office asap so they don't have to feel squirmy and helpless anymore. Just make it clear that you are going nowhere, while getting more and more leaky. It's like magic.

  05/22/03: Hi all! I am still...alive? Yeah, that. I'm getting sick too, but hey! I'm in the mountains and Not working anywhere that ends with a "mart". I am not particularly prepared to update right now, I didn't actually think that this would work...that and dinner is going on right now so there are lots of poeple who would probably like to use the phone. How is this for dedication? I am updating over dialup. Go Me ::firmly::

  04/24/03: Paper accomplished. Turned in no less than 10 minutes before the final deadline actually. But hey, done is done. Anything else is just grasping at straws. I have again managed to completely mangle my sleeping schedule, and I just found out that I somehow have to finagle a ride from the training place for my summer job to the actual place I will work. This would be no problem, except that everyone there are total strangers, and I am of the impression that is quite a distance. Ah, a car, my kingdom for a car. Well, whats life without an adventure? And this way, I am unlikely to pack more than I can concievably load onto a bus. Hurdle passed: on to finals week!!!

NEVER GIVE UP!!! NEVER SURRENDER!!!

  04/21/03: Yeaaaaah... Well, I think it has been even longer this time hasn't it? This semester has been interesting. Right now I am once again suffering under the cross of the slacker. Paleo paper? Whats this "paper" stuff? This attitude does not endear one to the professor in question. My computer is completely dead, anyone want to buy it? Cheap? So it has been apathetic depression around here. I have taken to following the angel of the webpage to her office in the evenings to lurk in the corner and use someone elses computer in the wee hours of the night . In other news, banana milkshakes are really tasty. Also, I really really need tenants for my house from May to July 1st. I don't care if you are an axe murderer with a thing for plaid turtles (I won't be there after all), it 250 a month for your very own air conditioned room practically across the street from FSU campus. E-mail me for details! You can even have two rooms if you want. Oh! Oh! And for any of you who have been listening to me whine this semester, I got the NOC job! WOHOO!!! NO MORE WAL-MART!!! So, wish me luck with the math final, offer me a job if you have one. I can and will identify not only human bones now, but any animal native to the SouthEast as well! Will excavate shipwrecks for a nominal fee... Off to stare blankly at the blinking cursor again. Anyone have any information about -5R30 8Ta32 they would like to volunteer for my paper? No? Thats okay, I don't either...

  1/14/03: Wow. It sure has been awhile hasn't it? I'm never too sure where the time has gone. Which is probably acurately reflected in the amount of homework I get done in a day. The angel of the homepage has been unusually restrained this time around, I've not been emotionally blackmailed...more than 5 times since my last update! Alot has happened, much more than I am sure I will remember to put up. So I will just summarize. * I am a slacker *I got an A in Field School * I took a Field School * I got an A in women and lit because I subtly threatened my teacher * I am still in school *I gave Alyssa a purple lightsaber for xmas *I went to Texas for Xmas *Everyone had the plague *Alyssa came a visited me in Texas *Alyssa got the plague *Grandma loves me *I made my dad an ebay account *I messed up my dads first item sold on ebay *I got the SG1 season II DVDs for xmas *I want season III for next xmas *My sister didnt like her xmas present *My brother really liked his xmas present *My dad hand picked all his xmas presents *Who knows about my mother *I saw Two Towers around 6 times * I only personally had to pay twice * This probably signifies some sort of obscure character defect *Yes, I know the movie was not an accurate representation of the book *I am back at FSU waging war on the Arts & Sciences department * Assuming I graduate it looks like I might be moving to Tenn, if for no other reason than by doing so I delay having to make and realy decisions about my future *I am still looking for a job *I am crazy and taking Zooarchaeology, Spanish III and a dreaded math class *Spanish is likely to be more painful than the math (go figure) * I have wonderful parents who should be relatively guilt free over my upbringing

  That is pretty much whats been going on, Im planning a dive trip later this semester, and thats really all that comes to mind. Oh! But Hey! If you haven't read "Bored of the Rings," your missing out. I realize that quotes out of context arem't nearly as funny( and that some of you simply have no senese of humour to begin with), however I am amused, and since this is My web page, we all know who's amusement is the issue, that being said...

