I managed to catch a cold to keep me company over Memorial Day Weekend. I feel as if a teeny tiny group of vicious weasels have set up camp in my throat, and are now engaged in a flesh tearing hoe down to the sound of really annoying banjo music.
I’ve been getting some knitting done, playing computer games, watching netflix dvds, and ordering my final “birthday presents to myself from me” (the new book by the author of Feeling Sorry for Celia, the Year of Secret Assignments, the Chris Ware all comics issue of McSweeney’s, and a couple manga). Now I’m going to see if I can gather my strenth to go out and procure some diet ginger ale and pizza, which I’m sure is the most healthy thing a sick person could possibly eat.
4:45 pm on May 31st, 2004 1
That’s the best description of a cold building up on a holiday that I’ve ever read.
5:02 pm on May 31st, 2004 2
I hope the weasels have calmed down a bit and that you’re enjoying The Year of SA’s. Take care!
10:34 pm on May 31st, 2004 3
Thanks, Year of SA hasn’t arrived yet, but I am so looking forward to reading it!
10:17 am on June 1st, 2004 4
I concur with Norma — love the weasel analogy.
Pity you weren’t feeling well enough to use the time to learn HTML, though. (Referring to your 31 May post.) Basic HTML is really dead simple. Learn enough so you can look at other people’s pages and see how they’ve managed the effects you like, and you’ll automatically learn even more. Then dive into CSS so you won’t have to keep re-doing each page over and over whenever you change your mind. Besides, your blog page is based on CSS …
There’s an HTML for Dummies that will get you going. But do type out the code by hand, don’t use a wysiwyg editor, or you’ll never learn.
Tanuki
10:35 am on June 1st, 2004 5
Hi Tanuki! — obviously my cold is still imparing my ability to express myself very clearly
I was just messing with the css file and wordpress template for my other site. I’m not comfortable coming up with css blog layout from scratch (all the tricky positioning), but I can modify it if I have a good example in front of me.
I’m comfortable with html, but I’m much less comfortable with php/mysql, and I’d like to learn more about it before I totally take the plunge into wordpress. Do you have any book reccomendations in that area?