Until further notice

I’m posting this from somebody else’s computer just to let you know that I’m not going to be online for the foreseeable future.

Along with being unemployed and penniless for the time being, my Internet access has been cut off until I can get back on my feet.

This means no blog entries, HubPages or JamsBio articles, and no email for the time being.

Anything urgent can be emailed to me here at the blog, using the link on the right, or by sending it to crisissoundtrack@gmail.com . I will try to check that inbox at least once per week for the time being, but as of this moment, I have no set schedule of when I will be doing it, so make sure it’s nothing TOO urgent.

Thanks to all of you for your support. I promise to do everything I can to get back online as soon as possible.

I fixed it, sort of

I took care of the one problem that was bugging me on this page, but I had to upgrade the entire template to do it. This upgrade was also necessary in order for me to install a new function on the page, which I’m not going to talk about just yet, because I don’t think it’s working yet.

The upgrade has resulted in a slightly different look for the page. Some of you may not notice the difference, but it’s practically screaming at me, and I don’t like the altered look at all.

I just could not figure out what to do to the old template to fix the problem. I tried deleting this, adding that, all to no avail. I’ve also been trying for a week to get the new function to work in the old template, but the upgrade had to be done, because the old template wouldn’t accept the new function at all.

Basically, I’m going to have to learn to live with the new look. I realize that this entry and last night’s are nothing special, so I didn’t even bother sending out update emails to those of you who get them.

I have a feeling I’ll spend a lot of the weekend working on this.

I have no idea

I’ve been mucking about with this blog for around a week or so. I thought I had cleared out all of the errors I had been making, but apparently some still exist. I don’t know why my header has changed from what I had previously to what it is now. I’ve been trying like hell to re-do it so that it looks like I wanted, but I’m not having much luck as of yet.

Please bear with me. I am working on this. Thanks.

Homeless with a house

I got a notice in the mail the other day. The owners of the park where I live hope to sell it by summer. According to the letter I received, they would prefer to sell it to us, the residents, so we can make it into a co-op. I have no idea what this would do to my lot rent, raise it or lower it. I don’t really understand any of this, really. Is a co-op going to be good or bad?

What happens if the co-op deal doesn’t go through? The park could then possibly be sold to some developer who wants to put up the world’s largest Taco Cabana®, in which case all of us would have to pack up our houses and move them somewhere else. I’m betting it’s not cheap to move a house, let alone find a place to put it. It’s just one more thing to weigh on my mind. Don’t I have enough to worry about already, with trying to find a job and come up with lot rent in less than two weeks in this economy?

I really wish I knew what I’ve done to deserve all the crap that’s been going on in my life the past couple of years. I really, really wish I knew.

Wedding bells

My sister got married on Saturday, the 17th. It was a nice enough ceremony. Our other two brothers and I were ushers, or as I thought of it, “crowd control.”

It was an eventful couple of days, beginning with the rehearsal Friday night. The pastor made a comment Friday night about how sometimes the ceremony can be delayed by bridesmaids taking a little too long to get ready. Well, he was partly right. The ceremony was delayed due to somebody not being quite ready, but it was the pastor himself. He had forgotten his sport coat, so the entire procession had to wait until his son delivered it to the church. The ceremony itself went smoothly after that, though.

The reception and dance were fun. Great food, and free. I’m all about free food. Lots of people, all having a great time. It took a while for the dance floor to fill up, because the deejay was playing some lame stuff at first, but once everything got going, the floor was packed. I only danced once though, with my sis during the dollar dance.

One good thing about all of this, if I hadn’t lost my job at the paper, I would have had to work Saturday. That would have sucked, so at least I was able to enjoy the day.

The reception was held at an area bar, in their party rental room. I was returning from the restroom and walking through the bar area when I ran into a friend of mine I hadn’t seen in 5 years or so. We spent a few minutes catching each other up on our lives, and exchanged our updated phone numbers. That was a cool bonus to the days’ festivities.

I finally had to leave around 2230 so I could get home and tend to Bella, who had been locked up in her kennel for almost 12 hours by that point. I got home around 2300, which is about the time I would have arrived home from the paper route. Weird coincidence. What was even weirder was that during the entire evening, I only had one glass of cola, maybe 3 cigarettes, and I still felt hung over when I got up on Sunday morning.

Anyway, congratulations to the bride and groom, I hope you have a long and great life together.

My new project is ready

I’ve signed up to write articles at a site called HubPages. I get to write about anything I want, and possibly make some money from it as well. We’ll see about that.

My first two articles are up now.

I’ve provided a link over on the left, and if you scroll down a bit, I’ve also included a widget that will take you directly to my stuff.

Check it out. I hope you enjoy.

The first 15 days

The year 2009 is officially 15 days old, and this is technically my first entry since 2008. I did do a brief piece a couple of days ago at my MySpace page, I consider this to be my OFFICIAL page, so the other doesn’t really count.

Not much has happened over the course of the past 15 days. I’m still looking for work. I signed up to do some writing at another site, but I’m not giving away any details about that until I’m completely ready to go on it.

My sister is getting married this coming Saturday the 17th. Her other brothers and I get to be ushers. It should be a fun day. I just hope Dad gets over his triple pneumonia or whatever the hell he has before then. It wouldn’t be quite as cool a day if he weren’t there.

Bella seems to get weirder with each passing day. The colder it gets, the more she wants to go outside for no particular reason. She and I had a bit of a disagreement last night. She decided it would be a swell idea for me to give her supper an hour early. I saw no reason why she couldn’t wait until the normal time. I then came and sat at the computer to put a few finishing touches on my initial work for the new writing project, and I kept hearing strange noises coming from the kitchen. I snuck out, and she was busy helping herself to the garbage. This is something she never does, because she knows it is verboten. I took the garbage out of her mouth, and she was promptly rewarded for her behavior with a smack on the rump and a time-out on the couch. Needless to say, she was well behaved for the rest of the night.

Other than that, not much is going on. I’ve been on a bit of a writing streak for a couple of days, so I figured I might as well dash something off to post here. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.