Tinkeritis

I've developed a bad case of it, this time in connection with my revamped website. I spend waayy too much time on it, tweaking this, tweaking that, adding a widget here, a widget there -- and of course, messing up, sometimes horribly. Steve Bennett and his team at AuthorBytes have done a great job, but I can never leave well enough alone. The problem is, I don't know HTML. It's like word cipher to me. So what should take minutes, takes hours -- and I do mean hours. One minute everything looks fine, the next stuff is smushed all over the web page. Why? Well, twenty minutes of sleuthing reveals that somehow a caret went missing. Or maybe it was an apostrophe that got dropped in. It's the punctuation of HTML that gets me. But I guess that's also why I enjoy doing it. There's something exquisite about its rigorous set of etiquette and insistence upon a well-placed semi-colon. Hmmm.

The good news is that I've been working steadily to get my next Lanie Price book done. The bad news is that I've been falling steadily behind on my NaNo novel. I should have surpassed the 30,000-word count, but ... I don't want to even think about it.

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