Inert Ramblings

Everything worth saying has already been said…

Kelly’s Bug hates me!

OK, so it took longer to change the headlight on Kelly’s Bug than it did to swap out a strut on my Impreza. Yes, changing out a headlight bulb is more complex than swapping out the suspension on one corner of my rally car. Feh. Not only did it take forever to get the headlight housing to line back up with the brackets, but the freezing cold made it impossible to rotate the retaining ring back into place to lock the assembly. The salt and grit that had gotten past the rubber gasket made the ring extremely sticky, and it felt like the brittle plastic would snap at any moment!

After nearly half an hour, I finally got the ring back into place and locked the headlight assembly down tight. Cute car. Sucky maintenance. And don’t even get me started on trying to get at the damn oil filter…

Listening to Jane from the album Maybe You Should Drive by Barenaked Ladies

January 26, 2004 Posted by Sciri | Numbtastic | | No Comments

I want you to be strict with me…

After much procrastination, I finally decided to start looking into XHTML 1.0, CSS2, and HTML 4.01. I originally learned HTML back in the day with HTML 3.2 & CGI Unleashed, a monstrous volume with well over a thousand razor-thin pages. Since then, quite a bit has changed, and it’s time to update my forte. At some point in the near future all of my various sites should be converted over to actual Web standards, instead of wallowing in a hodgepodge of ill-formatted markup.

January 26, 2004 Posted by Sciri | Gnus | | No Comments