E and I had planned to head down to Atlanta for art and office supplies - and a nice dinner - but Mother Nature is a bit moody this hot August Saturday. So we spent the day in the office. E is working on a final draft of a story; I have been wasting time on this weblog.

But I did learn a few things....

God, I love creating this stuff on my Mac. First, the color pane allows me to work with only the 256 web-safe colors, if I desire. And when those colors didn't include the one I wanted for my navigation bar background, I easily switched to adjusting the grey-scale on a hue I wanted.

And then I stole some code from my .mac account for a webcounter. iBlog made it easy to insert the counter in my home page. Cleaning up Apple's obscure code was a bit of a pain, but my experience with BASIC, DOS, and MS macros, thought long-forgotten, all came back to help me navigate the mess. Don't blame me for what I couldn't clean up, though.

iBlog is a joy to work with. It integrates perfectly with iPhoto and iDisk. I have imported five different photos today, and uploaded at least two dozen times while working out colors and layouts. The entire system is rock-solid. And now I sit in my favorite chair, watching the first big weekend of college football, typing a stupid blog entry. Since I have wifi, I don't have to go back upstairs to upload this entry.

I'm not sure my Online Status picture - in a tent - is as funny to anyone else as it is to me. I think the underlying story might make it funnier. That photo was taken dozens of miles from any kind of grid. No electricity, no phones, no way to even uplink to a satellite. I was in the middle of the Masai Mara, in East Africa (E took the picture on our honeymoon). My goal is to have that photo show only when neither of my IM icons indicates I am online. I need to find a picture of me working away behind two computer screens for the alternate picture, when at least one of the icons is in full color. And I need to write (or lift, heheh) the coding. Don't hold yer breath.

This stuff just eats away the time, though. Yes, we cancelled our Atlanta trip, but we needed to go to the dump (that's a story for another day) and the post office. And pay the storage bill. And we're out of vermouth, and trash bags, and all those other Blue Ridge Mountain essentials.

Georgia 30, Clemson 0. Go Dawgs. And 'bama is behind USF 14-7. As in University of South Florida. Aren't they a Blind Women's college? [Sigh ... Alabama won 40-17]