Tales of a Nobody

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http://babspace.com/index.php/2009/01/06/sometimes-my-decisions-scare-me/

http://babspace.com/index.php/2009/01/03/home-sweet-home/

Hopefully I won't piss off too many folks with this decision.

Swiped from lavenderfrost

Bold the establishments you've been to. Underline your favorites. Strike through the ones you don't like. Add your own favorites.

001. Applebee's
002. Arby's
003. Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips
004. A&W Went to an A&W drive-in while travelling crosscountry in 1974.
005. Baskin-Robbins
006. Benihana
007. Black Angus
008. Bob Evans
009. Boston Market There is a reason why the chain has died.
010. Buffalo Grill
011. Buffalo Wild Wings
012. Burger King The preteen loves their fries and chicken nuggets.
013. California Pizza Kitchen
014. Captain D's
015. Carino's Italian Grill
016. Carl's Jr./Hardee's
017. Checkers/Rally's Drive-In
018. Cheeseburger in Paradise
019. Chick-fil-A
020. Chili's
021. Chipotle
022. Chuck E. Cheese's Went once, for a birthday party. Never again!
023. Church's Chicken
024. Cici's Pizza
025. Claim Jumper
026. Cluck-U Chicken
027. Cold Stone Creamery
028. Cracker Barrel My annual Mother's Day treat. Sadly it appears to every other mother's treat, too.
029. Culver's
030. Dairy Queen/Brazier
031. Damon's Grill
032. Del Taco
033. Denny's Have been to a number while travelling as a kid. Now they make me miss Sambo's.
034. Domino's Pizza They were great when they were the only pizza delivery in town, but now, not so much.
035. Dunkin Donuts The suck-it-up-and-deal spot, since Krispy Kreme closed virtually all its shops in the area. :(
036. Eat 'n Park
037. El Pollo Loco
038. Fatburger
039. Fosters Freeze OMGs! My mom used to take my brother and I here every week, when we still lived in Los Angeles!
040. Fox's Pizza Den
041. Frisch's Big Boy
042. Fuddruckers
043. Godfather's Pizza
044. Gold Star Chili
045. Golden Corral Went here while visting my parents in Hewitt. In downtown Waco there is a Jack in the Box, a KFC, a Mickey D's, a Buger King, and this place, all on the same block!
046. Hard Rock Cafe
047. Harvey's
048. HomeTown Buffet I don't have a copy of their latest email, but I think this is the same chain that own Old Country Buffet. Our local one is the best out of the four in our area, but then I DO know the owner. :)
049. Hooters
050. Houlihan's
051. Huddle House
052. Hungry Howie's
053. IHOP I loved IHOP! I was so bummed when the only one in our neck of the woods closed. :(
054. In-n-Out
055. Ivar's
056. Jack in the Box When my mom and I first moved back east, this was one of our regular haunts. There's now a gas station and a laundromat where it used to be.
057. Jamba Juice
058. Joe's Crab Shack
059. Johnny Rocket's
060. Kelsey's
061. KFC
062. Krispy Kreme
063. Krystal
064. LaRosa's
065. Little Caesar's
066. Lone Star Steakhouse
067. Long John Silver's
068. Luby's
069. Macaroni Grill
070. Marble Slab Creamery
071. Max & Erma's
072. McDonald's
073. Miami Subs Grill
074. Moe's Southwest Grill
075. Olive Garden
076. Oporto
077. Outback Steakhouse
078. Panera Bread
079. Panda Express
080. Papa John's
081. Perkins
082. P.F. Chang's
083. Planet Hollywood
084. Pizza Hut
085. Popeye's Thanks to Popeyes I now know what popcorn chicken is. I am so sad they closed. It was SO good!
086. Port of Subs
087. Quaker Steak and Lube
088. Quizno's
089. Rainforest Cafe
090. Rax
091. Red Lobster
092. Red Robin
093. Red Rooster
094. Round Table Pizza
095. Roy Rogers
096. Rubio's
097. Ruby Tuesday
098. Ryan's Family Steakhouse
099. Sbarro
100. Señor Frog's
101. Shoney's
102. Sizzler
103. Skyline Chili
104. Sonic
105. Starbucks
106. Steak 'n Shake
107. Subway
108. Sweet Tomatoes
109. T.G.I. Friday's Highly overrated, IMHO.
109. Taco Bell
112. Taco Time
113. TCBY
114. Texas Roadhouse
115. The Old Spaghetti Factory We used to go there every time we travelled to San Jose. Food was as good as a child can remember. I was more fascinated by the atmosphere. They had booths made out of bed frames and a fricken trolly car in the middle of the dining area!
116. Tim Horton's
117. Togos
118. Tony Roma's
119. Waffle House
120. Weinerschnitzel Loved their corndogs!
121. Wendy's
122. Whataburger
123. White Castle
124. Yoshinoya
125. Zaxby's

Some of my faves that aren't on the list:

Blue Ribbon BBQ
The best BBQ eva! Their Golden BBQ sauce is the only one I've tried that isn't sickenly sweet.

