Year: 2005

Hot For Teacher

Today, because of yesterday’s train derailment, was a day off for Aiken County schools because several local schools are now housing the displaced folks of Graniteville. But it was a teacher work-day, where the teachers reported to school to do, uh, work. On teacher workdays they get a lot longer lunch break and can leave the school grounds to dine in local restaurants.

I found this out when Donna and I walked into our favorite Friday afternoon off lunch place and it was packed. Several clues tipped us off that all these extra people were teachers, but what amazed me most was that a lot of these young women were very attractive, especially in their jeans and t-shirts. Funny, I don’t remember my elementary school teachers as being this hot. They were all old ladies.

Then logic took hold and I realized that when I was in elementary school my teachers were at least 20 years older than me, which would make them right about as old as these “girls.”

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 6

That Wasn’t So Bad

We had the yearly planning meeting for the Master’s Miata Club tonight and now, looking back, it wasn’t too bad. We managed to hammer out an event or two or three for each of the next 11 months. Now I have to make some sense of my scribbled notes and turn them into a web page….

It was sprinkling on the drive over so the top went up for the drive, for the trip back from North Augusta it was back down, but I propped it up so it could dry overnight in the garage.

Started down, went up, went down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 5

This *Is* Bad

Only about 6 miles from where we live an early morning train accident has killed eight people (so far)and sickened hundreds. (Story)

Top Transistions

I’m brining it back the top transition count for the year 2005. I had been thinking about late last year and thought I might go ahead and do it. I figured I’d wait until the first of the year and start on New Year’s Day. Well New Year’s Day has come and gone and I forgot to put the count on the page. I have been so busy trying to combine blogs that that little detail slipped my mind. Fortunately we have had a rash of spring-like weather recently so there hasn’t been a rash of movement. It was easy to backtrack to January 1st When it started down, I put it up for the early morning drive to the hiking location, after hiking it went down for the trip home and there it has been ever since.

Started down, went up, and went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 2

Blog Archeology

As you can see I have managed to import the previous 6 months worth of the Rant and the Diaries. Things have sped up considerably since yesterday. I had all 36 months worth of the rant archives to go through and even using the replace function in MS Word it was taking way too long. Until I downloaded a freeware program called BK ReplaceEm. This puppy is more powerful than I can ever figure out, but the beauty is that it will do several replacements over a group of files in one click. It took a while to set up, but once I got it going it corrected 95% of everything that needed to be fixed. The rest was done by hand in Word. When it came to the Diaries I set up the archive files as year, so I only have 3 big files to fix. I’m still importing them in 3 month groups just in case something goes hinky it will be a manageable fix.

I may have to work a little more on the template here before I import more. The category archives come out with out the space between posts. In the date based ones, only the first post on the page is inside a box, the rest just run across the background.

And at point am I going to exceed the limit of posts in my database? I was getting all kinds of db crashes a year ago which is what prompted a change to Pivot. I was blaming that on the fact that I didn’t have access to a MySQL db at the Barndoor Fan Club web hoster, on mr-miata I do. Is 2500 going to be too much? I guess we’ll see.

55 Minutes

Well the first one took me 55 minutes, but that included setting up a test weblog in MT and a couple of aborted imports because I had a few glitches in the file setup. They should go smoother from now on.

Grave Digging

OK, I have been mucking about with the templates of the old Daily Rant in hopes of getting some sort of output that can then be imported into Movable Type. If you go over and take a look at December’s archive page you will see what it looks like. There is still a lot of cleaning up to do. Of course all the links to posts inside the Rant are worthless, but the outside links survive. The Pop-ups are toast too. I managed a way to salvage the comments, but someone pointed out there were a few bon mots in there. It is still going to take some time in a word processor to clean up the file before it is ready to be imported.

That amount of time will tell if this project is worth it. If it takes 20 minutes to do one file I then have to multiply it by 12 months then times 3 for years and finally again by 2 for the two blogs.