[click image that reminds me of Leonard]I'm typing in a bunch of nothing just to make sure this thing is back to functioning at its old speed. The switch-out in commenting systems really shook things up around here, and I spent the greatest part of the last day and night fixing the mangled template, but couldn't get the line spacing thing to work out again. It was as though it had been killed. The code was right there all along, but ceased functioning for some reason known only to the gods of chaos, KAOS and cybernetics. It was the piece of code I had suspected was the important bit all along, but stopped believing in that when it wouldn't work anymore. A knight in an unpronounceable town in Russia fixed it for me. I wonder if he knows any wealthy socialist gentlemen... maybe his father needs a wife? :-P
If you watch this video you might find out how come I grew up loving master spies so much.
Ah yes...
ReplyDeleteIllya Kuryakin
I always wanted to grow up to be just like him!
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I always wanted to grow up to marry him....
ReplyDeleteLOL I guess we should have hooked up in our fantasies!
ReplyDeleteFinally got the contract for the winery - only took 3 years to land. Construction is already underway and we are due to start work the first week of June.
ReplyDeleteI am now working on another LEED project - a 56,000 square foot pharmaceutical dispensary for the state prison system.
Wow. Whoa. Whew. Maybe not going to lose your job then... not yet anyway. Hooray.
ReplyDeleteLOL - I entered "b" but forgot to click the the full moniker in the drop down menu below the line.
ReplyDeleteNow I have to go crush a cookie somewhere - it keeps thinking I'm "b" now!
ReplyDeleteYes, we are very excited with the news. The job represents about 50% of a normal year's business. Plus a number of other jobs that were on hold are breaking ground so we actually expect to get rolling strong again.
ReplyDeleteWe also landed a Raley's supermarket. We had bid it but were clobbered by another contractor by over 15%. Figured it was a goner. After having done five of them we couldn't figure out where they came up with their number and gave up on the job. Then last Friday we got a call from the General contractor and Raley's was insisting that we do the job. We had to go out and beat up on our suppliers, and with the general contractor picking up the concrete pouring and trenching for the underground work we were able to get our cost within their budget.
Well, it's a damn relief. Maybe the "stimulus" package is working....
ReplyDeleteOr people are deciding to bully their way through this, ignore the portents, which, as I understand it, is how our economy actually works: not on actuality, actual money, but on perception alone.
Maybe not for the city of Sacramento!
ReplyDeleteSACRAMENTO, Calif.—A legal expert says Sacramento likely can't get millions of dollars in federal stimulus money because its mayor is barred from receiving federal funds.
Authorities blocked federal funding for former professional basketball star Kevin Johnson and his nonprofit Hood Corps last year, before Johnson was elected mayor
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11966753
I got a B, I got a B!
ReplyDeleteWho said you can't make links here?
ReplyDeleteYou just have to go back to the old a href= method.
Here is a better link for the Mayor's problem.
ReplyDeleteOK, I don't think I like the Google identity thing.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too keen on the idea that simply signing in to Google also opens my blogs for editing.
It is handy when I am editing something, but otherwise I don't like to stay logged in to edit the blog.
I haven't tried turning off the tool icons, but I assume the editing access buttons on the top toolbar will remain.
Well, on the mayor thing, I think that is a bunch of hooey because noprofit corporations are the same as regular corporations in that the individuals are not liable for the corporation's misdeeds, except under certain circumstances. This may be one of them, but certainly the City is set up such that the Mayor can't do anything with their funds that the Supervisors haven't approved....
ReplyDeleteAnd, anyway, this bullshit about electing people with name recognition, about not having any fitness for the job reviews beyond the campaign blather to the voters, has to come to an end.
As for the logged in thing, the Google identity thing, I know it gives me the creeps when they recognize me wherever I go, but they're going to recognize you wherever you put your homepage anyway.
As for the tool icon thing, I am completely unsure what you mean, but if it's just the little garbage can you get next to your comments, I think it has always been thus.
I don't like that. I don't like this commenting system either, but I am forced right now. Trying not to be depressed.
No - I was talking about the little tool Icon next to side bar objects and the pencil below the posts for editing. You can turn those on or off in preferences, but they only appear when you are signed in.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm logged in and walk away from the computer, anyone could come and edit my blog unless I remember to log out first before I leave. I wish the blog was separate from Google - a different password or something.