If you move your music player to the blogs and you are an active blogger, you are going to have to move your player up. Once it gets pushed off the page, unless you are in the blog section it stops working on you main site page.

Oh and don't forget to delete the earlier posting of your player, or it gets really noisey on your blog page. Harrrrrr

So, that being said...top. heheheh.

I posted this on the Renspace forum, but figure more of ye will see it this way.

Me daughter's BF discovered this one fer me.
I was havin' problems gettin' me friends and photos to display properly. The photo frame was bein' pushed under the gallery display and some of me friends were not showin' up, even though the count was right.

The answer, the music player and an image were to big for the left side column of me profile and were pushing things that should be in the middle, to under the right side column and the right side column was bein' partially pushed out of the page frame. I moved the music player into a blog post and thumbnailed the offending image and viola, no not that over grown fiddle thing, the Frenchie word for "Oooohhh, thats better". My pictures now display properly and hey, my missin' friends, their ye be. Heh.

The music player still works well on my profile view, or "My Site" as it be called here. Movin' it to a blog post doesn't seem to affect it's intended performance in the least.

Also, if you have a very busy background and stay with a font such as this one, the background eats anything on top, making it very hard to read. Work with the modules to make them more visible on top of the background, or work with the font and color you use to make it more readable.

Hope this helps.

Do not be fergettin' to turn of me music player, before viewin' this.

Enjoy and have a very merry to all.

Jeff Dunham; Achmed's "Jingle Bombs"

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Hope yer enjoyin' the funky seasonal music I have up. Not into the traditional stuff, but I wander here, gee I wonder if the Navan had anythin' to do with it. heheheh.

Really have to learn not to blog when drinkin'. I can see the posters now, "Friends don't let friends blog slogged". heheheh.

Went to the Anime Fest. at the Javits Center in NYC today. Damn that was an expensive shoppin' trip. Got to meet one of the web comix artists I read at least. Bought some of her wares and got an autograph in the process. Gee, maybe in 20 years they will still be worth what I paid for them. heheheh.

Just like at faire, some folks really need to learn that spandex is a privilage and not a right and I also realized that my garb is better than 3/4ths of the cosplay folks wanderin' around. Harrrr. There were a few good ones there. Gotta love the Japaneese school girls. Yarrrr.

Alright, as ye can tell, I be jonesin' fer faire. So much so that me and the Captainwill be attendin' a Pirates and Pancake night at the IHOP in Bloomfield NJ tomorrow night. Tis a benefit as well, but jeez, I really must be missin' faire to go to this. heheheh.

_{(me an' the Captain)}

Then nothin' till January, when a few of us from NYRF/FoF and other "Rennie" friends will be havin' a Robert Burns dinner, complete with neeps and tatties, Hagis and other good solid food. We usually have a "Scotch" tastin' as well, along with other fave beverages, so a good time is always had by all.

Then in February, Wicked Faire in Edison NJ. At least I think thats Edison. Tis at the Raritan Center Holiday inn of Edison, so yeah, Edison. Heh. Hey, inebriated here, spatial reference is impaired. *hic*

Ded Bob and Sluj want us to go out to Arizona this season. Me Niece bellydances out there as well, so we are thinkin' about goin' out there. Will have to be sans weapons though. The airlines really get upset with us with the amount of blades we travel with. After that Sluj also suggested we do the Georgia Faire as well, but this is all dependant on the dreaded "Budget" monster.

So, anywho, all of ye, have a very happy, merry and safe holiday season and a very good New Year.

Caire vie me hearties.

Well, it has been a while since I've blogged and I don't really miss it, as I really am a terrible writer and I do this more for my friends then anyone else, so, that being said, time to beat the dead horse a bit. heheheh.

It's been a busy time for the Captain and  the First Mate of the "Diamond's Rule". Since NYRF closed it's gates for the season, we have been traveling around to other shires, to meet new folks, see old friends, meet new friends and drink lots of ale. Yarrr. It doesn't get any better than this... well it does, but I won't go there here. heheheh.

First was the Cloisters, which I have already written about.

Then we went and visited Iron Molly Black and some of our NYRF/FoF friends up at CTRF. I think I wrote about that as well, if not, it is a nice little faire that is growing in the right direction, or so I feel anyway.

Next was MDRF. The "Rennies Mall" as some of my friends like to call it. We went for the last weekend and it was PACKED. It really is a nice faire, but it is kind of distracting when you have to fight your way through crowds, just to walk around the place.  Still, they do put on quite a party and we had a lot of fun despite the crowded conditions.

