I've "discovered" some wonderful things about flash. The first is object drawing, which converts the things you paint into objects automatically. This has helped greatly in terms of me having to dissect paint strokes later on, as now they'll only combine if I purposefully break them down in order to allow them to do so. after which, i'll usually make them into groups again. I never much used groups, but now i'm finding them to be wonderful. Now that i have these discrete items, i can arange them on a z-axis without dealing with such a ridiculous number of layers. I looked back on my first episode to extract a pair of goggles I had drawn in there, and was amazed by how complex I had made it. It's nice to see that I've been simplifying.

I've gone on to learn quite a bit about CSS (before, I could kind of change some colors, etc. in pre-written code, but I had no real idea of what I was working with). With the possible exception of the navigation bar, it looks like my site will be more or less entirely layed out with CSS. This is fantastic, as I generally hate tables. However, I think studying CSS and PHP on top of each other like that is getting me a little muddled in sorting out the two. Hopefully, I'll get it together when I'm all done with the site design.

I've decided to use the Comikaze comic manager. It will make my life 8 million times easier. I won't be able to do everything exactly as I wanted to, but I'll be a lot better off. One day I can tinker with the manager itself, I guess, but that day will be a long time coming.

Using shirt cardboard and extra gaffing tape, I've constructed a "hat" for my computer, which blocks the sun from getting in my eyes and glaring all over the computer while letting my little cacti get sunlight. My only other alternative is to close the shade, but that's a bummer, especially for the cacti.

I've been completely Red Bull-free this semester. Also, I dripped some coffee or cocoa on the new carpet, so I'm not allowed to have any in my room anymore. Not having caffeine at my hand has made working a bit more difficult. However, today I had no caffeine whatsoever, and I've been more productive than usual. Go figure.