Tonight, Ricky, Tammy and I went to Johnny Ray’s. I hadn’t had barbecue for a few weeks, so I was in a BBQ mood. It was as good as I’d hoped. Johnny Ray’s has just about the best onion rings in the world, I’d have to say.
Now, I’m hoping that I can fall asleep quickly enough to let me get a decent amount of sleep before the soccer game at 6 tomorrow morning.
It took the better part of a night and quite a few mistakes along the way to get there, but I think that I’ve got Movable Type working pretty well now.
You might notice that there are a couple of new features on the site with this content management system. The first is the addition of topics to the entries. At the end of every entry, you’ll see the category I chose to put that particular entry into. Clicking that link will take you to all the entries I’ve ever done that fit in that topic. (Needless to say, it wasn’t very much fun going through all the old entries and classifying them, but we care about our readers here at pressing on. 🙂 ) I still haven’t gotten them all exactly where I want them, because I haven’t made all the categories that I think I need. But the ones that I have now will work well enough for the time being. Eventually, I’ll put the category list on the front page for all to use, but I’m just too tired right now. If you’d like to see the ones that I’ve got right now, head over to the archives; a listing is located there.
Another feature is the pop-up window that you’ll get if you click on the comments link for each entry. This is just a quicker way to see the comments of an entry if you’ve already read the entry itself. You can also leave comments that way.
So everyone enjoy…
It appears that the DNS are propagating pretty quickly; according to our referrer logs, we’re already getting a decent amount of traffic. So things should be just about back to normal within another day or so.
I had to spend a lot of time tonight with greymatter to get all of the pages working (both in design and validity), but I believe that everything’s just about back to normal. Of course, if something doesn’t appear to be working correctly, please let me know.
The next step in all of this will be a switching of content management systems. Greymatter’s served me well, but I think that I’m about to make the leap to Movable Type because it’s got some features that I like that Greymatter doesn’t, such as categories for entries. We’ll play with that eventually. For now, I’m just glad that the site seems to be up and working properly…
What on earth am I doing up at this time of day? Scoring one for foolish optimism. We’re in the final eight in the World Cup now…does that officially make us a soccer nation?
I saw Scott and Kelley Shirley yesterday at church, and went over to their house for lunch. Kudos to Scott on his great grilled chicken.
Work on my “masterpiece” (snicker) continues; I’m in the midst of chapter eight right now. Most of my work has been spent fleshing out characters and locations. I’ve gotten the feeling that this is going to take a little longer to complete than I thought it would. Writing is not easy. I know that I’ll go back through this first draft, once I eventually get it down, and tear it apart. But it’s fun, a way to pass time, and it’s a new experience. I haven’t really attempted a story of this length before.
In response to Ginny’s June 9th question, I definitely have. And I believe that things would be very different had I not gone to Alabama.
Yesterday I did one of the dumber things I’ve done in quite a while. Unwittingly, I deleted my entire bookmarks file, including links to articles that I have no earthly idea of the actual address of. So for a couple of hours yesterday, I was engrossed in reconstructing my entire set of bookmarks.
That’s right, kids…I’ll be teaching computer science one day!
I stayed up until about 6:30 this morning. Some of you may understand why, but for those who don’t, here’s a clue: we shocked the world last night. It was one of the most amazing things I’d seen in all of sports. When we went up 3-0, I almost gave my brother-in-law a call down in Florida, just to have one of those special sports-related conversations that go something like this:
“Are you believing this?”
“No…”
“Me neither. Okay, bye.”
I knew he’d be up anyway.
Now, if only my Red Wings had won last night, it would have turned out perfect…
Mozilla 1.0 is out. I haven’t downloaded it yet, but I will very shortly. Probably after I finish writing this up. I’ve been looking forward to the finished product for over two years now…for Netscape users, that means that version 7 should be coming out very soon…
Saturday, I went over to Ricky and Tammy’s place. Bobby had come up from Orlando, so I got to see him too. We ended up grilling out, and it turned out great, save the mosquitoes, and the “bug repellent” that Tammy gave me to put on. I got to grill for the first time in at least a couple of years, and the burgers I did turned out pretty good. So did the sausages Ricky did. He intended to cook eight pieces, but nearly had nine after a mishap with the knife.
Afterward, the four of us ended up going to O. Henry’s, a coffee house in Homewood. Some friends of the other three were there. I had met a couple of them before at Ricky and Tammy’s wedding. We worked on a crossword puzzle, and if my memory serves correctly, got everything except a couple of letters. I also earned a nickname from people I may never see again – “slewed” – from the crossword clue “turned on a pivot”. It fit in with all the other clues that we had, and hey, at least it was right…
Yesterday, I didn’t feel very good. It might have had something to do with the fact that it was 80 degrees inside the house, and the air conditioner never wanted to come on. I spent the majority of the day with two fans blowing on me.
I finally got over my writer’s block, and have the first three or so chapters of my “great American novel” (yeah, right) completed. Well, the first incarnation of it, anyway, as I think that they need to be fleshed out some more. I’m not crazy about unecessary exposition, but at the same time I don’t want to leave any part of the story untold. It’s more of a fine line than I had thought it would be. I do like the way that the story’s progressing thus far, and the research that I’ve done for it has proven interesting, to say the least. More to come.
Drat. A long time ago, I wrote about the tyranny of the blank screen. Now I’m getting it in printed form. Or lack thereof. I’ve done a lot of background work on my project, but I can’t get it started the way I want to. Hopefully, I’ll get past the writer’s block soon.
Does the winner of the National Spelling Bee really belong on espn.com? For that matter, should the event be televised (live, even) on ESPN? I could see this back in the day, like in 1979, when it would probably have fit in well with stuff like roller derby. But now, it’s just not right. Nothing against the spelling bee. But it’s not a sport, people. Someone at ESPN should have had some prospicience concerning this…
A new insane thought.
If hot cross buns are “one a penny, two a penny”, who in their right mind would buy one bun? Just explain it to me, and I’ll be happy.