whew! after a few fits and starts (including one scary moment when uploading the web.config file made everything go boom), we launched the new site around 7 p.m. new year' eve. our guy who does all the file promotion over at gnc was late for a party, so he just opened up ftp permissions and i was uploading directly to the live site, which was a scary thing, especially when it's exploding. so far, all quiet on the western front. spent most of yesterday fixing a few tweaky little things (problems with layouts in ie5, which has recently been as annoying to code workarounds for as netscape 4.7 was with older-style layouts), catching some files which were updated but not promoted, and reformatting some pages that had slipped through the cracks, which gets easier and easier as our templates get more solid.

nye was very nice; low-key. the slf's sister and neice came over, and we watched monsters inc. and a bug's life, two very enjoyable "kid" cartoons. i snuck out for a short while to go to dave's little wing-ding too, and he and casey had great food and refreshments... that girl can bake.

i was going to take a "sick" day today, but i thought maybe i'd come in and get a little bit of work done, especially since pat is out today. if it's really quiet this afternoon i might go home early, but we'll see. work is actually going to be sort of interesting in the near term; i have one from-scratch site that will have to be put together fairly quickly, but it's going to be kinda cool, and since it's all-new, it should be a little bit easier for me to create it as a compliant site. a big problem with gnc was tons of legacy content, and just lack of foresight on my part. we have lots of little content-management tools that we did for them, and rather than putting in my own markup tags for linebreaks and such (like blogger does, i left it free-form, and told them what tags to put in. of course, i didn't know last year that we were going to try and go down the road of xhtml/css, so i didn't tell them that a paragraph tag needs to be with a lowercase "p", and you need a closing tag for it, or that you have to close all your <li> tags, too.

this weekend should be fun. going to a comp at the "other" climbing gym in wexford (which i've never been to). i wasn't going to go, since i'm climbing like poo ever since the holidays when i couldn't keep to a steady schedule, but then i found out that some friends of mine are competing, and jen will be there hanging out and watching as well, which will be nice.

sunday i'm going to try and get to see lotr, ttt with the slf, if we can squeeze it in before she has to go to work. we watched the extend-o version of "fellowship" on dvd over the weekend, so she's all fired up to see the next one now.

finally, i think i found what i'm going to ask my dad to get me for my birthday next month. this little beauty should help my problem of having too many/too complicated remote controls.