A week ago I had a couple friends over for some geeky stuff. One of those friends is pretty handy with Wordpress (that’s the engine that runs my blog), and php in general, and he was going to help me re-route my blog to a new location.
That was the idea, anyway.
What happened was I mostly lost my blog. The good part of this is that I got to install all the latest updates and get a new shiny template. Then I had to cut and paste almost two years worth of entries from a data file I managed to extract from the lost blog.
So, if you read through back posts and find something out of whack, that’s why. I lost all formatting, and most of them, I just didn’t put the formatting back in. It took me about 10 hours to get the whole thing reconstituted, without returning all the formatting. I did put the formatting back in for posts that are less than four months old, because I figure some people will try to read back that far.
Now, back to business. I’m still plugging away on my two year novel class. I really struggled with the outlining portion of the class, which, thankfully, is over. Now we get to start writing, which makes me happy.
And Nano starts in just over two months. I’m looking forward to that, I seem to be way more motivated in November than I do most of the rest of the year. I usually write more (and better) than I am producing right now, but I think much of my energy is getting sucked up by problems at work. We should be settled in a few weeks, and that may help me get back to a more normal writing routine. Right now, I come home and just want to be left alone, and I shower, eat, and turn into a vegetable for a couple of hours, then go to bed. I’ll be glad when things settle down.
So, that’s it. Hopefully, you like the new look of the blog.
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