This 'n That 'n Other Stuffs
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aearwen2This has been a full, and difficult week.
My digestive system hates me, I'm sure. My daughter is starting to make noises about how I should be Googling "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" and taking note of what foods I need to avoid to keep from triggering this thing. All I know is that the damned thing strikes predictably in the wee hours of the morning and keeps me up for about two to two and a half hours before I fall back into bed too exhausted to do much of anything until I've had four or five hours of sleep. I missed out on a favorite Saturday morning tradition today: coffee with my Coffee Klatsch friends at a neat coffee deli nearby. Not happy about that at all!!
On a more positive note, I have volunteered to create and then manage a website for the A Long Expected Contest for Tolkien fanfiction challenges. They have an LJ community and a YaHell group maillist, but things have been a bit... scattered... for my tastes. I can never find a piece of information without spending way too much time looking for it. So.... Since I've more or less figured out how to use Yola's widgets to put together a website (my personal archive, Bennas Aearwen) I thought I'd toss something together real fast and see what the challenge owner thought. Guess I have a new job. :-D After I finish my weekend posting, I have work to do, don't I? :-D
I do have some music I really need to finish arranging for some four-part choral work to fit into a small program that the local Theosophical temple is putting on. It's mostly Broadway musical numbers, but there are a few other things going on that will make it a very special presentation. So, sometime between now and 2PM tomorrow, I need to fire up Noteworthy and arrange my little heart out! And that's not counting the fact that I'm up for piano/organ duets for the Sunday morning service tomorrow as well.
But, you know, it's nice to be busy - and busy with stuff for other folks. Wouldn't have it any other way. When I stop thinking about all the stuff going haywire in my own life and focus on helping someone else, my mood gets better - and that's a never-fail thing. And so I offer the idea to you guys, for whatever worth you might find in it.
My digestive system hates me, I'm sure. My daughter is starting to make noises about how I should be Googling "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" and taking note of what foods I need to avoid to keep from triggering this thing. All I know is that the damned thing strikes predictably in the wee hours of the morning and keeps me up for about two to two and a half hours before I fall back into bed too exhausted to do much of anything until I've had four or five hours of sleep. I missed out on a favorite Saturday morning tradition today: coffee with my Coffee Klatsch friends at a neat coffee deli nearby. Not happy about that at all!!
On a more positive note, I have volunteered to create and then manage a website for the A Long Expected Contest for Tolkien fanfiction challenges. They have an LJ community and a YaHell group maillist, but things have been a bit... scattered... for my tastes. I can never find a piece of information without spending way too much time looking for it. So.... Since I've more or less figured out how to use Yola's widgets to put together a website (my personal archive, Bennas Aearwen) I thought I'd toss something together real fast and see what the challenge owner thought. Guess I have a new job. :-D After I finish my weekend posting, I have work to do, don't I? :-D
I do have some music I really need to finish arranging for some four-part choral work to fit into a small program that the local Theosophical temple is putting on. It's mostly Broadway musical numbers, but there are a few other things going on that will make it a very special presentation. So, sometime between now and 2PM tomorrow, I need to fire up Noteworthy and arrange my little heart out! And that's not counting the fact that I'm up for piano/organ duets for the Sunday morning service tomorrow as well.
But, you know, it's nice to be busy - and busy with stuff for other folks. Wouldn't have it any other way. When I stop thinking about all the stuff going haywire in my own life and focus on helping someone else, my mood gets better - and that's a never-fail thing. And so I offer the idea to you guys, for whatever worth you might find in it.
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Date: 2010-06-20 06:57 am (UTC)Yola is a lovely site to use once you get the hang of it.I know nothing of coding ect and I have a site!
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Date: 2010-06-21 01:10 am (UTC)It has its limitations, but they aren't that many. I only have to sit and growl once in a while rather than all the time.
Besides, ALEC needed an easily accessed, central location to put ALL the info in one place. Maybe now we'll be able to drum up more business, ya think? (I hope...)
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Date: 2010-06-21 07:32 am (UTC)I personally wish that published stories were eligible as I cannot manage to write new stories both for Teitho and ALEC, but I love contests.
I've had occasional formatting problems on Yola,but nothing major.