2004
thank you for a great weekend
i want to thank everyone for a great birthday weekend! it will be one i will never forget.
the weekend started early with dinner with doug at our old weekly hangout, satsuma’s. it felt like old times sitting, eating, drinking, and talking about everything and anything.
on friday, lotte, john, fina and farrah took me to king of siam for some great thai food. the atmosphere was pretty lively for downtown san jose, and the food was excellent as always. oh, and the tiramisu they brought for my birthday cake was to die for.
saturday morning, farrah and i drove up to have breakfast with tessie. she was in town on a business trip. it was really good to see her and spend time with her, walking to chinatown and such. i wish we could have spent more than the three hours we had together. it was good to see you tess.
saturday night found farrah’s parents, my mom, farrah and i at the fishmarket in santa clara. again, great food, good beer, and good dessert in chocolate covered strawberries.
sunday night the trabers came over and took farrah and i out to chevy’s. i had a nice mohito margarita, with farrah having a cantaloupe margarita. overstuffed with fajitas, but not before having some chocolate mint (i think it was) cake from gale’s.
last but not least, dave took me out to stacks for breakfast on monday. and get this, we were served by cops at the restaurant who were doing their part for the special olympics [please see the south park episode 803]
cool site - can you pass the third grade?
[can you pass the third grade] is a flash drag and drop game. on my first try i got 21/48 so let’s just say i didn’t. what can you get? link provided by sa
bond, james bond
just picked up the playstation 2 game [james bond 007: everything or nothing] it’s a pretty nifty third person game that has you shooting, driving, flying and firing at enemies all over the place. it has the voices of heidi klum, mya, shannon elizabeth, and of course pierce brosnan among others, so it feels like being in a bond movie.
yeah, i know, i was supposed to start playing final fantasy x-2. i’ll get around to it.
new photos added
some new photos have been added to the photos pages [of all places]! click the above images for a preview or go straight to the photos page to look at more.
celebrating birthdays for
- kayla
- mom
- rex
- john
please remember, you may have to re-register by clicking the registration link. if you do need to re-register, please use the same login name you used previously so i recognize who you are!
lost in translation
rating: **** out of five
quick shot: a man lost. a woman ignored. friendship [and more?] follows.
what i liked about the movie: the acting, direction and pacing of the movie was very well done.
what i didn’t like: the movie seemed short.
might have noticed
just a quick note: you might have noticed that all the postings are now listed by ‘janella’. well, i thought it was a weird thing when doing a search on any search engine (e.g. msn, google, yahoo!, etc.) janella.com would come up somewhere after the top 5! i mean, come on this is janella.com!
anyway, it’s part search engine driven and part whatever.
established some accounts
i have established a few accounts for login from memory. if you try to register for the [photos] page and it says your name is already taken (or in there), then please try logging in with your password. if it’s not in there please continue with the registration.
the long walk back II
the [photos page] is starting again, and i emphasis starting. i started a photo renaming project awhile back. i am trying to change photo names from something like
dc0520.jpg to 122503_christmas_02.jpg
to at least track images better on my computer. it helps with searching. anyway, like i previously mentioned all the photo information was wiped out when the database was dumped. so i need to repopulate the photos again. i will do this, trying to get new photos as well as old photos back up.
what can you do?
well, you can register for the [photos page]. only a few albums are public. most albums require a login.
there is a registration link there. fill in a username (one i can recognize), then place in a password you would like to use, then a valid email address. once i receive all the information an email will be sent to me for approval. once i approve your membership you will be able to log into the photos page!
the photo page is meant for family and friends to view, so if i don’t recognize your name or address sorry for the membership rejection.
::nothingcouldbefina:: is restored
the pages at [::nothingcouldbefina::] have been partially restored. only certain albums made it through the recovery. if you are a frequent visitor you may notice some missing albums. fina is working getting those albums back up. so please visit the page from time to time for updates.
i think that’s all the restoration that will be done tonight. whew!
till later.
the long walk back part I
well, hosting company has managed to recover backups of most of the flat files, but the database is shot. so they placed all the files back. unfortunately, the files they put back were in the wrong state, so i couldn’t delete the files. plus the files put the site over quota so the home page couldn’t even be updated!!
finally, they were able to give me full access to the files. after downloading all the information (for backup purposes) i was able to delete the files and get under server space quota.
at this time, i’m going to start rebuilding the structure of the pages. again, this will take some time so please visit back in several days for any updates. any updates i have will be placed on the home page.
till later.
it's wet out there
it’s looking pretty ugly outside right now. the winds are supposed to gust up to 40mph down here. in the santa cruz mountains it’s suppose to get as high as 75mph. whew!
so if you’re driving today be careful. if you are not driving, stay home and enjoy a good dvd. (and yes, i’m still trying to get this page back to normal).
page will look funky
btw: this page will probably look kinda funky until i make more postings. i’m not going to try and bother to recreate any of the previous postings i had. please bear with me as we rebuild.
web server crash
janella.com has, not by choice, had to go another change. the webserver crashed some time this weekend. this affected not only janella.com but over 200 other accounts from what i understand. what does this mean? well, it means starting from scratch on some things.
i do have backup of all the photos. what i don’t have is a backup of the database that drove the new portion of the photo site, as well as what drove this weblog. so all my general musings are now lost. just goes to show you that you should backup all the files when you get a chance.
[http://nothingcouldbefina.janella.com] should be up in the next day or two if i can get the backup files from my webhost. the photos page for janella.com will be up as soon as i get this weblog portion of the site squared away.
please check back later for any updates.
alex
tigger comes home
my mom heard tigger meowing in a neighbor’s backyard. she rushed over to the next street, knocked on the neighbor’s door and told her our cat was back there. our neighbor wasn’t aware of it and was happy to let my mom back there.
funny thing seeing my mom carry tigger through the front door, seeing how she says he annoys her a lot (all the meowing and need to be petted). but i think she was as happy to see him as i was.
from the looks of tigger, it appears he just wandered off. he might have gotten scared or curious during his travels, which would account for the amount of time he was gone. of course my mom still thinks he was cat-napped by some kids.