this woman’s work

No surprise there — we knew she wasn’t ready to be whatever comes next (tadpole?) but Noah, who was jealous of the end-of-class Gushers given by the teacher, was trying to make her think she flunked. This from the formerly unschooled kid. See, I told you that virtual school was ruining him!

Speaking of ruining him — or rather his LIFE — we decided to give up cable FINALLY. I’ve felt guilty the whole time we had it but I’d be lying to say I’m not going to miss it. But so much of what we watch is available on the computer and we just figured out how to hook Brett’s laptop up to the television. Besides which we’re all watching too much anyway. When we broke it to Noah he began to gnash his teeth and tear his hair, poor dear. Life is hard in the big city.

Today I’m going to work on theming our new biz site after I get my regular work done. Hoping to debut it soon but we’re taking it slow and this time I’m walking Brett through some of the things so he won’t feel so left out and frustrated. We’re talking about what other aspects of the biz he’d like to take on besides the paperwork. Working with him is a challenge, frankly, because our communication styles are pretty different. Like he’s detail oriented and I’m “get-the-big-idea-and-move-on” oriented. And he’s a worrier and I don’t like to focus on worries because they sometimes catch me with their evil little purple claws and keep me stagnant. (Caution is one thing — chronic worry is another.) Plus I’m generally more optimistic, which would surprise everyone who knew me when I was a gloomy teen but there you go. Sometimes people change.

Oh and changing the subject entirely — since upgrading to Firefox 3, I’ve lost all my scroll bars. Very frustrating. I can still scroll but I can’t see the scroll bar. Firefox 3, to me, is like Wordpress 2.5 — perhaps released too soon seeing as how bug-filled it is. (I hear the beta of Wordpress 2.6 is out. I’m salivating for it because I haven’t learned my lesson about wordpress upgrades yet.)

I upgraded wordpress from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 because there are security holes in 2.3.2 and also because wordpress reminds you to upgrade and I got sick of looking at the upgrade reminder. And somehow this upgrade, which changed out three or four tiny files, wiped out my database. So I lost most of January and what I had of February so far.

Ok, so I have a backup of my database and I went to restore it but for some reason it wouldn’t take. (That’s why my theme looks funky and my sidebars are empty.) I have no idea why and the wordpress geeks have no idea why. These are the kinds of things that shouldn’t happen. Because I have about 50 megs of entries on here it took a long, long time to strip the exported file down to something manageable to import. (About two hours to be exact. And this was after I did some handy-dandy footwork to get the content, which would take too long to explain but of which I am very proud because I had to get quite creative to figure out a work-around.) Then because I hadn’t backed up since 1/7, I had to go and swipe my other content from livejournal even though there was at least a week the crossposter wouldn’t work that I’m missing and I was too tired to strip out the “this post originally appeared on” header. I also lost all of your lovely comments.

But at least most of it is here.

And now I’ll back my database up once a month. (Wordpress has a plugin to do this but my site is so big that it sometimes times out. I messed with a setting and hopefully it’ll work now.)

I swear — I’m having the worst blog luck so far this year. I think my horoscope said something about that…