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I’ve been working on the new LSM site for some time now. It’s finally starting to gel. But last week’s vacation was a vacation from everything, including working on the site. The work-in-progress needs to be shown to the members soon, preferably within the next day or two, and I want to have it totally complete in about a month. There are still some things I don’t know how to do at all yet, like letting members download files from a directory outside of the root “public_html” directory. I know it can be done, though.

So, I should really be working on that. And practicing my mellophone, as we have rehearsal in less than a week, and that particular rehearsal will be our last full-day rehearsal before our final performance.

However… I have The Cleaning Bug™. I never get the itch to clean, and right now I have the desire to make things look pretty, especially the cat/sewing room (aka Someday Schnuthie Junior’s Room).

My plants are also suffering, and probably a third of my houseplants require repotting for one reason or another. Many of them are wilty from heat and from settling of soil in their respective pots. I’d like to take them outside and repot them with some TLC (er, Tender Loving Care, that is, not The Learning Channel, although I suppose they could probably help, too).

Oh, and did I mention that I bought a Singer Tiny Serger at Savers for three bucks? Yeah. And it works! Hence the resurgence of the Sewing Room idea. So, I’d also like to be sewing. I have an idea for my next t-shirt surgery sketched out right here on my desk, staring me in the face, mocking me.

I need to establish this evening’s priorities. Which sucks. Can’t I just do everything?

*sigh*

Update, 9:30pm: Sifted through one box of crap in the sewing room while listening to the final episode of Earthcore. Sat outside and plucked the dead parsley plants out from the living, mainly as an excuse to enjoy the weather. Tweaked a little on the new LSM site, composed an e-mail to the membership about the Work In Progress, and fired it off. Still have a good 90 minutes before I should think about winding down for the night. Word.

It’s probably not good form to announce to the entire internet that I’ll be away from my place of residence for a few days, but… *shrug* If you ever wondered how that Habitec security system of ours works, I guess now’s the time to break in and check it out?

(Note: Just kidding. Please don’t break in while we’re gone. kthx.)

Aaron and I are taking a brief vacation in Amish Country tomorrow and Wednesday, and checking out the Rock Hall and Body Worlds 2 exhibit (plasticized corpses!) in Cleveland on Thursday. So, I’ll be incommunicado for a few days here.

Yay for vacations! I’ll let you know if Amish Country rocks or sucks.

Ugh. I don’t operate well on five hours of sleep.

Donna and I got back from the Massillon drum corps show around 2am last night. I might have called in a half day this morning, had I not just used an entire unplanned personal day for Flash Workshop Day Two. As it is, I’m already taking short lunches this week so I can leave two hours early to catch the LSM carpool up to Grand Haven on Friday. Jeez-o-pete’s.

I feel a little bad for not having gotten a lot accomplished this evening, but not bad enough to force myself to stay awake and finish what I’d wanted to do. Looking up ideas for next week’s vacation (Amish Country? Cleveland?), adding features to the new LSM site, blah blah blah.

Instead, I’m going to go upstairs and read some Harry Potter (I’m re-reading the series) and go to bed early. Nothing wrong with that.

Except that it makes tomorrow’s work day come that much sooner.

I scheduled today off of work to take the Intro to Flash workshop that NISDM was offering down at BGSU. Before the class started, the director of NISDM pulled me aside and let me know that, if I was interested, I could take tomorrow’s intermediate workshop at a massively discounted price. I did some quick calculations in my head — mainly regarding my amount of personal time from work, rather than my credit card balance — and told her to go ahead and sign me up.

Good thing, too, because if I’d paid $300 for the learnin’ I got today, instead of $400 for the learnin’ over two days, I’d be kind of pissed right now. It’s not their fault, though. I guess I just knew more about Flash than I thought I did. Some workshop participants really needed the supar-slow pace.

Today, near the end of the workshop, we got into fun stuff like animation. (Of course, I’d already been putzing with moving my little home-grown Pac-Man graphic around the screen by that point.) Tomorrow, we get to learn about Action Script, which is what I’m really looking forward to. I hope tomorrow gets in-depth enough that I feel like I got my money’s worth out of it.

I haven’t decided whether I should call in to work tonight, in advance, or tomorrow morning before I leave for BG. This is going to cost me some half-days I’d been planning to take, for carpooling to drum corps events and such, but I can just take two hours off on those days and make up the time, instead. I’m just glad to have this second day of workshopping.

Like I was telling Sheryl, I’m feeling pleasantly web-geeky lately. Reading my Designing With Web Standards book, figuring out PHP and MySQL and getting a login system going on the new LSM site, taking Flash workshops… hell, you’d think I was a web designer or something. 😉