Hey, David or JZ, I keep meaning to ask this. I have a few Powerpuff Girls things that I was wondering if Matilda might like. Specifically, a lunch box, a stamp set, and some other miscellaneous knickknacks. (I am keeping the plush MojoJojo for myself.)

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Good luck, askye!

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Askye, that is great news (Interview, not the car troubles). You will be great. Maybe wear a blue shirt and khakis? Then they can see you in the job already? (Probably best to NOT take my advice when it comes to fashion).

Some of them I've known for 12 years. Not sure if that's good or bad.

That is a VERY good sign. And hopefully, one of the meetings during that long day will be with one/some of them. That will be your "rest" period. For mine, it was lunch with the professors that I had known for awhile. It gave some really good Q&A on unofficial things. Don't be shy in asking things. If you are moving across the country for this job, you want to know as much as you can, warts and all. As for the compensation thing. I feel your pain. My old job in SoCal paid CRAP. I kid you not, when I say current job and old job had the numbers to the left of the comma reversed. And I did it for 11 years. I was CRAZY. As the other said. Now that the blinders are off, clear the mind, and go into the interview with your head held high. I'm sure you deserve every cent they are offering. And, if for some reason, the new job doesn't work out, see about using their package to leverage a raise at current job??

For someone like myself who isn't an extrovert but can present as one, I need about 2 weeks in a dark room to recover afterward.

LeN and I are similar on this one. Hermit time is recharge time for me. Thank you Netflix, Xbox, and books!

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I was actually thinking of khakis and I have a khaki jacket, but they are a couple of shades off so I wasn't sure if that would work.

I was going to go with khaki (or black pants), a water color-ish cami, and a blue shortsleeve sweater shrug (the blue is very Best Buy blue). Or black pants with a gray button down shirt.

Yesterday I wore black pants, a multi colored abstract shell, and a black sweater shrug.

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Hey, David or JZ, I keep meaning to ask this. I have a few Powerpuff Girls things that I was wondering if Matilda might like. Specifically, a lunch box, a stamp set, and some other miscellaneous knickknacks. (I am keeping the plush MojoJojo for myself.)

Oh, she'd love it! Thanks for thinking of her.

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Send me your snail mail address to my profile addy?

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Send me your snail mail address to my profile addy?

Done! But, eh, just read the second one because the first one fired off incomplete.

And, thank you!

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Frickin' website is launching, even as I post. With frantic, last-minute "tweaks" (i.e., reformat this page) messages flying at me.

From our last meeting to clean up the site - I had one person bitching at me because page titles (set by the style sheet, with no size editing possible) because in the font used, numbers (i.e., "2013") look smaller than the text. Which no one mentioned in the past THREE MONTHS. Then another director was saying that SHE got yelled at for manually changing the font sizes, without using the preset styles, but *I* used more than one size on some pages; then, this same person, when people were hassling her about not having come anywhere near completing the content of her section (which - surprise - she refused to let me work on) in the past three months, got angry, stomped out in a huff, and went home for the day. Said she was working on it from home but, somehow, the next morning - surprise! - her section was still pretty much empty.

I'm REALLY looking forward to going to the dentist ....

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Yeah, the dentist gives you anesthesia.

I have worked on a number of websites, and yours is giving a new meaning to clusterfuck. The whole point of styles is to agree on them for everything, including emphasis, and to use only standard colors. You have a director who was upset because she thought you got one more crayon than she did, so she took her crayons and went home? It sounds like kindergarten and you're the grown up.

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What had happened was that, early on, the default "paragraph" font size was too small ... so people were going in and manually resetting the size ... which, with the WONDERFUL (sarcasm font) system we now have, not only did the font do unpredictable things size-wise, it tended to change the font itself. The consultant changed the default size, told people to not manually change it, and that they'd have to go back in and manually un-change it. Only, of course, that's too much work for these busy people. So she had this weird font (she liked to change the color too ... which, again, we weren't supposed to do) in an odd size. She took umbrage at being told to use the styles rather than change things manually.

She looked at a page I'd done - a listing of award winners from last year - in which I had the names of the people who'd worked on it in the standard paragraph size, the name of the project in Header 2, and the award in Header3. She objected to the fact that I had THREE SIZES (OMG!) of type on one page!!!1!leventy!

The fact that she, in the space of two or three months, had large sections of her area either empty or incomplete - and kept the pages checked out to make sure no one else could work on them - and having people point this out was obviously an ATTACK upon her. A PERSONAL attack. So she stomped out of the meeting (which went on for about another hour).

And social-media-expert guy found a bunch of stock photos that had been purchased for a graphic person who was here about four years ago; they're large, high-res photos ... so he uploads them as-is and then sizes them down from 1200 pixels to 120 pixels ... and the download time reflects the file size, not the fact that they're thumbnails. So I'm trying to track them down and replace them with more accurately sized images.

Nothin' but fun!

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