new designs!!
I finished two new styles for my design site, and also constructed a means of looking at them; so go check out the new corporate and chaotic looks! Now I'll use my styleswitching knowledge to create a display page for my offerings of Moveable Type skins, the reason I started all this PHP styleswitcher business in the first place. I'm sure glad I did, now, cause already the great new things I've learned are coming in handy all over the site. Next I need to install MySQL on my machine so I can then install Movable Type locally and finally figure out what's all those templates; and then I'll have all kinds of MySQL skills, and I'll be unstoppable!!! Oh, so much fun.
Today was rainy and cool, and a wonderful day to stay inside all morning and read, which I did (John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle Earth is the current selection). It made me think of what Dana was talking about when he described the California winter in Two Years Before the Mast:
It was a beautiful day [when we reached the California coast], and so warm that we wore straw hats, duck trousers, and all the summer gear. As this was midwinter, it spoke well for the climate; and afterwards we found that the thermometer never fell to the freezing-point throughout the winter, and that there was very little difference between the seasons, except that during a long period of rainy and south-easterly weather thick clothes were not uncomfortable.We're in such a period now, I guess. It cleared up around 4:30 though, and by the time I finally went outside and biked down to visit Leah at the store and bring her some things, it was a beautiful cool clear day, very nice indeed.
Despite all that--nice weather and design triumphs--I'm kind of homesick today. Write me letters from home to cheer me up.