#site work

I have renewed my ownership of the Snark Wars domain name. That’s right, people: two more years at least of me screaming at you about The Unbearable Sadness of Obi-Wan or how the Jedi Temple never had electricity at no cost to you. I know, I know: I’m a hero.

I FINALLY GOT THE CATEGORIES TO DISPLAY THEIR ENTRIES IN ORDER. (So now, for example, if you click the menu subheading for Star Wars Episode 4, the results display in the order you would probably want to read them, instead of with the ones I wrote last listed first. A little thing, yes, but it’s been driving me crazy for ages. I’m not even 100% sure what I did differently this time, but it’s working now, and I’m just not gonna ask questions.)

I finished the story that I set out to write this week. Had people read over it, edited it, and sent it off for an analogy. What should I do now? I might have to look through some of the prompts that I had saved and work from there. (I'm so close to getting the easy part done.) I'm still working on Thorned Blossoms. I just need to get through this chapter and move on to the next one. I'm still moving pages around on my site. Plus, I'm writing Night Hawks and Ophelia Lucifer.

One thing that's slowing me down from making new things is that I've got to fix a lot of my website's old code for a server upgrade happening with my site host. I've been fixing up a hard drive's copy of the site in a newer XAMPP that uses the new server's settings. The Image Generators on my site are probably more complicated than everything else in the rest of the site combined. I ended up rewriting the partial palette swap feature (pictured above) nearly from scratch and that was more effort than getting everything in the "Info Section" of the main site working.

How, you ask, is one to make sense of a microburst and lots of muddy dirt work? Confect a poem, "Tempest & Terroir", of course! #poem

Tempest & Terroir (Photo: Hroth Ottosen) It’s time for tumble into tempest and terroir. And so I return to storms and dirt. To dirt and storms. More specifically I revisit that sudden, destructive blast that crashed through the Adirondack Coast between Westport and Essex back on August 30, 2022. (See “Storm Damage” for the gory details.) And then I fast forward to our recent dirt work, sculpting…

The Art of Dirt Work

Excavation, grading, and other related site work can sometimes be like sculpting — carving away material, building up material, liberating a vision, reimagining environs, transforming possibility into reality. It’s truly the art of dirt work. The Art of Dirt Work (Photo: R.P. Murphy) Occasionally, I’m fortunate enough to be one of the operators sculpting concept into actuality, imagination into…