- John Fogde 11:42 PM [+]

 
Adding Stuff:
I've added a Comments section where visitors are invited to leave me a message. I saw it over at Ev's and it seemed like a fun thing to add. I had been thinking about adding some kind of comments feature to each posting (and I might eventually), but for now I'll use the Tag-Board.

I've also settled on using the Sitemeter tracker. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than the other two I tried out. Their banner is really small, the information you get at their site is better and the code you need to add is a lot simpler than the others I tried, so it works out great.

- John Fogde 4:56 PM [+]

 
Lessons Learned:
I went out to dinner with my parents tonight to celebrate my mother's birthday. I'm not going to go into too many details, but I will mention that no matter what I do with them in public I feel like one of those teenager you see in movies, whose parents call them Pumpkin or Sweetie in front of all their friends at the mall or in school. They can't do or say anything that doesn't can my cringe and wish I was a million miles away. Everyone else thinks they're really great and funny, so I guess it's me who's an idiot.

But before going out I had to get a present and let me just say that shopping for women isn't easy. And clothes shopping for women is damn near impossible. I went through several shops just completely baffled at all the strange items, which were available. I don't have a large knowledge of what colours are in and out, but it would seem that beige and various sand-like colours are all the rage. And oddly enough if you find clothes that are say white or red or something they look like pirate clothes. I kid you not! T-shirts with red and white stripes and puffy shirts apparently are the next big thing. I haven't seen a lot of pirates around here lately, but if you're to believe the selection at H&M it's just a matter of time till this place will be crawling with Adam Ant look-alikes (which will actually be pretty cool for me, because I've always wanted to paint stripes on my cheeks and wear huge shirts). I ended up buying her a peach coloured shirt, which I think she liked, because she asked me three times if I'd picked it out myself or if someone had helped me.

So today we've learned that I embarrass easy and I'm a great shopper. Another thing I've learned this week is that it's not easy to quit drinking. I don't mean that it's difficult to not drink, when you get the urge to drink. Because I rarely get the urge to drink during a normal week, so that's a breeze. It's difficult to function in society and not drink. This week I'd decided to take drinking to a minimum, because I was hammered Saturday. But Sunday I went to an Easter Lunch at my parents' house, Monday we went to a football game, Tuesday a friend came by to use my computer and brought along a couple of beers, Wednesday we saw a football game here, and tonight we went out to dinner. So I've basically been drinking every day this week. And unless I lock the doors and don't answer the phone until Monday chances are I'll have a drink or two this weekend. I never really thought about this before, but you get some really weird stares, when you're out with your friends and you mention that you'd rather have a Coke. It's not socially acceptable to not drink unless you have some medical condition or you're the designated driver. So I'll either have to make up some rare disease, so people won't pester me about not drinking or just accept that I like drinking and accept the hangovers like I have for the last 15 years.

- John Fogde 1:12 AM [+]