We watched Dr. Phil on David Letterman tonight, lots of fun because I like both of them. I think Dave was a little worried when Dr. Phil whipped out a list of some of the less complimentary things he's been called during the last six months but no blows were struck and both seemed pretty evenly matched. The snow in New York looked really frightening. I've never actually seen real snow (deeper than about an inch or so). The worst we get here on the Gulf Coast is ice and a bit of frozen grey slush. I think our norm for anything qualifying as snow is about once a decade. I have no desire to see mounds of snow up close, I hate cold weather. It was down in the low 30's last night and I was miserable even with the heater blasting and four blankets. This is the longest, coldest winter we've had in years. My nose and my hands have been numb for months, I'll be so glad when I don't have to run the water for five minutes before I can wash my hands again, I'm actually looking forward to the blistering summer this year.

Here are some pics of me, my little brother and our cocker spaniel standing in our back yard in 1973 in what was probably the first time it ever snowed in Houston in my lifetime, that's me in the polar bear outfit, I didn't stay outside very long. As you can see, it's not real impressive, but we did manage to photograph it before it all melted. I think the next time it snowed was around 1984, we had a really bad winter in 1989 again.

I OD'd on carbohydrates at dinner, I made spaghetti and breadsticks for Sparky (his favorite dinner), and then I fell asleep on the couch while he was watching the latest Michael Jackson freak show. That's a creepy thing to wake up to... I'm so tired of seeing his deformed face I could scream. Sparky was doing his impersonation of him all night until I actually went up to him and threatened to pinch him if he didn't stop. He pouted for about an hour, but at least he stopped doing it.

I packed 25 packages for eBay tonight, just finished. No mail Monday for the holiday so I had an extra day to pack at least. I'm trying to think what else I need to do before bed tonight... I have some photos to process and upload of new auctions, I got about 200 emails this weekend, I'm almost caught up on answering them. Last night I played around and made some new banners for my main site, and spent several hours playing with GoLive to figure out what I was doing wrong with my 'floating boxes', it turned out I wasn't hitting the 'don't allow boxes to overlap' option on the main grid. I had a moment of clarity when I realized that cascading style sheets don't need to be very complicated, I live for moments like that. The trick will be whether I can remember anything I learned a week from now... Just checked Adobe's site, there's a new update for GoLive 6, yea! BTW, I'm glad I haven't upgraded my Movable Type yet, they've had three updates in the last few days or so, I think we're up to version 2.62 now. They have a Pro (i.e., not free) version coming out this spring, I hope they don't do away with the basic program...