You know Halloween is close when this pops up in your inbox -

Oh the tricks it makes me think of…

Suggestions?

When I started my new job back in June and walked down the sea of cubicles for the first time - I remember seeing these beautiful, red,  plastic water bottles on every one’s desks.

I remember wishing I had a beautiful red, plastic water bottle.

Every day I would come to work and catch glances of the shiny red from the openings of cubicles that weren’t mine.  Every day I would wonder where the molded plastic  had come from and what the owner had to do to receive said gem.

After awhile I had become used to the idea that I was the only one with out the thirst quenching device.  As I walked to my desk Thursday, I noticed the new admins ruby glimmering from the edge of her desk and made my way back to the last row and down to my cubicle.  When I pulled out my chair - there it was so unassuming in it’s thin plastic sack that kept it from touching all of its twins during shipping so that it would be fresh and new when it arrived in my chair.

The holy grail if you will…

I guess my first review on Wednesday went rather well after all….

HOLLER!

I had promised details about my awesome job and never delivered. What can I say, I just liked the suspense.

I really love the job. For my career I see myself doing something much more creative than what I am required to do here. Everything we do has to conform to “standards”, but since I’ve never done anything like this, the structure is a perfect environment for learning the basics.

What I do like is the attention to detail and good web practices our department has insisted the company adopt as part of their standards. A LOT of the work I do is converting old sites into more current, clean and web friendly code.

For those of you who have NO idea what I’m talking about, I’ll give you a little example, I took this code

<.table align="center" width="100%" class="tableBorderLIGHT".>

<_tr>

<.td align="center" style="padding-left:10px;"><_a href="ME_CaseLaw.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Case Law<_/a>

<_/td>

<_td align="center"><_a href="ME_statutes.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Statutes<_/a>

<_td align="center"><_a href="ME_courtrules.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Court Rules<_/a>

<_/td>

<_td align="center"><_a href="ME_Admin.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Admin. Materials<_/a>

<_/td>

<_/tr>

<_/table>

Which is the code for the RED navigation in this picture:

And I changed that code to this:

<_table class="top_tablewidth">

<_tr>

<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_CaseLaw.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Case Law<_/a><_/td>

<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_statutes.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Statutes<_/a><_/td>

<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_courtrules.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Court Rules<_/a><_/td>

<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_Admin.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Admin. Materials<_/a><_/td>

<_/tr>

<_/table>

Which made it look like this visually

Not a lot of changes, but it looks better and fits into our web standards. This particular site had 25 pages I had to make changes to. I also made it all uniform, so the spaces between the forms were even on every page and lined up, and also made a welcome page (that you see here on the right) that logs the users by last name.

And that’s it! That is what I do all day, and I love it… for now.

I sit in a little cubical that is about 10×10 and grey.

<_offtopic>

SOMEONE JUST BROUGHT ME A PEANUT BUTTER RICE CRISPY TREAT THE SIZE OF TEXAS ON A BIG MAP.

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I have a dry erase board that I haven’t written on yet, two CSS books I checked out from the library we have on the first floor, and a little drawer I keep some files in. OOOOH and I have pushy pins, to hang random things up with. I <3 href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/berlinvideo/">watch this now. Mega stud’s that attract 200,000 Germans, here’s to hoping he doesn’t sell out to the man.

PS: 12 more wake ups till I leave for Atlantic City… watch out Jersey.

… of the emergency ‘whether or not I can blog from work’ broadcast system…

THIS IS ONLY A TEST. (aka: my boss is at lunch)

Since I’m here, let me share with you the latest things that have made me laugh. You can find them here and here.

Enjoy.

Other things of note:

• CSS kinda makes me wanna cry occasionally, but they are tears of joy. If only I could borrow Hrbek’s brain from 8-5 M-F. WHAT SAY YOU, HRBEK??***
• It is hard to unpack when you have no where to put things.
• Sheila is going to help me with the above this weekend, (shhh, it’s a surprise).
• I thought I was over it, but NOPE, I still heart men over 40. Wait a minute, I heart men under 40 too… hmmmm…
• Right now, my left tricep is twitching.
• Friday, poker, my place… is it in?
• I am never going to blog in complete sentences again, unordered lists are OBV the way to go.

***So, since you’re here already… I’m currently trying to clean up some sloppy HTML in tables with CSS, but I kinda suck at CSS and know very little about it. I’ve actually managed to get thru this whole site and replace almost all the crap with smaller crap (holler!). But here’s one I can’t seem to figure out -
<_table width="188px" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Is it even possible to create cellpadding and spacing in CSS? If so, tell me how O WISE ONE!

Tables suck btw.

I want to give you ALL the details, but considering that I started at 5am yesterday and went non-stop till 11pm (when I finally passed out), and that I have volleyball tonight (GO SETS ON THE BEACH!) idk when I’ll actually get around to those details… so let’s start with this:

• My new job rulzorz
• They have a gym
• They have yoga classes
• All I do all day is design websites and update/clean html and css code.
• I’m the only girl web designer
• I asked what time I had to be at work and here was the response I got “Anytime between 8 and 9… if you want to come in earlier, that’s ok too.” I LOL’d
• It’s nice to be treated like a professional and an adult at the same time
• I was excited to get out of bed at 5am this morning

Shower time!

I have this “thing” about sunglasses. I never buy expensive ones… and by not expensive, I mean under $10. They always seem to get ruined, somehow, some way. I would go through, at least, 10 pair a year, so why spend a lot on them?

Then, the weirdest thing happened. I went to Vegas to play in the WSOP, stopped in a little shop in the RIO right after I busted out, and bought these $5 Gucci fakes. These sunglasses broke my curse, and began my “Grand Good Run for Sunglasses”. I held onto them for two years, along with a pair of polarized glasses I found at the Dollar General store for $3.

For some reason, I can never let a good thing lie, and I had to go and buy cute sunglasses off of Overstock.com this year. They still weren’t expensive, about $20 a pair, but they were name brand glasses that I got a deal on.

What happens?

I lose my great Gucci fakes from Vegas.

I run over the new brown pair with my car, the first day I wore them.

The new black pair, I stepped on while I was at work.

The Dollar General polarized glasses? I set down next to my curling iron that just happened to be on. I still wore them that day, and then left them at someones house.

And my faithful $2 back up from Target? Crushed in my overnight bag.

This is all in a matter of 2 weeks.

What does this all mean? I have no fucking clue. What I do know is that I got my dream job this week. I was chosen to take a co-op position with THE MAN as a Web Designer.

A WEB DESIGNER. WHO KNEW.

Is this the return of the T? What will happen on these sites? Will she embed porn where no one can see? Will she have AIM access? Do they block FTP? Will the forum be blacklisted? Will she start blogging again? Has she lost her awesome sense of WIT?

So many questions, and only one way to find out. HOLLER.

PS: I put the good stuff at the end, cause only the people that love me will actually read all that crap to get to the good stuff! You know who you are, and thanks for always being there. (See, give me a job and I turn into a fraking sap…)