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Sep 22nd, 2008 by Babs

Wrapped up Town Day making $65. That’s been my best for a table event. Spent it on a new aerator for my fishtank/prosperity altar. I also ordered some test strips. The brand I’m currently using does sucketh much. I need to give one of the pieces of Mopani wood a good scrubbing. It seems to have developed a fuzz. I do recall reading somewhere that it is harmless, the fish will even eat it, and may be related to the sap that also still oozes out, but I’m still going to clean it off, along with the rocks, so it will look nicer. Once the aerator arrives I might consider adding fish. The light fixture I have isn’t producing enough light to keep the plants from turning brown. Even plants that I’ve had for months are now turning. WTF? I even gave them food! Oh well. Untill I am able to afford the light strip I really want I may focus on the fish, adding a few plants here and there, so I’m not spending a lot on something that’s going to die quickly.

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Weekly Weigh In
Sep 22nd, 2008 by Babs

First off, it’s been brought to my attention that someone has set up their site to automatically post excerpts from my site. While the Fair Use clause in the copyright law does allow for this, it also states that a commentary must also be included, which this lazy shit isn’t doing. So, unless you are reading this at A Web Site Created by Babs, please note that it is copyright 2008 A Web Site Created by Babs and is most likely being used without permission.

Secondly, no weight loss this week, so I didn’t bother to include the ticker. While I did get an hour of cardio in this week, I never seemed to have the time to fit in the strength training. And my toe would start to bother after each workout. As Town Day has been and gone I can now focus on things like exercise and housecleaning and hopefully the rest of the weight will come off. I will cry if I get stuck at another plateau!

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Pinkish Pages Update
Sep 21st, 2008 by Babs

I’ve removed the “Starscape” logo from the footer, added a Twitter “box” and managed to get the multi-category widget to work without breaking the theme (and got it so the MC search provides only the excerpts). It looks like all I have left to do is copy everything over to the Lavender Room, do some color tweakage, then commence to repost the stories. Whoo hoo!

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The Pinkish Pages Update
Sep 16th, 2008 by Babs

Yup. You read that right. Despite getting absolutely no response from my friends on LJ and IJ, I’m resurrecting the Pinkish Pages. A number of folks on the fanfiction forums Max belongs to apparently are interested in my bringing it back to life. Especially if I republish the fics that were archived at the original Pinkish Pages. Well, I got plenty of them, as well as a bunch of fics that I received permission to post but never got around to coding, so the new archives will have a good deal to offer even before new authors begin submitting.

I’ve found a template that would work with multi-authors and could be adapted to an appropriate Pinkish Pages theme. I’ve added a few widgets and plugins that I feel would be beneficial, such as the rating plugin. This would give visitors the opportunity to offer input without having to write a full comment. I’ve tweaked how the posts display so that authors can include a description as an excerpt, and that is all that shows until the viewer clicks the story’s title. There’s an author page so visitors can not only read a particular author’s already existing posts, but can subscribe to their individual feed. About the only concern I still have is listing the authors and their works in the sidebar.

I’ve got at least one more page to write before I can think about posting the old fics. Then I need to copy the theme, plugins, et al over to the Lavender Room, tweak the color scheme and post all the old fics from that archive. Oh, and I need to install the Google XML plugin to keep Google and other search engines up to date automatically.

Needless to say, I’m very busy.

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Weekly Update
Sep 15th, 2008 by Babs

A loss of two pounds (163) despite my not being able to exercise, due to my toe. I guess washing clothes manually does still give me a workout!

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