Busy!

Only a few days to go to the Camp! I’m answering emails, sending out tickets, answering the phone, helping B get the caravan ready…
And flopping with exhaustion and pain. I’m not up to all this physical activity any more. My body is wearing out – angina, arthritis, blood pressure….. Cleaning the carvan on Thursday morning put my knee out once again, so that I had to spend the afternoon on the sofa, unable to walk. And I was tired and aching all day Friday.
Gahhh.

Still, finances are looking more cheerful – it looks like I can at last get that new computer! I’m determined to have a drawing tablet with it – I’m neglecting my artwork these days. It’s just too much work to drag out my boards and paints. Painting on a sreen is much more my style nowadays.

And I’ve decided to give up trying to make Mambo work on the new Oakleaf Circle site. It’s a good program, but it’s far too heavyweight for what I need – it’s too complicated, there are just too many modules and sections to add and change, and every change takes an age to execute on dialup. The next version of Mambo, will, I read, be much simplified. But I can’t wait that long.
I’ve decided to go with WordPress Yes, it’s blogging software, but with just two plugins and a fairly simple bit of recoding, I can turn it into a basic CMS that will do what I want. It’s dead easy to install (unlike Mambo – installation was a nightmare, even with the manual and expert help), so easy that it doesn’t have or need a manual, and I’m already familiar with it.
But there’s no time for that now – got to get on with the Camp. So I’ll tackle it afterwards.