Pittsburgh and I have a pecial relationship. Pittsburgh knows that we can’t be together full-time for several reasons, but it still understands that I love it more than the others.
Pictures from my most recent conjugal visit (includes Uniontown and Youngstown)
Last photo op with Irma before departing San Francisco for good. If I look bleary it’s because the ex and I had stayed up all night watching our moving pod to make sure it didn’t get broken into before the truck came for it. We were lucky. The worst thing that happened was someone peeing on it. Ah, the old neighborhood.
Dinner at Rocco’s later with Dan, Jamie, and Eugene.
Twenty years? Really? Damn…
I seem to be into site maintenance lately.
I’m doing a big project at Groceteria to redesign the store location lists to make them more responsive/device-friendly and also to integrate them more fully into the site search. I’ve also done a lot of theme work there to bring the main site and the message board more in sync.
As for this site, I lost all my tags and categories last year when I had the major database crash, I ended up having to restore the site one table at a time and the tag/category tables just would not work. I decided at the time not to care, but now I’m fixing it (manually) along with years of broken links, some of which date back to when I first migrated the site into WordPress almost 20 years ago. There are almost 3700 posts on the site, going back to 1996, so it may take a bit. (No, I’m not sure why I’m bothering with this site either, but here we are…)
Doing some work on the site (as I mentioned) and I’m restoring a few old posts that never made the transition to WordPress. Today, I bring you Diners, Dives, and Dumps, a short-lived collaboration between my friend Sarah and I in 1997-1999. Sadly, not a single one of these exists in its original form today:
You’re welcome! Enjoy the low-res images.
Did some re-theming tonight connected with all the maintenance and other tweaks. I’ve been needing to do that since the big database crash last year too.
I think it looks much better than It has over the past year, but I really kind of miss the individuality and design aesthetic of the web a couple of decades back. I was doing “dark mode” before it was cool. That said, focusing on content rather than design has its charms as well.
