I’ve been playing with CSS recently for a side project, BikeAlive. It’s interesting, although the CSS differences between IE and Firefox are just plain stupid. Microsoft is an asshole for putting people in this situation methinks. The desktop publishing aspects, and being able to talk to my Mom about them were interesting. Eventually I figured out that IE ignores margin-top in a div element, but will respect padding-top. Making the change fixed my layout issues.

I watched Son of Rambow tonight. It was cute. I found The Brethren interesting, insomuch that I’ve been thinking lately about right and wrong on a deeper level than previously. After a long hard breakup some time ago I spent a while recovering and contemplating how one decides what’s right and the balance issues with trusting the opinion on specifics of someone you care about. I’ve since come to terms with the fact that there is only a socially accepted right and wrong that comes from compromise and agreement, but not necessarily fact.

Mom is here, and as she meets more people I see anew the reactions of my friends when they see that they can be themselves around my mother and she’s not going to huff or chastise them for their choices. I talked to Matthew yesterday about age a little bit, and he’s commented a couple times about how after a certain point, we’re all adults. Developmentally (social), I think our growth generally slows at some point in our early twenties. I’d be reluctant to advertise ourselves as all being adults, but that’s a product of my definition of being an adult probably requiring more compassion, patience, and thought than you get from the unculled masses.

Brush my teeth, I’ve got letters to mail.