TuttleTree.com

I was probably the only one who noticed, but the site was down since – and this is my educated guess – late yesterday afternoon.

I've been working on some of those changes that I talked about, and some that I hadn't talked about, and obviously there was room for error in my process! What I ended up doing was overwriting a file here on the "live" site with my changes-in-process version of the same file, instead of putting that new file in my super secret development folder. Not only that, but I didn't bother checking on the "live" site afterwards (after all, I wasn't working on it!), so I didn't notice until this morning that there was a big fat error on the home page and no way around it.

Unfortunately I don't have a backup copy of that file handy, so now there are a bunch of changes half-done that are live. If you play with stuff and get errors, feel free to leave me a comment on this post to serve as a to-do list.

At least it's back up, though. :)

I have to send a huge thank you to someone who more than likely doesn't read our blog. My coworker Emily is mostly responsible for my discovery earlier this week that I had two sick/personal days left to take before the end of the year.

Remember back in April when I got all sicked up and ended up taking somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 consecutive work-days off — to spend the entire day sleeping on the couch with the shades closed and a washcloth draped over my face due to (unbeknownst to me at the time) Iritis? I'm sure you do.


As it turns out, I thought I had taken all of my sick/personal days before eating into my vacation time — but I hadn't. I found out on Wednesday morning that if I don't take my two remaining personal days that I'll be paid for them at the end of the year. And considering that I haven't had a day off since I went back to work with one good eye, I've decided to use them.

I took today off, and I'm taking Tuesday the 26th off as my final vacation day (again — I thought I was out of vacation time but luck was on my side and a day I was given for 2005 had rolled over unused and forgotten). So I have a five-day weekend! And I get presents! Life doesn't get any better than this!

Actually, it does. After my extended weekend, I'll be going back to work for two days. And then I'm taking that Friday —the 29th— off; which makes it a four-day weekend when you include the New Year's holiday.

When printing envelopes for your Christmas cards using a mail merge from the same Excel spreadsheet that you used for your wedding invitations, be sure to check for – and remove – "and Guest" from the name field of your single friends and relatives.