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I recently discovered something terribly wrong with the world: Most people are not capable of viewing my web pages the way I intended them to be seen. This is, of course, a heinous act of stupidity on my part, to which I will reluctantly admit. That swallowing you hear isn’t some warped midi file, it’s my pride going down the tube.
It wasn’t that I was always unaware of the font thing. The first pages I made were carefully constructed to accommodate everyone, and so I had listed on each page a couple of fonts that would please even the most fontally impaired. But somewhere along the line I acquired a bunch of fonts and consequently began seeing brilliance in the web where there was only banality before. Then I got more fonts and I started going crazy imagining the possibilities.
This is when I forgot that not everyone sees the same way.
Believe me - my pages look a lot better than you think. And I’m generally pissed off that you can’t ever know that until the brilliant minds corralled in cubicles come up with a quick and easy way to embed fonts. For now, I’m re-tooling everything I’ve done recently, including this journal, in hopes that it will at least look similar to most folks. *pout*
Man! What a pain in the ass!!
Time passes and I just sit in front of the computer, feeling like crap.
I was gonna stop talking about this above, but see, I feel a tad disappointed that none of the people who know me well mentioned that things didn’t look right. Maybe they didn’t want to hurt my feelings? Probably. Or, maybe it’s not that bad and no one noticed. It’s possible, but I can’t imagine everything lining up correctly. Some of those fonts are wild. In short, I guess this feels like having food stuck to the side of your face: everyone knows but no one wants to be the one to tell you. Instead, they all thought I was just INEPT, when in reality I’m just stupid. OK, so I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. How’s forgetful? Yeah, or even better: caught up in the excitement of the possibilities and overlooked a minor consideration. Yeah I’m a visionary and it’s people like me that make life better for everyone. Hahahaha! I’m a regular Walt Disney.
No, I haven’t been drinking.
But I did have two pop tarts earlier. Haven’t eaten one of those things in years and it took two of them to remind me why. I remember when they first arrived on the market. Can’t remember how old I was but I was real young. Of course I wanted to have a bunch, and my mom indulged me. Mmm, processed food. So pink it’s plastic!
Yesterday we spent the entire day with Dave’s long lost friend Dale. They haven’t seen each other in six years and a few weeks ago we get this email from him saying that he’ll be in town. Korea has weird karma for this sort of thing. Last May, another friend of his that he hadn’t seen in something like seven or eight years came to Seoul too. They had a mini-reunion. Then a guy I hadn’t seen since high school gets stationed over here in the Army. Weird.
It was interesting to meet someone from Dave’s past. I enjoy watching how at ease he is with old friends and it’s good to hear him laugh the laugh of a guy in the company of an old partying buddy. It’s not a laugh that is expressed for me.
Mary is coming in to town tomorrow for a two week visit. I’ve been gearing up since before my trip to Seattle in September, and now I’m starting to feel anti-climactic even before she arrives. I realize I’ve spent so much time in preparing that the actual two weeks will just fly by and she’ll be gone. And I’ll be left with just my computer to occupy my days. I’m worrying that I won’t be able to find enough things to do that will impress her. There are the palaces and the markets of course, but after awhile they all start to look alike and you realize that there is a remarkable lack of diversity in all things here.
But, there is NOTHING like an asian city at night. She’ll like that.
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