whew!

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Okay, so, here’s what I did:

  • Changed the colors, font sizes, etc. obviously.
  • Added navigational links underneath the comic on the homepage.
    • Click “first comic” to get to the first comic.
    • Click “navigation links” to get to today’s comic, only in single-post view, which is where I’ve been hiding the “first/next/last” links all this time.
    • Click one of the archive links to get to the list of comics under that category. (Each comic is in both Comics and a subcategory.)
  • Changed the category links for the comics in the left nav, so that they go to a list of comics, not the comics themselves. That way you’re not trying to read the archive backwards anymore.
  • If you want to read the archive, click the “first comic” link when viewing a comic and then use the “next comic” link to move yourself forward. You know, like any normal website would.
  • Left the Ideas (blogposts) archive alone. It’s a blog, it should read like a blog.

I think that covers 90% of the feedback I’d gotten, but feel free to comment.

And yes, I could apply almost everything I did today to the old layout, if you prefer “manilla folder” to “blackboard”. Let me know.

So, let’s talk breasts. (Work-safe but long, so it’s behind a cut.)

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It started about a month ago. I was sitting at my desk at work and felt the vibration of my cell phone go off, only I was picking up the vibration in the left side of my chest instead of my hip. I didn’t think much of it – my phone usually sits in my blazer’s pocket and leans against the chair arm, so when it buzzes half the time I pick up the vibration through the chair on my feet or my arm or something and not through the phone itself.

But when I checked the phone, there was no call. Odd, but I let it go.

It happened again a few hours later, and a few hours after that. Definitely a vibration, but no calls on the phone. When I came home that night, I was leaning against the arm of the sofa when it happened, and the phone wasn’t even in the livingroom, so I knew something odd was going on. And it had chosen to go on in my left breast. This was not cool.

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