#1 : strike rant about lotek's deletion of posts; this appears to have been my error;
sometime while poking the User Control Panel with a sharp stick, I reset the display
posting order to "ascend" or "descend" or whatever, and along with a bunch of changes
and resets, this really dicked things up ... I did not log-off or close out and reload the
site in between all these changes ... I guess I'd recommend doing so before going off
on a rant-tangent ...
#2 : the rest of that shit stands
#3 : still having the "Font colour" boxes load in line and slowly; I believe that what I was doing was
clicking on the page, putting focus on a element, before the thing had loaded; that's what seems
to cause the page to "not load fully" ... I just noticed that, and will test it out later ... it could be
that's what been happening - makes some sense ... (and again, would (mostly) be my fault (user
error) except that the font color boxes are loading funny, and are captioned
"Font colour",
which even firefox spelchek says is spelled wrong ...)
#4 @Rob - been looking around yewtube for a shot of Captain Chris Morgan playing his pipes in
the weird-ass 1872 Cavalry uniform he has, with kilt and the little stocking with the dangling
balls (NB4...) and a funky kind of beret ... he has several authentic uniforms from Indian War
period Cav and Federal Civil War period with kilts ... pipes, fifes, and drums were popular in the
regimental musicans' units, and their dress and parade uniforms often included kilts, whether or
not the (Civil War) unit was an "Irish Brigade" ... there are still two official US Army parade uniforms
for active duty musicians that are kilts ... maybe more ...
I know I have some photos of Chris somewhere I'll post, and look around for some more; I was
sure I had one handy in the photos from an event last spring, but upon looking at them, he was
standing in front of his big-ass Sibley tent, with the beret-like hat and the vest of that uniform,
but still had blue jeans on with his keys and state park radio hanging from his belt - he had just
set the tent up and hadn't gotten into full dress yet ...
also:
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