I must have been living under a rock for the past four months.

When I originally redesigned this blog (to coincide with the switch to our very own happy little domain name), one of my primary reasons for doing so was that, at the time it went live, it bore a remarkable resemblance to Simply Recipes. (As a very real matter of point, it was inspired by it.)

I didn’t feel that this was fair to Elise, who has worked so long and hard to gain the popularity that she’s gotten, and to be frank, I was looking for my own identity in the food blogging world, something that the old site design simply didn’t provide. It was cookie-cutter, and almost a dead knock off of Simply Recipes. I vowed to change that when I moved the site.

So after many hours scouring the WordPress Themes repository, I came across this theme, did a double-take and shouted “That’s It! I’ve found it!” Then set about getting it all set up and working the way I wanted it to.

So why am I railing at WellFed?

I’m not, really. I’m a tad upset with myself for not noticing, up to this point, that I’ve gone and used exactly the same theme being used on all sites in their network.

I switched the look so that I could be original, and never noticed that I’d created a carbon copy of one of the more popular foodie destinations on the web…

How embarrassing.

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I’m sure you noticed pretty quickly, but just to make it very plain (in a redundant and unnecessary kind of way), I’ve got the new site up and running, and am now operating under my own happy little domain name… (there go my search engine rankings, <groan>!)

Please take a moment to let me know what you think about the new digs, I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback so far, and I’d love your opinions as well.

If you were kind enough to link to the old site at jerrydrussell.com, please update your links to point to cookingbytheseatofmypants.com. I’d really appreciate it.

Expect a few little changes over the next couple weeks. I’m not quite done tweaking everything to just the way I want it, but for now, I’ve missed actually blogging about food far too much to keep mucking with the layout and extras.

Here’s hoping you all had a wonderful week while I was away!

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This is just quick note to say I’m almost back on my game, and therefore will be back to blogging full-time by the weekend.

My computer issues were a larger problem than I had originally thought, and required three tries at installing everything before it went smoothly. The unforeseen benefit of this fiasco is that, since watching software install is about as boring as watching paint dry, my house is unusually clean and organized.

To all that have stopped by, thank you! I’m still here, and I’m still working on it!

If you’re stopping by for the first time, I’m glad to have you! Check back in a day or two and there will be new recipes and of course some commentary from the peanut gallery.

I’m also in the middle of revamping the layout around here as well as getting things set up for this little site to have it’s very own domain. I think it deserves it.

Have a good day, Y’All!

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Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days everyone. My computer seems to have contracted a rare disease called “OSfailureitis.” I’m waiting for the local best buy to open this morning so that I can go get a brand spanky new Windows XP disk and repair the damage once and for all. After that, I’ll get back to my regular routine of posting, and I’ve already got a few things in the queue, so don’t be alarmed, I have not, in-fact, dropped off the face of the earth.

I’ll have posts up later in the day if all goes well. Until then, it’s off to do a little housekeeping before the store opens and I’m stuck here all day re-installing everything I use on a daily basis.

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I hope that your mornings are all going well. Mine has started off with a bit of high stress work. Namely, I just transferred this domain from my old host to my new host. (And I highly recommend RimuHosting if you have a need for your own virtual server.)

All seems to have gone well, but there is always a possibility that something somewhere on the site will not act as expected. If you run into a problem, please don’t hesitate to contact me at jerry (at) jerrydrussell [D0T] com and let me know so that I can get it fixed as quickly as possible.

Having said that, now that I have everything moved and functioning as expected, I’ll be upgrading this blog to the newest version of WordPress in the next few weeks, so expect a bit of a new look and feel from it. I hope you’ll like the changes.

Thanks, and Y’All have a great day!

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Just a quick note to let you all know that I’ve made a change to the way the pages are stored here that may affect any bookmarks you might have had.  All the recipes are still here, and now have addresses that I think are easier to understand.

If you find something broken, please let me know!

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