Whew. Quite the weekend. There was my belated birthday party (it's not too late for shopping!) yesterday. My friend's daughters gave me Lord Of The Rings for my Xbox, because, as they diplomatically informed me, "We want to play it."
Fair enough; and if you want to buy something for my Xbox, you can come over and play it, too.
I'm not really a fan of the sword-and-sorcery genre, but LOTR is a Lot Of Fun, and the graphics are gorgeous.
In other world-shattering news, my MT blog is finally up and running. Public thanks to King Of Fools and Dean Esmay for help above-and-beyond the call of duty.
What happened was that on my initial log-in, I created a new ID and password and deleted the default MT settings. At this point the system kicked me back to the log-in screen. I dutifully entered my new ID/PW to find to my horror that I only had posting privileges. I really, really thought that I'd checked off the proper admin boxes, but I apparently hadn't.
For non-bloggers, this might be compared to taking the new car out for a spin in the countryside and somehow locking the keys in the trunk 20 miles away from civilization.
The only way to save face in this situation is, of course, to set fire to the car and try and collect the insurance.
Which is more or less what we ended up doing. King of Fools (verily, he knoweth his Dominion well) did a complete reinstall, with the added bonus of configuring the blog with the MySQL database, which works better with the host.
So now it's purring away in the garage. I'm too paranoid to drive it anywhere, though, let alone mess around with CSS or HTML templates. Maybe I'll hang some tinsel on it by Christmas (it's not too early for shopping!).
BTW, the address is here -- though there won't be much difference at least for the near future between my posts here, at Dodgeblogium or at The Blog Quebecois.
Also my thanks to Debbye of Being American In T.O. (or Tranna, as the locals call it) for blogrolling me. I've reciprocated the compliment.