motivation, or lack thereof

Today was kinda difficult.
I worked from home, as I usually do on Tuesdays, and Tessa worked all day. Somehow I just couldn’t find any motivation to do anything. I would poke at the configuration stuff I’m working on for a bit – maybe write a few lines of code, maybe tidy something up – then I would find myself getting up and wandering round the room as if i were looking for something, but I don’t know what. I’d usually end up getting something to eat, or making a cup of tea.
I managed to get something done in the end though…as usual on those sorts of days, I finally got into it by about 4:00.

I spent some time this evening working on Wraith. I didn’t achieve much, but I did manage to come up with a really nice guitar tone for lead stuff, and gave the vocals for the verse another go. I’m a bit happier with it now, though it’ll still require a few more takes, since there’s some wobbliness in parts, and too much accent in others. (though I’m not quite sure how to fix that – I wasn’t even really aware I _had_ an accent untill I heard myself singing “foi -nol” for “final”). The chorus still seriously needs redoing – but that’s for tomorrow.

I also did some more work on the site – fixed the archive pages to be the same style as the rest – and discovered to my horror, that the boxes containing the posts (and the comment entry form) stretch all the way to the right of the page. I’ll have to reoorganize a few things to fix that, and possibly introduce another CSS class. (Though I’ll try to avoid that if I can, since there’s already far to many of them). CSS really needs reusable styles – or class inheritance – I could probably do that by cascading, but it’d probably be a pain, and it wouldn’t be as easy to use multiple stylesheets any more.