a Teaspoon of Chaos: This Week: 2015.05.22

Chaos Tamed

Blog started. Finally I can stop worrying about the best way and time to start. It's done. Hello.
On the flip side, I don't intend to actually start advertising or telling anyone that it's started. This is more of a way for me to just get in the habit and practice of writing.
It's also a way to introduce some accountability. Status summary posts are scheduled for every Friday, whether or not I'm ready or have done anything this week.
Made great progress on updating my Ravelry portfolio with photos:

More than halfway done with the first Spock Sock and absolutely loving the result.

Worked OT on Sunday night as well as three weeknights. On the bright side, I've been repeatedly assured that I won't have to work this holiday weekend at all.
House hunting officially started by going to a couple open houses. One didn't fit our future family, the other didn't fit our budget. I expect both of those to be recurring themes.
I ordered more sock yarn. The last thing I need is more yarn, but this one is a beautiful ocean-colored gradient and already split into two matching cakes. AND I didn't order it until I knew I had a pattern for it so that has to count for something, right?
Added custom CSS to the blog to get those links above to display a Ravelry logo to indicate that they're external links that will take you to a Ravelry page, often requiring a login (h/t Ravelry Goodies). It worked, then I made a change elsewhere to the layout and it wiped out the CSS without warning. I already forgot how to format the URL so there will be no Rav icon when this post goes live. The CSS is correct because I can do other things like change the color and hot-link to the image stored externally, it's just tricky to embed an image from Google Docs here because the URLs are wonky. Backup fail on my part. Bright side: the class="ravelry" is already in the links' HTML so they'll get fixed automatically after I figure it out.