Boloco
Can you say big, fat, fucking burrito? I knew you could. And it's only $6.95, too! Whimps can get the smaller one for about $5.95

IChef
"Wicked Big" subs for wicked cheap, and their Proscuito Panini is to die for. Pizza's not bad, either.

Despite the immense lack of enthusiasm my f-list has been showing in regards to my desire to resurrect The Pinkish Pages, I've gone ahead and done it. ;P

I've tweaked as much as I could and have uploaded a couple of the fics from the original Pinkish Pages. Obviously I will be adding more (I think I counted 60 fics to go, for just the P. Pages). It is not officially open but I am welcoming friends to visit, test things out, and let me know their thoughts. If everything is tight, then I'll reproduce the effect in the form of The Lavender Room, using the appropriate color scheme of course.

I'd appreciate any comments be left here, so I can keep track of them easier. Also, if you are interested in contributing to the Pinkish Pages (and I know at least one of you is!) feel free to email me, using the contact link at the site, and I will set you up with an account.

I know return you to your lives.

Been busy working on both Max's and my website/blogs. We had a brief setback when an important page in the dashboards kept sending me to various error pages. After much surfing of the WordPress forums and a supprot ticket, it turned out the mere acronym "XML-PRC" was setting off alarms with DrakNet's security (they block the use of it). Jen tweaked the settings, and although she insists this didn't affect anything other than the pages containing the bad word, immediately afterward I started having issues with my permalinks.

Back at the forums I found a number of posts about the problem. Many of the responses included snarky remarks about getting a real hosting company (most of those with the problem were on Go Daddy) but the few that offered good advice said to play around with the permalink settings. Even though the posts referred to earlier versions of Wordpress, I decided to give it a try.

A Web Site Created by Babs was fairly easy. Switching it from the custom setting it mysteriously became set to after the Apache upgrade produced no results, but bumping it up to the first "pretty permalink" setting did. Max's Maxwell Pink Tells Stories required a bit more coaxing, along with a few choice words. After running through the permalink list twice it finally decided it liked the custom setting it had originally been at. *headdesk* Oddly, AWCBB will only work with permalinks containing "index.php" whereas Max's blog will only work with those that don't. I can't figure it out. At this point I don't really care as long as the stupid things work.

In the meantime I imported Babs' CookBook into WordPress and renamed it "Babs Gets Cooking." I figure now that the store is kaput, and text takes up much less space than images, I've got all the room in the world for all of my blogs. I've got a whopping 15 recipes posted if anyone wishes to check them out. I've still got my BOS to move, but that'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Back to "A Web Site Created by Babs." I was originally planning to use it as both a website and a blog but since I'd be crossposting between here and WP, and DrakNet doesn't allow XML-PRC which I need to use Semagic, I just popped in a link to InsaneJournal instead. So I no longer need a three column theme. No biggie since OmNomNom, while incredibly cute, was beginning to annoy the hell out of me with it constant shifting. Re-enter the permalink issue. Apparently some of the themes I've been testing prevent permalinks from working AT ALL, regardless of the setting. ARRRRRGGGGGH!! I've got a rather pretty one up now. It's and intermittent one, being a three column theme, but it'll do until I find another. Then I can work on actual content!

A little voice in the back of my head is telling me I should resurrect the Pinkish Pages and its Lavender Room. Yes, I know, there are tons of multi-fandom sites around now, and if I did bring them back I'd have to start from scratch, but that voice is insistent and has even pointed out that there are a number of multi-author themes available now (in addition to the fact that once I get them set up, the authors can post their own works). So. Bring back the Pinkish Pages, yay or nay?

This morning I awoke to "Happy Birthday!" emails from both InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal. Sure they were canned messages, but knowing someone took the time to create such a notification system makes me feel that both IJ and GJ actually give a fuck, unlike another journal.

I don't recall if I mentioned this before, but after searching for a calendar to incorporate my Remember the Milk to-do list into, I found Google Calendar. It's a Beta version, so it goes without saying there are the occasional glitches. Like when all of my exercise entries disappeared for a day!

Anyway, I've got my personal schedule, my exercise schedule, and schedules for the boys all in one calendar. Each one has it's own color. It is so much easier than trying to write down individual pages, and let's not forget about the paper saved! The best part is that I had my calendar under my business email but all I had to do was grant permission for my personal account to view and alter everything, so now I no longer have to keep switching between accounts several times a day!

In other news, I was bored and started reading some of the newer comments to posts made at lj_biz. They (LJ) just keep putting their foots in their mouths, don't they? Reading more of this nonsense reminded me to pull my four comms. Not that they were doing anything anyway, but it makes me feel better. I've still got two other journals to move. I really should do my writing journal tonight, before the muses convince me that I need to post something.

BTW, does anyone know why GJ and IJ both use LJ tags? I tried using an lj cut in my last post, changing it accordingly for GJ and IJ because that was the logical thing to do. Only it didn't work until I changed everything back to "lj". *is confused*