It seems to be easing off, but it’s a real pain. Sort of like having your head stuffed with cotton wool while spinning in one of those astronaut trainers—if you’ve not had the experience, well, it’s like this.
Went to the Urgent Care doc on Monday—he says virus; and went to the endocrinologist on Tuesday—he says the bloodwork is brilliant, best ever—so, well, I suppose I’m fine, but I still can’t drive. Shouldn’t drive. Won’t drive. Nothing I need is worth a crunched fender, a lawsuit and me or somebody else dinged up, so well, Jane is going to have to be the ‘wheels’ for a bit, til this passes.
The star magnolia is breaking into bloom.
The pond is turning algae’d, not the floating stuff but the general green fuzz on the rocks. I’ve sent for a new chemistry kit to be sure of it before we put baby fishes in. In general, don’t trust water that’s too clear and clean: it’s probably not nice for fish.
And I’m trying to work—pretty successfully; but I’m a bit tired, which beats the previous two days on which I did hardly anything but sleep.
I am up for 2018 Shejicon if the Good Lord’s willing and the creeks don’t rise and my health doesn’t take a drastic turn for the worse. It’s a bucket list thing. I will sell stock to get cash if that’s what it takes. Will probably fly out. I am determined.
Got Convergence from Amazon Tuesday. Gobbled it down. (I did the same thing — reread Tracker and Visitor to get ready for it.) Do you think there will be an (unfortunate) 20th or will you stop with (fortunate, prime) 19?
No plans to stop. 😉
Good!
Currently reading Convergence, going back and forth between Daniel Thomas May’s Audible book and the eBook. I expect to finish this morning.
Have you given any consideration to having a section of this house of yours here where we could discuss without worrying about spoilers? Not a requirement, just a thought.
Yay! So many threads in this complex story that I want to see where they go.
Got to thinking — my mom was absolutely hooked on the early days of “As The World Turns” (A TV soap opera very popular once upon a time) — I am also hooked on an “as the world turns” — the difference is that the world I’m watching turn is a completely different planet! — LOL!
There is one.
Look in the left sidebar and click on one of the discussion threads. Try this one: https://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/foreigner-series-spoiler-alerts-page-2/comment-page-32/#comment-55514
Well, who knew. Thanks!
Hmmm….must be my browser, I’ve only got one sidebar showing, and it’s on the right….the old Atuahalpa theme showed two sidebars….and come to think of it, would show 4 sidebars if you were so inclined…(I wasn’t on the website I maintain).
I just see two equal columns. But then I typicaly run 800×600 resolution.
In order to see the left column you need to be on the home page of the journal entries where a precis of the entry is found but not the comments. To get to it scroll back up to the top of this page and click on either “Wave Without a Shore” or the home text. [I am using Chrome, so if these instructions don’t work, put it down to variations due to OS/Browser.]
You’re right, on the home page. On this page, just a single column to the right…..and I’m using the same browser as you, Chrome.
Depending on the OS being used, and the platform, I don’t recall if this particular theme, Divi, is “responsive”. In other words, if you have it called up on a tablet or smartphone, does it appear pretty much the same as if it were on a desktop or laptop platform. Atuahalpa, the old theme, does that. I can research it, just for the sake of my own curiosity….
On the ipad, I get three columns in landscape, two in portrait (sidebars at the top, blog posts in two columns at the bottom).
@joekc6nlx et al. — On the new theme’s responsive design:
Yes, it’s a responsive design CSS.
If the browser window narrows enough, the home page flows from a 3-column, left and right sidebars plus central main column — to two columns, where the koi image appears topmost, then the two sidebars appear together, then the WWAS header across two columns, then below that, each blog entry (post / thread) appears in two columns. Other than where that puts the sidebars, it’s rather nice with the two columns of blog entries.
When one clicks on a blog entry to read just that entry and its comments, a narrow window gives one or two columns for the blog entry and the tree / nested list of comments, and then puts the sidebar below that.
So where and how the sidebars flow on a narrow or small screen is a bit odd.
When the screen’s wide or large enough, then the home page has three columns, while each blog entry page has a wide column on the left for the blog entry and comments, with a narrow column for the sidebar on the right.
Note: — The “Edit Comment” textbox’s font-size is quite small; and is the one thing I’d surely adjust for this theme. — I found it interesting from a design / usability (and personal preference) viewpoint, that some people would prefer link colors (and other accent color usage) to be the aqua and blue, while others would prefer reds or earth tones. How to provide for both and provide switching between those, hmm, I want to look into, as well as best (modern) methods to switch font-sizes up or down per user prefs. (Those are overall CSS topics, and then I’m sure they specialize when one gets to where that’s handled in a WordPress Theme. Think I’ll see what, if anything, is out there for how to create and edit WordPress Themes.
I only found one listing for a book devoted to WordPress Themes design, with the 2nd Ed. being for WordPress 2.8, from 2009. And both editions’ Kindle versions were more expensive than the pb print versions by 1/6 to 1/3 again. So, going to pass on that in for of some better book down the line.
I keep looking for a newer book covering EPUB 3.0, but only EPUB Best Practices (not a tutorial but a complete ref and explanation), and a book on EPUB2 by Liz (Elizabeth) Castro and another on EPUB 2 and 3 by an indie author come up. I want something that teaches the newer EPUB3 and 3.1, based on HTML5 and CSS3, rather than EPUB2, which is a step backward. Meanwhile, Looks like I’ll resume reading what I’ve got. Now that things have settled down a bit for me, er, I need to knuckle down and resume study and reading habits.
(Also open to a good book on learning current PHP and web database, for driving modern sites. I’m good with HTML5 and CSS3, but need to learn PHP and MySQL.) *Still.*
It’s responsive; on my smartphone (Samsung 5) it’s all shown in one column, firts the left sidebar, then the articles, then the right sidebar (I think). I haven’t found the top-right-corner Login/Account button yet as I tend to use the comments at the top to jump into the blogposts, as otherwise it’s a great deal of scrolling.
But it’s much easier to enlarge the text to a readable size on the little touchscreen, even for the comment-editing box, so I still think it’s a big improvement as far as reading it on my phone is concerned.