prairie point

no satisfaction

Right now I am really feeling frustrated. I am spending more time working on the templates and the CSS for this weblog than I am writing. I can't get things to work the way that I want. For instance I really wanted to have a floating thumbnail image of Miss Kitty along with a popup image on that post two days back. I got that to work exactly the way I wanted it in Mozilla, which is the browser I normally prefer myself, but I cannot make it work in IE.

I should create a separate site to experiment with but instead I've just been playing with this one. So half the time it looks terrible and then I have to spend time undoing my experiments to make it look presentable. Chances are nobody is looking at it anyway but to acknowledge that would destroy the very notion of writing the weblog anyway, wouldn't it?

On top of the fact that I haven't been able to do any writing, I am also neglecting some of the other things I would like to be doing. I have a couple of other websites I am supposed to keep up for organizations I belong to and I am behind there. I haven't had time to work on my photography as much as I wanted and there is a lot of weeding that needs to be done in my garden. And we've got houseguests arriving tonight for the weekend.

My notion of this was that after a short initial setup phase the technology would become transparent and I could write when and where I chose and it would not just eat up my time. And you know that could be true right now if I would only accept the default templates instead of trying to do somethng else.