Just didn’t have enough time to write earlier, so I did something that didn’t require such complete attention — added more old news entries.

I cranked in a bunch more Darkniciad updates, and the whole of the LST3K News page.  I’ll probably go ahead and add the Les Lumens News next, just to get everything other than my entries as Dark out of the way.

Once I finish that, I’ll link this up from the main site, and it will actually be a functional feed of what’s going on.

I’m leaning toward making the whole site PHP now.  Reason #1: Ease of updating.  Reason #2: I can set it up to allow you to create a username, and set preferences.

One important preference that I’ve always thought was a good idea was SFW (Safe For Work) versions of the pages.  What I would do is set it up so that if you have that setting on, the pages wouldn’t display any of the nude/risky images.  You’ll still have to deal with hiding the text from your co-workers, but at least there wouldn’t be easily seen from the next cubicle pictures.

Also good for straight women who don’t really want to see pics of naked women adorning every page.  There may end up being some pics of guys on the page eventually in that state of undress, so there may be a setting for “Censor Male” and “Censor Female” nekkidness as well.  That way, you could ogle whichever tickles your fancy without getting creeped out by the other.

I could also set it up to deactivate links and add a “SFW MODE” notation in place of links that lead to things like the cover images that contain nudity.  That way you don’t accidently click on one of those from the office and have to panic as you try to close it before anybody sees it.

Once I get rolling on things again, I might start adding new categories to the blog for specific long stories.  SOTM is the obvious one.  That would allow you to subscribe to that story category and have what is essentially a notification of new stories in that category.

I’ll probably create a New Stories category too.  Then you could set it up to know whenever I have anything new coming out from across my pen names.

At least I think that’s how it works.  I’m new to this whole blog thing.

This is certainly a hella lot easier than screwing with the HTML, so I might just feel like updating this a lot more often.  That will mean that you’ll be subject to more of my rambling, but you’ll get more frequent news, too.

My writing enthusiasm is still there, but the energy is waning.  My job has transformed into something much more fast-paced and draining.  It used to be laid back, but they’ve added some new security practices a couple of weeks ago.  The only way I could work around those new security practices and still accomplish my job was to take on a new duty on top of it.

What that results in is me running back and forth from a computer to different places in the warehouse all day long, keeping every department informed and prodded as to exactly what’s going on at any moment.

Taking a little bit to get adjusted to, but I think I’ve got it worked out into a routine, now.  This is why I’m in the position I’m in.  They know damn good and well that I’m the only one who could figure out how to deal with the impossible stupidity that they throw at us sometimes.

With the routine down, it will get easier, and I won’t be so worn out when I get home.  It’s been as much mental exhaustion as physical up until this point, because I was still working the kinks out of the new process.

That’s enough for now.  I’m going to give writing a try again for a little bit, until I need to crash out for the night.