Whew! I just had a stressful day. Mostly self-imposed. Well, mostly because I decided to jump in with both feet and migrate my blog platform over to WordPress today. I think I did it, mostly. There are still a few loose ends to tie up – I need to put some links back up in the sidebar about the blankie and other stuff. It looks pretty nice and fresh over there at the moment.
I’d been using Blogger since I first started this ole thang back in 2004, and while I’m sure Blogger was neither the end-all nor the be-all, it was working pretty well for my simple needs. I had started off with my own domain name and hosting because I’m a control freak like that, and I had changed hosting services along the way once or twice as my audience grew and spiked. At one point we were hosting the site on a server in our own basement, which worked fine until I got linked by the Yarn Harlot and the poor thing shut down, curled up and died. (or maybe my husband just got tired of dealing with my internet shenanigans and made it clear he didn’t want to be in charge of the gear-grinding monkeys any more).
Seriously, though. I haven’t had to deal much with the background workings of the blog until Blogger announced recently that they’re not going to support FTP users any more – that’s people like me who don’t want their hosting or their .blogspot.com URLs. Gulp. Luckily, DreamHost, who hosts my site, supports WordPress, and it turned out that the migration was fairly easy. Once I got over my stage fright and fear that I would manage to lose every word and photo from the last six years, along with all of my readers and – well. I knew I had to bite the bullet and do the switch as soon as possible so that I could stop worrying.
Whew! Boooring, I know. I hope to finish cleaning up my mess this weekend, between baking cupcakes for Sophie’s birthday (my baby’s going to be four! Yikes!) and the party and regular family stuff.
Meanwhile, I’ll treat you to a couple of knitting photos to tide you over.
These are the socks I made for one of my lovely neighbors in November. I handed them off to her without taking a picture, and a few weeks ago I mentioned that I would love to run across the street and snap one the next time she had them on and it was convenient. Last weekend it worked out, and it made me happy to see that I am not the only one who hangs out in her comfy jammies till noon or later on the weekends. Megan’s favorite color is red, and she seems pretty happy with the socks.
Okay, and forgive me while I play around with photo size and settings – until now I’ve always used Photoshop to resize my pictures in a batch and then loaded them up on the server and type in the links myself…while I’m using this new platform, I may actually learn to let go of the control a bit and let the software do its job…
You’ve seen this sweater already, but I’d been unhappy with the neckline on it to the point of not wearing it much at all. It was too wide and just plain wonky. I finally realized how stupid it was to hide it in the back of my closet when it would only take a couple/few hours of ripping and re-knitting to make it right. I still wouldn’t call it perfect, but it is much better, and certainly wearable as it is now. That’s also a lovely shot of me with no makeup, having just changed out of my comfy jammies on Sunday afternoon in time to run the family over to the pool at the gym. Meh. Look at the sweater, not at my face, mmmkay?
Oh, and here’s what the sweater looked like before the new neckline.
There definitely needs to be more knitting going on around here. I was so focused on those spiral sweaters for so long, I’m at a bit of a loss now that I’m done with them for a while. I have been swatching and tossing ideas around in my head. Things have to percolate for a while before I can commit to a sweater-size project, you know. Meanwhile, I’ve been playing around with the pop tabs again, and I’ll show you the progress on that new project in a day or two.
Lurker, unlurking here. I love the re-vamp, and I can totally see the effects of your swimming program. You look great.
Dude! I was wondering why I hadn’t seen you in my gReader lately – it seems like your old RSS doesn’t point to your new RSS (which, you know, makes sense, given the change in technology). I don’t suppose there’s any way to do one last post on the blogger one to let your readers know to update their RSS subscriptions?