upgrading…

EE v 1.2 came out yesterday, so I’ll be taking the blogs offline to upgrade.

Hopefully I won’t break anything.. the last few times I’ve upgraded I had no issues, so hopefully the same will be for this upgrade.

captchas should be working again…

And I’m fairly certain I know what caused them to break…

About two weeks ago I opened a ticket with our web host to have them change a few file ownership permissions because EE creates some files as “nobody”, which cannot be changed by us.  It even uploads images like that, so I wouldn’t be able to delete them in that case.

So, I asked the host to change the FILES’ ownership permissions.  The dingbats ended up changing the files AND their parent folder’s permissions all at one time.

So I had my images folder’s perms incorrect and didn’t realize it.  Even though I had the captcha’s folder chmod’d to the right perms, I guess the “image” folder also needed to be set that way.  It wasn’t, so the images weren’t writing.

Then I screwed up the path name in the captcha config, too, in trying to figure out what was wrong.

So anyway, it’s all fixed now.

Please don’t hesitate to write to me (the link is over there on the right!) if something is broken, especially the comments, please!  I don’t comment in my comments often, so if it’s broken, ya need to let me know so I can fix it.  😊

so much for that idea..

So I jinxed myself by claiming “Saturdays usually aren’t very busy”.

Ha!

As soon as I posted that and took the site offline, and started backing up my files to prep for the code update, things started to pick up around here.  Bah!

Of course, it doesn’t help that we’re short one person today.
So I didn’t get to update the code like I wanted to, I’ll have to do that sometime this weekend and hope it fixes the captcha issue so I can turn that function back on.

Bleh.  🙄

taking site offline for a while…

There seems to be a newer version of 1.1 available for download, so I’m going to try updating the site to see if that fixes the captcha problem.  I’ve tried a couple different suggestions other than a reload of the site, and so far it still isn’t happy.  I guess its’ a good thing Saturdays aren’t super busy at work. 😕

comments were borked a little…

For some reason my captcha’s stopped showing up, so I disabled them until I can figure out why.

It’s also broken for membership signup, so you’ll have to bear with me until I can get it fixed.

I just love it when this shit happens.

odd eating habits…

Josh pokes fun at me for the way I eat certain things.

Like chicken wings, or pistachios.

Or sunflower seeds.

The chicken wings are simply because I don’t eat the skin unless it’s crispy.  If it’s even remotely chewy, I may slurp off the sauce, but then the skin gets torn away with my fingers so I can get the meat sans skin.

As for pistachios or sunflower seeds…
Most people (like Josh) pop a small handful of (sunflower) seeds in their mouth, suck the salt off, crack the seeds with their teeth, remove the seed inside their mouths & spit the shell out.

I do things differently, for a couple of reasons.

The first being, I’m just not talented enough to separate the seed from the shell inside my mouth.  I’ve tried before, and half the time I end up chewing on shell instead of seed.  Yuck.

The second, and main reason, is that I’ve found bugs inside the seeds.

Not live, of course, but I don’t care.  I’m not eating bugs.

So, I put maybe two or three seeds at a time in my mouth for the salt, then, one at a time, split them with my front teeth, then the seed goes to my fingers & I open the shell with my fingers.  That way, I can look at the seed inside, make sure it’s untouched by creepy crawlies (regardless of whether the creepy crawlies are roasted or not.. bugs are bugs), and decide if it’s ok to eat.  See a bug?  Toss the seed.  No bugs?  Ok to eat.

Same thing with pistachios.

So I’m a little weird about how I eat some food.  Big deal.  I just don’t fancy the idea of eating a bug.  And I can’t stand non-crispy chicken skins, or beef or bacon fat… bacon must be crispy!! It absolutely must!!.  I actually almost gag if I get any beef fat in a bite of steak.  (I’m talking the chunks of fat that are left on some cuts of steak… eeeewww!!!)

There was even a time when I refused to eat pork of any kind, including bacon, and not because of some weird religious beliefs, either.  That started after biology class my freshman year of high school, when we dissected a piglet.  I couldn’t eat pork for several years after that, because I’d always picture that poor little baby piggy and having to cut it open and take out its parts to identify them.  Bleh.  It wasn’t necessarily gross as there was no blood, which in a way kind of helped since it almost made it seem fake, but we still knew.  We knew it was still a real piggy.

But anyway…

My pickiness about food, particularly when I was younger, earned me a nickname I wasn’t too fond of. 

