The bullets are done using HTML. It’s called an Unordered List (UL). To start a bulleted list, you begin with the <UL> tag:
<UL>
To add an item to your list, you use the <LI> tag (List Item). This tag tells the web browser to put a line break in and add a bullet mark before the text.
To make “well-formed HTML,” you should always close your tags. Always. Even though most browsers won’t break if you don’t close a list bullet tag, it’s good practice. To close any tag, you type a forward slash, followed by the tag name: </LI>
So, if you want to make a list of your “ideal guy,” and three of the items on your list are that he’s caring, sexy, and has a really great butt, you would write:
<UL>
<LI>caring</LI>
<LI>sexy</LI>
<LI>great butt</LI>
</UL>
Note that I added the </UL> closing tag at the end. Although most browsers won’t break if you forget to close the <LI> tag, they will have a problem if you forget to close the <UL> tag.
There’s also an Ordered List <OL> tag that uses numbers instead of bullets. Each time a new <LI> item is added to the list, it puts in the next number up.
For more on making lists in HTML, and using styles to make them really spiffy, see http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp, and make sure you check out the “Nested Lists” link and the “Different Types of Unordered Lists” link at the bottom of the page. Because this is a really cool looking list:
- sexy voice
- good appearance:
- nice butt
- soft hair, preferably long
- green eyes
- caring
- loves to read
- smart, but not too much smarter than me
- shares my interests and background
If anyone is worried about lil ol’ me, travelling out to the Maryland Beltway to taunt snipers, please remember that (a) if bad shit’s gonna happen to me, it’s gonna happen, whether I’m standing in front of a sniper bullet or not, and (b) the sniper takes weekends off.
You think he’s a weekend dad or something? I thought he might be, but then he killed someone Monday, when the kid would probably be off school and visiting. Of course, it was an evening shooting, so maybe he tagged the victim after his visit was over. Let’s see. . . .
To do list:
- Get up.
- Make pancakes.
- Get kids dressed.
- Get dressed.
- Take kids to National Zoo - pandas.
- Watch Monsters, Inc. DVD. Again.
- Drop kids off at their mom’s house.
- Drop unsuspecting victim at 100+ yards.
- Pick up eggs and coffee on way home.
Oh, and John’s pet theory for the mysterious white van. You know, the one that keeps changing description (first it’s like a bread truck, then it’s an Astro Minivan)? John’s theory is that more than 1 in 10 over-sized vehicles (SUVs, vans, minivans, trucks) is white. The shooter just sits and waits for a white van or truck to be nearby, and then he takes his shot.
After all, what’s the likelihood that someone will be pulling out of a driveway in a white van just moments after he shoots?
I think this is a really smart theory, frankly. I hope the Maryland police read my journal and consider this idea. After all, the sniper is a really smart guy. My husband John is a really smart guy, but he hasn’t been near Maryland or D.C. area, and he doesn’t take weekends off, so I know it can’t be him. They should send really smart guys after this really smart sniper.
And even though I don’t believe his theory, John has another one, at least in terms of the perfect cover:
the sniper might be a woman.
So, I called my best friend today to find out when the memorial service was. She had told me it would be the 17th or the 20th of “next month,” which I thought meant November.
Stupid me. I should have realized that her brain was still parked solidly in September, the last month her mother was still alive.
So, the memorial service is this weekend. I am going to Washington, D.C., right in the middle of sniper season. Whee. I’ll be staying at my uncle’s house, and taking the Metro, which is fairly safe. I only worry a little bit about getting to Gordon’s on Friday night– my flight lands at 10:45, and that’s pretty late in the evening.
I leave Sunday, very early. My tickets are costing me $350 for the trip, so while I wish I could be there longer, I’m grateful they were so cheap. The next price up is $400– that extra $50 is souvenir and eating money.
I think I have time to visit one place on Saturday during the day. I’ve done the major U.S. landmarks, some of them more than once, so it’s not a “If you could only visit one place in D.C. in your lifetime. . . .” kind of thing. More like “If you could only visit one on this trip. . . .” And I was so profoundly moved by the Holocaust Memorial Museum on my last trip, I probably don’t need to go there this time. The service is in Bethesda, MD, so I won’t even have all that much time on Saturday. But, hopefully, enough.
Any suggestions? I promise to take pictures and post them when I get back.
