Internet? What internet?

That has been the theme today. That and laundry. LOTS and LOTS of laundry. And now that there is finally Internet access again, I am too exhausted to post more than this.
And a gratuitous photo, of course:

New Look

For as long as I have had a blog - nay, for as long as I have wanted a blog - I wanted a pretty, well-lit blog. Alas! I am not a graphic designer, or a web designer, nor can I afford one, and while I will toy with html, I am not as keen on presentation as I would like to be. Seriously. You'd think if a person is artsy-craftsy like me it would carry on over into everything. I see it often - Wee Wonderfuls and Posie Gets Cozy are just a couple examples off the top of my head - people who make wonderfully creative and photogenic things on beautiful blogs that make you feel clean and organized just by looking at them. Then I look at my blog, and I just don't have the enthusiasm to center my header, much less figure out how to get the left and right-hand columns that I have so coveted. I've had to settle for a text column and a right-hand links column only. (I don't know why I want two side columns so badly. Symmetry, perhaps? More room at the top of the page for links? I dunno.) It's a lot like where ever I live. My aesthetic has always been functionality.

Until now. Blogger has a new template system that has allowed someone as design lazy as me to achieve 70% of my aesthetic blog ideal, instead of 30%. And with just clicking a couple options. So welcome to the new, aired-out Crisis of Praxis!

Lens Error

The digital camera I got while in school for architecture to take pictures of my projects for my portfolio, the metal encased, medium priced name brand gizmo that I have tested the durability of by dropping at every opportunity - it has, alas, finally broken. Suddenly, out of nowhere, it is showing the words, "lens error" on its display when I turn it on and promptly retracting the lens. (I would show you a photo of the message, but... you know.) It looks like I either need to send it to the manufacturer for repairs or cough up the cash for a new one. And cough up I would have to do. Possibly sell my eggs or something. I think I'll price the repair. But until then, despite my recent vow to try to blog more often, I will be relatively pictureless.

I say relatively because I do have a scanner.

Until next time! :P

Do Blogs Believe In Reincarnation?

I am terrible with computer code. I mean, really bad. Horrendous. I am so miserable at it that I couldn't solve a basic format problem, such as a slipping sidebar (it fell, like old, loose socks, to the bottom on the page, and I couldn't pull it up again!) so in an act of desperation, I killed the weblog that used to go by this name. I rebuilt it into what you see now.

Fortunately this is not my journal blog, so all my whining and grousing remains immortalized in electronic type. Enjoy!

If you happen to be code savvy, feel free to email me and give me a clue about how to fulfill my greatest blog desires, such as:

Adding a left-hand sidebar;

adding buttons;

linking to specific entries from my journal, and vice versa;

and adding those handy progress bars for keeping track of projects like the one in this site.

Thanks!