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Hello again, Micheal webdesigner extrordinaire have started desinging sites again. It has been a while and I forgot how much fun it is. I did a new site design which I'm pretty happy about. Not a new look for this site cause i lke how it is right now, but a template for another site for the future, or someone else should they want it. You can view it Here. At the moment the design uses this site as a base since its the only site i have pages for. The template i have set up has all the information about it. So go there if your interested.

I'm also starting a design for a joint site between me and catherine, which should be fun. For which I'm actually gonna start coding right now!

so...my car was on fire

Yup, in flames. Not 3 days after i got it back from the shop and 170 bucks later, my car of course was still a piece of crap. Being a piece of crap usually means it stalls a lot and is had to start up again. But a stroke of genius, on the way home from work it acted funny, but didn't stall till i got to the final ascent of my hill. I get to the top and make my turn twords my house, as i did all of a sudden this bright yellow light was lighting up around my car it seemed. My parking spot was not far so i figured i'd just park it and see what the heck was going on. As i turn into my spot i look in side view mirror, and i see flame. So obviously I grabbed my bag with its precious cargo (iPod) and get out of that car faster than anything you'd ever seen. I get out and the local neighbor kid came out cause he had seen something was amiss also, but when i got out of the car i turned it off and that seemed to stop the flame. I'm freakin out a bit. I check out the back of my car and it looks a little crispy, but it looked like it still might be a bit on fire, but nothing too serious...so i go inside and try to explain to my parents whats going on as fast as possible so i can just ask for the fire extinguisher...i get it and use it...did nothing, it was totally a crappy extinguisher. By then my dad obviously a bit worried came out took a look. Remember how i said it didn't look that bad....that was wrong it was totally getting bad again. My dad ran and got a shovel and grabbed some snow and smothered most of it...seemed it was out. My mother had already called 911 ans the firemen were on their way. Since they were just at the bottom of the hill, they were there in about 3 or 4 mins. We of course stood out there for a while as they tore up my bumper which was melting not a few minutes earlier. They hit it with lots of water to make sure it was out and no wires were on fire. They unhooked my battery and left. Of course i then preceded to call my sexy girlfriend to tell her the news. Logan...was dead.

Amazingly this is probably the best thign that could have happened...since the car is totalled insurence should cover the loss. We're expecting at least $1,000, i'm getting a decent amount back from taxes, and we finally found a nice car that i should be purchasing. Not to mention that insurence also covers a rental car for up to 30 days. And i got a nice one, brand new 2005 Chevy Malibu with all the trimmings.

Also i started my one class I'm taking this semester, just one night class, once a week. And so far its pretty easy with a good teacher.

At the moment I'm actually sitting in some class at RPI with my gf using her lappy, to type this, while she enjoys the endless fun of....the Proton NMR Spectrum of Styrene. All for now.

BTW like the new title header on the window :-).