No rest for the wicked.
So yesterday’s party was a hit, and we’ve been pretty productive for what should have been a lazy Sunday. Yesterday, I roasted a seven pound pork butt and made carnitas out of it, and also wound up making the birthday cake and frosting from scratch. Just call me “Daddy Crocker”. This morning everyone but the birthday girl slept in, and I’m writing this in the middle of the afternoon. I spent most of the day cleaning up the mess from yesterday, and making some changes to this website.
We’ve been getting lots of Google referral traffic for two posts, one for a WordPress hack, and another for an obscure Windows server error message that I wrote about. I’m getting enough of them that I figure I might test whether there’s any opportunity for clients, so I put a Boxzilla popup on the two pages containing a contact form. That was easy enough, but I ran into problems with my WordPress SMTP capabilities that required troubleshooting. I wound up switching to the Post SMTP plugin, since it’s free. So, any hits on the form should send me a notification SMS via my cell provider’s text message gateway.
Now, I wait.
I’ve got a lot to do today, so I’m going to wrap this up and continue working on my Substack, which I’m hoping to get out tomorrow. I’m also overdue on my WordPress project for my client, so hopefully I can manage to get both of those done before the day is over.