Nifty Music Thing Is Nifty.

Otomata.  Click it.

Messing with CSS and Javascript

I worked on my cable scarf earlier, and decided to get on ravelry.  I was looking through my groups and noticed We <3 Progress Bars, and I thought "hey, I could stick one of those on my blog..."  Reading about how all these people made their progress bars all fancy with their photos, and links to the patterns and everything made me think it wouldn't be that difficult.  Unfortunately, I somehow don't understand JavaScript, despite the fact that I took a class on Visual Basic and Java.  One would think I could get JavaScript after that, but I still feel lost when looking at it.  I'm going to try to poke around with it more later.  I did manage to get it to show photos and both finished and in progress projects at the same time.  But now it wont work when I follow the instructions and do minimal messing with the code.  It either shows the default or nothing at all.
I gave up on the JavaScript bar and decided to take a look at the flash progress bar before going to bed.  I followed the instructions and it magically works in under five minutes.  I just have to fiddle with the colors.

Sleepy tiem nao nyan.

Readin' teh 漢字～

Read the Kanji is pretty nifty for learning kanji readings even if you don't pay for a subscription.  I'm to the point that all the kanji available to me are yellow or green. (Yay~!)  I actually like it so much I'm going to try to get my mom to pay for a one year subscription, assuming I don't get the $20 myself first.  It has example sentences and you can turn on/off whether it shows the big kanji, translation of the kanji, the example Japanese sentence, or the translation of the sentence.  Note that it isn't anything like Reviewing the Kanji, which is based on a book that preaches learning the stroke order and a basic one word meaning of kanji in order from simple to more complex kanji, but it doesn't really consider readings or learning more useful kanji first.

WAAAHHH! MY CACTUS!

NOOOooo!!!  I KILLED MY CACTUS.  WHY?  WAAAHHHH

Trees~

I found somewhere to plant my forsythia right before I went off to ACen.  They're under my bedroom window.  I'm hoping my boyfriend isn't allergic to them when they bloom.  One of them had exactly one flower bud when I planted it, and now that one has leaves.  I don't think the other one has any leaves yet.  I might've killed it, but I'm going to keep watering it, it might just be trying to make buds.  My Japanese maple and my elm took forever to get leaves, but they have little green buds on them now.  I'm really happy they survived.  My mom's lilac, my white pine, and my yoshino are looking okay.  It looks like the yoshino really is deer resistant, they haven't eaten at it at all like they did our apple trees last year.  The red maple is doing really well, it's huge and has lots of leaves and everything.  I also dug a little oak tree up from the yard, and I'm trying to grow it in my bathroom until I can put it outside without squirrels eating or digging it up, which happened to the last three or so oaks I tried to plant in little pots...  Way before I got my trees from arborday.org, I got a green grape and a wisteria from meijer.  I planted them a little too early though, so they had a little bit of frost damage, but now they're both healthy and growing too.

New Pinkies~

I'm thinking it might be better if I put more short posts more often, rather than putting one big post that I try to put too many things into.  I'm hoping it'll help with my random nonexistant subject transitions.

Before going to Acen, I made sure to know how much pinkies usually go for online at least, so I know if I'm getting a decent deal.  Last year I wasn't sure what good prices were, so I ended up not getting any.
Rather than trying to look through each and every stall's figures, which I sorta did anyway, I decided to just try to ask them all if they had any.  There was a guy at a pretty small booth that said he didn't, but he saw only one at a different booth, so I went there and discovered PK002/Suu for $12, and I'm totally glad I did.  I like her head, I really like her clothes, and I almost wish I had a second one, but not until I have all the other ones I want, I guess.  I also came across PC2023/Suito Kusanagi from 'The Sky Crawlers', for $10, and she came with a cute little uniform, and glasses.  I didn't originally want her, but at plajapan.com she's $30 on her own, so I figured it was worth it.
I looked it up after the con and at plajapan.com to get both of them together, but not bundled would be $48 including shipping.  If I got them bundled together, they would be $38 with shipping.  I got them at the con for $22.  Unfortunately, the booth that had the most pinkies for sale, had them priced at ~$20 or more, and I can order them individually for $16 wish shipping, less if I get more or do plajapan's bundle thing.  Or if I shop around.
By the way, I don't mean to be advertising plajapan, it's just that I find their bundle prices awesome, and they can tell me exactly how much shipping will be.  I'm considering maybe buying some pinkies from HLJ.com someday, but they don't tell how much shipping is upfront, so not for awhile.