The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

You may recall me saying, way, way back when, that I was thinking about putting together a physical archive of all the content on the old site. I might have said it, oh, here.

Of all things, I started trying to put that together the other day.

I was motivated into trying it again, sort of, by how much success Parish is having with building books and magazines in the Blurb editor. Apparently it’s working pretty damn well for him! Surely it couldn’t be too hard for my silly project: I just had to cut and paste a lot of blog posts, maybe write an introduction. Nothing difficult. If the editor was as easy to use as he said, hey, I could probably do it!

So I download the thing from the Blurb site, and I get to work. The thing has some quirks. It really wanted me to use Georgia as a font, for instance, and it was doing some really weird things about splitting the www off of www.getmetoufothis.net. Still, I persevered. I put together a simple color, in the weird shade of pink the old site was, with some cover blurbs and promotional text, like someone would actually buy the thing. I skipped the table of contents and introduction for the time being, and started pasting in blog entries, shaking my head at how silly and not at all like the blog is today that it was in its youth.

Then the program crashed.

To its credit, it was saved EXACTLY where the crash happened. I lost no data. Still, that wasn’t a good sign. And it continued until it got to the point where it would crash every time I tried to bold something. That’s where I gave up.
I needed to be able to bold the titles to the blog posts to set them apart from the rest of the text, you know? This is not some hard thing for the program to be able to do! But it’s pretty completely unusable because of it.

I guess this new version just came out, and that Parish used an old version before. Maybe they’ll patch it quick. I don’t know. But for now, I suppose that’s another little project tabled. And like, 40 bucks I won’t have to pay. Heh, it was going to be an expensive little book… but it would look nice. All hardcover and shit. Seeing all 400 or whatever pages of my stupid blogging for so many years… yeah.
I’ll get back to it sometime, I’m sure.