events

Sunday night, 8:35pm
foundnd passport that has been missing for several months.

Sunday night, 8:35:05pm
realized that I can now go to DrupalCon Barcelona 2007.

Sunday night, 8:36pm
opened up Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity to look up airfares....

Sunday night, 8:42pm
agonizing over how much they've gone up.

Sunday night, 11:38pm
bought round-trip plane ticket.

Sunday night, 11:47pm
realized that I am indeed going to Barcelona. The usual pre-travel anxiety is setting in. Ack!

Monday, 10:57am
trying to do all the things that I would have taken a week to do, had I had a week before leaving.

Monday, 5:00pm
managed to cover the entire todo list. now going for essential manicure/pedicure.

Monday, 5:05pm
Reveling in the foot bath and massage.

Monday, 6:12pm
got home and had a glass of wine.

Monday, 7:23pm
started packing.

Tuesday, 12:35am
stopped packing. (Not finished, but somewhat close. I'm terrible at packing.)

Tuesday, 4:45am
got up and showered

Tuesday, 8:05am
got through Denver International Airport security. Not much of a crowd but we had to walk all the zigs and zags of the line. Disneyland.

Tuesday, 8:45am
sat down for a Wolfgang Puck pizza. Just about the earliest I've ever eaten a fresh-baked pizza!

Tuesday, 10:45am
Wheels up.

Tuesday, 3:45pm
Landed in Philly.

Tuesday, 4:10pm
Walked a mile through the airport to the international terminal. Thankfully all behind security.

Tuesday, 4:30pm
Airline agent okayed my first-class upgrade request. Now $500 poorer.

Tuesday, 6:17pm
Taking my seat in first class. A glass of champagne and four feet of "legroom" ... Not regretting those $500 one bit!

Tuesday, 7:05pm
Plane still has not taken off. Apparently a radio is defective.

Tuesday, 7:20pm
All passengers were offloaded from the plane. We're told we can get $10 off for "dinner" at McDonald's down another terminal.

Tuesday, 7:45pm
Stopped at a restaurant after walking a mile. Ordered a wine and salmon dinner.

Tuesday, 8:30pm
Airline has changed estimated departure from 9:30pm to 10:30pm.

Tuesday, 8:32pm
Airline worker just announced that they may not be able to fix the plane and have to cancel the flight.

Tuesday, 8:36pm
The plane has been fixed. Everyone is crushing back onto the plane.

Tuesday, 9:15pm
Plane is getting in line for take-off.

Tuesday, 9:40pm
Wheels up.

Tuesday, 10:15pm
Looking forward to more wine and filet dinner.

Wednesday, 1:00am
Reclined almost flat. Going to sleep now.

Wednesday, 11:55am
Touchdown in Barcelona.

Wednesday, 12:35pm
Wow! Passport check was fast, my bag came around the conveyor quickly, and customs just ignored me as I walked by. Getting a cab.

Wednesday, 12:50pm
A taxi driver has grabbed my bag out of my hand. I guess he's going to drive me where I'm going.

Wednesday, 1:45pm
Despite the address and Google Map printout of the destination, the driver is lost.

Wednesday, 2:10pm
Driving up and down streets, I saw the DrupalCon sign. The driver stopped in the middle of the narrow street. I've arrived!

Wednesday, 2:15pm
Realized I am seriously jet-lagged.

I've posted a request for input from those attending the OSCMS Summit regarding the theming session. If you're attending, please respond there. Or here, if it's convenient. We want the session to address your concerns and interests, and your help is requested.

I just went and did it: a little css reboot. I just couldn't take the drab look of this place any more. Really, the old theme was an embarrassment. My apologies are offered in advance to those of you on dial-up for whom this page will take some 40 seconds or so to load fully. The graphics should all be there by the time you finish reading this post -- Evelyn Wood graduates excepted.

The theme is powered by phpTemplate. (I'm still running Drupal 4.6 here.) The photograph is mine, shot in Colorado. There are more where that came from on my photoblog.

Lucky for me there's an occasion for this. I saw the CSS Reboot happening last year, but it was a total coincidence that this little redesign is coinciding with the current "event."

Alas, this site is not validating right now. Grrr! Part of the problem -- most of it -- is because I blog using ecto, which doesn't quite generate valid strict xhtml -- or at least it doesn't with the settings I'm using. But I'm sure one or two of the errors are in my Drupal theme template files themselves. (If I were a petty soul, I'd be gratified that I'm getting fewer errors than the CSS Reboot site itself. But I'm only petty enough to mention it without any joy.) I'll try to clean things up before the May 1 deadline. Because even though I did this for myself, the site really should validate.

But it's late. I'm tired. I have work to do tomorrow, and for many tomorrows after that. Hopefully I'll find some time before tomorrow is yesterday.

(Okay, dial-up visitors. By now the background images should have loaded by now. Do you like it?)