You might have noticed, if you’re reading these as I’ve been writing them, that this entry was posted later than usual. There’s a reason.

My website is built on and hosted by Squarespace, which I’ve been using for many, many years. I’ve got “Circle status” as of 2018, which just means that I’m running more than three different websites on their platform - as of this writing, I’m running four. The one you’re reading now, my rollercoaster site ellocoaster.com, the site for the big bell festival that’s coming up soon, classicbronze.ca, and the website for our local handbell society, bowriverhandbells.ca.

I’ve worked with a lot of different website design systems, some good and some not. Some, are so heinous that I won’t work with them ever agin unless there is a lot of money involved. Squarespace is one of the good ones, which is why I’ve stuck with them for so long… but everything has something that can be improved, and here’s a little design flaw on Squarespace that has gotten me three times over the years, resulting in many hours of lost time.

Have a look at the edit screen…

I call your attention to the two blue buttons between the photo and my taskbar. Both are absolutely identical in every way. Both say “Add Section”. Both are situated very close to one another on the screen.

Click the top one and you’ll add a section to your website, fill it with text, photos, videos, whatever you like. Easy peasy.
But if you accidentally click the bottom one instead, which is very easy to do, you’ll also add a section… but in the Footer, not the main body of the website. Editing stuff in the footer works exactly like editing in the main site, so unless you realized you clicked the second blue button instead of the first one, you have no clue that you’re working in the footer.

Why does that matter? Because anything you add to the footer shows up at the bottom of every single page of the website. So the entirety of Day Five was now attached to every page on the site. The home page, the photography pages, the East Wing pages, everything.

So I went to build out the page for this post, Day Six, and Day Five was staring me right in the face. The only way to undo that is to go back to the Day Five post, re-write the entire thing in the main body of the site, then delete the footer. That’s what I did last night, instead of writing this post, and that’s why this one is late because I went to bed. Le sigh.

ANYWAY, we got up and had brekkie. Rob had a bowl of cereal and a grapefruit and I had leftover lasagna. Don’t judge. Then it was hop in the car and take Rob over to Jeri’s house so they could get caught up on stuff. She’s over in West Vancouver with a gorgeous view of the water.

I was back on the road soon and ran a few errands before heading over to the craft store for some supplies for the bell festival.

Why would a handbell festival need 450 pipe cleaners in assorted colours? We’ll use them to wrap around the base of the handles to identify which bells all belong in the same set. When you’ve got 20 or so sets of bells all in the same place and they all are pretty much identical, you’ve gotta make sure you keep the sets together and pipe cleaners are a good way to colour-code them without doing any damage or making permanent marks.

Lunch was leftover lasagna. Don’t judge, it was good!

The majority of my day was spent down in the little apartment with my work setup, doing handbell festival stuff. I wrote a contract for the trumpet player we’re hiring, I edited a bunch of spreadsheets, answered a bunch of emails from participants who needed clarification on some stuff in the music, etc etc etc.

Got lots done, yay. Glanced at the time and it was already time to head over to Jeri’s and pick up Rob. I did, we came back here, and I was telling Jon and Lisa about that weird compressed watermelon I’d had the day before. I looked it up, and they make it with a vacuum sealer. So Jon decided to try it with limes.

He also put a little tequila in the bag to infuse into the lime, but compression intensifies the flavour of the fruit and the tequila had no chance whatsoever against Extreme Lime. We also thought that maybe if the tequila had lived with the lime for a bit longer before we ate them, perhaps you’d be able to taste it better. SO… we’re testing that theory with watermelon and vodka.

Also, pineapple and spiced rum.

We’ll leave all of that overnight and see how they turn out in the morning. I’m already thinking of things I can compress when we get back home…

Dinner was a Mediterranean chicken, quinoa salad, caesar salad, and homemade brownies. Delicious all around!

After dinner, we had some visiting, then I came downstairs to write this post, discovered that I’d put all of the previous post in the footnotes, and started undoing all of that - which brings us full circle.

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