Austin Web Designer - Adam Freetly

I swear to god, tv makes me tangibly stupid. For the past few nights, i've been working on a little CSS project,¹ and it's been going well. I had a little list of outstanding issues, and i set out to tick them off as i ate dinner tonight. Except that with "sweet home alabama" playing 2 feet away, i couldn't manage to concentrate long enough to rename a couple of selectors.

It's not even like it was thinking cap sort of work. i've been playing with the free version of visual web developer,² which makes things mindnumbingly easy.  Despite that, I swear i broke more than i fixed for the hour or so i was working on it.
Anyway, where was I? oh, after forgetting the books we were exchanging, trying to leave the apartment by the wrong door, and generally being in a fog, we made it all the way to super H mart before i felt aware enough to take over driving. Who knew one romantic comedy could freeze so many neurons.

I've been feeling kinda dumb lately anyway. I've recently flooded my wishlist with books, rather than music, in an attempt to get the few remaining neurons up to room temperature. The wifest bought me WorldChanging (off of archidose' christmas list) for xmas, and tonight we dropped by barnes and noble to exchange some books³ we wound up spending way more than the store credit, and i picked up Sustainable Architecture: white papers, which was one of the few books in the architecture section that didn't scream "BOOTIFUL ASPENSIVE HOTELS IN EXOTIC LOCATIONS!!!!". as fun as those things are, only reading books with pretty pictures is probably what got me in this funk.

1. porting a certain award winning design, recently released as a CC-licensed template to a Sandbox skin. (back ↩)
2. which blows away dreamweaver for CSS work, what with actually breaking out elements, classes and ID's in collapsable trees. In typical borg fashion, though, there's no syntax highlighting for PHP, despite it running on some 1.3 million sites. (back ↩)
3. my sister did some stealthy research to find my wife's amazon wishlist. unfortunately, the list hasn't been updated in a couple years, thus the being hard to find. (back ↩)