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today was a good day all round.

i have never had so many chords and riffs in me since i left Florida! lots and lots of songs suddenly!

my good, good friend Melissa, who i adore, called me. i keep forgetting to call her on the weekends!

Melissa is this terrific girl i’ve known now for several years. she’s just about the sweetest, kindest, gentlest human being on the planet… don’t get me wrong, i’d lay money on her in just about any bar fight! but she is without a doubt a real-life Bodhisattva. every time i talk to her i feel happy and blissful and i know there’s someone out there who cares deeply and wonderfully and she loves me and i love her! (she’s just a friend, so shaddap!) …and she so loves the world and all its inhabitants that sometimes i get afraid for her, because some of us have a tendency to feel too much. but i know she’s gonna be okay and grow into a fine old woman and be happy, because she’s awfully strong. anyhow…

so she’s been going through some nasty shit with her baby’s daddy, and i wish i could help her in some way. she’s got a new roommate, though, and her pregnancy is going well (it’s a boy named Brandon!), so i am happy as can be for her :D it’s hard to think of anything more wonderful than having a friend in Melissa (and now a “nephew” in her too, hee hee!).

so yeah, there’s that… i can’t even stop smiling, and i got off the phone an hour and a half ago!

okay… what else? a_fallen_starr came out and said some things that needed to be said, and i am glad, no matter how things go from here. i am a paranoid, oversensitive bitch. but oh well. she needs to make herself happy, and so do i. what that means right now, i cannot say for sure. but i am confident that “Bob” will lead the way, and i will follow, unless i see that he’s about to get lost again, or lead us into yet another tar pit or something. come to think of it, i think i might actually rather have someone else show me the way. not Eris, though. she’s been hanging around here far too much lately.

the other day i somehow figured out how to make the homepage of tlmboosters.com work with my new nav system. i’m still spanking the code into submission, though. the whole thing started out normally, with URLs like domain.com/path/to/buried/page.html (i had the whole site layed out in subdirectories all neat and organised, for once). so i decided i’d rather see URLs like domain.com/load.php?page=photos. i got that working, and then i thought that i wanted it to be even simpler: domain.com/?page=photos. but the problem was that i had, for every single page, a header, a body, and a footer; all of which was to be inserted dynamically, using PHP arrays. but the splash page has a wholly different setup! so i couldn’t really do that exactly. i worked around it though (using if-else statements and a couple of != (not equal to)), and it works perfectly! i should win awards, just for making things work when i really have no clue what i’m even doing. (when i was something like ten years old, i simulated stereo sound on one of those old suitcase-phonograph players. it was really very primitive.)