Well, turns out I should have caught up a bit earlier on this new-fangled e-invoice thing, because, as it turns out, handing an invoice into the federal state of Baden-Württemberg (and probably the others these days, too) requires formatting it as a nice, sleek, validated e-invoice.

So. There I am. Fortunately I am using a lovely book-keeping programme that is able to whip up such invoices. Not so fortunately is that it is Neuland, as Germans would say, to me and I have to figure out all the bits and pieces that have to go in there (and are still missing). 

It's on the way, though. And then at least I'll know more about this stuff, because it will probably not be the last thing I deliver to some public or state institution. At least I hope so! 

So. I have a new video cookie thingummy gadget that makes you agree to Youtube cookies, but it is not yet working everywhere... only on the main site. The blog with all its videos still needs a solution, and that either means some database roughhousing and then some code kicking, or finding a different plugin (meh), or maybe getting some solution from the blog software maker.

For now, I will be waiting to see what said blog software maker will say; I also have a vague idea about how the kicking and roughhousing might be done, though I do prefer to, um, not do it.

(All this because the Data Protection Smurf wants you to know that youtube, aka google, will get your data, and wants you to agree, and because I do not want to pester you with some "agree to these cookies" thing only - and only! - because you might watch youtube. Because, in case you have not noticed yet... this site only uses essential stuff, and thus you don't need to do this banner-clicky-thing.)

Which means... there's fewer and fewer extensions or solutions that need to be dealt with. A few more are outstanding related to the shop, but I might  be able to do without them, and then there's the small issue of the template, which is not really suited to the next version, and I would like to have something more robust and with less extra code anyways. 

Otherwise... yeah.

I also have done some foot measurements for a planned exhibition that involves, you have guessed it, shoes. All the other things will still have to be done, too, but starting from the bottom, that was the top thing on the agenda. (It was a little weird since that is, for a change, not a rock-solid hard plastic figurine, but one with a little more malleability. I am really not used to that!)

The website stuff is progressing slowly and, of course, eating up more time than it was planned to feed to it. But, well, at least there's progress. Then I finally did some of the promised reading, and it's almost done as well, so tomorrow should be sort-of-back to normal (as in doing shop stuff, writing an outstanding invoice, and going back to work on some other project prep).

Weather outside is still warm, though not insanely hot - that is, unfortunately, promised to come next week, or already end of this week, and nobody knows how quickly it will happen and how hot it will get. So our plans for doing a bit of holiday stuff might have to be amended to allow for the weather.  

The Little Cat seems to have recovered a bit. She's now getting a special nice (pleasantly-to-her-nose) stinky mussel powder that is supposed to help with bladder health. We will see!

No, not the video yet, I'm sorry. But you do get a screenshot... 

...and you only get this for a blog post today, because I was at a nice presentation with lunch afterwards, and the rest of the day slipped into this and that and now I'm sending out the info about the Textile Forum registration being online. Hooray! 

That was a nice weekend, with a guided tour through the fantastic exhibition in the Burg Trausnitz in Landshut about women's networks through marriage in the late Middle Ages (still running until start of August!) and then my sprang workshop for the eight participants (all women, very fitting for the talks about women and their networking, and their room where all kinds of tasks happened).

And to my great delight, the Textile Forum logistics issues are solved, we have a cook, I have an agreement with him, and thus the Call for Papers and the registration information are finally online. I still need to write the newsletter about this, but in case you are interested in geeking out one full week about knots as part of textile crafts in November, you can already visit the updated site here. 

Also, our wildlife camera caught two hedgehogs making new hedgehogs last week! If I can figure out how to post that video here, you might get a look at some point ; ) 

So. Things are going on.

First and furriest of all, the Little Cat has a bladder infection indeed, but - as we suspected - it's due to stress and not a bacterial infection. (We got some sedative for her before the vet trip so the stress-induced bladder infection would not cause more stress by a vet visit without a little chemical assistance, especially as there would be an ultrasound, and guess who is not a fan of getting her very fluffy belly un-fluffed with a razor.) So she's currently getting drugs to relieve the internal itch and pressure, and extra cuddles. Plus extra treats to hide the pills in, and she is not at all opposed to that. Hopefully, her internal plumbing system will find a happy equilibrium again as soon as possible, so everything goes back to boringly normal again.

Other things going on are concerning the website, which still has its big update coming up. It does look like most of the big issues that I'd found will be solvable sort of easily. I'm also planning to tackle the dead images that I have hanging around here - after years of running this and migrating this and that here and there, and different blog softwares that had different ideas on where to store pictures, and whether to store different sizes or not, there's, well, extras. 

I have tried to sort a few of them out already, and they are probably mostly in the blog - but if you should stumble across a missing image link, please do let me know. (Well, it's appreciated at all times, but it's especially appreciated after some work on the site.) The big work will not be for a while, but I have a few things that can be done straight away before larger updates, and the plan is to do that - it's less work, and also less opportunities to mess something up, when the day of doing stuff arrives.

And now I will gently move myself away from the computer to do some preparation for the sprang workshop on the Saturday...

Two things for today: It's still too damn hot, and the Little Cat has some issue with her bladder and we have a vet appointment to go to. Hopefully it's nothing too bad...