The next stage of the domesticat overhaul has been taking place today, behind the scenes. I apologize for those of you who have stumbled by while I was in the midst of changes.

Most of them have revolved around the installation of the newest skin, pazdziernika.What the heck? If you're asking that, you aren't the first person—that honor goes to the friend earlier today who blurted out, "Ames, when did you start sticking random Polish words into your skins?"

The answer: it isn't entirely random.

For some time I've been asking myself what my goals are for domesticat. When originally designing skins, my thoughts were to have skins for every major color in the color wheel. There were some colors on the wheel, though, that presented problems.

Specifically, orange. I hate orange—in every instance except one: the changing colors of autumn leaves.

Today I spoke with Geof about the work I've been doing to maintain the greymatter hacks/mods site (available here). A good portion of my time lately has been spent creating language hacks for greymatter; making it available in all languages, not just English.

This has required my tracking down of weekdays and months in many different languages.

When I saw 'pazdziernika' I rolled it over and over in my mind. October. My birth month, a month of change and progress. Neither fall nor winter, it is a time when Nature is at its most beautiful.

The light bulb came on. Orange. Fall. Leaves. Pazdziernika.

I'll post a screenshot and make the link publicly available shortly. The design is intended for people with larger monitors. It's not for everyone.

Then again, neither is October. But it's mine, and it suits.