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Yeah. So tomorrow's my sister's birthday. So what? She had her friends over last night, they stayed up, they fell asleep, and are most likely going to stay asleep until ten or later.

Then there was the rain. The rain forced us to close all our windows, which made it so damn hot on the second floor of the house. That and our air conditioning system doesn't work all that great on the second floor. Lucky us. Then there was the thunder, going and going as if people were made to sit and listen to it insead of sleeping at four AM. Needless to say, I was up at four AM and unable to go back to sleep.

So what did I do? Bedroom was too hot to stay in without the window open, so I went downstairs and into the basement and to my computer. At four fifteen AM. And lemme tell ya, computers do strange things when you boot them up before the sun's in the sky.

"Warning! Your startup disk is almost full! Please remove old files to free up space. Some application activity may have been aborted."

Or something like that.

But I don't need it at four thirty AM.

It's just too damn early.

Besides, when I checked yesterday, I had a whole stinkin' two Gig left on Hard Drive1 and 58 Gig left on Hard Drive2. Don't tell me that's considered full. So I checked. And guess what? Not even one Kilo left on HD1. How the hell did that happen?

So. An hour or so I spent, moving my manga back to HD2, deleting all of the utter crap my sister made in Photoshop, getting rid of the stuff I didn't even know that I still had sitting in HD1, and sorting through the crap I never knew how it came to exist on my computer. Okay. Now I've got about two Gig on HD1 and 57 Gig on HD2. Hopefully this outdated school-used machine will accept it. It does. THANK GOD IT DOES.

Now what? It's six fourty-five AM and I've replied to all my mail, and checked the news on all of my bookmarked sites, so now what? I'll tell ya. CSS. HTML. Ah, how calming decoding and recoding something can be.

Know this site called Subeta.org? I've got an account there. Look me up. I'm ourpunkyworld. I coded my profile. Go to my friend yulime's profile. I coded that too. But that was several days ago. Today, I redid my cult, in it's almost entirety. Check it out. I think it looks much, much better than before I took it apart and moved it all around.

So, basicly, I went and looked at my profile's coding and looked at the cult's coding and used copied of the CSS from my profile and pasted it onto my cult. That was the easy part.

Then I went through the front page and moved the stuff around a bit, retyped some of it, moved it off of that page entirely, and put some new stuff on. But that still didn't take very long.

Sometimes I'm an overachiever. Sometimes I just set too much on top of myself. This is most likely a combination of both.

I went through each and every symbol on each and every page in that cult and checked it for accuracy, placement, punctuation, and capitalization. I spellchecked everything, grammar checked most of it, then read back through it twice before finally deciding that it was good. Oh. Em. Gee. I'm such a freak when I get bored.

So let's see... redoing the layout of the cult took about half an hour, moving the stuff around took about another half an hour, which took me to about seven fifty, then checking and rechecking everything took me to about eight twenty. But I still wasn't done with using my CSS. Oh no, not there. I just couldn't stop there.

See, Subeta's got this cool feature where you can input your own CSS to use for the site's layout. Awesome, right?

So I went and put in pieces of the code for my profile. But what I didn't pay attention to was the fact that I was using a different size font for my profile and a background that required the start of the page's content to be moved down so you could see what the image looked like. And it has yellow text.

So. The coding failed to move the page down, so the background looked odd, especially with the little 'extra' thing I added to it for kicks. Then the font didn't all resize, so I was stuck with bold font that was smaller than the normal font around it. The links didn't change color either, but I don't know how to fix that.

I sat there and slashed and edited the coding until it was forced to cooperate. I had to sacrifice my desired background and smaller font and sidebar, but I think it was worth it. Besides, the image featured on my profile was pasted in, and I had the original already on Photobucket. You might see that as cheating, but after fighting against your computer and the way it dealt with CSS, everything's fair game.

So I went over to my friend's profile to check if she was online, but she wasn't, so I scrolled down to read the comments on her profile. I'm nosy, and I know it. Guess what? I couldn't read the text 'cause for some odd reason my sitely layout was overriding her profile's layout and putting yellow text on her grey background. And let me tell ya, that's not supposed to happen.

Oh well. You win some and you lose some, I guess.

So... by the time I stopped playing with CSS, it was a little after eight fourty. Fifteen or so minutes to type this, and you've got me at eight fifty-seven. I think I'll hit the submit button before I start rambling again.