Ramblings of the Reymonkey

Saw Harry Potter on Saturday, and it was very cool. No real spoilers here but I will say that it felt very condensed. A lot of details got altered for the purpose of making the content fit well into the movie, and I think that those changes were well done. There's only so much you can cram into two hours and I think they managed to tailor what's a really thick book into a single movie in a way that was satisfying. There are some definite assumptions I see being made in the movies, all but the first, because they're counting on the viewers to have read the books. That doesn't really bother me, though.
Remember that contest I told you about, with Bridgie's doll? Well they effed up. Apparently one entry got left out of the voting or something, and we all need to vote again. Grr. Entry 18, right here.
Please to be voting for her please pretty please? We're a little annoyed about the whole thing being redone.
I didn't win the contest at work, but I didn't really expect to either. The woman who did win is much more experienced and her quilt was very cool. I voted for it myself.

In other news I've gotten some webpage work through Wendy, for a friend of hers. English isn't his first language, so we're struggling a little to communicate with each other, but I think we're managing. What really makes the job tricky is the html of the original page. Whoever set it up for him used MS Frontpage, and it's done exactly what I hate about web editing programs. There's all these redundant lines of garbage code that make it a mess from the scripting side of things. I do my web editing with notepad, and when I see the scripting tell every line of text what color to be, when it's all the same color, that drives me up the wall. Half the work is cleaning up the code. For those of you who don't know much about web editing, I can tell the pages were designed with Microsoft Frontpage because it also inserts little invisible lines of code to tell you what program and version of it the page was designed with. It's a kind of subtle advertising ploy. It's not working on me, because it makes me loathe the program instead of want to buy it. Fortunately what this guy wants is simple stuff. I should be working on the webpage now, though, instead of filling out a meme...
Stolen from Shiri, but going around:
( that 80 questions meme )

Now I will try to go do something more productive, like eat and work.
The end of last week I got hit with the worst period I've had in a while. I know guys don't need to hear this, but just deal. I skipped last month, so I knew this would be ugly, but it messed up my blood pressure so badly I had to skip a day of work because I just could not stand for more than ten minutes. It's been years since I came that close to passing out. I'm pretty much back to normal now, but it was obnoxious and I'm hoping it won't be a pattern for the next six months or something. It's kind of derailed my work on the webpage, as well as making me miss work at my day job. Sometimes being a chick sucks.