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Starting Vacation

I’m on vacation next week, and I’m going to try to get back on track.  Even though my hours at work have dropped a little, the last month or so have seen an exponential increase in daily aggravation.  So, every hour feels like two or three.

Ugh..

Anyway, with a week off, I hope to rejuvenate and try to get back to writing and working on the website.

I upgraded a lot of the underlying software today.  Appears to have gone off without a hitch.  Keeping my fingers crossed.

Have that first draft of Devan:Deflowered ready for editing.  I’ve just been too tired and beat down to do it.  Should be able to finish that and get it posted next week on the Web Shorts page.

Otherwise, my focus for the short term will be the next entry in the Magic of the Wood series.  I really hated missing Earth Day last year, and I’d like to avoid repeating that.

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And, we’re valid

Well, all of my pages are valid, anyway.

The forum and blog still won’t validate, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to modify distribution files on such a large package to make the fuckers validate.  Considering they’re widespread packages, I should imagine they work fine in all browsers and Google ignores the common validation errors anyway.

Screwed up something and had to create a new version of the Latest Releases page, but oh well.  Only required changing links in a couple of places.

Also nuked the “Social Connection” and “Latest Releases” blocks from the forum.  Screwed one of them up somehow ( I think it may be the 3rd party utility that creates them having issues working in the new version of the base software ) and they were creating a bunch of white space below the forum listings anyway.

With the website finally back up to speed, I can take a breather and try to get back to writing on Lowborn.

I should really get started on that new version of “Flesh” for the Halloween contest, but I’m going to concentrate on Lowborn for a while anyway.  If I don’t make Halloween, oh well.  I think I may have enough time, though.

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Upgrade successful

Upgraded the sofware that forms the backbone of the website today.  Had a hiccup or two, but you wouldn’t have noticed if you were logged in.  It was only affecting guests.

Taken care of now and running smoothly.  Didn’t even have to update the forum skin, despite a major version change.

One other bit of software to upgrade, but it’s less used and completely unrelated to the public side, so I’m not in a hurry on that one.  I can deal with it whenever.

Got more of my backend utilities for the shorts done today, and coded something I’m going to add to the backend of “Latest Updates” to make that process easier as well.

Still no luck writing this weekend.  Just not feeling it.  I did backspace part of Lowborn that didn’t feel right and got started on the new direction this evening, though.  Going to try to get back to that in a few, now that the minor issue with the upgrade is taken care of.

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