Today, at Stokstad.com

Maybe today we'll launch Peggy Sharr's site, GlobalTel Savings. (Sneak peek then tomorrow, eh?) We're waiting for the ISP to configure the hosting server. He's been delayed because his sister had a baby, Funny how you never think that the tech guys have a personal life, but they do. I know that if one of my sisters had a baby, I couldn't do HTML for weeks. Of course, it's not likely, since the youngest is almost fifty.

Probably we'll go hunting for books on PHP today. Now that I've created my first programming-flavored work for Peggy, the veil has gfallen between web design and web programming, and I'm moving into a new skillset. Not that I couldn't get this stuff done before (you can always pay someone), but I couldn't do it myself.

Doing it yourself is almost always more fun, because you have the client, you are motivated, you want to see the project get finished, and you will MAKE IT SO. If you know how. Wringing your hands and waiting for it to emerge from the programming black box is a helpless feeling. While the bill adds up...

My new tech guy has higher concerns than coding PHP. He'd rather teach me to do the low level stuff so he can do the kewl stuff. That's ideal for me. On every job I learn something new and eventually I've mastered the whole area.

How do you think I turned from a one trick pony on Photoshop to the Button King that I am today? Well, pretty good at buttons anyway.

Today, On a Personal Note:

Today is grey. Notice that it's "grey", not "gray." Oddly, there's a qualitative difference for me in those two spellings, the first one Elven (as in Tolkien), subtle, beautiful, gentle, and the second institutional and industrial and grimy.

The grey day (today) could be looked at either way. I like the grey way. Women (in my life, anyway), seem to be run by the weather. Sunny day, sunny wife. Overcast day, depressed. I suppose that's a symptom of SAD, or Seasonally Affected Disorder.

Me, tend to be upbeat every day. If I turned out to be manic depressive, I'd have a whle lot of payback, since It's been about 51 years of chipper.

I'm starting to get a few comments on my daily web page, and I'll include yours in the archives if you send one (as long as you aren't Seasonally Affected).

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Archive of Daily Home Pages:

May 9, 2001

May 8, 2001

May 7, 2001

Weekly: News In Fairfield:

The Dairy Queen is open, and the lines are too long. Pick a cool day, or better yet, a rainy one.

The Quikstop on the west side has the local Krispy Kreme donut franchise, and I think that it has reinvigorated the place, which previously seemed like a great place to get a trucker's hat on your way to the 5 a.m. shift at Falco Aluminum. I saw a very sophisticated Isterra Salesperson there this morning when we were scoring our Monday morning reward for getting up early.

Scott Slechta (aerobics teacher, Fairfield High School Drama Coach) let us know that the summer show is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. That will be interesting now that the major guy singer (Jeff) has moved to Minneapolis. Maybe they'll mike him in.

Weekly: The Arts/Entertainment Situation:

We've got The Mummy Returns and Bridget Jones Diary. Next year it will probably be Bridget Jones Moves In with Mummy.

For plays, we have Force of Nature on Campus. Should be good since all of the drama majors are in it, but I haven't seen it yet. Steel Magnolias playing at the Knight Light. I'd see anything with Elaine Speer in it, but the others are fun, too. (Saw it, it's fine). Some kind of fund raiser event at the new Iowa Conservatory Theatre (on West Stone) this Friday. Stay tuned. It's a cool new spot, and deserves support.

Benefit Concert for Noah's Ark Animal Shelter this Friday at Morningstar. Lots of Talent. Silent auction, so no barking.

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