I’ve been spending my evenings ears-deep in PHP for a freelancy thing I’m doing. I’m at that point in the project where I have no idea what I’m doing or how to continue. But I’ll make it through.

So in the meantime I’m a bit quiet here and the blogs are piling up in my feedreader.

I miss summer. I miss Disney.

Oh, this Friday Five was tailor-made for me! It’s called: Stupidity

1. What’s something really, really stupid you’ve done that could easily have resulted in your own death?
I’ve left candles burning in my apartment overnight and while I’m at work. I’ve also met numerous online people in person – nothing turned out badly (I vet people pretty well) but I’ve heard that sometimes online encounters go bad.

2. What makes you feel stupid?
When I don’t get the whole story about something, either personal or work-related, then my lack of knowledge is put on full display when everyone around me knows everything.

3. What’s something that’s stupid in a very smart way?
Pari!s H!lt0n. She makes money being a stupid heiress.

4. What’s an example of a stupid idea working out in a way that solved a problem?
“Let’s just duct tape it back together!” Who’d have thunk that you could tape things like furniture, cars, appliances, etc, and they’d actually stay together?

5. There is apparently a brand of packaged popcorn called Smartfood. What might be found in the package labeled Stupidfood?
Cheese puffs. They’re radioactive orange, mostly air, and just a skosh of cheese. They’re addictive, so you can eat an entire bag at one sitting and get absolutely no value out of them whatsoever.

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What a freaking nutty week. I’m still so very thankful the layoffs passed over me. Must have been the lamb’s blood I painted on my cube wall. Of course, the rumor mill has started up already saying there will be more in December. Whatevs.

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Wanna sneaky-peeky of my redesign?:

I’m writing this 99% from scratch, just lifting the WordPress tags from past templates and the Codex. It’s a hell of a challenge, especially continuously checking it in Firefox, IE, and Safari. My goal is to have it launch on September 1. Major challenges include: 1) How to get my sidebars to extend all the way down to the footer? 2) What to do with my HUGE list of links? 2) Re-re-recoding the hostess picture page, and 3) turning “Pets” into “Cast of Characters” page – because seriously, if you’re new to this site, how the heck will you know who WM, Coworker S, and BvP are? I’m proud of the little date block, which I saw on quite a few blogs but coded all by myself!

Edited at 2:13pm Well guess what I discovered? My header file was hacked and a bunch of spam links were added. I noticed that Google stopped crawling my site in mid-March, and I think this was why. Let’s see…what did I do in mid-March? Oh yeah…I added that eyeball-searing pink WordPress theme. That I got for free. I think it contained a file that allowed the hack to happen.

Anyway, I cleaned up the header file, changed my WordPress password to a complete jumbled mess of letters and numbers that I’ll probably forget tomorrow, and sent a mea culpa note to Google requesting they start crawling me again.

Now I need to walk away from the PC or else I’ll have a fit.