Five Minutes at a Time
I want to do so many things to this site, probably just to show that I can. I’m muddling through like an amateur, or maybe just an idiot, creating some pretty interesting messes along the way.
I don’t know how to host my own images completely. I’m sure it’s an extremely simple thing, probably having something to do with one of the “images” folders in the files, but I’m not all the way there yet. I did figure out the random pictures - yea for me - but I just don’t have time to read through all my cheat sites and find the line of gibberish that tells the blasted post to show a picture from my uploads.
I made a little progress with the archives finally. At least you can see all the posts for a given month now. Unfortunately the headers went wonky and I think it displays in alphabetical order by title instead of date. That will take more translation of gibberish to figure out. Then the page that’s by category is completely not talking to whatever file defines the site template. One of these days I’ll convince them to be friends. For now they seem to be standing back to back and refusing to acknowledge the others’ existence.
I think it would really help me to be allowed to follow a train of thought for more than five minutes. I’m getting a little tired of starting over at the beginning a dozen times for every little lesson I try to give myself. You see, five minutes into any little piece of research, and someone wants something, or can’t wait to tell me something, or breaks something, or starts fighting someone. Even now, just simply trying to put down a few words, and I’m simultaneously nursing the baby and entertaining a running commentary on the list of possiblities for breakfast. I’m not even allowed to get myself a cup of coffee start to finish without taking the time to make a pitcher of lemonade and refill the ice cube trays in the middle of it.
I’ve always thought I needed another set of arms, maybe two. But I think it won’t do much good unless I can have another brain as well.
