By default, when you set up a child menu, it appears directly under and slightly indented from the parent item.  Occasionally, there is a need (such as with the kiosk I'm currently working on for the Christmas Island Tourism Association) where you need an active-trail but the menus need to be in different regions.

Rather trying to do everything with blocks in regions I found it easier to dump code in templates.

<?php
      $main = menu_navigation_links('main-menu', '0');
      echo theme('links__system_main_menu', array(
        'links' => $main,
        'attributes' => array(
          'id' => 'main-menu',
          'class' => array('links')
        ),
      ));
  ?>

I appreciate the fact that you seem to think you're doing the environment a huge favour by not proliferating your genes all over the place, what with the human species hitting 6 or 7 billion and climbing at a rate of knots despite countries claiming declining and aging populations and their respective governments desperately trying to bribe people to breed.

I find it great that if you don't want kids, that you're not bowing to the ridiculous traditions of society to get married and have them anyway because it's something to do on some checklist that someone seems to have invented as a measure of a "successful" life.

Done while I was testing out my new toy.  This was actually done the first day I got said new toy (Wacom Cintiq 12WX which I will review later after I've used it a bit more), thought I better get over myself and just post, incomplete and dodgy looking notwithstanding :)

I'm too used to painting anthros, I gave him way too much fur.  These are the "undercoat" layers, I hid the top coats.  More therio, less anthro, so not so much fur! I think I need to start the fur over and work out how exactly I'm going to deal with it as he has a puffy tail.

This is a paintover of a friend as photographed by my husband after I told them to go make me some stock photos.  Gnarus' appearance is based on the friend in question, although Gnarus is a lot shorter :)

Due to Josh taking an impromptu nap at an inopportune time and not waking up in between me leaving to take the dogs for a long walk and getting back from taking the dogs for a long walk, we got Chinese from the Golden Castle Chinese Restaurant down the road last night.

It would have taken just as long to cook in the end but anyway.  The food is good.  One of the dishes Josh got was prawns for himself and Tao (mostly, as I'm allergic and Ruan doesn't like them, and Cub gets to have one).

Tao joked about slipping me a prawn, I casually responded, "Do you want me to die?"

It wouldn't happen as I'm not anaphylactically allergic to them, I just get rashes and very sick.

Ruan was horrified.  "NO! You give me and Leo booby!"

Nice to know people care ;)

I recently hit three decades.  I spent most of the actual day finishing up the coding for the site that's going on the kiosk Sprat and I are doing for the Christmas Island Tourism Association and cleaning for the party on the following day.

Ruan requested the whiteboard so I took it down for her, and little arty girl knocked herself out drawing on it.  Tao came in to me at one point asking how to write an F.  I explained it as like an E but without the bottom line (and previously I've described the E as a backward 3 as that's how he was writing it, just straighter).  Later he very excitedly came out and asked me to come look at something he'd done for me.

I obliged.

I didn't think it was too bad an effort for sounding out "happy birthday".  That squiggle on top of it is a heart drawn by Ruan, copied from the blue one above it that I drew at her request and she coloured in.

Walking distance down the road from my place is Pioneer Park.

It's marked "A" on the map.  Josh and the kids went there to pick figs.  I decided to take the dogs (and the toddler, who had to come with me as Josh was taking his car) for a bush walk.

A good, long, decent bush walk.  On a subsequent walk along this trail, I went past this huge expanse of open area Tao and I had reached before we'd walked up to the road and walked home as it was getting close to dinner time (but not dark yet, because it's summer in Perth and it doesn't get dark til 7:30-8pm).

This time I kept going and after I walked under this really high bridge for a very wide road, I decided to check with the trusty iPhone to see where the heck I was.

It told me Tonkin Highway.  More specifically, it reckoned Tonkin Highway where it crossed over Albany Highway.  I was walking along the river so follow the big green snake.  Got some photos with the crappy camera on my iPhone, might have to head back that way with Josh's camera.  Also, was busy keeping an eye on a certain toddler.

Just so I don't drive myself completely insane again.

It's a fairly standard theming problem, you have your Drupal comment form rendering thusly:

Your site is set to not allow posting by anonymous users, rendering the "Your name" field superfluous and you think the subject line looks ugly, is unnecessary or you just don't want users giving their comments subjects for whatever reason.

In Drupal 6, you do it like this.  In Drupal 7, it's easier but harder to find.  They're in the docs, but the docs are a bit of a mess still.

Yesterday was an awesome day.  To counter, I had a rather average day.  Compared to yesterday it was bad, but seriously in the grand scheme of things, it could have been a lot worse.

Okay, maybe not quite on my doorstep.  But it was a big fire.  And it was possibly deliberately lit.  First I noticed of it was the smoke.  Not really that unusual, it's Australia in summer.  It happens.

Then Josh and the kids got home from City Farmers.  The kids were terribly excited, rushing in yelling that we have to wake up the baby and get going.  Josh came in and asked if I'd noticed the fire.  I said I smelled the smoke but otherwise hadn't been concerned about it, there's occasionally fires up in the hills.

What's been happening at Wannabe Farmstead? Feels like a lot.  I was out with the dogs at the oval when it occurred to me:

• I can sort out and adjust training "schedules" in my head fast from observing the dogs while working with them
• I can work out learning styles and interests of the kids from observation and interaction and work out where to go and things to do that they might find interesting
• I can work around family stuff with minimal dramas
• I can do things for clients on time (provided they get me what I need when I say I need it by)
• I cannot organise my own way out of a paper bag

I should probably do something about that last point.