   Quote of the Day!:
      ...Gimlet, who, if possible, liked Legolam even less than at Riv'n'dell, gagged on his portion of zwieback.
            "A curse on the elves and their punk grub," he grumbled .
           "And on the dwarves, " returned Legolam, "whose taste is in their mouths."
     For the twentieth time the pair drew weapons, lusting for each other's chitlins, but Stomper intervened, lest one be killed
     The food was gone anyway.
            "Hold and cease, halt, avaunt, put up thy swords, refrain from they quarrel and stay they hands, " he spake, raising a fringed glove.
            "Buzz off, Hopalong, " growled the dwarf. "I'll make casserole out of that window dresser!"
      But the Ranger drew his peacemaker and fighting ended as quickly as it began, for even elves and dwarves do not relish a shiv in the back...
                                                                                                    ~Bored of the Rings

  9/27/02: How many days does September have anyhow? I'm sure it should be October by now... I don't like this time of year at all. Not when I'm living in North Florida. In South Florida it is hot and miserable enough that the only way you know it is Fall is to check your calendar. In North Florida the temperature goes through 5 minute intervals of being reasonable and the hint of Autumn occasionally flickers across your senses by the teasing wind, swept out of the Georgia foothills down from the North. It's enough to make you cry. It really is. Fall is the absolutely bestest season of them all ::firmly:: Summer is just all around miserable and Winter is rather boring. But the Fall, followed at some distance by the Spring... Transition is beautiful.

  9/25/02: SCUBA was conquered! Now I just have to find funding to actually go and dive somwhere. Yeah right since I have togoandreplacemyinstructoreswetsuitthatsomelowlifeintheclassstole. I'm not really motivated to update this evening, I confess. But the ever lovely hostess was making more unsubtle hints...with death threats, etc. Mostly I think she wanted me to let everyone know I didnt drown. ::waves:: Hi Mom!

On another unrelated (sorta) note: All the links on the stories page now work...or they had better anyways. I don't claim that all the stories are exactly "quality" literature, but most of them should at least be worth sending me some mail over. Ill finish anything people show an interest in. So let me know what you think!

  9/19/02: Not too terribly much to add today. I missed class, ::sniffs:: but my teacher didn't sound like she was going to have me expelled for the pleasure (I sounded really bad on the phone at 7 am when I called in), so maybe I'm still okay. It isn't like I was in any shape to go anyhow, I thought I was going to die yesterday and took a bad downhill slide after I got home, I would have been an absolute wonder in the field today. Instead I got to be a wonder at the house...and I bet I will be absolutly amazing at my SCUBA checkout dive all Saturday and Sunday!!

  9/17/02: Go Mono!!! One roomie down, two to go! Though, if you go by symptoms and not test results its all three roomies down and strike! We try not to think like that though, not with a dive checkout this weekend, field school every day, and already having a double ear infection.

  9/14/02: Field School is sort of a blast. On one hand its miserably hot, and I think the humidity index is around 135%, so about 10 feet after leaving the car we all look live we jumped in a river fully clothed, and there is seldom a whisp of breeze so add a deep desire to expire on the spot, and it is pretty brutal. On the other hand, what we are doing is fairly interesting, and were the conditions otherwise I could see doing this for a few years...which is good. Because just in case you missed the jist of earlier rants, I'm in a pretty unemployable major ::drily::. But hey, we, if we are smart, do what we think we can live with. I can live with heat, humidity, dirt, shovels, free air, grass, and flagging tape. I cannot live in a cubicle or in a Wal-Place. Quality of life is everything, I pity people who think they can find it in their checkbook.

  9/11/02: I have not the words. Or, really, the desire. People form their own opinions.

