Happy Friday

So much has been happening in the past couple days that I honestly haven’t had time to write. I’ve been too busy laughing my butt off and chatting to the ever wonderful Miranda, Chenoa, Amber, and John. And yes, if you were wondering, that is a command for you to go and visit them because they’re all awesome.

It’s soo hot outside today. But I got a nice start on my tan while washing the Scene Machine. It still isn’t completely clean (since I haven’t washed it in a long time) but at least I proved that it is yellow! I’m probably just going to say that it is fine how it is and then take it to have it professionally detailed inside and out later this month. That is unless I get super motivated and decide to do it myself.

The Pudge isn’t liking the heat at all though. He can’t seem to get comfortable unless he’s laying directly in front of the fan. We’re going to put the air conditioner in tonight, so that should help out a little bit. His problem is that he just has so much fur. But if you get anywhere near him with anything that suggests bath or hair cut, he freaks out. Such a scared little thing.

So I’ll end this post with a couple more plugs.. First, SEX MB, because the people there are just plain awesome hands down, and secondly, Vertigo MB, because (most of) the members have restored my faith in the board and it is becoming a nice place to be again.

And some nice little words of wisdom: NEVER underestimate the power of Livejournal virtual gifts. They’re a great way to cheer someone up, bring in the lolz, or get dramatic results that you never might have achieved otherwise.

New Ideas

I know that I said I hated it when it first came out, but the more that I use the 2.5 admin panel for Wordpress, the more I fall in love with it. I’m even falling in love with the colors, and am now yearning to make a layout with a similar color scheme. So I think that my next layout will be just that - something with light blue, dark gray, and orange (though I’m not completely sure I like the orange). I just need something different, and if I finally change the layout structure I can finally package this layout as a template since there are a bunch of people who have emailed me about it.

But I don’t really know what I wanna do with PyroWinter. It’s kinda just sitting around now being all blah and static and I hardly even think to look at it. Nobody comments anymore, so it has kinda just ended up being nothing. -shrug-

Wordpress, Why Do You Hate Me So?

Honestly, I’m about ready to go crazy. Wordpress is driving me absolutely insane!

Well, 2.5 isn’t driving me insane.. It’s not even technically a Wordpress issue. It’s Wordpress Multiple-User (WPMU). We use it as a blogging tool at Juniata for our various student bloggers. But the problem is that 99% of plugins won’t work with WPMU since it is about the equivalent of Wordpress 2.1 in development. So finding the things you need to make it work how you want is like pulling teeth.

Right now, all I want is a way for users to subscribe to blogs to be notified when updates are posted. Subscribe2 works with WPMU, but unfortunately not in the way that it needs to. Since S2 keeps track of registered users, it then emails EVERY registered user and EVERY public user when a new post is added. This isn’t good, because frankly I don’t care when other people update their blogs - I just care about my friends and my own. So for now the hunt is still on.

One good thing to happen this week was Lee telling me that Rocky Horror is going to be live in Endicott on May 31, so we’re definitely going. She’s thinking about going as Columbia, so of course, I have to dress up too. I probably won’t go as a specific character, but outfit will be very much Magenta inspired. So it’s time to get started Goodwill hunting for costume elements.

P.S. If you’re around in the PA/NY area and want to go with, just let me know. The more people the better. I will be driving from T-Town up, so if you’re around there, hit me up and I can drive.

P.S.S. John, I really wish you could figure out a way to come. It would be MUCH fun.