Happy New Year to anyone still reading this thing. *poke* Are you still there?
Like many other non-practicing bloggers, I figured I’d blow the dust off and see if I can post more often this year. I live such an exciting life of bunny-petting and pajama-wearing that I’ve not felt I had anything post-worthy for a while that wasn’t work-related, but there are enough changes coming in 2010 that I might as well bring back the blog. Twitter is awesome, but viva blogging!
I do like this design, but I could do with a new look around here… it’s time. Something a little cheerier, don’t you agree? I’m taking the Muse back to Expression Engine, as well. It turns out WordPress was just a fling for me — thrilling at first, but ultimately mediocre. So thanks for the interminable upgrades and incompatible plugins, WordPress, but you never forget your first love.
I was reading through my archives over the holiday break. It’s bizarre how different I sound 7 years ago when I first started this blog. I don’t even know what I was complaining about most of the time. In hindsight the majority of it is so… cranky. Funny, sure… but certainly, a collection of unwarranted gripery in the grand scheme of things.
I lost about a year or so of posts during one of my many domain name changes. I’m not sure what possessed me to change my domain name not once, but twice over the last 7 years — boredom I suspect, a desire to reignite the blog spark — but I don’t recommend it. I still have the database those posts live in, I’m just not sure how to get the content out… maybe someday I’ll figure it out.
But of the posts I do have, my favorites are the ones about the various encounters with people I’ve had. I meet weird people — I can’t help it. I’m one of those people who weirdos gravitate to and I somehow can’t help but engage them myself. It’s just part of who I am… and I’ve accepted it because it makes excellent blog fodder. 
So, here are some of my favorites for your reading enjoyment:
- Love Me Tender
- Fiddy Wouldn’t Front (I think this is Daniel‘s favorite)
- Debbie Diapers and the Amazing Technology Craptactular
- Burgess Fisherman and the Discount Diaper Cream
- Like They Do on the Discovery Channel
If you like those, you can find more under the Characters tag.
Happy 2010!
I miss the “office space” like observations of co-workers at your old job… always wondering, when are these people going to stumble across this? How you got away scott free, to this day… impresses the hell out of me.
All I can say is people tend to get nicer or crankier with age… you seem to be one of the lucky ones
Happy New Year!
WOW, you have been reading a long time. I think i have Whispering Punani around here somewhere… *looks*
Ta-da! Gosh, this was one of my first posts…
I’ve been reading you for ages (through both domain changes!) and I, for one, am glad that you’re going to post more often! (one of my resolutions? comment more often!!)
Thank you! I miss writing — I just don’t always have a lot to write about anymore. I’m sort of self-contained.
Oh yeah-still checking in! Love the old posts-you definitely do meet your share of odd folks.
I do. When I first started blogging, some folks accused me of making it up, but people can attest that these things do happen. They’ve witnessed them first-hand.
Hahahahah! I NEVER get tired of Big Shirl!
re: databases — depends on what you were using at the time, but one way or another you can at least pull the content out if you’ve got access to phpmysql or something like that. i grabbed a year or two’s worth of posts from sblog and ported it over to wordpress when i switched, which involved manually finding the post content and then copying and pasting. tedious, but workable (depending on how many posts there are). but if it’s from wordpress-to-wordpress or something-else-that-wordpress-likes-to-wordpress, you could port it over pretty easily by just setting up a dummy site, installing that software, and importing the database.
/geek
*slithers back into his cave*
Thanks! I’m not sure how many entries there are… I’ll have to look into it. First, I have to find the database. It’s one one of these hard drives around here… haha!
Yay! More writing. That is part of my resolution too! At least twice a week. That is one update per blog. Then there is the biography I need to be working on. It will be done in 2010. I will make sure of it!