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It's the classic Statler Brothers song. I found the bulk of this on the net, but touched it up a bit with the G / D switches.

   Key of D

   (Chorus)
       D         Bm          G        A7     D
   Oh Elizabeth,   I long to see your pretty face.
                              Bm          G         A7     D
   I long to touch your lips,   I long to feel your warm embrace.
                              D7               G        Em7 (Em works too)
   Don't know if I could ever live my life without you,
       D         A7               D   G   D
   Oh Elizabeth, I'm sure missing you.

       G              A7              G  D
   I remember when we shared a life together.
                                                          A7
   You gave me strength and love and life that felt brand new.
                 G           A7              G       D
   But you're so far away, I have to say I'm feeling blue.
   G  D          A7                 D   G   D
   Oh Elizabeth,   I'm sure missing you.       (Chorus)

                  G                A7               G    D
   Well it's been said before that I've caused many heartaches,
                                       A7
   And I wonder, if that part's really true.
         G                  A7                  G      D
   Being right or wrong, it feels my heart will surely break,
   G  D          A7                D     G     D
   Oh Elizabeth,   I hope you understand.      (Chorus)

                              D7               G        Em7
   Don't know if I could ever live my life without you,
       D         A7               D   G   D
   Oh Elizabeth, I'm sure missing you.

      D      A7  D
   Oh Eliz - a - beth.

If you're rusty on some of the chords like me, I found hobby-hour quite useful.

I was chatting with an elderly couple in the doctor's waiting room this afternoon, talking about the weather, the warmth, and the upcoming maple syrup festival.

I mentioned that the festival day was earlier this year, and they agreed. It's usually near the beginning of April.

The gentleman mentioned (conversation paraphrased), "as long as they don't postpone it."

"Oh, they do that sometimes?"

"Oh yes, if the weather's bad."

"When was the last time they postponed it?"

The man thought a while and then turned to his wife: "When did they postpone it last?"

She replied, "oh.... when did Adrianne move?"

She thought a little while, and then said, "maybe 78? 79?"

This was a surprise to me. 1979! No wonder I hadn't remembered any such thing.

A number of thoughts occurred to me. Isn't it amazing how certain dates seem like yesterday to us, even though time still keeps marching on? The year 1990 still seems like recent history to me, but it is 20 years ago. Surely, the year 1978 must have seemed like recent history to this couple.

And second: I can just imagine the shock of taking the time and trouble of going to the maple syrup festival, in bad weather no less, only to find that it had been postponed. Assuming that had happened to this couple, I can understand why such a memory would not be soon forgotten!

Moral of the story: keep your party dates fixed, and remember to live in the present.

I've been working on my blog, and a bit on chronicle lately. I sent some patches to Steve Kemp to speed up cached blog operation. On my poor little PII, it reduced the build time from 2min 4sec when uncached to 9sec when cached. Much better. Previous difference was about 2 min uncached, 1 min cached.

I also need to tweak the CSS for this site. I like the default layout more than the rest, but there were some items that just didn't work for me.

One was that the date was on a line of its own. Since everything is HTML templates and CSS, I thought this would be easy. But obviously I'm rusty on my CSS!

So, boiled down, my problem was:

	<div class="container">
		<div class="element1">...<div>
		<div class="element2">...<div>
	<div>

If I make element1 to float left, and 2 to float right, then the container suddenly decides that it doesn't "contain" anything anymore, and the elements overflow the small container div, making it disappear.

There were two ways to fix this:

1) Add an empty clearing div:

	<div class="container">
		<div class="element1">...<div>
		<div class="element2">...<div>
		<div style="clear: both;"><div>
	<div>

This now expands the container to the bottom of both elements.

or,

2) Use the automatic overflow mode in the container:

	# css
	.container { overflow: auto; }

	<div class="container">
		<div class="element1">...<div>
		<div class="element2">...<div>
	<div>

Thanks to the kind folks on freenode's #css channel for pointing me to the following sites:

• http://phrogz.net/css/understandingfloats.html (very good!)
• http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/