Boo

Finally feeling a little better here. For a few days there I just felt like hell. And I've been busy.

I went ahead and bought myself a domain name and got some hosting.

Introducing

Tags By Frod!

I've been making tags for several years now and I already had several web sites all cobbled together. It was impossible to put all of my tags in the same place because I've just got too many. lol But now that is no longer a problem.

I've still got lots more tags to add to the site. There are already 3 more pages of tags uploaded and I just need to adjust some html before revealing them.

I have been doing a little bit of knitting and I've been going back through my stash. Y'all I can NOT believe how many UFOs I have hidden away in my closet and under my bed. LOL There was one scarf that I found that I had no clue what the pattern was. I could picture the site it came off of, but I had no clue the name of it and no clue where my copy of the pattern went to. Thanks to Knitting Pattern Central I was able to find the pattern again.

Recognize it?

How bout now?

Yup it's the Irish Hiking scarf. Unfortunately, I decided to make the scarf from Jack Frost Wintuk. Umm yeah, acrylic. Old acrylic. And it is on flexible plastic needles. Can we say ick? lmao I'm going to dig into the needle stash and see if I can't find a set of metal needles. Nick can have the scarf for next winter. Lord knows any scarf of his is going to have to be washed numerous times. Maybe I'll make it again in wool later. But not until I finish some other UFOs.

I know of one UFO that is probably going to end up being ripped out completely. Off and on I've been working on one of the old mystery shawls that Renee put out. Well day before yesterday I realized that I just hate the way it is looking. You can see it here and here. The thing is just too small. I've added repeats to it but it wasn't enough. And I really don't like the way the color changes go in different directions. Maybe some day, I'll make it using a nearly solid sport weight yarn. Maybe then it will be a bit bigger and the way the color changes are won't bother me so much. The part that makes this hard is that I'm almost done with the edge on the first side. So, it's like a whisker from being done. But, I just don't like it. :O(

I'm going to let it sit for a while longer. I can't bring myself to rip it out just yet. But I also can't bring myself to finish it. sigh

Ok, I'm off to work on the tag site for a bit.

Sigh :O)

Man it was nice here today.

It was in the high 50s to low 60s all day. I had all the windows and doors open. It was so nice to have the breeze blowing through the house. I live out in the boonies on top of a slight rise. It is always windy here. We have very few trees around to block the wind and the buildings are fairly far apart.

For most of the day, I had to fight to stay awake. I always get so damn tired when I get lots of fresh air. Right now I'm bout to pass out. lol I managed to get some cleaning done here on the blog and at the house. I've still got lots more to do around the house but it looks like I'm off tomorrow, so I've got plenty of time.

I spent quite a bit of time today downloading file recovery programs. I accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff off the new flash drive yesterday morning. This is stuff I wouldn't be likely to be able to download again. Lots of old crochet patterns I got off of Pando. I've got to say, that most of the recovery programs I downloaded just sucked 10 kinds of ass. The free to try programs only let you recover files below maybe 100k without buying the program. Ummmmm yeah ok whatever. Most of the free ones I found didn't find the damn files at all. I knew they were still there cause of the free to try programs. I just wasn't in the mood to pay at least $30 for these programs. The one I finally used came from a dang online game web site of all things. I didn't really take a close look at the web site, but most of what I saw was games. Not programs. Weird if ya ask me.

But anyways, I was able to save all my files and from now on, I will not be deleting any files off of the flash drive until they have all been copied to my hard drive. I swear I was just trying to delete one little folder and ended up deleting the main folder with everything in it. I was in the middle of getting ready for work too. So, I had no real time to try and fiddle with it. I had checked at Mom's to see if the files were still on her pc, but she ran a cleanup program that emptied the trash bin. I was not in a very good mood for the last day, I tell ya.

But, all is well on the pc front. Well mostly anyways. I've got a wonderful solitaire program on my other hard drive that I'm just addicted to. It's called Solitaires4Free, or something like that. It's by Tepui. Well I no longer have the install file for it and it would seem that they no longer offer the free version. So, I'm on the look out for a free solitaire program that has lots of different types and has pretty good graphics. I don't care if it has music. I usually don't have my sound on anyway.

Anyways, I'm gonna go put some lotion on my poor fingers. Long story made short: Do not try to turn over a hot crumb cake with bare hands. No blisters but it hurts and my frozen burrito cold pack is gettin warm. hehe

I'm outta here. I need me some zzzzzz Hope y'all like my new digs.

Question

So, I'm looking for a place to host a web site. Not the blog. Not enough people read the blog to justify spending any money on it. lol I make tags for a group of guys and gals. I've got them spread out between 2 different free sites, and I've still got another 5 sites worth of tags that need to be uploaded. Plus, I do the whole poetry thing and I like to save it online.

I'm looking for something I can pay monthly. I don't want to spend a mint on it either. I need lots of room to store the tags. I make roughly 130 tags each time and they add up to about 5mb of space needed. Bandwidth isn't much of an issue as I don't make tags all that often. Well at least not right now. I go in spurts.

I would like a host that gives you some cool toys to play with. I really like web site design. I mean sheesh, I do almost have a degree in it and all. If it wasn't for that damn marketing class, I would have my degree. Not that I would probably put it to much use. lol

Anyways, I have a few of the free Geocities sites. Are the pay sites worth it? I've also got a couple free Bravenet sites. That is where the tags are at now. Should I just upgrade and pay it every 3 months? I'm not ready to drop the full amount for a year at one time.

So, where are the good web hosting sites?

On an only slightly related note, I'm thinking of switching up the blog design again. I'll save off the current template first so I don't loose my links and such. I just really miss the 3 column layout I used to have. I just got tired of the posts knocking the right column down to the bottom of the blog. I'm thinking about maybe doing something with frames. I've got to admit though that I used to absolutely hate frames. Well I still kind of do. Maybe I'll do some funky stuff with css instead. But then again, I hear that css doesn't always play real well with IE7. Which frankly, I think is a POS. Mom installed it and promptly switched back to IE6.

And now, I'm gonna go get some rest. The new job isn't real hard, but it makes for a long day. Plus, the kid is sick. He is spending the night at my folk's house so that my dad can watch him tomorrow. Cross your fingers that he behaves and my mom doesn't have to kill him.