I love this picture. I was thinking of putting it up there in my header because the spray can colors sort of make it seem as if I painted the 'Shari's Blog' title with them. I put it up there for a minute to see how it looked and my son, Dylan, thought it didn't quite look right, because it threw things off balance, putting the title to the right rather than being in the center like it is now. I may still insert it up there, but make it smaller. We'll see. I think I am always hesitant to make permanent changes, because I like to leave much of myself (on display) undefined....without constraint....limitless...ever changing... The great thing about having a blog though, is the fact that nothing has to permanent. I could leave it there for a day or a year. :)

Valuable Lesson Of The Day

Get written contracts... never verbal.

Although verbal contracts are supposed to be legally binding...

And you have, as evidence, a recorded voicemail in which the defendant admits three times in it that he "knows he committed to you, but now has a tight budget and can't turn a blind eye to an unforeseen better deal ."

And a written transcript of the voicemail.

Apparently, when you have court at 9:00 PM with a harried female judge who receives not one, but two calls in the courtroom from her home during the trial... "I know...I'm hurrying. I'll be home soon. I'm on a drywall case." Obviously not giving full attention to the message and only glancing at the transcript, well, verbal contracts just aren't what they're cracked up to be.

First Day Of Fall !











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With all the extra focus on visual details on my blog today, (see post below) I just noticed that this very day, September 6, 2008, marks the 3 year anniversary of this blog.

Wow!

It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. My cute little butterfly that I've had on this blog since the beginning is...is...is...just...*sniff*...somehow...has just gone away. If you don't remember my butterfly, well, it was a unique little animated sitemeter/statcounter that floated around my blog, just hanging out, counting my visitors. It made me happy (it's the little things). It always fluttered about quite naturally and seemed to consciously take in whatever post or picture it temporarily landed on.
Somehow it felt like it kept my blog company when I wasn't here, and was always hanging around here to greet me and others stopping by. I had even written tongue in cheek over on my sidebar, "does anyone see a butterfly flying...?" Well, today something seemed different here. Off.
What was it? Finally it hit me. I looked in my template area and saw everything was as it should be. Saw the code and the URL (softwarewings.com) that I had gotten it from, but it wasn't working on here anymore. How long had it been missing? I tried going to the site itself and it no longer exists. *sigh* Searched on Google to no avail. I felt that I had to acknowledge my little friend on here....and say farewell. Maybe it won't be forever. I still have hope.