Saturday already?

It was supposed to thunderstorm today but so far it's been bright and sunny. This would have made it perfect weather for me to go to the farmer's market downtown if not for the fact that my idiot town got the dates wrong. Apparently the famer's market won't be open for another month at least, even though they did a big advertising push to let people know it'd be open in June. I suppose I shouldn't complain too much though. At least this year they finally figured out that the farmer's market should be open on Saturdays. In previous years it was only on during the week, which is nice for those who work downtown and absolutely sucky for everyone else in the world.

So no produce shopping for me. Instead I shall attempt to sneak attack my way through some things I've been meaning to get around to. We shall see if I am successful.

Brain... dribbling...out... ears....

You know, finally updating your website after a scary amount of time leaving it untouched sounds like such a good idea in theory. Then you do it and after a while your eyes glaze over and your brain starts dribbling out of your ears.

Granted, part of this is due to an update that includes a total site redesign. If this was just putting up new stuff (or at least comparatively new stuff) it'd be no problem. Cut and paste into the already existing template, FTP your little heart out, jack's a donut there you go. But with the top-down redesign I keep getting caught on little fiddly crap like random places I put in old email addresses, or non-obvious links, and what have you.

On the plus side I have a program that allows for massive search and replacing, so to some extent once I've broken everything down into its new organizational level it's easy for me to zip through and replace the old template with the new one. It's just oh so brain numbing in the meanwhile.

This post brought to you by me sitting here and staring balefully at some of my early early stuff and wondering how much I or anyone else gives a crap about having it on the website. (And my sense of denial about all the stuff that hasn't even been coded to the point where I can do a massive find and replace on it, Pet and Protocol I'm looking at you.)

I need to eat. Or go for a walk. Or both.

Woot!

Got all the old stories put into the new layout! WOOOOOO!!!!!

Go me, it's my birthday, go me, it's my birthday, go me, I'm totally ignoring all the uncoded stuff I'll need to work through once I get done with the rest of the old stuff on the website, woohoo! *

In other news, the verdict on the fudge pops is that they're sort of like pudding pops but with a deeper chocolate flavor. I liked the consistancy, but if I made them again I'd use a different kind of chocolate instead of bittersweet.

Note to self: your coding will go a heck of a lot faster if you stop rereading old stories as you work.

* NOTE: Not actually my birthday. Had this been my birthday you'd have been given a month's warning so that you'd be able to buy me presents. 8)

Done! (for today anyway)

Okay, I'm calling it done for today. I updated everything on the old site that was going into the new format (including the old fics) and I made the first inroads into updating the site with new stuff. The links page is done and the graphics section is mostly done.

The only catch on the graphics section is that I'm absolutely positive that I'm missing pictures. This so sucks because I'd been waiting on updating the site to put those pics up and now I can't find all of them. So if anybody out there reading this has ever made a picture for me that is not an LJ icon (those all go into one main folder so I haven't lost those) can you take pity on a poor blonde and hook me up with a link? Either that or email it to me over at thebratqueen at livejournal dot com.

( Pictures I know I have )

So if anybody knows of any non-LJ icon graphics for my stuff not included in the above list, please let me know. I know I'm missing stuff.

Tomorrow I need to clean, cook, and go out for a while. But if time permits I'll keep slugging away. At this point I'm up to coding the stuff that hasn't touched code before. That should be fun. Fortunately at this point I have the templates set up so it's mostly cutting and pasting and then using massive find/replace to put the code in. At this point I think the worst of it will be me forgetting to include stuff, but I think I've got everything I need saved in my LJ memories.

What else, what else? I suppose sleep could be a thing...