I Learned A Little HTML!

Thanks to a wonderful Wandering One I've learned a little HTML code! THanks to this same person, I've updated my signature line on the boards, and almost did the table completely by myself. The table is what allowed me to have the two drop down boxes side by side! I've even managed to update them and moved a former WIP to the 2004 finished box! For someone who is totally computer illiterate, with the exception of packages designed for end users, I'm ecstatic that I was able to accomplish this!

I'm thinking I want to learn a little more HTML so that I really know what I'm doing enough to update and change the appearance of this blog better than I do now.

As far as other news is concerned, DS had his parent teacher conference earlier this week, and I got a greeat compliment from one of his teachers! He's been having trouble in school with keeping his mouth shut and regularly gets in trouble for talking in class. I've told him that if he can go a week without talking, I'd take him out for lunch (or cater it in). Well he hasn't quite made it yet, but his teachers have noticed a great improvement in his behavior over the past few weeks. So they told me that whatever I was doing at home was working! DD is back to school after a few days off to help me around the house. She started back at it yesterday, and that was tough getting her back into the swing of school, but we survived it, and she's back on track this morning! DH just got back from a week in Florida last night, and I ask you all to keep us in your prayers for wisdom and discernment over the next few weeks as we face some new challenges. I'm stitching fairly regularly again, and loving it, as a matter of fact, I have an hour of stitching scheduled for later this morning!

Overall, we are all happy and healthy, so I really can't complain!

Boards

There are many cross stitch ezboards available for those of us who wish to discuss our favorite hobby in the online community. These boards range from designer sponsored, strictly stitching boards to primarily chat boards and cover a wide variety in between. There are boards whose primary political bent is conservative and those whose political leaning is liberal and all points of the spectrum in between.

This post is not about the politics of any board, or even politics in general. This is more about the character and attitude of the various boards in general. THere are boards that I feel very comfortable posting at and participating on, whereas others are not as comfortable and then there is one in particular where I have lurked as anonymous, due to my desiring to read a particular event that is occurring where that board is involved, however, I would never post there, or even admit to lurking due to the general nature of the board. I do not enjoy being associated with boards where people are negative and bashing other people, or where people are generally insipidly silly.

I also have severely limited my posting on another board where it has appeared that posts or threads have disappeared when people disagree or criticize the thread's origiantor. This board I have almost completely abandoned posting at, since I do not believe that anyone should delete a thread simply because some one else's opinion differs from your own and it is blatently stated.

Rather than make a statement on this board, I have simply elected to terminante my relationship with the board. This is my perogative, and no-one appears to miss me there too much, so I'm not losing any sleep over it. I have better things to do with my time than to worry over whether people on a board miss me at all. My DD and DS are very active children and I am constantly running them around. My DH is a very busy man, and does as much as he can, but still most of the extra-curricular activities fall on my shoulders. I have my friends and the people that I care about and those are the ones that I keep in contact with, either through the boards, e-mail or IM. Otherwise, I am not worried about it. This was simply a topic that was on my heart and I felt I needed to share it with the world.

So if you've missed seeing me around certain boards, then its probably that I needed a "time-out" from them. I'm still around breathing and stitching every spare minute I can get!