I’ve been REALLY bus with work lately. I’ve been frequently working 10-13 hours days in the last several weeks and working on the weekends from time to time. I’m not complaining, because it’s largely been enjoyable work (even if the pace necessary to meet the deadline was less than fun), and even were it miserable work, it’s still paying my bill bills at a time when a growing number of my fellow Americans don’t have that luxury. In this economy, being “too busy” at work is a good thing. Things should be slowing down just a bit now as the major project that we were working so hard for is now (more or less) complete.

At least some of the time that hasn’t been spent working has been spent at the gym. TheBoyfriend™ and I went ahead and joined the YMCA on January 31st (just squeaked in to get the New Year resolution special rate). We’ve been going three times a week up until the last two when busy schedules and a random snow storm have kept us away, but tonight we start back again and I’m actually looking forward to it.

So staying busy, but mostly good things, but I’m hoping things will slow down a bit so that I can bring blogging back up to a higher priority again.

We have temporarily switched her totally over to wet food to which we’re adding cranberry extract and diluted apple cider vinegar as well as giving her a couple of pellets of cantharis for pain. We started her on that regimen Saturday evening, with the understanding that if she showed no improvement, we’d make a vet appointment first thing today. I’m happy to report that as of yesterday evening, her trips to the litter box are leaving about a teaspoon of urine which, while not yet a normal amount, is a vast improvement from the drop she’d been leaving earlier. I think we caught it early (there was no blood in her urine at all because I’d have easily seen any when she left a drop or two in the white bath tub), and since she’s showing definitive signs of improvement, I think we’ll monitor her closely for a bit longer before calling the vet.

I also wanted to use the theme as a means to further familiarize myself with the wonderful javascript library, jQuery. Now I know I’m really late to that particular party, but while I’ve obviously known about jQuery for a long time, I’m a designer not a developer so I assumed jQuery would be a little over my head. Turns out, I was very wrong; jQuery is easy. If I’ve overdone it a bit here, then let that be my excuse. The best was to learn is to do, so perhaps in the interest of learning I’ve done a bit more than I’d have done sheerly in the interest of design.

The theme has been tested in IE 6 & 7, Firefox, and Safari. There’s the little bonus of getting to see the number of comments in the headline bar for each post if you are using a non-IE browser, because doing so broke the layout in IE and I’m too lazy to go and try to figure out the problem for nothing more than a comment count (which is duplicated in the footer of the post when you expand it anyways). As always, feedback is appreciated.