  8/26/02: First day of field school. I'm really tired...which is a notably bad thing since all we did today is classroom stuff. Tomorrow bodes very very bad. I updated "Links" again. Have fun.

  8/24/02: I'm Back in Tally-town! Wohoo!!! Texell didn't finish me off. Which is a good thing because I would hate to deprive this semester of its duly earned oppertunity. One would think after the debacle that was Last Semester I would be actively persuing the possibility of doing things previous to the 3 hours before deadline. Nope, No, and Not-So-Far. Tomorrow is Sunday, classes start Monday. I have 436 pages of Archaeology to understand in a coherent manner before then. Tonight, I am playing in a Eternal Darkness marathon. When will the Arch be read? Quite probably in the 15 minutes before class. Stay tuned to see if this trend continues in a terminal manner, or if there will be an upswing of intelligent revitalism in the coming weeks.

P.S: Julie's back! And despite promises to the contrary, has brought river-Drama back with her!

P.S: This line is just for Alyssa so she doesn't have to be jealous of Julie' line. Apparently jealously is bad and leads to things taking unplanned dives off the Hot Springs bridge.

  5/5/02: Happy Cinco De Mayo! Anyways, thank you loyal readers for your patronage, I know there are so many of you. It is with regret that I must announce the probability of a dramatic decrease in activity, probably lasting from now until September. I am going to hell/Texas (Texell!) you see, and I have a violent aversion to dial-up. That and my FTP proggie is about to call it quits, again. Time to find a new one. One day I will either find some good free-ware, or break down and actually pay the lousy 40 bucks they want. Until then, I suppose my monthy search for a new FTP will continue. Till Fall! - To my lovely hostess: Make sure you get the Wet Arch book back to the lab bafore you know who has us hunted down and maimed.

  5/1/01: Look! May 1st! And to celebrate the new month, have decided that I am completely incompetent. I have an answering machine. I know I have an answering machine. I heard it this morning when I was trying to sleep. So I go looking for it around noon...and it appears to have left the building. How can I not find a old, huge, answering machine in a house the size of a generous U-Haul? And the house is clean even! BTW, Links page is updated.

   Quote of the Day!: "...as he spoke, a bulky figure waddled unsteadily across the stony shore. It was about four feet tall, very dark-complexioned, with a tail like a plank steak, a black beret, and wrap-around sunglasses.
     "Your servant," lisped the strange creature bowing low.
Arrowroot eyed the brute thoughtfully. "And who might you be?" he said at last, his hand falling to his sword hilt.
     "An innocent traveler like yourselves," said the brown figure, slapping his tail for emphasis. "My horse threw a shoe or my boat sank, I don't remember which."
     Arrowroot sighed in relief. "Well, you are welcome," he said. "I had feared you might be evil.
                                                                                                    ~Bored of the Rings

  4/30/02: I GOT AN "A" IN ADV OSTEO.....GO ME!!!!! ::wild victory dance:: The little fact that I sucked in everything else this semester is entirely inconsequential. But from a purely I'm-in-an-awesomely-optimistic-mood point of view, I had Spanish II on pass/fail and I passed it, eveyone knew math was doomed from the first day, and nothing else was vital. A C is a perfectly valid and celebratory grade for lots and lots and lots of college students, especially ultra depressed ones who almost caved and had the entire semester expunged on medical grounds and didnt get out of bed for 3 weeks ::has worked hard on convincing herself of that for most of the day:: And if I decide I don't like the way it looks on my transcript, I can do something about it in the Spring...when Im taking Bio Lab, Photography, Math, Underwater Arch Dive Class, Spanish III, etc, etc... Now all I have to do is find someone to pay me to identify human bones. We all know the job market is thriving in that direction!

  4/29/02: 10:40 ::grumbles::...stupid counter... Never mind, false alarm. And the quest continues!

  4/29/02: 9:24 pm. "Links" is now active. What can I say? I was motivated today ::shrugs:: Okay, so mostly I was motivated by the fact that my house is hip deep in dirty clothes and takeout cartons. As long as I was accomplishing Something, does it really matter what? OH! and at long last, the "quest for the counter" may have reached a satisfactory finale... Let me know what you think. Its on the Nav. frame.

