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It’s been over a month since Molly and I have been to a spinning class as things for the last bit have been kinda crazy. Even though I’ve been riding my bike all over the place, apparently it wasn’t enough of a cardio workout to prepare for my return to Quad. It was a great class, but by the end I was pooped, and had a decent ride home ahead of me too.

*** The crap on the floor is just chipped paint… NOT PUDDLES OF SWEAT!! 

“Holy moly!” combined with “Holy Matrimony”. 

Imagine standing at the alter, the room is silent, everyone is watching you, while you watch the door, waiting for your bride to arrive. The doors open, everyone turns, and you see her… standing in this dress:

Good lord.

Molly forwarded this to me, so SHE gets the credit!  

Activity

• Rode the bike to work (6.1km)

Breakfast

• One Interactive Nutrition Low Carb Bar - iced dream

Activity

• Rode the bike to Dominion and back to the office (2km)

Lunch

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Activity

• Rode the bike over to Molly’s office to drop it off (3.3km)
• One hour of spinning at Quad

Dinner

• One Premier Nutrition Protein bar - double chocolate crunch

Activity

• Rode the bike from Molly’s office along King, up Roncesvalles, and along some back roads home (9km)

Snacks

• A small glass of Diet Pepsi

As per usual, once I get my head wrapped around the desire to tweak the settings of my site, I’ll sit here for hours until I get it just the way I want… or eventually give up as things aren’t working as how I expected them to. In this case, I finally fixed an issue that I’ve had for months.

For the longest time, I wanted to have a different header image, chosen at random, whenever the site was loaded up. Some may find it irritating, but I’ve always liked them. Gives the site a bit of randomness, and I also get to chose a number of header images that I like. However, with this theme, I couldn’t figure out where to implement the code. I found some sites with some suggestions, where they said to place a bit of CSS after the stylesheet was called, yet my attempted “randomness” was always ignored. It drove me nuts, and the worst part is that I’m not really a PHP/CSS expert, so I got irritated when my poke-and-see-what-happens method of updating the code didn’t work.

Fast forward to tonight, things just seemed to make sense. Perhaps it’s some experience in PHP/CSS that I might have gained without realising, or just because my head was clear or whatever, but I figured out where the hidden extra call for the stylesheet was, and took it out. Voila! I now have random images. Now the only issue is figuring out what images to use. I have three to start off with, and we’ll see how long it takes to get some more together.  

Other than that, little things that I’ve been meaning to do that I finally got done:

• Bring the “Daily Shots” out of their own page, and put them in with my regular posts. I found that I updated the daily shots more than I posted regularily, yet they were hidden away. I like how I’m taking daily pictures with my iPhone and am able to post them up when I feel like it, so I’ve made it a regular thing on my main page. Woohoo.  
• Enable Lightbox for the “Daily Shots” category. As I am posting my daily shots from my iPhone, I don’t have the ability (or desire) to add the code to have Lightbox bring the images up nicely when they are clicked. I hated how they would be enlarged on a separate blank page, and so I installed an updated version of Lightbox that will do it all for me. The gallery will still be displayed with Thickbox, until Lightbox has proven itself to me.
• Ensure that the comments are always on by default. A while ago, I set it so that I would have to enable comments on the posts I wanted. This was when I was mainly updating my blog with my “Meals & Activity”, and didn’t see the need for comments to be submitted for those posts. I kept forgetting to turn them off, so I set them to be off by default. However, as I started to post more and more outside of my eating habits and daily activity, I would occasionally forget to enable comments. Not a big thing, as I don’t get as many comments on my site as I used to, but still… it irked me.
• Added a link to a larger graph. When I started to track my weight and have it displayed in a graph, it was fairly legible. However, as time went on, and more data was entered, the graph started to look more like a blob than anything else. I still want to keep the starting weight, as I like seeing the decline, but I figured that a larger version of the graph would make it easier to read, so I included a link.

Anyway, just a few updates, and I guess I’m mainly posting this blurb about them for myself so I can keep a record of what I did.

Aren’t you glad you wasted some of your precious time reading about inconsequential tweaks to my site?

I am.