Yeah it's gone a bit quiet here, mostly because I've already exported all my posts into a new wordpress development environment to work on the next design of the site, so I'll have to copy-paste all this across when I'm done writing it. But omg new blog! Exciting, right?!
Well actually, not so much. I'm spending hours and hours just getting my head around the very basics. I needed to upgrade my hosting, work out subdomains, the export took a while all by itself, then there was finding out what a "theme" is made of, how posts work, the different taxonomies. In some places it's bafflingly freeform, allowing several ways to achieve the same thing, in others it's strangely restrictive; things that are done with a click in Expressionengine being ostensibly impossible. Now I'm at the unenviable stage of having to individually categorise, tag and set the format for each of my seven hundred and fifty posts, and after that's done I have to set up some custom menu thingies before I can finally get my hands on the dreaded "loop"... Except there'll be at least three of them, because I like making things difficult for myself.
So yeah it's going pretty slowly, and it's playing second fifth fiddle to seeing my lovely boyfriend, socialising, deleting four fifths of the resulting photos and putting the rest on facebook, and playing a ton of different computer games (which needs a blogpost of its own). Also there's a merger and a complete refurb happening at work, and I turn the big THREE OH in a week and a half, so there's a lot on. But I'm keeping at it, in dribs and drabs. Dribs and drabs.