OK, looks like all my CSS and PHP guesswork has finally yielded results, and the new website is officially live.

I love the graphic, which my friend Eriq did for me on a recent afternoon. Was interesting starting from scratch in Photoshop and building up a concept from nothing.

The idea behind the graphic was from seeing the opening credits of the movie of my still-unfinished book in a dream one night. It was sort of like a Weight Watchers weigh-in, with all these different predominately-female feet stepping on and off a scale (albeit a spring-loaded bathroom scale, despite the fact that WW uses digital), and as they step on, the blurring numbers settle on the names in the opening credits instead of the numbers on the scale. And, no, I didn’t remember any of the names from the credits. I still don’t have a clear sense of that stuff.

This is itself an offshoot of my imagined book cover, which is a more vertical version of the above imagery. The book is also a bathroom scale, female feet again, although you get the full feet and scale in the image, and then the title of the book there. I flip back and forth between whether the name of the book is in the scale where the numbers should be (which seems like it wouldn’t be big enough in that case), or whether it is just super-imposed over the graphic that has actual numbers on the scale.

In any event, using that concept on the website is sort of my way of putting some positive vibrations behind that idea, since authors have little control over their book art and no control over their film adaptations.

Some of the areas in the navigation are premature, but will make more sense after the book is published, but I hate doing techie stuff, so I’d rather they sit there for now than require another round of technical stuff from me later.

Not much else going on. Haven’t done yoga for the past two days, not sure which day I hit, somewhere in the mid-80s. Yesterday, I woke up with a really sharp pain in my upper back, where my right shoulder meets my neck. It always seems silly to say that I slept wrong, because you’d think I’d have nailed sleeping properly by now. In any event, it’s still a bit sore, so I haven’t gone. I am going to Texas next week, so I want to make sure I’m not sore for the visit. The NYC apartment swap didn’t happen, so I’m in SF this summer. That’s about it for now.

UPDATE: Just checked, and until this injury I’d done 89 classes in 89 days. Had I known that yesterday, I’d've probably gone sore, tried it for a few minutes and then left, just to hit 90, hehe.

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