This week is retro week at wwbd!

That means I’m fresh outa ideas and plan to rehash the old crap from yesteryear back on you. This serves two purposes:

1. I don’t have to think for a week
2. I can finally get rid of the old legacy crap

We start with the the nutritional content of the website itself:

As you know, I’ve been cooped up in the house for a while, but all of that is about to change: I’m now healed enough to venture forward into the world.

I drove to the store last night to pick up a few items for dinner (we had baccon tacos). I also picked up a copy of The Incredibles on DVD. After making dinner, we popped in the first disk and watched the movie. Wow! Just wow! If you haven’t seen this film yet, buy it or rent it today! Pixar rocks when it comes to this kind of thing, and The Incredibles was just fantastic!

Today’s plan: haircut!

I’m going to put my fat butt in the car and take myself and both my sons out for a trim of the noggin. Normally I style my hair in half ceasar, half spike kinda thing, but it’s gotten so long that I have to part it on the side and do the whole ultra conservative thing. That’s so not me.

Sure, the thought of getting a haircut may not be exciting to you, but then again, you’ve probobly not been under “house arrest” due to surgery. My days have been filled with the thrill of watching flies mate on the ceiling.

I have a meeting with my surgeon next month. We’ll discuss when I can ride my motorcycle again at that time. I’m hopful that I won’t miss this season (I rode a total of 4 times last year).

Oh man… I get a lot of spam.

I installed spam assassin on my server and set it to a level that’s much more stringent that the default, but a lot of crap still finds its way into my inbox.

Take this peach for example:

From: “Jarrett Scroggins”
Date: Sat, March 19, 2005 5:37 pm
Subject: WW W Ph.arrmmacy

Hello,

France the most coveted possession in the West Indies. The
his hair as carefully dressed, seemed transformed into a younger
people whom it was a folly to alienate, particularly for so paltr
he might justly be proud, having destroyed a force so superior in
That’s a point we were just arguing, said Blood. For I hold t
M. de Cussy looked at M. d’Ogeron, and raised his eyebrows a litt
We are informed that you have bought a wherry from Mr. Robert
so; and I don’t lie. I’ve never found it necessary. In any case
bitterly was but a necessary stage in the shaping of his odd dest
to upbraid me because I will not take your hands when I know how
of English seamen as battered and broken as the ship herself, and
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad, said he. Few
brilliant sunshine where the pergola was intersected by the avenu
face.
the negro steward, in white drawers and cotton shirt, made haste

Have a good day.

What the fuck does that mean? There wasn’t even a link to go with it (and no… the possible url in the subject isn’t any good).

After reading that inspiring cut and paste from different parts of God knows what, I was ready to grab my wallet and punch my credit card numbers into whatever website it beckoned me to. But alas, there was no link, and I was forced to lie in anguish for what could have been.

I got another 10 emails, all with the same message, about some investment opportunity. Being that the spammer is all clever and stuffs, the replaced the letter “L” with a pipe (or “|” for those who aren’t as geeky as I). Um… sure… I’ll buy two from you as well.

Unfortunately, spam assassin doesn’t catch everything that comes my way, but it does seem to eat pretty much everything that’s sent from AOL (a large percentage of which are jokes from my Dad). I can live with that. 🙂

I’ve been locked in the house for a week and a half now and I’m going nuts.

I’m a social creature by nature, and isolation drives me crazy (then again, so does contact with the public). I’m trying to convince my wife to take me to the grocery store to help buy dinner and such. Hopefully she’ll agree.

The back is healing. It iches like mad but doesn’t hurt too bad. I’m able to wear jeans again without too much discomfort. I’m due to return to work after next week.

I’ve been filling in the time by working on the new layout for the website. I’ve added more images to the header rotation, changed the way it handles links (I’ve made the whole header clickable rather than just some of the text). I’m not sure how it looks (read: everything I make looks like crap to me).

Oh… my son’s birthday presents came yesterday. We decided that he could open them early and install them into his computer. He’s one very happy young man.

I’ve decided to give the website a facelift. I’ve been running the same basic look for a long time. It’s time to be different.

There’s obviously a lot of crap broken at the moment (the links are all messed up), but I’m working on it.

If the comments work, let me know what you think of it (the comments will be moderated, so they wont show up right away… damn spammer monkeys).

*EDIT* – I fixed the damn links 🙂

*EDIT Again* – I added a php script that rotates the masthead image every time the page is loaded. There are half a dozen variations to the image (the car changes color). It will randomly select one when you load the page, then change it if you hit a link on the page that reloads the site.

How cool is that? 🙂