Ok, so a little determination, a lot of hair loss, a level 3 concussion from banging my head into a brick wall for a couple of hours, and some blood loss! Managed to get weechat configured to autoconnect on start-up. Managed to get mocp to play my mp3's, and of course finished tweaking the falldown Conky's on each side of the screen. Will 'probably' switch back to i3 later today, but right now need sleep! Baby steps...
Maybe I'll detail how I did all this a little later today as well...
For now though, the old adage a pic to prove it...


I need a cookie dizzie! And that's Mr. Buttercup to you!