Re-Entry.
[If you comment and you get a message that your comment is being held for moderation, will you forward me your info? I'm trying to track down a comment issue... thanks! ]
EDITED TO ADD: More nerding out about comments in the extended entry. Scroll down and click if you want to read...
Hola.
I am home from Mexico, peeling slightly, and exhausted from too much fun. I'm sure you *really* feel sorry for me. I had a wonderful time - Cabo is beautiful, the weather was perfect, the resort was insanely nice, and I got a spectacularly ridiculous sunburn (just the front of my shoulders, my cleavage, and my knees, thank you very much. I don't recommend the Coppertone Spray Sunscreen...). Highlights included a fabulous massage at the resort spa, snorkeling, singing karaoke at What's Up! in downtown Cabo, eating lots of good food, and hanging out with the 20 or so members of Jacob's family that were with us. (The waitress in me felt a little sorry for our servers every time we all went to a restaurant.)
I learned some Spanish, the most useful being "No more!" and "How much?" Jacob was actually really good at communicating when we went shopping, and also good at negotiating prices. I am NOT good at negotiating prices.
Here are three representative trip pictures:
The main pool at Pueblo Bonito, our resort.
YAY PATIO PARTY.
Jacob's fans at What's Up! karaoke.
The rest of the pictures are over here: [ Cabo Pics ] . Fun times.
I actually did very little knitting, mostly because I did more walking around and dancing around than sitting. I do have a Ms. Marigold progress pic for you:
Yes, I"m wearing Picovoli underneath. 'Cause that's what I wore to work today.
It's fitting great. It needs a good blocking because it flew with me to Cabo, and obviously I have some ends to weave in, but so far, so good. Tonight will be crocheting armholes and making the cute flutter sleeves. Yep. Me likey. I like this whole "knit stuff I'll wear" thing. It makes me happy.
Also making me happy? I washed and dried my Picovoli in the machine, and she's super soft and not pilly. SHINE. I love it!
Did I miss anything exciting in the blogosphere while I was gone?
COMMENT ISSUE STUFF
Okay. I recently installed MT-Keystrokes on my Movable Type to prevent the ridiculous amount of spam I've been getting. Keystrokes works by validating that the user has entered keystrokes while entering a comment (using javascript), thus eliminating the automated robots from leaving spamalicious comments.
However, my future father-in-law tried to leave a comment and he got this message: "Thank you. Your comment is being held for moderation." But here's the weird part: it never was emailed to me, never showed up in my Movable Type, I couldn't find it anywhere! SO, I went to my System Overview in Movable Type and checked the Activity Log, which shows every bit of spam that Keystrokes is rejecting, and I found Tommy's rejected email address in there.
If a commenter clicks on 'Preview', previews their comment ,and then submits it, they will get that "Your comment is being held for moderation." message, when in reality the comment is being rejected altogether by Keystrokes. I think since the Preview shows you the comment, everything is already filled in when you submit it, and MT-Keystrokes thinks it's a robot.
Anyways. I'm going to take the 'Preview' button off of my comment template for now (if I can) so no one will get rejected for that, and hopefully figure out where that moderation message sits in Movable Type so I can change it to something like: REJECTED! YOU ARE AN AUTOMATED ROBOT! MT-Keystrokes has worked for me otherwise, so hopefully this is a small issue that can be fixed.
Comments (34)
Just found this blog while trying to track down some other mt-keystrokes problems. Your problem is probably easily solved; you need to add an onclick handler to the "post" button on your comment forms. Do that on the comment form, the preview form, and the comment error form.
Something like this (from the docs):
input type="submit" onclick="keystrokes(this.form)" name="post"
Posted by gse | September 2, 2006 1:56 AM
I love how you keep taking pics in your work bathroom. I would totally do the same thing if I actually wore knitting to work. Maybe I'll knit a green apron. Har.
Posted by Stacey | August 17, 2006 2:16 PM
Cabo looks like it was a blast! And me likes Ms. Marigold on you.
Posted by Jessica | June 28, 2006 11:00 PM
Dag - MT keystrokes didn't work for me, but I'm glad it worked for you! You are a knitting machine! Love your stuff you're knitting up lately.
Posted by biglug | June 28, 2006 9:03 PM
Dude!! Where's Sammy!?!? I can't drive 55!?!?? MAS TEQUILA?!?
Posted by ranger | June 28, 2006 4:36 PM
See! I told you it wasn't me!
Tommy
Posted by Tommy | June 28, 2006 3:15 PM
Welcome back. Sounds like an absolutely marvelous vacation; not sure I can wait the month till mine!!! Thanks for loving Shine. I have enough for 2 tops and with your glowing comments I wanna start them NOW!!!!
Posted by Kelly | June 28, 2006 12:15 PM
Looks like you had a fabulous trip (and there were certainly others more BURNED than you) - so many people with so much stage "presence" were they all liquored up OR are they just that great!!
Your knitting as always is beautiful.
Posted by robin | June 28, 2006 11:32 AM
Oh! I love the spray sunscreen. It's worked fine for me.. . once I remember to put it on.
Posted by Stephanie | June 28, 2006 11:25 AM
giving your comments form a test to see if it remembers me!
