The alignment beasts are vanquished. After I'd walked away from the computer last night, my brain reminded me, "single pixel .gif trick," and since I'm already using a single pixel .gif to space the buttons on the right, it didn't take too long to get a good estimate of how many pixels down to shove the list of older entries.

Also, the DSL is back up, so the images are back at fedward dot org and the email button will work again. It would appear from the apache access logs that it was down for almost exactly 24 hours. Hmm ... coincidence? Or not!

Home today, having taken a sick day due to stomach cramps this morning. I get them about once every two months, it seems. They're really bad for a couple hours, then it seems like my system just flushes itself out completely and I'm fine. I already should see a gastroenterologist about the acid reflux thing (you're not supposed to take a Histamine-2 blocker (Tagamet, Zantac, Axid) at the same time you're taking a "second-generation antihistamine" (I can't find the family to which Claritin, Zyrtec, and Allegra belong right off the bat on the web) due to some strange side effects of the combination that have been seen in some patients, but I take them anyway. I haven't noticed any side effects) but I haven't done so. I'm sure he/she would be able to tell me if there's a cause or a solution for my occasional gastric problems (and the persistent problem of acid, but the Tagamet does seem to take care of that most of the time). Not that you care.

But being home with stomach problems is certainly much worse when I don't have the bandwidthy goodness of DSL to keep me occupied. I took a shower around noon, and felt normal enough to start thinking about going into the office anyway out of sheer boredom, but then my stomach panged again and I decided to scratch the whole day.

I didn't even get to make the day useful house-wise. The washer's been making bad noises and I called repair people, but they won't be here until Wednesday. At some point I'll have to let the landlord know I'm calling repair people, but he appears to be out of town (his car's parked in back all day, and I don't get my mail when he's not home) and the washer needs to be fixed. He's cool enough with stuff like that anyway, so I don't foresee a problem.

Props to Marn for the recipe. (I've never used the term "props" to mean anything besides the things you have on stage (properties) until now. I just wanted to say it at some point). I'm just about done with the snickerdoodles so maybe I'll make up a batch of those in the next couple days.

(2000-08-14)