No sir, away! A papaya war is on!

In case you don’t follow my facebook, I just wanted to let everyone out there know that I am still alive. Wheee!

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Captain’s Log August 22, 2009

“Leaving only 8 hours behind schedule.  Hopefully there’s an In-N-Out outside the city… Or I would take a Sonic as well so we could stay in the car”

-Captain Igor “Stumpy” Belagorudsky

“Take on me…. Take on me…. Take me on… Take on me… I’ll be gone… In a day or twooooooooooooo”

-Copilot Tracey “Boat-foot” Callahan

Day one started late but strong.  We were not able to get everything in the car as Igor’s I have a dream speech stated.  Last night our friend Jeff tried to bet us that we would be out of San Francisco after 12… good thing we didn’t take that bet!  We shipped some boxes pretty inexpensively and everyone fit in the car.  We drove for about 6 hours today.  Destination was Oregon to visit D but it didn’t happen.  We found a really cool place where you could drive thru a tree.  Pics are pretty cool.  We made it to Eureka and decided to find a place to stay.  Eureka rivals Philly for least favorite city in the US.  We found a cheap place to stay and snuck the kitten in.  Then some lady, who I believe called this motel home, narc’ed on him yelling to the owner “Uh-uh… there are no pet here nice try.  HEY!  He’s got a dog.”  We managed to find the one motel in the city where the patrons are unable to distinguish cats from dogs.  Ig and I used Yelp and found a nice pub to eat at called Lost Coast.  A pub with a cool menu and cheap, micro brewed beer.  Getting ready to turn in and enjoy the scratchy sheets.  Dead bolt…. Check!  Tomorrow… Redwood Forest and D’s place.

Miles: 274.8

Spent: 127.07

Today’s Quote: “the world is a vampire”

…I wish i could watch True Blood

For the record, I don’t like the nickname “Stumpy”. I feel like the captain does not need a nickname.

Anyway, the road trip back to Boston has begun. Tracey will try to update the blog as often as possible. You can also follow me on Twitter - talktotheigor

Away we go!

I spent a good 24 hours trying to figure this out. Here is what happened:

1. I wanted to install the IIS Rewrite Module on my server which needed Vista SP1
2. After installing SP1, the W3SVC service refused to start
3. I went online and tried to find solutions and couldn’t find anything.
4. I tried going to Add/Remove windows components to uninstall Windows Activation Service (WAS) and IIS and reinstall them
5. After reinstalling WAS, I could not reinstall IIS7 and kept getting errors like “Not all components installed successfully” (paraphrased)
6. Essentially nothing worked. I even called Microsoft but the friendly Indian guy could not help me.

Then I said, “whatever, let’s try again” and I:

1. Restored my computer to pre-SP1 (using windows restore)
2. resintalled SP1
3. got same errors
4. tried to find a solution again and…

BAM! The wonderful Taylor Mitchell had the only solution I found that worked. Apparently, after installing SP1, my applicationHost.config file lost a setting. Read all about the solution here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistasp/thread/456da543-2301-4ba4-86d2-c3e016554255/

So I’ve been ripping my hair out for a few minutes trying to get a simple div to display correctly in Firefox. The puzzling thing is that it looks great in IE and doesn’t work at all in FF - something that is usually the opposite.

In any case, I’ll cut to the chase - if you’re trying to get a div to display with a min-height and you can’t, for the life of you, figure out why it’s not working in FF, simply set the div to clear on both sides like so:

.SomeClass
{
  min-height: 39px;
  clear: both;
  padding: 5px;
}

The padding is just for my purposes.
Good luck!

Omg. Don’t wade here.

A comfortable 120.

We are currently in Vegas… I am not going to say that it was a mistake for we are having a lot of fun and going to see Zumanity tonight, but I will say that I need to stop being an idiot. My brain is telling me that the only game that you can win money in is Texas Hold’em, but my stupidness (separate from brain) is getting me to lose all my money on stupid shit like Pai Gow and Three Card Poker. Oh, don’t get me wrong - it IS a lot of fun… but the expensive kind of fun.

As I told my sister, it’s not so much that Vegas has been kicking my ass, but if two guys were in a fight and  guy A just held guy B down and proceeded to smack him a couple of times like a girl, it wouldn’t that guy A kicked guy B’s ass, but it would still be pretty embarrassing for guy B. I am guy B.

Also, what I think is not fair is that at the Hooters casino, the higher chips don’t have any prettier girls. I feel like that the higher your chip is, the less clothes the girl should be wearing, but the $100 chips are just as PG as the $5 ones.