Smile of the Day

I don’t know if you noticed it at all, but this definitely wasn’t my intention:

During the upgrade, link and post categories were merged (stupid feature; at least I don’t understand it yet) and I had two identical slugs for my post category “(Odd) People” and my link category “People”. WP merged the two and kept the post category title, causing slightly embarrassing sight.

Now, I don’t consider ‘odd’ a bad thing to be, quite the opposite, but if you were offended, I do apologise.

This post is the first in my new category, Smile of the Day, but I’ll probably add more posts to it as I go through the archives. I won’t post in it daily but ‘Smile of the undefined amount of time’ doesn’t sound as good, does it…

Today I received an email from our Brazilian vendor and the project manager had signed it with “Kindest regards”. I don’t usually read signatures (except to see who’s written me) but this caught my eye. I had to check some of the previous emails and they said ‘best regards’ or ‘kind regards’. Kindest really felt like a step up the ladder.

What made it all the more cute is that I have a habit of “blabbering” with this PM.

I feel so special now.

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My thoughts exactly.

Now, this is why I stick to PCs:

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I recommend reading all of Ctrl+Alt+Del. The comics are wonderfully geeky.

I’m the webmistress of my aunt’s website (for a stable) and I’m currently updating the photo section. There was a new photo to add with their horse and a donkey — and an enormous pile of doo-doo.

Living the last day of my Photoshop trial I decided to use the Healing Brush Tool (don’t know if Adobe Elements has it, I hope so), so I wiped the pile (no pun intended) off the photo. I hope it’s ok with my aunt.

Before:

After:

Quaint, isn’t it?

Recently I’ve been playing Vampire The Masquerade — Bloodlines. It’s RPG which isn’t my favourite genre, but hey, it’s vampires!!

It’s a very interesting game. Games don’t usually freak me out (except for the piranhas that were in my face in Pharaoh), but when I went to pick a lock to a haunted house and a light crackled above my head with electricity… I jumped. And in the house when I was happily walking in the narrow basement corridors, I came to crossroads and a ghost runs past. Yeeep.

I’ve taken a seduction, persuasion, talk-my-way-out-of-it approach to the game so some of the necessary fights have been pretty difficult. There are a few unfinished quests because I’ve found the bad guys to be a bit too tough for me. I’ll get back to them after collecting a bit more experience points.

Today I was jamming at the local disco, Asylum:

Dancing with the triplets

Another set of triplets

… and this guy …