making it up as i go along
Matt and I are watching the Miss America competition. It's one of those kitchy pleasures. And as we're watching, we're cheering for Miss Wisconsin, but not because we have state pride (we don't even really want to admit we live here). No, we want her to win because we assume that if she does, they'd have a parade.
A parade would be awesome because it's kind of boring around here and a parade would be a lot of fun to go to (the kitch factor again).
Greenway station is about to open. I haven’t made up my mind if this is going to be good or bad though. The niece thing about is there are lot of nice to upscale restaurants and shops, that are opening there that you can’t find anywhere else in Madison 
The bad part about is that it's two block from our apartment and will probably bring a lot of traffic, noise and mess 
Guess we’ll know in a few months.
I'm quite hyper. So is Matt. Maybe it's got something to do with the barametric pressure. Anyhow, we're in really good moods.
I think it's way easier to be happy and hyper when you've had proper sleep. 
In other news, I've cleaned my computer with Spybot and Have it protected with Spyware Blaster and I've still got something that's popping up icky ads. It's driving me nuts. Why must people do that? It doesn't get them advertising hits. It just makes people mad and then I wouldn't click on their ad even if I was interested in it!
Friday the phone rang three times during the day. Each time it was an unknown caller. I picked it up the first two times, and it was the same woman wanting to speak to Matt. I patiently explained both times that he wasn't available. The last time I just let it ring.
Yesterday the same thing happened. Except with more calls. I finally just started picking it up and immediately hanging up because the ringing was driving me nuts.
So finally, after Matt got home, she called again and I made Matt pick it up. Turns out she wanted to offer him another credit card from the same bank he already has one from (Mastercard instead of Visa).
If she calls again today, I'm getting nasty. 
I was looking at my “status file” which shows things like the top files people have requested, and more interesting (to me anyhow) where the people who view this page come from. The vast majority come from direct references (people typing in www.jesser.org). Some come from search engines … and I'd love to know their queries because I'm certain this domain is at the very bottom of pages 
But there are a few that I just can't figure out. I've gotten 4 hits from a pokemon/digimon forum … explain that one! I even went to it and did a search and couldn't find anything. I also got 10 hits from a “free money” popup hell page. I have no clue how their “free,freebies” page sent 10 people to my web site.
Anyhow, if you found this page, would you kindly post a message (see that little comments thing down there?) and tell me how you got here. I can't help but be curious.
Well, as Matt said before, fall has come to Madison. After a summer of the most beautiful weekends, it rained 
all day today. Not that I mind it … I love rain.
But in spite of the rain (or maybe because of it) we had a very productive day. We went to the used book store and got a few new books. Matt got an ancient (1970s) photography book for a song and we bought two new cookbooks, one devoted to Asian Cooking and the other to Smoothies. Both were really good deals.
Then we went grocery shopping and when we got home we cleaned the house. The rest of the day has been spent cooking and listening to musci and watching some Malcolm in the Middle on DVD. Now we're working a little and I think later we'll go see if we can't find the hottub.
Well, fall's come to Madison WI. Maybe people from Madison would disagree, but I say its defiantly here. Leaves are falling, temperatures are falling, and pretty soon snow will be falling. At that point I say, stay inside. So, we have about 4 weeks to get the remainder of our out door activities in. Gota get busy. 
I don't know why, but I had a sort of crappy day today. For one thing I thought it was Wednesday all day (not that that should make it a bad day, but it does kind of set you off a bit). I couldn't seem to make headway with any of the work I wanted to get done. And the dinner that I'd been sort of excited to make came out rather bland and disappointing.
But now things seem to have turned around. AMC is being kind enough to run (another) Audrey Hepburn marathon. So I just finished watching Roman Holiday and now I'm about 20 minutes into My Fair Lady. The apartment is quiet (other than the TV) and I've got a nice cup of tea and after I'm done here, I'm going to go sit on the couch and do a little work before I go to bed and finish watching Audrey's transformation.
Things always get better, eh?
Well … I've reached the end of my day. I've been up for 20 hours now and I've been busy almost all of that time. Yet I still have work to do. I guess it will have to wait 'til tomorrow though because about the most constructive thing I can do right now is rub my eyes …
Plus, late night TV is really awful.
Goodnight.
Well, it looks like our hang-ups with our IP issues are done for now. *Knock on Wood* With a little luck, we may be able to bring in some cash very soon.
I'm so tired right now. I was up very late working and Matt woke me up early this morning to take out the dog cuz he was running late. I didn't really go back to sleep.
Well I think I'm going to go watch some TV and rest. Matt and I will go out for a nice walk later.