So...what's up with the old personal life?

Spent yesterday evening watching BtVS DVDs (of course) and working on the redesign of the website.

I'm sure if I were better at html, I could code it so you could just pick up the whole site and move it easily, but I'm not and I can't. So, I'm formatting the stories into tables so they display better on-screen, removing (as I said earlier) all of that annoying and intrusive Microsoft garbage, re-writing links, and tweaking some graphics.

I'm about 75% of the way through the process which also involved learning how to use the (surprisingly friendly) ftp program my site host (Hosting Matters*) offers. I hope to get almost all the links re-written and the garbage code removed from all the pages tonight. There will still be some formatting work to be done, but that will be the biggest chunk of it out of the way.

(* I also noticed, which goes to show that you should look at things sometimes, that the IP banning page allows you to ban by IP and by domain name. I've blocked what seem to be the two heaviest spammers of my site and hope to see the level of spam start dropping as a result.)

The new site will still be...basic. I see and admire those fancy sites with java and frames and dancing icons, but I don't know how to create them (and wouldn't see any point in expending that much energy on a dinky little site like mine if I did).

Having lunch with a friend I don't see often enough on Saturday, assuming the weather cooperates. That + fighting the inevitable problems with "plug and play" (hah!) wireless router technology should eat up Saturday pretty well.

Sunday...housecleaning, laundry, cooking (lunches for next week) and possibly even a bit of writing on a little Sentinel piece I've been thinking about.

Haven't heard from the Kind Friend looking at the SEN. I hadn't thought about the story for a week, but it popped back into my head this morning. I should take another look at that story. Or, you know, burn it. But I'm content to wait for the Kind Friend to do her thing. To be honest, I'm happy to have it out of my face for a while. It's been a very peaceful couple of weeks. (I daresay if I loved the story more, I'd be impatient to have it back, but I never really loved it. It was just an experiment I tried that didn't work out very well. The only reason I don't just abandon it is that such a massive failure would be such a blow to my ego that I'd never write again.)

The CoSlash group is lunching next weekend. I was going to go (I don't make it as often as I should) but I'm already coming across conflicts and don't know if I can. (It's astonishing to me that someone who never seems to have anything that she's done to talk about is sometimes so busy. Just...living.)

(I was supposed to hand off my OaT tapes for someone to dupe to DVD for me at that lunch, so I may have to find another way to handle that, as well.)

Mostly...I think I'm just babbling at the moment. Waiting for my brain to kick in so I can start work.