Author: Lou

Poor Oscar. Maybe he was hungry…….

Yahoogroups mail is still lagging. Gah. Bet I end up doing this at home tomorrow, now. But not til after I’ve dyed my hair. Must get my priorities straight. *g* I’m also going to try and finish at least one of the six-or-so fanfic pieces I have mostly written. I think I make too much work for myself. I have too many ideas, that’s the problem. Pah.

Oh, and d’you know what’s really annoying? I couldn’t find a .nu webring when I wanted it, hence opening [dot]Nu Too? to go with Megs’ banner exch. So what did I stumble across while randomly surfing yesterday? Yup, a well established, long running .nu webring. I liked my design, damnit, but there’s no point in running the ring if there’s already one out there. :-( Unless I change it to include free server sites as well. Dunno.

I want to find a duck – they’re so cute!

Added some more nominees to The SPIKED Awards and did some updates to A Tomb With a View yesterday. TWaV is doing well with getting into exclusive type rings / cliques. Heh. But now it’s time to concentrate on getting Eternal… Literally and S&S sorted out. And I’m also planning to use some of the old content from British Buffy for the UKBAWC – no sense in wasting it. ;-)

Well, the whole reformat / reinstall thing went without too many hitches. I’m still having sound card probs, and I have a load of things to reinstall, but otherwise it’s doing well. Computer seems a lot happier overall. Which is cool. :-)

And as another plus, Anji’s blog is now all in working order again – it turned out to be some kind of prob with Blogger itself which has been fixed now. Oh, and all my sites on soulstar.co.uk are back up. I looked into other “soulstar” domains today – the only free one was the .net which was actually on one of those ‘domain for sale’ things. For at least $650. I *don’t* think so! Did find a couple of tempting option though……. Must. Resist. Domain. Cravings. Gahhhh…………….

OK….. I’m about to reformat my hard drive, and I’m hoping I won’t kill it or lose anything vital. I’m pretty sure I’ve backed up everything I need / want. So here’s hoping.

And in other news, all my sites on soulstar.co.uk are down – there’s some kind of server problem that’s being worked on. Hope they haven’t lost them altogether! I think I have everything (backed-up, that is), but it’ll be a right pain if I have to re-upload. Gah. But anyway, that means Soulstar Fanfic and Graphics, Soulstar Design, Eternal… Literally, A Tomb With A View, and The Sunset Club ain’t working. Damnit. If it didn’t cost so much to transfer the domain out………

Hooookay. Trying out new site version. Marvel at the unrivalled crapness of it all. Webdesign has *never* been this bad…….

Dreamed last night that my Dad drove up to London and found Worf hanging around where I used to live. *g* Maybe I should follow that hunch up. Hmm. Taking Willow to the vets on Monday – her little eye is all squinty and sometimes it seems to get stuck shut, though we can’t see anything obviously wrong apart from that, and she perfectly happy. Bless. :-)

Census day tomorrow. Wonder if the whole Jedi thing will go through. Heh.

Just remembered another dream I had last night. Freaky and disturbing stuff – wonder where *that* came from! Might just have to turn it into a scary story. Hmmm. Might do.

Whoops, forgot to mention – my webring for .nu domains is now open. So if you’ve got a site with a .nu domain or subdomain (though not on free servers), do me a favour and check it out. Cos a ring of one is a bit pointless, isn’t it? *g* It lives right here. First site I’ve done using pop-ups, actually. I usually have too much content to sling in to squish it into a lil pop-up. Heheh.

Blech. I appear to have eaten something dodgy. This is not fun. No work today, and I’m not sure about tomorrow now either. Thought I’d be feeling better by now. Actually, I’d thought I’d feel better by this morning. So anyway, have acheived very little today. If I don’t feel well enough to go to work tomorrow, I’ll have to try and get the forms sorted out from here anyway. Should keep my mind off the ouchies anyhoo. Heh.