Posted by gleek | June 28, 2006 11:22 AM
Jacob look SO TALL in that picture! I'm so glad you're back. I missed you so much. And I love my gum qrapper purse. It will help me lure a man, for shizzle.
Marigold is fantastic. And I love the ruffle that you added last night.
Posted by Anne Marie | June 28, 2006 10:59 AM
1. Wah! Once again, you astound us all with a great, WEARABLE knit! I'm so jealous.
2. ¡México! ¡Qué emocionante! Spanish = me favorite ^_^
3. Sunburn stinks. But there's no disgusting-goober-icky-poopie red/brown tanning for you. Mesay you be happy. Gggrrr. Us Indian boys with our farmer tans... T_T
4. Your idea of 'very little knitting' is whack-OOO! YOu got an entire project done! woot for Carrie! I've finally learned to knit while I walk... So many possibilities now methinks. Mwahahaha! Ahem.
5. Jacob's piercing eyes are seeing into my soul.
I likee! XD
Posted by Jomy | June 28, 2006 10:44 AM
OMG, Cabo was so much fun, I just went like a month ago and it was the best time ever. looks like you had a lot of fun. YAY!
Posted by Charisse | June 28, 2006 10:31 AM
hmmmm, there's gotta be some way for MT-Keystrokes to have an if statement that clears the comment in preview-mode if there's text present in the form textarea. i would submit it to the author of the plugin as a bug just in case they hadn't thought of that!
by the way, your comment form never remembers me. you're missing a small bit of javascript that goes in the BODY onload tag :) contact me and i'll point you in the right direction!
Posted by gleek | June 28, 2006 10:27 AM
Welcome back!
Posted by Charles Nicolosi | June 28, 2006 9:53 AM
Welcome back, we missed ya!
Sounds like you had a fabulous vacation. Love Ms. Marigold and can't wait to see her finished.
Posted by Sarah | June 28, 2006 8:38 AM
Welcome Home!! It sounds like a wonderful vacation. Ms. Marigold looks great!
Posted by Michelle | June 28, 2006 7:38 AM
Looks like you had a great vacation!
I love Ms. Marigold, too! It is soo cute! And I might have to go out and buy some Shine after your raving review.
Thanks for the update on the commenting issue. I am thinking about using Keystrokes too, as all the spam comments I've been getting lately are really messing with me!!
Posted by molly | June 28, 2006 3:04 AM
So jealous of your fun in the sun! I'd absolutely love to visit Mexico. Ms Mari-blue looks so cute. I love mine too!
Posted by kat | June 28, 2006 1:20 AM
I LOVE MARIGOLD. And crazy Mexican times. ;-)
Posted by Jenny | June 27, 2006 11:18 PM
ooh, that sounds like a decadent trip. sorry about the sunburn though!
i love your ms. marigold so far. ruffles or no ruffles?
Posted by carrie m | June 27, 2006 9:42 PM
MMM, hot sunny Mexico! Fun! I like they way the purple looks under miss marigold.....
Posted by Julia | June 27, 2006 7:14 PM
Bienvenida a casa, senorita. Looks like you had a blast...I'm so jealous.
Great progress on Ms. Marigold. It's looking like another knit hit already.
Posted by isel | June 27, 2006 6:57 PM
So glad you had such a fun time--and that you are back--you were missed! Also LOVE Ms. Marigold. You may have a copycat following you around town before long . . .
Posted by courtney | June 27, 2006 6:53 PM
Fun fun fun! Love the pic of Jacob and his fans. And Marigold is looks amazing on you!!
Posted by Vicki | June 27, 2006 6:35 PM
Trip looks like LOADS of fun. .Looks like you are marrying into the right family!
Posted by Jenny | June 27, 2006 6:23 PM
Good trip - Good sweater!! I am realy only commenting, to find out about your "comment issue."
Posted by Jenni Brown | June 27, 2006 5:49 PM
Oh god, cleavage sunburn is the WORST. I heart those spray sunscreens, maybe you burned because the sun is stronger there?
Looks like you guys had fun, the resort is gorgeous!
I need to get me some Shine, too bad we're trying to save money for vacation in August...
Posted by Jenn | June 27, 2006 3:46 PM
Fun times! Woo hoo! Mr Wonderful and I had a blast in Riviera Maya too. Got sunburned and drank. Barely any knitting. It was too hot!
Posted by Skylar | June 27, 2006 3:39 PM
Glad you had fun! It looks beautiful.
Posted by sarah b. | June 27, 2006 3:13 PM
hey, welcome home!
Here's a question for you: before you started the neck ribbing on ms marigold, did your boobs pop right out the front? Because I'm just picking up stitches now and I'm a little concerned about the fit. And I can't believe I have enough boobage to pop out of anything.
Posted by jodi | June 27, 2006 2:56 PM
Miss Marigold look wonderful in the reflection of what I am guessing is the restroom at your place of employ. You are too kooky!
Posted by Gina | June 27, 2006 2:54 PM
hola!
welcome home chica...
mexico is good! looks like you had a great time!
I got some shine! :) yay. I hope I love it too!
cute cute cute!
Posted by heather | June 27, 2006 2:53 PM
I likey Ms. Marigold. Make me one next.
Posted by Cathy | June 27, 2006 1:53 PM