CONTORTED PASTA

This is why I should always be steadily stocked with work, at work:

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I am not – repeat NOT – abandoning this blog. Or the other one. Just ... diversifying. Those of you on Tumblr, feel free to follow; those not, you're not missing anything.

... Well, aside from an endless stream of clips I've recorded off Radio 4, because I hoard radio like little old ladies hoard bits of string, and if anyone had told me how easy it was to share audio clips on Tumblr I would have signed up years ago ... but I will try to link them here as well.

I know many people thought it would never happen, but ...

I updated my website.
There's a page now for all the Worst Journey stuff, just in time for CENTENARY FEVER! (I jest.) The Discworld and assorted Harry Potter pages have had the stuff I've drawn in the last two years distributed to their respective homes, and everything else has been tossed in the junk drawer of Utter Miscellany. Please let me know if anything's broken or misspelled ...

While listening to The Vile Village, I remembered a drawing that hadn't made it to Photobucket and therefore was not included in the most recent update of my site. In looking for it I discovered a few more stragglers, so they're up on The Snicket Page now, along with some snippets of media that felt like they belonged. ( They're also behind the cut. )

I also discovered that the most Snickety minute in cinema is now on YouTube. I should warn you, over the course of the clip, three people get shot, two of them in a war setting, so if you have no stomach for such things, turn away now. The scene I'm talking about is at 3:44. Things being how they are, I don't know how long this clip will be up ...

I know you thought this day would never come ...

I HAVE UPDATED MY WEBSITE.


As well as that, the Utter Miscellany area is as up-to-date as it can be. The links and FAQ have been modified slightly, too, if anyone cares ...

I'm working on converting pages that were in the old format into the list format, and cross-referencing like mad to make sure every character and book has all their respective images, but wow ... that's a lot of work. I should be sewing my Halloween costume but somehow flannel is repulsive in the summer heat, so I slave over a hot laptop instead. Go fig. I think I've been conditioned to update my site in the summer because that's when I've been out of work, in the past, and more often than not the computer has been kept in the coolest, darkest room of the house. Still, a year – even a relatively unproductive and CRAZY year such as the last one – that's a long time without an update. Sorry. If you find any broken or misdirected links, please let me know so I can fix them while I'm still in website-updatey mode.

6:31 AM
Thanks to our neighbours blaring South Park at bloody five in the bloody morning, the Discworld page has been updated too, for what it's worth.

12:57 PM
The Goblet of Fire page is now in list format, which makes it even more apparent how few drawings it has. I'm working on converting Azkaban's page but it has the opposite problem .. holy crap did I ever draw the heck out of that book.

Off to work now, so no more updates today, probably.

10:12 PM
I lied. (Liar!) I mean, I did go in to work, but I also updated a bit more. Prisoner of Azkaban* is in list format now (it goes on and on!) though incomplete because I haven't added stuff from the Azkaban Project By-Products. The Azkaban Project is off the front page (I figured four years was a good run) but you can still find it at the bottom of the Azkaban page. All the Books pages should have the same sort of navigation stuff at the bottom. Please be vigilant for broken links to the Azkaban page; I changed the filename at the last minute and I think I got them all but I don't know. All the old Books pages should now redirect to their current incarnations.
*Going back through all the stuff for this book and listening to the soundtrack was great ... How did she get this one so right and then ... what happened?

Whew.

It is definitely not time to treat myself to a little musical villainy. [innocent whistling]

Itsy bitsy website update: I've finally put those pictures I drew at Christmastime on the Order of the Phoenix page (the OotP pictures, I mean, obviously; not all of them). A bigger update is coming when I finish converting the Odds & Ends section to list format, which will include the website debut of the rest of the HP stuff I drew this Christmas. The non-HP stuff is probably all up on the Miscellany page that was updated a few weeks ago, but if you can think of anything missing, please notify me.

Hey HP movie fans! Did you know Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) is in Shada? I'm not just lying to get you to listen to it, honest!
While you're there, The 99p Challenge is very amusing, and so is The Sunday Format and The Very World of Milton Jones. Go play!

I Saw 'The Empty Child'! (EDIT 12:52 pm 04 Aug - AND 'The Doctor Dances'!)( Incoherent Babbling )

And out of left field came ... AN UPDATE! I bet no one would have guessed I'd update my site tonight (I wouldn't have) but lo, the page of Utter Miscellany has indeed been updated. And all the links worked the first time! Wow!

This took significantly less time than I would have expected. There may be more soon. Or maybe not. Living on my own has made me uncharacteristically fickle. What will I do next?

In other news, I went for coffee today only to discover the nearby café has a Copenhagen Blend. How could I resist? It was all possible qualities until it entered my mouth, upon which it became delicious. Mmmm, quantum.

Cut to spare the general populace: ( Copenhagen Piano Glee )

As if the day could get any better: Guards! Guards! Episode Five.

[Warning: jargon ahead]

Okay, so I actually somehow found time to put together a Half-Blood Prince page today, and I uploaded it ... or thought I did. I FTP it up, and it looks like it's there, so I go test it, and I get a 404. I look back at my ftp, and it's not there So I upload it again. Repeat about four times... then I give up and decide to use the web-based FTP, upload it, test it, not there – I try to open it from the web-based FTP where it is listed clear as day and I still get a 404. Something is, to use the clacks term, 'totally flocked.'

[fume]

So, yeah. Someday my page will come. There's nothing up there that you haven't seen here, but it'd be nice to have it on my site at last.

Five minutes later
[sheepish grin]
Speling is a mervellous thyng.
But that still doesn't explain why it wouldn't work from the web-based FTP! Anyway, it's up now. Go enjoy. And of course, this means that those of you who were wanting to use these pics and I told you to wait till they were on my site ... you can ask again now, because I've forgotten who you were. (Mind like a sieve, me. Nothing personal.)

I've put the newer Discworld drawings up on my page. Also, an interview is up on The Phoenix Feather.

Today I have been reorganising the library. When our former roommate moved out, she took all her books with her, so there were areas of over-stacked books and big barren spaces, then all the newly-acquired books just stuck wherever. I thought that for once in the history of the universe there'd be extra room on the bookshelves, but once everything was rearranged and a little slack left for future additions, there wasn't even a whole spare shelf for the overflow paperbacks, which are starting to get two deep in their ghetto. Crazy.

The maritime forecast on the radio (no matter what radio) sounds like an ancient incantation, or poetry, or some sort of meditational mantra.

At last ... at long last ... the Character pages on my site have been reformatted, resorted, updated, tested, fixed, updated again ... and all that good stuff.

Egad, my bum is sore from all this sitting.

If you find any broken or misappropriated links, please tell me. I'm sure I've missed a few.

Oh yeah, and HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to Dadoo who was frolicking about the verdant countryside today. This is a day late to him because of the time difference... sorry.

Now I definitely have to spend some time not sitting down.

The other sections of Terra Extra Harry Potter are now up and running, and I have switched over to the new index page. WOO!

I've also converted the filenames of the Azkaban Project to .../azkaproj##.html so if you have any bookmarks or links, please find the new page and fix them. Same goes for any links/bookmarks you may have had in the old Terra Extra Harry Potter section, which has been deleted and moved to its own subdirectory.

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