On this mid-morning Thursday I’ve been working with a new program called Drupal to see if I can make it work for some of my websites. While it is very capable, I’m having trouble making it do (what I consider to be) the most basic tasks. So, rather than beat my head against the desk for a while, I’ll write a blog entry instead while my subconscious tries to figure out my problem.

The major activity this week is dad’s yard sale, selling off all the tools in his workshop (or at least some of them … he keeps changing his mind about what tools he wants to keep). I’ll be driving over to Soda Springs this afternoon to start getting things set up for the yard sale. Pricing the stuff for sale and packaging things together for sale will be very difficult, I think. I’m hoping to have a number of pictures.

Speaking of pictures, I’m working on a new release for the picture album system. The idea is to load the pictures to Flickr and give them a picture set name. Then in the picture album, reference the picture set name for the new album and it’ll automatically generate links for all the pictures and then allow you to add text and modify the sequence, if necessary. That way the pictures don’t have to be sized before loading because Flickr will do it all. We’ll see how that works. It’ll be about a month before this capability is ready for release.

Hot, hot, hot is the description for the days recently. I’m about ready to close up the house and turn on the air conditioning once again. The mornings are cool, but by the time the sun gets onto the back of the house, it has become very hot inside and it takes the AC a long time to catch up. Better to start when the house is already about at the temp the AC is supposed to hold.

Well, I’m no closer to an answer to my dilemma. Time to go get something (soft) to drink. I’m probably missing some very basic step that is intuitively obvious to everyone except me!