Iolites, Tigereyes, and Beryls... Oh My!

I'm sorry to announce that the title of this blog post has absolutely nothing to do with its content. I had gemstones on my mind this morning in the shower and started coming up with bizarre phrases that replaced regular words with their mineral counterpart. Or, at least somewhat close.

Don't you love super-quiet talkers in bookstores? I was in a local shop earlier this evening and there was a couple standing on the other side of the bookcase. You could barely hear them talk. It only came out as a low hushed "whooshing" noise. Normally, I'd be happy for that kind of thing, since it was in a bookstore. But, apparently when they were whooshing to one another, they were telling jokes. Because every so often, they'd punctuate their low talking with resounding screechy laughter. Now that's obnoxious. If someone's going to be laughing near me, I at least want to know what they're laughing about! Share the humor, folks!

In other news, I'm currently working to put together a writing website for myself. It occurs to me now how far web design technology has come in the last 6-7 years. CSS didn't even exist when I last built a website from scratch. Instead, I was resorting to constructing a page from tables and shoddy graphics. Now, with CSS, everything is so damn easy! Just type in the content and use CSS to organize and present it. Unfortunately, it still takes me 4 hours to decide on a color scheme for the site. What a chore that is.

We can all (yeah, right) look forward to the release of my new site in the coming weeks. I'll release more details as we close in.