okay. as soon as I posted *sigh* yesterday, I realized that, acutally, there’s some neat stuff that us advanced folk can do. perhaps I ranted too soon.

like… you can do what I did and link to one blog within another blog. ask me how! also, you can link to anything you want and have people email you about anything you want. I feel kinda powerful. you can also tweak the crap out of any of the templates, for free! stuff isn’t locked up as I presumed. which means I don’t have to create my own stuff – I can hack someone else’s elbow grease. yay!

oh, and Melissa: they don’t host images here. you have to have to do all the work yourself. If you want to know how, I’ll make a whole blog about it — oooooh! something useful to do with myself! just for kicks, though, check out this picture of Melissa and me making fools of ourselves!

really, this isn’t so bad – it works for internet-dumb people and e-savvy people at the same time.

I shall have fun. I’m not in such a bad mood as yesterday found me, so I feel empowered – I’m on my way to getting used to this psuedo-rtf editor.

now my buddy whose name is Steve created *his* own blog-thing just because he wanted to post on mine (sensing a trend?). go look at it, folks, and make him feel squishy.

this, folks, is why I always post anonymously. because, really, it’s kind of a waste of etherspace to have people like me doing things like this. for my sister and her college-type friends, this is a great way to keep in touch, but for me… I’m thinking I’ll just do what everyone else in the world does and use it to vent about stupid things.

so, here’s my first rant.

first, all I wanted to do was post not anonymously on tomatoes, only you can’t do that unless you take some very important moments out of your life to create your *own* blog-mess. if you want to post anonymously on my blog-thinger, please, by all means, do so.

second, there’s some serious design gayness going on here… I’m not allowed to design my *own* template, but have to choose something cheesy from a list. the only relatively cool template is a homestarrunner.com-lookin’ template that Shmel and all her friends have already chosen.

third, let’s talk about how the post window thing gives the illusion of being *both* an rtf editor *and* a place to put REAL html. I would just like to say that I had some interesting times figuring out how to make this work and make sense. I would like to think that I’m not stupid, but this thing is making me feel dumb.

so… there. I now have a username.