happy sunday

here in the inner sunset it's foggy. my beautiful south-facing windows afford a nice view of it whilst i blog. if you know the lay of the land out here you know we have little bump we call turtle hill aka washington heights that provides a stunning view of fireworks, the park, and down to the palace of fine arts and golden gate bridge on a cloud-free day. on any kinda day our little "hill" will give you a workout you won't forget. you can even include a few of SFs brutal "hidden" staircases if you dare.

i can't believe how exhausted i have been this weekend. i have basically slept. it must be fate that kept me away from the campout. i don't see how i would have done anything other then lay around. it's really lame to do that in front of your friends. i think laying down and being antisocial is something you don't need to drive five hours to do.

what's in the works for me right now? so glad you asked...

website upgrade:
i still have my website upgrade in the works. i have taken my photos pages and upgraded the template to make room for the 1200 - 1500 pages that aren't up as well as the DJ photo sections. i have to do some organization around the DJ photos as those come from so many different sources.

now it's down to upgrading the computer program that generates these pages. it's a dirty little game of escaping metacharacters and getting spaces (aka   tags) just right. and not all elements of my overall website template belongs and/or fits in the photos pages templates. i can do this piece in a couple of hours i think but the other organizational pieces take longer.

right now, i am just finishing the website backup which has taken over 24 hours when all is said & done. i suffer from the same download/bandwidth woes as others. there's not enough disk space on my server to zip up all the content so i was forced to download the whole archive uncompressed. not that compression would have bought me that much when one realizes i have a lot of jpg and mp3 files up there...

cover art:
i have to start/finish the cover art for my last three CDs. i will be putting at least a small number of CDs five and six to CDs with cover art on them and a larger number of the latest.

throwing parties:
some friends and i are going to start throwing parties. we won't have a lot of energy for this until after they return from BM. i'm not going. i can't. and they are inundated getting ready. which is just as well... i will be very focussed on my day job during that time frame so it works out for everyone's schedule.

but for now... happy sunday!

today i'm going to get in a light run and see if i can rally some friends to go to the north beach jazz festival. my friend is playing tonight. i think it will be fun. i know... i don't like north beach that much but jazz is the magic word and i look forward to the opportunity of surprising my friend by showing up with some support.

and of course i'm going to play some music today in any case...

so happy sunday!