Then a well deserved weekend off. Time to do laundry, rest up and plan.

Off to the closing weekend of PARF. A 2 day, giant Halloween party and us stayin' at the hotel, directly across the street. We got there friday night, parked the car and partyied like it was 1665 all over again. Arrrgggghhh. We ended up buying 5 cases of wine that weekend. It was really a good thing my daughter and her bfriend drove themselves to the faire, because we would have had to tie them to the roof to get them home if they hadn't. heheheh. For those of you that don't know, PARF is owned by the Mount Hope Winery and the faire is held on their estate grounds. It is a permanent site and they use it year round for other things like Celtic Flings and such. The free wine tasting alone is worth the price of admission, but be warned, the real life, Sheriff's department deputys that works the gate, will make you bring your flasks back to the car, or dump them out if they see them. This faire has always been a fave of mine. We have a lot of friends there as well, so it is always a pleasure for us to be there.

What, another weekend off? How did we do that? Heheheh.

Then it was a 14 hour drive to my sister's house in NC. We went down to kill two birds with one stone. Visit my sister and invade CRF on invasion weekend. We stayed at my sister's house and drove to the faire each day. She lives about 40 minutes from the faire so it isn't to bad. We got down there early Friday afternoon, so that we could spend some time with my sister, before we went to the faire the next day. Since we know one of the performers, we got comped in. Gotta love that. heheheh. Saturday, we get there, get garbed up and enter the faire. This is the 2nd season we have gone and I must say, this is also a very nice faire with a lot of potential. We found out that there was a pirate garb contest  that weekend and several of the faire denizens encouraged us to participate. Having been burned in things like this before, we were a tad reluctant, but since it was a pirate themed contest and we bein' the consumate pirates that we are, decided to do it. That and my sister proddin' me and the Captain to do it. Well, our friend the "Mad Irishman" helped my sister prod us a little too. heheheh. So, I finally come to the point of this post.

We were at one of the pubs, refillin' when me sister calls me and says that the contest is about to begin and we need to get over there right away. So we get our refills and head over and see at least 25 other piratical types gearin' up to participate. Bein' that we are strangers to this faire, I didn't see our chances as to good here, but, we lept into the fray anyway. I was just hopin' that the judges were goin' to be objective and not play faves to the locals. They had 3 of the Captains on the cast as judges and a 4th person who I be not sure what she was to the faire. She was in 'danes' so I can only believe she was part of the crew somehow.

We were told that we would be judged on our garb and our 'Swagger'. Once I heard that, I started to get into me character, Macko, that I use for our street theater at NYRF/Tuxedo. The Captain and I, Captain Lizzy, me wife fer ye that do not know, ended up bein' the last ones to go on. I bein' on next to last and me wife was last. Now, as we were waitin' our turn, bein' the pirates we are, we cooked up a plan that we were goin' to bribe the judges. Next time we need to keep convos like that more secretive, because many others in line before us heard that and said, "Hey, what a great idea" and like true pirates, stole our idea and did it as well. Which was fine, but it was funny that once I did get on and introduced meself to the the crowd with a shower of dubloons, I walked over to the judges and they all already had their hands out. heheheh.

Well, to my ultimate surprise, I actually won and the Captain took 2nd. YARRRRR. The judges told me it was me swagger that won it for me. Heh, Thank ye NYRF improv classes. Heheheh.

It was odd though. At first I thought I had lost because they said, in first place, the pirate, Tobacco... Ah crud I thought. Ah well, I tried. Then I noticed everyone was lookin' around sayin', who was Tobacco. Then me wife yells out, "Do ye mean, Macko?" and the judges said, "Oh, yeah, him. We meant, Macko". Damn that was a good win. heheheh.

I would like to thank CRF, because that was a really sweet prize package I got. It was definitely one of the better prize packages I have ever seen for something like this at faire. That was also my first win ever at this, which made it even sweeter. I, the pirate, Macko, walked into Black Beard's home state and walked off with the booty. Yarrrr.

If things work out, we might be able to swing a trip out to Arizona and Georgia next year and Sludge really wants us to go to his home state of Minn. next year as well, but I fear we may only be able to swing one of those faires, along with all of our other usually trips.

Next up is a Robert Burns dinner in January, with friends from NYRF and then Wicked Faire in Feburary. Looking forward to staying home and trying not to spend any money for the next month or so. heh.

Caire Vie me hearties.