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I have been super productive today.  Even though I spent a lot of time online doing ... not much.  I still managed to:

1) Move and organize my image folder (even going so far as to delete about 150 MB worth of them - go me!)
2) Write a little essay (re: rant) about Paganism and tolerance
3) Install both Dreamweaver and Photoshop on my sadly deprived of memory laptop (if I had known how much memory Vista needs to work properly, I probably would have had them put in more).
4) Dug out my new brick of Sculpey and my mask sketches.
5) Grab a rough batch of new smilies and figure out instructions for coding them
6) Figure out what the whole deal with the spellcheck dictionary is
7) Finally quit my stupid grocery store job


Now, I am going to have a quick bath, look for some word puzzles that I can print out, and finish up the part of my novel that I am in the middle of polishing (re: re-writing).  Not too shabby for a lazy Monday ;)

Oh, and I added up the word count for Ella the other day - 48,730 and hopefully only about a third of the story left to write!  Yay me!

--Phae

OH!  and I have to re-pink the hair :P

I am two text feilds away from installing Wickets!  I have newbieAdmin-style questions!  Need helpz!

--Phae

Is the Yahoo group we have been invited to use for the planning of Wickets.  Everyone who is interested can sign up Here.  I want to thank Sana and her honey for their generosity in offering us a place to plan so that I don't have to learn how to run a Yahoo group :)

--Phae

As many of you know, PW is sinking again, and I am not entirely certain that I am going to make the effort to save it.  Most have jumped ship, and those who remain are infrequent posters at best (except of course for the ever verbous LadyK). 

And I am sure that most of  you have seen me complain about PC, which has become and will continue to become nothing at all like I wanted it to be (already it has failed to provide a place where Mysteries can be discussed without someone or other comparing those trads to dangerous and useless cults).  Honestly, and without any sour grapes, I just don't think that there is enough in common between the creators/maintainers' vision and mine to make it a place where I could feel at home.

This makes me long for TT.  I miss it.  I miss everyone who was there, and I miss the Witch-focussed conversations that we had.  I was thinking a bit about the idea that was tossed around the first time I was bucking at the core concepts of PC - creating my own forum.  I have some time on my hands, and I could create a place that could strive to fill the hole TT left in me.

I was even thinking of names (names help to cement concepts for me), and what sort of tribute I could make to TT.  I came up with Wickets.  Simple word smooshing.  I looked it up, just to make sure that there weren't any meanings that I didn't want associated with the site (I knew about wickets in cricket and croquet), and I found this: A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.

I think that is about the perfect image for what I am going for here (we all remember what the front page image of TT was ... Wickets made me think of This).  I will have to do some research on what I will need in the way of software and hosting, but I think that Wickets has already had the first breath of life breathed into it.  I am excited to see what this brainchild will become.

--Phae