Had some good Worf-related news today, though – a lady knocked on the door, and she thinks she’s seen him, and has actually been feeding him for several weeks. :-) He comes and goes, apparantly, but next time she sees him she says she’ll hang on to him and give me a call. She lives over the other side of the railway. I hope it is him. :-)

Whoops, didn’t post. Eyes and head still hurt. Booked appointment for the eye test thingy. And had to get Luna to cancel the hotel booking for London, cos it looks like I can’t afford both. :-( Hoping to go down for a day or two, and stay somewhere cheaper or something.

Oh, Anji’s blog isn’t working at the new location yet, which is weird. So it’s still here. Have to try and get that sorted out this weekend, along with the other million and one things I need to do. Hopefully a bloke’ll be coming round tomorrow to put the bathroom door back on, too. Umm. I’ll add the rest of those people to the UKBAWC (yes, I know I’ve been saying that for ages, but it’s damn time consuming! Anyhoo, I’m halfway through them), and maybe get the new clique thing up too. You never know.

Also, Megs has opened a banner exchange for .nu domains, called Dot nu? – so if you’ve got one (or are hosted on one), go join! :-) I’m going to be opening a sister webring to it, called [dot]Nu Too? (original, huh? *g*). Neither of us had been able to find existing ones, you see, so Megs came up with the idea and I figured I’d join in the fun. My side of it should be open some time over the weekend.

Gomez – ‘Whippin Picadilly’. Has that been re-released or something? I keep seeing it on MTV2 recently, and I haven’t seen it for a while before that. Ho hum. 45 mins to Buffy.

Ow, ow, ow, ow. Head hurts. I really have to get back to the optician for that scary eye-drop blinding eye test thing. Cos, OWWWW!!!!

Just helped Anji move into her new blogging home. My first hostee! Hee! Just need a few more now. :-) But I want a variety, so no more blogs, or at least, sites that are *only* blogs. I’m so picky……

I’m so tired. I closed British Buffy cos, let’s face it, I was never going to get the content in there. It’s a shame, cos it was my first Buffy site. But I’m quite fond of the ‘Closed’ graphic now. Tony Head is so tasty. Yum. Of course, closing it hasn’t really made me any better off, since it’s just something off my ‘ought to do sometime’ list rather than the ‘oh god, really have to do’ list. What I really should do is say sod it all, and just delete the lot. I love my sites, I put lots of effort into them, both in terms of content and design. But right now they are really, really weighing me down. Also, I have this horrible sinking-feeling-of-doom that I’m not going to be able to afford the whole Spike-stalking expedition in June. But I have to, cos it’s already booked and arranged. Oh crap. If I don’t get my tax back in time, I am *so* screwed.

Hmm. Maybe I should get some sleep.

Ins reckons that the “descriptive!Name” thing could have a coding / programming origin (her Fri 6th Apr entry). Sounds viable to me. I’ll have to investigate that further. Oh, I don’t think I mentioned it before, but Ins writes cracking fanfic – it lives here.

Carpelumen.com is Messina’s site directory. She’s cut down on the quantity of sites she runs over the last few months (and I wish I could bring myself to do that!), but the quality remains the same – all her sites are visually stunning, and chock full of content (except for the cliques, of course *g*). Her Faith / Eliza Dushku site, Dahlia, is particularly worth a loooong look.

Hrrrrrrm. My Mum tells me that the census is actually sometime this month. I dunno.

Went to a ‘Buffymeet’ yesterday, with Megs, in Manchester. The five hours on the train (there and back) wasn’t so much fun – way too cramped – but the meet itself was cool. It rained all day, so we spent as much of it as possible inside, first in Starbucks, then in the shopping centre (WB shop – whee), then in various pubs. I hadn’t actually met any of them before, though I did recognise a couple of people from N2K last year. Everyone there yesterday, except one guy, is going to N3K or one of the ‘James’ events in June. It was a kind of pre-con meet, you see. It was fun. :-) Photos are here but I’m not telling which is me. *g* Baaaaad piccies. Happily, I’m only in 2, 4 & 8, cos then we had to go for our train.

Right then. Time to get back to playing with my sites. I have some new graphics for this one in my head, too. Dunno if/when I’ll change it though. Hmm.