Man. I've been putting off any updates here because I really wanted to change the look and feel. Didn't like the template. Didn't like that the sidebar was busted. Didn't like some quirks with the MovableType UI that I couldn't resolve.Since I haven't had a chance to dig into CSS and HTML and Javascript that much lately I knew it would take me longer than I wanted to, and the likelihood that I'd screw things up was pretty high.
But I decided to tackle it last night. After about six to eight hours between yesterday and today, a mixture of inspiration and frustration, I'm finally feeling good about the site again. It's not all the way there yet, but it's at least in far better condition than it's been in for months. Apologies, again, for the general state of disrepair.
I absolutely do not want to do that again. Either the brute force repairs that were required, or the month-long gap since I last wrote anything.