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I don't feel as if this past week was very productive. I was working a temp job downtown (only six-hour days, but another hour and a half each day on the bus, too, plus I seldom feel creative after spending time downtown.) Anyhow. I did keep up with the weekly chores, and was pretty good with daily stuff, though not perfect.

Things I did do include research on Geothermal heating, attending the Green Living Expo at the State Fairgrounds and attending a Mnstf Meeting. Also: researching back through the archives of the Web Design LJ to look up some entries on alternatives to using Frames for my portfolio galleries.

I had a bad experience recently when I saw what my frames pages look like in the Opera browser. Aagh! (Apparently it treats a frame as a table cell, which puts my main frames way down at the bottom of the menu frames.) My research showed possibilities: an alternative could be done with JavaScript, which I don't know very well, or PHP which I don't know at all, or Flash, which I know, but would be unweildy to keep updated. Dang. Frames work so well for what they do; I wish they weren't being deprecated.

I also made progress on the first draft of an essay, for a new website I'm thinking of calling, 'Chapel Perilous,' in which I want to consider some questions of Faith and different beliefs - just my personal exploration of issues that come to mind.

Today I went out early and took some digital photos of the local traffic signals. Specifically, the 'walk' and 'don't walk' signs. One of my goals for this week is to make T-shirt art for my CafePress shop's Weird Religion section, on behalf of the Trafficarian Sect.

Weekly goals:

• Daily stuff & weekly chores


• Call in to Kelly's


• Trafficarian art for CafePress Shop


• Go to the Dollar Store & look for sets of colors to include with Coloring Books to sell at ConVergence Dealer's room.


• Experiment with JavaScript version of gallery to see how it works, if I can include the relevant text and PayPal buttons.


• More progress with essay, set up Chapel


• (If not on temp assignment) at least 4 hours a day creative work (web design counts), one of which must be fiction-writing.

I succeeded in adding a new section to my CafePress Shop! For The Rules of the Road, which are detailed here: Rules.

Samples of artwork:

The text reads: "Observe the Sign of the Walking Man; for each of us IS a Pedestrian at times"


Text: "Err on the side of Caution, for it is better to be safe than Road Kill"