Three Columns? Why not?

I spent FAR too much time this morning, but I've now got a three-column blog! I quite like it - keeps the sidebar from getting too long, I think. I will no doubt continue to fiddle with it, and once it's solid I might revamp my web site to match it more closely. We shall see.

There's a danger of spending more time playing with the look and feel of the web site than actually writing, and since I'm a) a nerd and b) a former web developer, I find this stuff fun. But I will behave!

(Edited to add: I found the details for the three-column dealie at http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/07/create-three-column-blogger-template.html - don't want to suggest I came up with it all by myself. :)

Now, Mr. W and I are leaving this afternoon for a week's vacation, booked before I knew about NaBloPoMo. It's a little resort about two hours from here, and rumour has it they have Internet access. I contemplated pre-posting, so there'd always be something new here, but the point of NaBloPoMo to me is daily attention to the blog, and pre-posting kinda defeats that.

SO, if I get Internet access daily, I'll post daily. If not, I'll post when I do, and think happy blog-related thoughts the rest of the time. :)

Have a great week!

And thanks to all who've commented on the previous identity-related post - I think I'll be going with my name pretty much everywhere. Still trying to decide what to do on Ravelry, but as it's just for fun, I'm not sure it matters all that much what I call myself!

Heather

Rereading Raoul: random results

I'm a little fried at the moment, due to about 4.5 hours of intense Raoul reading. So, another stats post, because them's easy to write. :)

Time spent: 4 hours, 28 minutes (I know, I'm such a nerd... but when I start a session I activate my Palm time-tracking software and I deactivate when I'm done, so I know the exact count, so why not share it with you?)
Words read: 38,279 (again, nerdy. Sorry. :)
Average words per minute: 143

Now, I have been regularly clocked at 1200 wpm reading a 'regular book', so 143 is slow for me. But when I read a regular book I'm not worried about whether every line makes sense, whether every word's the right one, whether every little nuance works the way I want. And here? I so am.

And they DO, my friends, they do. I have made changes, but none have been of the what-moron-wrote-this variety. Holy expletive-deleted, I love this book. :)

Sharp right turn. I have to say I feel bad about how I'm doing on NaBloPoMo. Not on the Po part, but on the commenting on other people's posts. I have a nice collection of blogs to read (largely collected from Ravelry - woo, Ravelry!) and I'm now two full days behind. Urgh.

If you're reading and commenting here, know a) I'm so grateful, b) I have your blog in my list, and c) once Raoul's done (tomorrow, barring a major wheel falling off), I'll be all blogs all the time.

Stay tuned. More nerdy facts tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon I'll be at Starbucks, where I usually start and end projects. (I also usually cry at the end of a book, which necessitates a quick exit from Starbucks, but oh well. :)