So Sunday was my birthday, and it was decided to have a deck party at Dede’s house.
Big thanks to her and Alex, from Tienda el Progresso, who supplied the food for the event.
Alex made me a special batch of Chicken Pozole, and a large peach/pineapple Tres Leches Cake. I also scored 32 oz of Salsa Verde and Salsa Rojo from there.
I made Queso, Bean dip, and about 13 gallons of Sangria.
A pinata was pummeled, and Marc Laney, Merl, and Dirty Allie laid down some tracks.
Thanks to everyone who showed up and celebrated with me ! Jill took lots of photos, which I still haven’t looked through !
recently upgraded wordpress to version 2… it’s pretty damned cool… lots of neat new features that i have yet to check out…. hopefully all my crosslinking will continue to work.
just upgraded my virtual server to be a dedicated server. now i have 100 gigs free on the webserver. hosting lots of different sites now.
i’ve currently got some extra space on my server for anyone that’s needing to host their website.
it’s a linux server with php, mysql, perl, gallery2, and shell access.
contact me if you’re interested or would like to find out rates.
I just updated the gallery software running on zenandjuice.com (URL: http://zenandjuice.com/gallery/).
If anyone had user galleries there previously, everything should be transferred over and updated to the new format. Let me know if there’s any problems.
i’ve been noticing a major amount of sluggishness on the domains that I host on my webserver recently.
finally tracked down some of the problems – linking to images on my site from places all over the internet. apparently people loooooove to put them in their sigs on forums and such.
so i starting playing with the apache mod_rewrite command and only allow referers (apache misspelling) from zenandjuice.com and livejournal.com since that’s where I intend my blog images to be seen.
so far, I haven’t implemented it site-wide (just in specific image folders), but I’m keeping a real-time watch on my log files to see how much stuff is stolen from elsewhere on my site.
those that do link to my images get redirected to this graphic: 
to get me electronically on my telephone:
email: phone@zenandjuice.com
or via AIM: my screenname is zenandmobile
this was my second choice for new glasses:
My new glasses – Lindberg Air Titaniums from Edwards Optical in Rogers:
and now me in them:
I should receive them in 4-6 weeks. The frames have to be shipped from Denmark, and the lenses are hand polished.
zenandjuice.com (zenandjuice.com/) is 4 years old today.
I’ve had websites up on various domains since 09/1994, but I actually registered my primary domain 4 years ago today.