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Eileen - Day #279 - Saturday
 Daily intake goals::  < 35g carbs / < 1700 calories / > 64+ oz. water
Exercise yesterday::  nada.  zip.  none.
Net carb grams yesterday:  29.3      Calories:  1187
Weight today:  238.4     Change:  +1.0    Total weight loss:  -46.8
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Delita, you were exactly right.

We finished the federal report on time - it had to be submitted electronically by 4:30 pm yesterday - and then as soon as I had something to eat, I took a long nap.  Like really long.  Like an on-and-off-all-evening-long-kinda-long.  I needed the rest though, because the night before (Thursday night) I was up working on the report until past 5:00 in the morning and then got a couple hours of sleep on my office floor!  I didn’t want to go home to my bed because I was afraid I’d sleep in past noon or something, LOL.  I’ve been known to do that - I’m a pretty heavy sleeper.

Anyway, I was up and back at my desk by 10 am and ended up clicking on “Submit” at about 3:50 pm.  Ahhhhhh what a relief to have that done!

In between working on this report, this week I’ve been having email conversations with a nice young man in England.  Ha!  I put a job out there on rent-a-coder, a place where you can request bids on computer-programming-related tasks.  I really really want that stars table on the W8C site to work automatically!!!  Some folks seem to have no trouble at all updating and uploading their stars but others have nothing but trouble with it - and the thing is - it should be able to be automatic!  Everyone enters their daily stars on their personal page and then on the group page it should just *poof!* show everyone’s totals and display the proper graphic to go with it!  It should!  I just have no idea HOW to make that happen!! 

ARRRGGGHHH it’s so frustrating for me to not be able to figure something out!!  I have gone through a couple PHP tutorials and hit I-don’t-know-how-many PHP message boards looking for the answer to “how the hell do I do this?!?” and no matter what I try, it doesn’t come out right.  One of our 3FC chickies here, whitters, had offered to help me with the site but she came down with the flu and hasn’t been feeling well so I didn’t want to impose on her right now.  So I finally conceded defeat - and put a job out there on the rent-a-coder site.

I got nine bids for the job, and interestingly, some were from the U.S. but some were also from other places; Romania, Australia, and Somalia.  And the first bid I got was from this guy in England.  He asked for more details and so I gave him the url for the site and he actually went there and tested it out and tried the uploading stars thing for himself.  (If anyone noticed “testlukas” on there, that was him.)  I was impressed that he went to so much trouble to understand exactly what I wanted and so I told him, okay, I’m gonna accept your bid if you’re good with these terms, blah blah blah - and before he even agrees formally to the terms, he sends me a link to a “fake” site he set up - with a table that pulls the totals and loads the graphics automatically!!  Woohooo!!

He wasn’t supposed to do that, actually.  The coders are not supposed to offer a solution until a contract is in place.  And actually I don’t have the solution yet - I just saw it.  Or at least an example of it.  But I’m really excited that he - so quickly! - could have success!  Of course, he does this kinda stuff for a living, I don’t.  I’m just fumbling around in the dark, trying to find the light switch!

We still haven’t firmed up an agreement yet - he was all apologetic that he couldn’t do it over the weekend for me but he’s having friends in from London and won’t be able to actually work on this until Tuesday.  I wasn’t expecting him to do the work over the weekend anyway.

Right now I’m only paying for this one little change to my little newbie site.  I have lots of ideas for it (and whitters said that she had some ideas too) and so for those of you who are hanging with me I’m hoping that we see some cool improvements soon!  =D

I know y’all have noticed that the site has Google ads all over it.  I just want y’all to know that I don’t have any thoughts that I’m gonna get rich off this thing!  I just wanted to have the capability of perhaps the site paying for itself someday.  I don’t expect any of my 3FC chickie-friends to click on any of ‘em - just ignore the ads (just like we do here on 3FC LOL!)

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