Sometimes I hate Rogers.

Rogers (my cable/Internet provider) has been doing maintenance in the middle of the night recently, so I'm still not caught up. The last two nights my net access has gone down around 2 in the morning and hasn't come back up until sometime after I've decided to go to bed. Eventually I'll be caught up...

Last night's C# class was short - we covered loops (while, do while, for), and both carynb and I were finished the exercises by about 8:30 and were able to get out early, so I was in home in time for House (which was a rerun anyway) and Boston Legal.

The latter was interesting as usual, as Alan's case involved his defending Jerry Espenson for having fired a Scientologist employee. His speeches about the whackiness of that particular religion were rather good - he even dredged up the L. Ron Hubbard quote about how if a man wanted to become rich, all he had to do was invent a religion. I was a little surprised that nobody except Sally took offense at the idea of comparing Scientology to Christianity, though. (I was a little surprised to see Sally back. I guess Lake Bell needed a gig after Surface was cancelled.)

And I realize that I'm not the best arbiter of female beauty, but why do all the men go ga-ga over Sally? I don't think she's that pretty, to be honest. Can one of my straight male friends who watches the show explain that for me?

The murder trial took a bit of a left turn with the revelation that ( cut for spoilers )

. I'm sorry that David Kelley didn't write this story so that Paul Lewiston was part of the defense team - I know Paul doesn't generally appear in court (I'm not even sure what his area of legal specialty is - he seems more like a manager than a lawyer), but it would have been delicious, from a fannish point of view, to have him cross-examining both Judge Hooper and Michael Schiller. I mean, Rene Auberjonois up against both Armin Shimerman and Ethan Phillips? How could you pass up that opportunity, David? *grin*

After watching BL, I watched this past Sunday's episode of Desperate Housewives that I had missed. I did a bit of a double-take at the opening, describing Edward Sibley, the founder of Fairview. You see, I had a (now deceased) uncle by that name who lived in California... San Luis Obispo, to be precise.

Bree's naivete about what Andrew had been up to was funny, though a little far-fetched. ("Are you saying he did something he wasn't proud of while he was living on the streets? Like what, yard work?" Come on, Bree. You threw your gay son out of the house, driving him out to the middle of nowhere and abandoning him, and a locally known, married doctor panicked when he saw him. Put two and two together already.)

The other storylines weren't as compelling - Susan was her usual ditzy self, Edie was conniving as usual (and her deception is going to bite her on the ass later), Lynette and Tom's storyline didn't really go anywhere, and frankly, I'm kind of bored with the Gabrielle/Carlos storyline. I think I missed something, though - IMDb lists Ryan Carnes (Justin - Andrew's boyfriend) and Josh Henderson (Edie's nephew Austin) as having been in the episode, and I don't recall seeing either of them.

Anyway, it's about time to start thinking about dinner since tonight's class is supposed to start at 6:15 (if the instructor shows up on time). And I want to try to get there a little early so that I can copy Monday's assignment from my personal webspace to my school account. And I still can't find the mail I was supposed to have received with my password to the website for the class, so I have to go by Student Services.

This whole eating-dinner-at-5 thing is weird. Fortunately I have leftover Hamburger Helper from last night...

School update.

I got home from tonight's Internet Scripting Languages class around 10:20. We covered Cascading Style Sheets tonight - now, I knew what they were, and I could even figure out what they did (thanks mostly to dx4 and my work on the TT19 website :) ), but I never really understood them until tonight. Woot!

I was able to complete the last part of the lab exercise that was given out on Monday night (I had finished most of it after getting home Monday night, but the CSS part hadn't been officially assigned yet), though I had a couple of weird bugs that I had to ask for help with. One was particularly strange, as it involved one of my pages not showing up in the assigned frame, but rather displaying on a new page all on its lonesome. I say that's strange because until I implemented the style sheet, it had worked correctly.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to fit the entirety of the table onto the page - it's supposed to be a table listing five books, their ISBN numbers, authors, edition information and price, displayed in a non-scrollable frame. But only three of the rows in my table can actually fit into the frame. I'm sure it's a simple fix - and then I can play around with background images for the page. :)