I’ve actually had a damn productive afternoon, as one may tell from the new look on the site. Unfortunately, “one” can also tell from the new look on the site, that I’ve still got some work to do. I don’t claim to know the logic behind all this design, but as much of a head start that Kurt gave me today, I still figured alot of things out pretty much on my own, which I’m damn proud of. However, those pats on the back were short-lived when I realized that things were pretty well screwed. Which is why you see sidebars in the WAAAAYYYY bottom right of these pages. Again, if anyone knows how to bump them straight up about 6″, I’ll buy ya a beer.**

As for the other entries in the blog-to-do list, I’ve taken a look at some other commenters, but I really want BlogSpeak to work out, mostly because its ready to go, and from the looks of things, the best remaining option is going elbow deep in PHP and doing it myself. If I can’t get a sidebar to move 6″ with a little HTML and a stylesheet, I sure as hell don’t know what I’d do with a whole new language to mess with. Hell, I took 4 years of Spanish in high school, and about all I can say is “Where is the Coca-Cola?”.

On the bright side, the IM buttons have been fixed. I don’t know if they totally work to send me messages and all, but here’s a hint: the Yahoo! one is just there to balance the row out, and MSN is almost exclusively “friends only”. Three minus two equals one. You figure it out, Einstein.

As for the camera hopes, no trips to the bar yet, though the more I look at my coffee table, it just might work. More on that in the future.

So all in all, fairly productive, now I can go sleep for 12 hours, knowing that my webpage is askew, but safe, my living room is mostly clean, and maybe if I’m lucky, all that laundry will wash itself overnight.

(**-Not valid outside New Brunswick and the Yukon.)