  4/29/02: Finals are over. Now we begin the long desent into blahness. A state from which we hope to survive the summer. I still don't have a job, and I'll drink bleach before I work at Wal-Place again. I'm not sure how libel law really works, so we'll just avoid specific names. Seriously though, I've worked in less than enthusiastically fun places, and I've stuck it out for long periods of time. I lasted barely 3 weeks at Wal-Place before I realized that I no longer did anything but work and sleep, and no longer even felt a desire to do anything but work and sleep. I ::shudders:: didn't even want to read. How awful is that? Once I started looking around, I noticed that for every single one of my co-workers, Wal-Place was the center of their universe. They were no longer capable of utilizing even the meager imagination avaliable to most mainstreamed Public Education teachers (Yes, there are exceptions, wonderful exceptions. Bean! ::hugs:: Your an exception! But look at the numbers...). It was an unbelievably depressing relevation, and I was ready to cry for the emptiness of lives that would lead to a static career in folding towels, in an unfriendly environment where, unless you worked in the very front, you never even saw natural light. It was awful. I'd rather scrub toilets in the dark hours of the night, as long as I got to see dawn. And it says a lot of really unflattering things about our society, culture, and simple compassion, that we can't find a better way to manage our world.

       In other news... my trusting hostess is gone to Europe (via Orlando and New Jersey). I hope she found a jacket. Its 40 (F) in Amsterdam and the only things she got shopping were light slacks and t-shirt type stuff ::marginally amused::. On the other hand, SHES GONE TO EUROPE FOR A MONTH, perhaps I shall save my concern for more worthy causes. Like my sister. Who is moving to Texas as soon as her finals are over. Who is traveling in the same caravan I am. Who is certifiable if she thinks she is going to get all the room ::grimly::. I'm bringing my bike if I have to tie it to the windshield. And the guitar comes to. No mercy!

 4/27/02: FINALS ARE OVER!!!!!! POWER TO THE PEONS!!!!!!! Having slept the last 29 hours to help reimburse my body for writing in a booth at Dennys for the previous 72, I have decided to no longer honor the way of the slacker. Next semester, when my teacher says "I am assigning a term project," I will take them seriously and start working on it at least, say, a week before it is due. No more of this 3 day thing. I understand that for this I have to turn in my official slacker pin and start wearing shirts that have no more than two holes in them, but since it Is the slacker society I know they won't actually expect the pin for roughly another 33 months, and I feel that this may be a good potential career move. When a potential employer asks what I learned in college, I want to be able to say something like, "I have done extensive research into the cranial non-metrics of the (pick a name) population, and based on what I have discovered about their relations to several modern South American groups, I feel confident in my theory about their migration to North America. I realize that this contradicts more popular conclusions, but I am certain that after my research (which is being prepared for publication) has had some time to circulate among my colleagues, we will see a wide spread revision in how our studies of ancient migration patterns is approached." Not, "Well, the trash man comes to my street around 3 in the afternoon, so its best if I go sleep in my roomates bed then because it is quite loud from my room. Oh, also, no one wants to share notes with you if you tell them that the reason you need to see theirs is that you were too tired to come to class..for the last three months. Its much better to cry and tell them your whole family died in an awful car accident ." Of course, being an Anthropology student, the whole career problem is moot. No one hires anthropologists, just ask the career center people. You tell them your an Anthro major, they look at you and say "thats nice dear, you were going to do what with your life?" But I am not thinking about that now. I am thinking...field school in the fall. And if that by some miracle fails to kill me, then I will consider the future. Anyone want to fund my future? I can and will identify and human bone/fragment/tooth you care to show me. Free even.

 4/10/02: Ugh. That pretty much says it all. In other news, I am giving a prize out to anyone who can explain coherently to me how voyerism equates to masochism. So far the logic is escaping me.

