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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. None of which I can talk about here. Sorry. Much of it is not my tale to tell.

In girlwichy news, however (which is mine and no one else's tale to tell), we're going to be experiencing some upgrades and/or alterations over the next few days-ish.

-Ish because it's Boywich who'll be doing the grunt work, and nice guy that he is, he's doing it out of the goodness of his heart, so I ain't gonna nudge him to do it quickly.

That will mean several things:

a) the site will hopefully end up looking a bit prettier.
b) there will be a live feed to my Twitter stream (I don't know what the proper term is, so as per usual, I'm coining my own.)
c) there may be a little downtime.
d) there may some unexpected scary crashes (ouch! don't hurt the cat).
e) I may need to stay out of his way by not blogging during upgrading.
f) the earth may open up and swallow its young, in which case, hey, it's been nice playing with y'all, and "I'll see you in hell!"

In News of My Life:

1. I finished my grad school applications. Somebody give me a cookie.
2. I finished my hat. Somebody give the hat a cookie.
3. Kitwich has twice attacked the hat. Nobody give her a cookie. Though I just gave her some milk, so I guess the tough-love plan is not especially in effect.

PS. If the whole novelist plan doesn't work out, I wanna be a rockstar.

Well that was fun - not. It seems that for some reason best known to Movable Type, as of Friday I was no longer deemed worthy to log into and post upon my own blog. And after much futzing and investigating, my friendly neighborhood geek guru (Boywich, who is the actual author of the post below this one, in case that isn't immediately apparent from his little self-promo) discerned that the only way to fix it was to upgrade the whole damn shebang to a new version of Movable Type. (Yes, he is always that funny. No, you may not have his phone number. All boys are belong to me.)

But wait, there's more - and it's even fussier and less entertaining. Because we couldn't log into the old version at all, we weren't able to port my existing posts into the new version, and for some reason - again best known to the nanobots or whatever strange contraptions make the blogware go - the new version gets posted at a different address. Ack. Yeah, I've had a migraine all day today, and that's before I even got all the details nailed down.

However, the good news is that once we finish hand-importing all those trillions of wordy, pic-heavy posts to the new site (and eventually figure out how to make it appear at the proper URL), the thing will operate a lot better thanks to its upgrade. For instance, there will now be proper archives and stuff, so you can easily see just how fracking wordy I really am.

Okay, enough technobabble. If anyone is still reading and/or awake, I am now going to move onto more entertaining things. I was going to put up a pic of some very pretty yarn I bought, but since the new and theoretically improved MT isn't letting me do that yet (apparently I have not beaten it sufficiently senseless to have earned its respect), I shall instead have to offer you a boy update. After trying and failing to create a Top 10 List of Reasons to Ditch the Blonde (I got to 7 and then got waylaid by dreamy memories), and then getting a very helpful boy's eye viewpoint from Boywich (who pretty much rocked the house this weekend, what with the blog-fixing and the empathizing, and assorted laughter-inducing conversations), I woke up this morning with a) a migraine, and b) a clear vision of what I want to do.

I won't go into details, because I am not (at the moment, anyway) feeling like laying my whole life out there on the table for y'all to peck at, but suffice it to say, I have at least one date this week, none of the participants in which will be yellow-haired, and I think the whole situation is going to work out just fine. And I am quite a bit more content than I was a few days ago. Not entirely, but well on the way.

PS. One more bit of techno-talk. The rather bland site design you see here is only a temporary placeholder. I'll be poking around in my html (sounds lewd, don't it?) and messing with it, and prettifying, but it may take a while, work and life and potential dates being what they are. So, you know, hang in there and just imagine that that skyline is real or something. Thanks.

PS2. Late-breaking addition: Gregory Peck! Oh, how glorious.

Technical Support (a cadre of geeky, well-endowed blondes with good skin, mad XML skilz, and revealing garments that fall off at opportune moments, all of whom are named Boywich) welcomes you to the new Girlwich. At the moment, we are working on the final layout of the new site, which will include a fabulous new template and handy widgets.