Unbearably HoT

For those folks who have any experience with insurance, July and December represent the lion’s share of the year’s workload—new groups go out to bid in the summer and old groups renew in the winter. Anyone who happens to be involved in either of those processes ends up getting slaughtered with inescapable deadlines and unpaid overtime, and beyond keeping house, working, and farming Amani War Bears on the reset, I’ve been sleeping.

That’s not entirely true. With the help of Phaelia, my internet help guru, I’ve been making some invisible changes to this site that will hopefully improve things in the long run. Somehow, in my search for a layout that I felt accurately represented what I was trying to portray, I picked out one of the most stubborn, finicky, widget-drive bitches out there, and when I say I’ve been hung up on my sidebar for weeks trying to fix it, I’m not kidding.

But that’s been sorted. I finally upgraded WordPress after being made to feel like I was semi retarded and totally out-of-date for worrying about losing anything—I had a backup, right? (For once, I can say that was something I figured out how to do on my own.) So I’ve eliminated a few security issues, allowed for the installation of some handy plug-ins, and fixed my blogroll. You know, the abomination of links that I threw up and had to manually edit every single time I needed to make a change.

With a quick trick from BlogAzeroth and Phae’s help with manually overriding my category widgets, I’m now capabale of editing links strictly from my site’s backend. This is fantastic, and I feel like less of a slacker for not having things properly updated.

More to come soon!