Weekend Update


Wherein Our Heroine Abandons any Pretensions to the Essay Format and Simply Treats her Blog as an Email to the World.
First item: Yes, I tweaked the sidebar this weekend. My goal: simplification. My strategy: a toned-down color scheme and fewer fiddly gadgets and bits. My execution: cooler, softer colors in the background, earthier colors for the text, and deletion of some of the cutesy stuff I had accumulated over time. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions for further improvement.

I also took a look at various other blogging solutions this weekend and found... nothing that doesn't make me run screaming from the room, even after checking out a book on PHP and MySQL from the library. So I am sticking with iBlog for the time being, despite being a bit too inflexible in the design department (at least for us regular users - another iBlog user, icerabbit, seems to have hacked it into something much more interesting), and too-frequently choking on the FTP upload.

My first Yoga class went well (I think). I had five students (four more than I had thought I might get). They were quiet, asking no questions, but seemingly invested in the class and the ideas. One student (the only man in the class) did approach me afterwards, letting me know that he generally prefers more aerobic exercises and that his wife signed him up for Yoga in the hopes of lessening stress and improving flexibility! Despite the slightly coercive nature of his entry into Yoga, he seemed to enjoy it.

We toured Mel's new place, which looks much bigger without furniture. The previous owners had far too much stuffed into the place, and I knew it would look much larger without massive wardrobes and too many cupboards, cabinets, and bookcases, but it was startling nonetheless. We also took Mel to The Great Indoors to look at lighting and other bits and bobs she is going to need, where she promptly got sensory overload (as any sane person would).

Last item: what is up with me and my toes? Do I have bad toe-karma? Last night, while horsing around, I rolled over my right big toe and seemingly sprained it or something (this is especially un-fun because I have fairly bunion-deformed feet as it is). Owwww.
Posted: Monday - January 10, 2005 at 08:14 AM         | |

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