…are a blessing.

For a little while, I wasn’t sure that I would actually be able to take yesterday off, but it all worked out OK.

I went to see Shrek 2 yesterday. Sat in the theater and laughed my head off. I needed that. Then I came home and watched The Return Of The King. I needed that, too.

I”m almost done tweaking mommymonster.com (yeah, right!) 😆 I still need to redo the weather gifs. And I need to take down the old Movable Type version of the blog. And I’d like to add the Sun Spot back in. But I’ve tested most of the pages with the HTTP and CSS validators. I can’t get a couple of the games to validate because of the way the validators are parsing some of the inline javascripts. But that’s OK. And there are some cases where Arles does not create a totally valid page in the slideshows. But that’s OK, too. The errors are fairly minor and I’m not looking to be xhtml compliant yet.

I’ve also figured out a way to handle surfers that are browsing with images off. I created a stone-colored link to the site map. In IE it hides unobtrusively next to the counter. Opera hides it behind the weather gif, which I actually like better. Opera wins this one. Meh. Whatever works.

I’m getting there with the templates. It seems like a long, slow process. I’m fairly happy with them, though. And I like the new name so I might stick with it for awhile. Those quotes from Einstein and Philip Dick have always been two of my favorites.

We do live in interesting times.

Persistent Illusion is in the process of moving from MoveableType to WordPress. The posts are all here and the format is set, but the templates still need changing. I’ve also changed the name 4 or 5 times.

I’m fickle. What can I say?

Can’t believe how easy this move was, though. WordPress rocks!

There’s a thunderstorm right now. The little weather gif in the corner is showing lightening strikes. It looks cool. 🙂

I can hear the thunder boom outside. I love thunderstorms. Thank you, Thor!

Adam’s down at Pioneer Courthouse Square to hear Kerry speak. I hope he and his friends don’t get drenched.

So… what have I been up to?

I’ve found a really cool little script from Angus Turnbull that may free me from the dreaded iframes (even though I like them). In prep for trying that out, I’m constructing a nice little external style sheet and making sure that all of the mommymonster.com pages have it applied. Meant to do that anyway.

It’s nice to have diversions.

Finally got the links page done. I cheated and just exported my bookmarks, and then massaged a bit. Dreamweaver chokes on the exported HTML file so I have to tweak it in notepad. Meh.

Maybe I’ll redo some of the weather images. It’s “light rain” right now, and I notice it does look a bit hokey. Cloudy is OK, but precipitation definitely needs some rework.