I love old books, and somewhere near the top of the list of old books I love are old Catholic books.
In fishy news, the algae in my aquarium was starting to get a little out of control, so I finally broke down and bought a pleco. He’s feisty and he’s grumpy as hell, so of course I adore him. And he’s small enough that he won’t mess with the other fish. Yet.
My uncle Paul sent my mom a bunch of old family photos awhile back. Most of them were ones I’d never seen before.
These two are my favorites. I can’t stand having anything on my head, even when the weather is sub-arctic. But that hat in the second one is made of awesome. And who wouldn’t want a crown?
That rocking chair used to scare the hell out of me, because it would rock so far back that you felt like you’d fall over. I used to stick two large dictionaries under the backs of the rockers, to stop it from tipping backwards.
When we first saw this one, my brother and I couldn’t figure out where it was taken (our dad’s house). I had absolutely no recollection of it, though I remember that that was my favorite top. We won’t speak about the rolled up jeans, knee socks, and sandals, m’kay? The less said about them, the better.
I still stand with my feet like that, by the way.
The Wild Beasts Tamed
collage (magazine cover, anatomical illustrations, and packing tape transfer) on Arches cover paper
7 1/2 x 11 inches
I’m so disgusted with the whole WordPress upgrade fiasco that I spent the day as far away from the computer as possible.
Dancing Queen
collage (child’s dress pattern and fragments from old books) and found art on Arches cover paper
7 1/2 x 11 inches
Refresh (left) and Stories You Write (right)
collage (magazine and catalog pages, found text, and child’s dress pattern) on Arches cover paper
7 1/2 x 11 inches
Okaythen! I’m back to being frustrated. I can’t get version 2.5.1 to work (it requires a database upgrade, which causes those lovely database table errors that I couldn’t get fixed the first time around), and since version 2.0 doesn’t have an export function[1], I can’t just dump everything into the test version, then upgrade the main blog manually and re-import everything.
And, of course, I got a response back from tech support telling me that my main blog is already running version 2.3.3. Um, no. It may say so in the admin panel, but the admin panel lies. And it doesn’t even make logical sense, since I installed from a back-up copy of version 2.0.
My understanding is that one of the symptoms of the hack I suffered is that WP misidentifies itself as a newer version. You have to look at the config files to find out for certain which version you’re running. When I tried to explain the upgrade death spiral to the folks at tech support, their solution was to alter my config file manually so that it now mirrors what the admin panel says. Not helpful! I want it upgraded FOR REALS, PEOPUMS!
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1. If it were actually running version 2.3.3, like tech support says, then I’d have my damned export function, thankyouverymuch. But it isn’t, and I don’t.
It took me all damned day, but I managed to finally get a working install of WordPress v.2.3.3 on the test subdomain. I tried installing it manually, using first one installation guide and then another. Neither installs worked. Then, I stumbled across Installity. Success!
I’m so relieved that I might cry. This has been thoroughly frustrating.
Now, I need to try to upgrade the test install to v.2.5.1. If that’s successful, my plan is to import my blog to test, back everything up, then wipe the main blog entirely and re-install from scratch, using the same process as I did on the test subdomain.
It’s awkward–and time-consuming!–as hell, but since my web host isn’t being very helpful (and they only support version 2.3.3, anyway), I’m not sure what else to do.
I can think of about a million other things I’d rather be doing this weekend.
I’m going to be off filing for a few hours. The stack of papers on top of my scanner has grown hummense and is starting to contemplate world domination. Again. And then, I’m going to try to make myself attempt to (re)upgrade my blog software. God only knows how long that will take, assuming I don’t break everything in the process.
Proterozoic unconformity and stratabound uranium deposits: report of the Working Group on Uranium Geology. Organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency, edited by John Ferguson.
US$246?!!! For a book on uranium deposits that was published in 1984?! And what I find even more mind boggling is that there is a copy listed on Amazon.
How could that possibly be comfortable?
red paper boat 