www.chrisdarbro.com - Chris Darbro

Grr. It’s kinda tough being me sometimes. Ever since I was roughly starting out high school or so, people/friends have often turned to me for advice, or when they need to talk about things. I’ve never figured out the rhyme or reason behind it. Maybe I’m a good listener, good to bounce things off of, I dont know. It’s flattering though, and im not one to ever not lend a hand to someone in need, so I always be that ‘go-to’ guy. I dont mind it. I like helping anyone, especially my friends, out in anyway I can. It just has some tough responsibilities that go with it. I’m always pretty honest about my thoughts when people come to me with something. and there’s where it starts to get messy. I sometimes have to tell people things they dont want to hear, and things that some might even take the wrong way or hate me for. It sucks. but I do it. I know im not helping at all by trying to be nice and lying or anything, so I dont. But sticking to what I believe about something someone asks me just kinda sucks. They might come to me for advice, hoping I’ll say one thing, and I have to say the other because I believe it to be the truth. But I say it because I know it’s for the best, and so far, 99% of the time, it always has been. which brings me to the next part of it:

The “I told you so.” I hate those. they happen constantly. Someone asks me about a problem, I tell them something they dont want to hear, but they wait, and the thing I say usually happens, and they come back and say ‘oh you were totally right’ , etc. I always want to jump in their face and exclaim “ha! TOLD YOU SO!” but I cant. I know it’ll hurt them if I ever did, and whatever problem they come to me with is usually bad enough for them to deal with in the first place. So why have I continued to do this for so many years if it’s such a lose-lose situation? I just like to help people, especially my friends.Helping someone in their time of need just means a lot to me. meh, I dont know. I just wanted to vent today, about how frustrating it is having to tell your friends the way things are or the truth, even when they dont want to hear it or might hate ya for it, even though you know it’s right. Im sure many of us have been in the same situations from time to time. meh. just wanted to vent to myself a little. hehe.

Anyway, nothing else too exciting going on. I did go to the rocky point haunted house last night with a friend, it was a blast. haunted houses are always good times, especially if you’re with a girl that scares easily. haha. alright, im out.

So, another new year’s resolution for 2005 in the bag: Re-do the site. This new look has a much cleaner look I think, among many other improvements and additions. For example, there’s the ‘quote of the day’ and ‘word of the day’ up top, which are awesomely cool in my opinion. My homepage everyday is set to give me a word of the day and a quote of the day, I like to learn something new every day, so I while Im at it I add a new word to my vocabulary and a quote to relate to something in life with. I figured it’d be neato if I could do the same with the site. Every day there will be a new quote and word. Neat-O!

I think everything has a much cleaner look to it as well, it’s definatly an improvement on the old one. Although, admittedly, the new one is made to look good at resolutions of 1024×768 or higher, any lower and the top might look messy. I figure these days most everyone should be using at least that anyway, so I figure it’s a pretty safe bet it’ll look good for most everyone. I havent tested it yet, but everyone *should* be able to leave comments on my posts as well if they so desire. You’ll also notice the ‘Archives’ are MUCH cleaner. The calendar for accessing them on the left hand side is a lot more convenient than the old way.

In addition to that, there’s also a search function on the right hand side, which im sure will come in handy if ever I say I didnt say something on here and someone wants to check and make sure and call me on it. hehe. Up top in the title bar there’s a few more random titles added as well, hopefully they provide some good laughs. Also, only 3 blog entries display on the page at a time, so at the end of the months there’s not 15 long entries making the site load slower.

But the best thing of all: the way this new one is set up, it makes it super easy for me to update from anywhere, make backups of the entries, and not have to worry about losing blog entries because of the old way I used to manage them. Speaking of, I found those missing entries I was talking about in my last post, and added them back in, so that’s all cool.

Of course, I kinda dug some aspects of the old look, so I tried to mesh that in to the new one as well, keeping much of the layout the same, the clean white look, and my old logo at the top.

Anyway, outside of that not much else going on. There’s a lot of stuff going on, and not at the same time. Its hard to explain. But for now, not much else to comment on. If any one notices any bugs or anything while using the site, get in touch with me somehow and let me know, There’s a lot of new technoligies and things Ive put into this site compared to the old static one, theres always the possibility I screwed something up somewhere that I might have missed, if so, let me know.

Small update. So, I somehow accidentally deleted my blog from may-end
of july. I was a bit pissed. No backup to be found anywhere. Crappy eh?
Anyway, I decided to go for a drive tonight, and saw some cool stuff,
and, even though all I had was a pretty crappy camera, I decided I’d
get some pics anyway. I’m currently using the pic above as my desktop
picture, I like it. Click it to see a bigger version of it, along with
a few of the other ones I took. That is all.

-Chris