Also known as: I'm a blithering idiot.

I spent way too long overthinking this problem and only finding solutions with floats (I have very specific cases where I'll use floats for layout, also I could have missed anything that didn't use floats for layout as I was stupidly staying up way too late when working on this). The way to do it is actually embarrassingly easy. I'll be using it for the header and footer (after I've installed Sassy, prepro and phpsass).

The above image is a screenshot of the header image on my local as seen in Opera (because it was the only one that showed the outlines regardless of the z-index).  The middle columns are 950px wide (specifically set in the footer due to it being a background image, not set in the header as the image isn't backgrounded and the div sizes itself to it).

What I specifically needed was for the continuation images to start from the edges of the middle div (the left continuation image of the header and both footer continuations are uneven) and stretch to the edges of the container (which is the same width as the browser window, however wide that may be).

F=Faham (Photo credit: :Salihan)

Not "versus" because it's not a contest.  Not really.

I think it's done now.

• fixed an issue where the years weren't being calculated properly (?!)
• I may be slightly out of sync with the official documentation, at least according to the tests I've done on my local so far.  This year should match up, and so will key dates (New Year Day and Leap Day).  I've shifted leap years to fall on multiples of 4 so calculating would be a simple case of if mod 4 is 0, it's a leap year, if mod 128 is 0, it's not a leap year, so some of my years will be a day or two out

theabysmal_calendar.info

theabysmal_calendar.module

I have this bias towards cats and dogs in this piece, because I've only ever shared a house with cats and dogs. 

Fenrir and Taliesin bunking in

My random thought that triggered the blat was that Josh is not going to let me have any more cats.

Clockwise from top: Ghost, Sanguine, Graymalkin, Darkness, Itti Bitti Kitti

The optometrist strongly recommended I get emergency glasses.  Just get the cheapest pair, keep them in the drawer, and in the unlikely event I get an eye infection I can wear them.  Better to have them and not need them than need them and not have them and all.

So I bought a cheap set of frames and got the lenses made and and picked them up earlier today.

The family were quite keen to see me in them, so I took my contacts out and whacked the glasses on.

Holy hell.

I am suddenly reminded why I hated wearing glasses.  I reckon they wrecked my eyes to begin with.  I always refused to wear them when I was a kid, until one day where I got told off by a teacher and told that if I didn't wear them (despite the fact they were giving me the worst headaches) I would end up with glasses with lenses as thick as the bottoms of coke bottles because I'd strain my eyes so badly.

clouds (Photo credit: Extra Medium)

And Zemanta gives me pretty cloud pictures like this one.

I'm actually talking about that cloud computing "fad" (seen the term tossed around to describe it, wonder if it's a fad like Facebook and the internet in general is a fad).

Just randomly (and because they asked nicely), we decided to go down to the park at the end of the road on bladei (okay, fine, Thursday, to be followed up by a trip to City Farmers to stock up on roo meat and mutton, and more flea meds).

The day was lovely, and of course I hadn't brought the camera, missed out on some awesome shots.  I really need to buy something that will cart just the camera with my favourite lens attached, don't really need the monstrosity that is Josh's camera bag (I have enough crap to haul as is).

While Cub slid down the slide, I heard that distinctive crackle as his clothes charged up with static electricity.  Then he ran back up the slide and grabbed onto the metal frame up the top to assist his ascent.

CRACK! "OW!" The surprise on his face was adorable.

The most recent session at Natural Learning Co-op (formerly known as Learning Hub, apparently there's another group in the northern suburbs also called Learning Hub, and which I'll probably shortern to the last word as I'm lazy like that) involved a music session with Alec from Child's Play Music.  He had a huge van full of musical instruments that he'd constructed mostly from recycled materials.

Aside from a dialogue tweak to viii or ix, it's been a good few months since I touched any of the last seven eps, which means it's been a year or so since I touched the first seven.  It's that "done" that I've felt confident enough to send it to two people I trust implicitly to tell me whether or not it's actually a load of crap, and if it's not a load of crap, if anyone other than myself will be capable of understanding it (I've been doing it for that long it wouldn't surprise me if there were patches where people would not have a clue what was going on but I know).

Kate of kate says stuff did a "Fast Forward" manifestation type post where she projected herself into 2017 and wrote about life as she would like it to be then.  I'm giving it a go, partially because it sounds amusing and partially because I currently have trouble thinking past later in the day never mind any further.

Salvador Dali: Persistance of Memory