 4/9/02: Fish Fry. Its a quandry. If my department has an event, and I desperately need departmental approval,( because, you know, it is almost recommendation time), am I obliged to attend? The laws of acadamia say "yes"...now is the time when all good underlings kiss butt. However, in the other corner, we have the laws of "oh-my-god-I-have-a-week-left-of-school-and-whats-this-term-project-thingee" which say that I have to be in the library/bone lab trading my soul for the secrets of cranial suture analysis. What to do,..what to do.....

  4/7/02: Added another story. Tayla is now an active link. 

  4/7/02: Ugh. The long sojurn. Followed by the long search for a fuctional FTP thingee. Yes, I'm deep in the tech talk. Lots of screaming from the friendly hostess about how I format my text. ::sniffs:: Apparently paragraph tags are not acceptable to put at the end of each line, even if I do like the effects better. Oh well. I am engaged in the great summer job hunt. Namely, in Keller, Texas and surrounding areas (Dallas, FT Worth, the metroplex in general). If you have any leads please please please E-Mail me. I am very friendly and hard working! It is hard to effectively track the wild employment from North Florida.

  3/5/02: Yes, I know, I missed a day or so. But it is only because I was in bed wishing I were dead, you have to love illness that strikes without warning. Anyhow, I'm better now. I think I fixed the resize and scrolling things that were wrong, so now everything should sorta work no matter what size the page is. I don't know any code to automatically resize .gif files, so if the logo is screwy I'm not liable. My shackled person, that wonderful angel who gives me this nice advertising-free space just because I'm me, and who is currently computerless except at work and thus less likely to keep an eye on what I'm doing, was whining that I didn't have a shackled icon on my page. I thought putting the shackled name in my logo was good advertising, but she was insistent and so I ::long sigh:: now have yet another picture on my page. In other news, I am still looking for a counter. Bummer.

  Update 3/3/02: I give up, maybe its a sign. I think Im just going to admit defeat and loudly claim to all challengers that I like the ugly irritating white line between frames. Since I can't get rid of it I'm giving you all the resize option back. Oh well ::dejectedly:: Oh ! On a happier note, I'm looking for a good counter, so I can find out how many time me and my host, whom I think secretly fears what I might put up here, visit the site each day.!

  3/2/02: Yes, again. Hey, its new to me, Im having fun, Im also torturing all the people who have made themselves known to me as experianced HTML people with my rants about various tags. So...scroll bar? Works, yes? Now Im trying to get rid of that annoying white line between the frames ...anyone know the code for that? Anyways, about a background for the nav frame. I still think stark is the way to go, but Im not getting many takers. Now I am thinking, maybe a swirly gray/black smokey effect? Bring out the shackled in the logo? This side of the frame has to remain stark, I dont care what you all (my two viewers) think. I hate people who think things typed on a background (that arent bold, huge, and very, very, very contrastingly colored) are reasonably legible. Oh, and I capitalized the "O" in occupation on the top of this page ::grins:: nifty, no?

 3/2/02: Lookie! I fixed the graphic problem, that I did so by creating an entirely new graphic is entirely beside the point. I am taking tasteful suggestions. It has been implied that the stark look isnt doing anything for me ::sniffs::. I personally like stark. However, I am polling ideas. So if the one or two of you who see this have any, you know how to find me. Oh, and don't waste your breath. I absolutely refuse to re-enable the scrolling bars. I hate them, they are unsightly, and if you maximize the page, I promise, un-necessary ....well okay, I might have to figure out a way to let you scroll the right side.

  3/1/02: This page is under severe construction and currently exists only to prove, that yes, like the rest of the first-world (no insults intended for the overly sensative), I too can now migrate web pages in the general direction I wish them to travel. And look! They herd like geese! Watch for something nifty at this site soon! With, incidentally, a much better logo, for some reason, my graphics program insists on giving "shackled" a very unsightly white halo, thus the odd, and not particularly attractive, color, bummer. The links are trashed, dont waste your time.