“Picky Niki”

Mock me if you wish, but I’m perfectly happy knowing I’m not willingly consuming bugs in sunflower seeds.

farewell, big spider friend…

I did get a screenshot, but it’s on my other computer.

We found out that Blizzard is shutting down the beta and wiping the characters today.  Bah.  Guess we’ll have to find something else to do this weekend.  Ah well.  I guess I can try to get a lot of knitting done so I’ll have those hats finished by the time we go up to my parents place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving…  It is a little nippy up in Prescott so I think (hope) the kids will appreciate the hats. 😊

And yes, I am posting at almost 4:30am in the morning.  Sick, isn’t it?  This is what we have to do for our day shift at work.  Up by 4:00a (me) or 4:30 (josh), out the door by 5:00am.  At work by like, 5:50ish.  Bleh.  We can hardly wait until its over and we can try to pick another shift to move to.  Something more, us.

Preferably swings, but we’re contemplating graveyards again.  Shit, even that shift is preferable over this one.

Well, off to go push Josh out of bed.  Then off to another, joyous, day to work.

Did you detect the sarcasm there?  Joyous.  Shyeah.  Not in a million years.  The only thing joyous about it at this point is the paycheck.  Puh.

here and there…

While this blog has sat neglected all weekend, we spent a good portion of our weekend either playing World of Warcraft (or, WoW), GTA:San Andreas, or Half-Life 2.

Actually, the last two, he played, I did other stuff.  If he played GTA:SA, I would probably be sitting on the couch next to him, knitting.  If he played Half-Life 2, I’d probably be playing WoW.  My night-elf is level 13 right now.  My pet companion is a big green spider.  (Ironic, considering spiders give me the heebie-jeebies).  Maybe I should get a screenshot of them before Blizzard decides to shut down the beta testing and wipes the characters.  :cheese:

I did get the baby sweater for the SIL’s kidlet done.  Well, finished knitting, anyway.  I still have to weave in the ends & attach the buttons.  Then I made a matching hat.  Got that done in like, two hours.  It’s funny, that hat.  It looks like it wouldn’t fit on my cat’s head, but it’s actually really stretchy.  Just k3, p3 for several rows, then start shaping for the top.  To be fair, while it’s really a generic pattern, I have to admit I got the idea from Wendy.  She posted the pattern there, I figured it would make a good hat for a baby, too.  All I did to adjust was use size 6 needles and baby yarn (or sport weight).  The nbr of stitches is the same (72), although I didn’t knit up 10 inches of length before shaping… probably more like six.

Next up, in addition to the blanket for the same baby the sweater & hat are for, is a matching hat for the mint green sweater that I’ll be giving to my sister’s baby.  Will probably use the same pattern.  The yarn for this is a little heavier, probably between sport & worsted, but since my sister’s daughter is almost six months old, a little larger of a hat will be ok, that way she’ll be able to grow into it.

I’ll probably just go on a hat making spree… I have yarn I can use to make my nephew & other two nieces some hats, too.  Hats are quick & easy, and I’m sure the kids will probably like them.  Or not, but I’ll make them anyway. 😊

he’s guilty…

Or so the jury found him.

the garage door opener with a mind of its own…

So.  About our garage door opener.

Yes, well, it likes to not stay closed after we hit the clicker to close it.  It gets ALL the way closed, the bottom of the door will touch the cement…

And then it will suddenly reverse and start opening again.

Hit clicker, door goes into closing motion again.  Bottom of door touches cement.  Reverses direction & opens again.

Rinse. Repeat.  Rinse.  Repeat.

If we’re outside in the car waiting to leave, this gets very freaking annoying.

If we’re in the house and this happens, I hit the button on the wall and it may finally decide to behave and STAY down.  We take the clickers into the house right now because our garage is still a mess from when we cleared the sides for the termite exterminators, and we are parking our cars outside.  So, as soon as we are inside the garage, we use the clicker to close it.

Anyway… I’m beginning to think maybe the batteries in the clickers may be on their last legs, as it doesn’t matter which one we use.  The only odd thing is, it seems to happen more often when I use the clicker than when Josh does.  Might just be coincidence, but who knows.

Maybe I should pop one of those open and find out what kind of battery they need (we have two of them), and get them replaced, then see if it still happens after that.  It has been almost five years since we bought the house, and the garage door opener has been here since then as well… Yeah, maybe I’ll do that today.

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