technonaturalist

I have a “family tree” in MacFamilyTree which contains a lot of family saplings as it contains every named major and minor character and several unnamed but otherwise important ones (such as parents of siblings, as you need to list parents to be able to link people up as siblings). The main part of the family tree seems to be tracing The Art from Taha’ne through Ter’wyn down to My’rai (currently the last descendant on the list, the character is about 8-10 in my head in his current state and I also have an idea of him as a teenager but only have snippets of story for him) which is rather entertaining as there is 1723 years between them. That’s a lot of characters even given that the Dragonkin live an average of 120 years.

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Seeing as I’m rejigging everything else anyway I think when I throw the boulders back in the river it will be following theAbysmal Calendar. It’s going to make date conversions interesting (suppose I better write that module at some stage) but even in the current rudimentary stages I’m finding date projections and calculations easier with theAbysmal than with the Gregorian (where I need to look at the calendar because it doesn’t always visualise correctly in my head). Yes I have actually had a plan for this year (since November in fact), no I haven’t written it down and sorted out all the final details yet, I’m working on it.

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Stuff to keep going

Bookwork for pocket money was working out nicely (up to the point where it fell apart catastrophically from September while the dental work was being done and then again in December because of silly season). Been pinged for not doing literacy and numeracy every day again but none of us feel like bookworking it every single day and I honestly don’t know how much more literate and numerate I’m supposed to be getting after reading every single night (they are read to and the big ones read passages aloud, more if we can get them to read more), voluntarily playing Reading Eggs, counting how much pocket money they’ve saved up and how much more they need for whatever it is they want to get and working out how many blocks they need to build this thing in Minecraft and other random bits and pieces that seem to magically crop up without too much deliberate intervention by me.

Because I always seem to manage to completely forget how to do something this basic.

template.php in theme_preprocess_page(&$variables) or theme_preprocess_node(&$variables)

<?php
  $path = drupal_get_path_alias();

  if (strpos($path, 'part_of_url') !== false) {
    $variables['theme_hook_suggestion'] = 'page__whatever'; // or node__whatever if using in a node preprocess
  }
?>

That’s how old my Little Big Boy is.

My goofy scrawny scrawnlet with a prodigious appetite and no apparent storage area chose to go to Maylands Water Park for his birthday (aka “The water park we went to for [his friend]’s birthday”) where he had a round of mini golf with Daddy:

In no particular order:

• no more massacres (that’s everything from American schools to mass murders politically correctly defined as “war”)
• free quality education for everyone (including how it’s received)
• equal access to resources for everyone
• marriage equality for everyone
• everyone for everyone

Happy solstice/theAbysmal New Year/Yule/Christmas/end of the world/whatever you celebrate at this time :)

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Modded to be slightly more useful as I wrote the other one while slightly delirious.

• upgrade to latest D6
• drush arb default --destination="wherever/you/like"
• mysql update systemsetstatus='0' where filename like 'sites%'
• delete 6.x, retain /files and /sites directories, remember any mods to .htaccess
• drop in 7.0 files
• drush updb
• if no error, press y
• if error occurs, make a note of what you need to do to fix it. If this is a repeat run, fix all errors noted
• rename/move your Drupal directory (or delete it but in the event you need it later)
• from above where the Drupal directory should be, drush arr [backup-filename-without-square-brackets].tar
• repeat from 3 til everything works
• drush up -y
• go do all the other little bits and pieces you need to do with the theme and modules

Problems I hit

• managed file duplicates: mysql select * from `files` where `filepath` like `%string%'; delete from `files` where `fid`='number'; I only had a handful to deal with at any one time so didn’t mind doing them one by one, you’ll probably want a script if you have a lot :)
• comment stupidity: drop index comment_uid on comments; drop index last_comment_uid on node_comment_statistics;

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You can still play outside. They spent half an hour out there, then Cub came in as he was cold. The big two followed 15mins later, tired and happy and telling me that it was awesome and I’d missed out :) They’ve had a nice warm bath and are now playing video games and looking forward to sausage stew for dinner. The end of the world is nigh and it’s a great time to be a kid

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The skate ramp is skatable!

Okay so this is a slightly older picture but it was a good opener :P

All but one of the backs are up (the thing that will prevent skaters and skateboards from ending up in the raised bed or in the neighbour’s yard) and the whole thing is now covered in both layers of skin and has been reinforced and all those good things. Now it just needs a paint job (and I know someone who is good at painting that I would like to rope in to help).

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Very Small Small Girl is 6.

She woke up the morning of her birthday, came running into the computer room and announced, “I’m SIX!”

She wanted to go to the zoo by public transport for her birthday so that’s what we did.