Before I get into my entry for today I have an "advertisement". My wife, Kittikity and I are having a bet. She hasn't been updating her diary for a while because she says that no one ever goes to it anyway so why bother. Well, I think she should keep it going, it's good for you. Anyway, we've made a bet. She has added a guestbook to her page and our bet is that, if she doesn't have at least 8 entries by the time I get back home on August 2, I'll give her oral sex every morning before I leave for work and every evening when I get home from work for a week. I know you think this doesn't sound too tough, but it means that I have to get up early everyday for the next week. If I win and she has 8 or more entries then she'll give me a blowjob a day for a week. So, if you want to (and I mean ONLY IF YOU WANT TO), go by her journal and check it out. If you want to sign, fine, if not, fine. Ok, that's all I'll say about that.

I'M FUCKIN' TIRED!! Luckily, things get easier from here on out. I hadn't been too busy since I arrived, but things started picking up. By Sunday midnight, we had to have a home page ready for the AirVenture 2000 coverage, which I got done. I didn't get to bed until 2:00 AM however. Unfortunately, I spent ½ the day Monday fixing little bugs here and there. That was the majority of the work I had to do, but it was annoying. I could never get enough time free to talk to the wife on Yahoo Messenger or to really do much of anything. I kept getting interrupted. I finally got some time and sat and played a game on the computer till about 2 AM. Yes, it's late but I've had a hard time sleeping so fuck off. But the fun is just beginning.

After waking up around 11:00 AM or so, I catch a group going out to lunch and tag along. After we get back, writers are already coming in dropping off photos and asking questions and the stress level in the office is rising. By 6:00 PM, I'm fully buried with work. Like I said, however, luckily, it's just first day bugs that, once worked out, hopefully won't show up again. After scrambling between pages I finally get time to work on the photo gallery, which is my responsibily. After all of our hard work, we (the Editor-in-chief, Executive Editor, and myself) finally get to leave and go to bed at around 5:00 AM. I was pretty beat.

There are a few things that piss me off, however. I'm actually being punished for knowing HTML too well. See, I came up with the layout for the website and I think it looks good. I've been doing what I can to make sure that all the pages fit into that layout as well as possible. Well, unfortunately, there are pages that I don't have control over. If I had my way, the writers would write their stories, the editors would edit them, and then I would take them and put them on the net. Saves a lot of time and aggrivation. But do they do that? FUCK NO!! Bob, the Managing Editor has to have control over the newswire. Well, he uses an ancient version of mother fuckin' goddamned to hell FrontPage. I hate FrontPage! Anyway, it takes my nice, EASY TO USE template page and fucks it up. So, Bob has to recreate the page on his own and now the newswire (or Oshwire as they call it) looks different from the rest of the site. The feature articles are out of my hands too so they look like shit. Oh well, most of the site is tied together so I guess it ain't all bad. I just mean, fuck. Come on. All you have to do is take your HTML and paste it into a little hole I made in the template. But no. You have to use buttfuck FrontPage. FrontPage is the most worthless program that Microsloth has ever come out with. And if I've offended any FrontPage users out there, well too fuckin' bad. Shit. HTML is not that hard! Learn it. Don't get some dumbass program to do it for you because it doesn't do it that well.

To top it off, the Editor-in-Chief and the Executive Editor both use it too. FUCK ME! It might mean more work for me, but I almost wish they'd just edit everything, send it all to me and say "Here, put this up on the site." Oh well, enough ranting. Other than that, things are cool. I've been eating pretty good and we've got plenty to drink around here. The days have been flying by FAST. Still miss the wife, though, and she calls me almost everday. It's hard, but the way time's flying, I'll be home soon.

Well, that's it for this update. I've actually got a few minutes of free time before the shit hits the fan so I'm going to chill and relax. Talk to you all tomorrow.

Oh, if you want to check out what's causing me all these sleepless nights, go here. You should be able to tell the pages that were built by me and the ones that were built by idiots. Till tomorrow. Be safe.

"Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?"

Icebear

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