Done Since 2018-02-11

It's snowing; has been since some time last night. Good day for not going anywhere.

We went to the (first, as it turned out) open mic at the Freeland Cafe last night. It wasn't entirely successful -- our first song, "Lord of the Buffalo", was a bit of a trainwreck because we'd neglected to bring a music stand and light, and we needed them. We cobbled something together for "October Country" and "Gentle Arms of Eden", but it's pretty clear that I absolutely have to memorize the chords for anything we perform there.

Singing lessons have been going well. We've figured out that most of the songs we do have to be capoed up anywhere from a whole step to a minor third to get them into our optimal range. (N and I have almost exactly the same range, an octave apart.)

At N's suggestion, we invited Colleen's caregiver to come to Worldcon with us. That will help a lot, even if her plumbing problems (TMI in the notes) get resolved soon. Travel is becoming has become quite difficult for her.

Work on the website for N's new business is progressing, finally. I'm using Wordpress, since that will make it easy for her to update it; I spent quite a while fighting with the theme, though. At some point I'm going to have to learn how to roll my own. I'll post a link when it's in reasonably complete shape.

At some point I really need to write the "HTML for Poets" tutorial I've been thinking about. Meanwhile, here's a tip: You can make the browser obey line breaks by adding the following attribute -- style="white-space: pre-wrap;" -- to a <p> or <blockquote> tag. It gives you the same effect as <pre> only without changing to a fixed-width font.

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