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Weekend stuff

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Among other things, like laundry and cleaning, I spent some time this weekend futzing around with the book blog. New template, using the default “book” header image until I come up with something better. I’m having a hard time getting the links to play nice (for some reason, they won’t divide into link categories. Is it just a problem with the template, or is there a way to fix it?), but otherwise, I’m pretty happy with the template.

I think the blog needs a new name, since I’m going for a YA focus. Unfortunately, I’m notoriously bad at naming things. Suggestions would be most welcome.

I finished reading Hey Nostradamus, but I’m not going to write about it until after the book club meeting. I also finished Anatomy of a Boyfriend (link to my review on the book blog). And of course, I read Eden’s manuscript. I should have been doing more working and less reading, but I couldn’t help myself… 😉

I continue to plug along with Project 365. I may not always post the photos on my blog, but they’ll always be there in my flickr set.

And finally, a big congratulations to my friends Mary and Rob, who welcomed a baby boy into the world last Thursday night!

Okay, I’ve got work to do. Happy Monday!

Happy to be (Back) Here!

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Buffalo Bloggers
Originally uploaded by All Things Jennifer.

I went out to the Happy to Be (Back) Here Hour at Allen St. Hardware on Wednesday evening. I saw many familiar faces there, of course, and got to add a couple more Buffalo bloggers to the “I know you in real life!” list.

I was feeling pretty shy and self-conscious until I finished my first glass of wine. Oh, who am I kidding…half a glass of wine. 😉 Then I was all “Hey, I’m Erin! Nice to meet you!”

Jen and Mark were there, of course…Jen’s now helping to plan these events! She’s got some great photos here.

It was great to see Mild Mannered Blogger and wife. And forgive me for not putting in links…but I saw Elly and Amy and Geek and Marc and…I just know I’m going to forget people!

MikeinWNY wrote about the event and has some nifty slideshows up on his blog, the North Buffalo Journal and Review.

Thanks to Jen and the Buffalo Old Home Week crew for making these events happen! 🙂

Books read in 2006

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In light of my decision to keep The Places I Go and make some changes, I moved a bunch of posts over here this morning.

I have many, many things I should be doing…and instead I’m playing with my blogs. 😉

I’m finding that there are a number of books I read last year that I never got around to posting about. Ah well.

At any rate, you can see the updated list (with links) here.

Book blog post

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You may remember that I decided to nix my reading/writing blog, The Places I Go, in favor of bringing all of my book blogging over here.

Well, I’ve had a slight change of heart.

I’ve decided to keep The Places I Go, and I’m in the process of doing a site revamp. My goal is to make it a place where I’ll write about YA literature and authors. Look for an update in the near future.

Quick wordpress/blogging question

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Anyone know of simple way to change the background color? I’m using Kubrick, otherwise known as “default.”

Thanks!

Blog musings

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First off, I’m thinking of absorbing the book blog back into erin-go-blog. I have too many blogs, and I don’t seem to post enough over there to make it worth the bother. Plus, now that I can have categories, I can keep things all neat and tidy. Thoughts?

Also, more and more I like the idea of having some regular “columns” or “features”. I’ve kind of gotten away from the Friday photo, and I’d been wanting to find a regular (weekly) day to do my Reading, Watching, Listening thing. Y’know, Hilary has her Thursday Things, and Brian has his Midweek Meanderings. (hm…looks like I need to be considering my alliteration options. heehee) I think I’d like to create some consistency here.

I’ve got many a thought a-brewing…I’ve been saving it all up during the month while working on my novel, so check back with me soon! 🙂

Blogging-by-mail

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Demoiselle Differentielle received the fun package-o-Buffalo I sent out a while back, and it would appear that she enjoyed it! She did a pretty good job of detailing everything that was in it, so I’ll let you read about it there. 🙂

I’m very happy that she appreciated the CD of local(ish) music I included! Yay! (I say -ish because there was some Canadian stuff on there as well, but hey, it FEELS local to me!)

Wondering how you can get in on this Blogging-by-mail business? Visit my good friend Stephanie for the details! You can sign up for the holiday edition now!

Get LinkedIn

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View Erin Nappe's profile on LinkedIn

Stephanie invited me to join this a long, long time ago. I joined, but never went any further with it. So today, when I got an invite from jennimi, I decided to complete my profile and look for people I knew. I didn’t find any. 😉

Anyway, do check it out!

By the way, it drives me completely crazy that I can’t use my theme editor on wordpress. To make any changes, I have to go through the process of downloading the files to my computer, making the changes, and then uploading the files again. Which is why it takes me so long to add anything to my sidebar that I can’t do by just adding links. Does anyone know what I need to do to make my theme editor files writeable again??

Import done

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Whew.

I’ve RE-imported all the posts from blogger. They start in March of 2004…so I lost all of October 03-February 04. (and a few other random posts, nothing major) But a lot of that does exist in some form or another…from when I thought I was going to make a novel out of it. 😉

Also, I lost most of April and May of this year. I might still have some of that in the database I backed up but can’t figure out how to restore. Turned out to be a gigantic pain, but not really a tragedy.

The biggest pain is that I will eventually have to reformat and categorize all of those blogger posts. I’ve got nearly all of 2004 done. Except November, which didn’t import the first time for some reason.

But it looks like the second import got everything, with very few duplicates. Yay.

Lesson learned: do not mess with *anything* without doing a backup first.

Rebuilding

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The rebuilding of the sidebar has been coming along slowly…I weeded my blogrolls a bit last week, removing things that I either no longer read or were bad links.

I have a few new (to me) bloggers that need to be added to my blogrolls, which I’ll be getting to soon.

There just aren’t enough hours… 😉