The beginning of the week is -not- supposed to make me feel like I’m dragging ass already!  I want a recount, this cannot possibly be Monday.  Maybe Thursday, and tomorrow is Friday.  Ah, to dream.

The lovely Goddess is getting ready to start a new journey, and I am more envious than you know.  The prospect of just picking up, packing up, and starting fresh has never been more appealing than it is right now.  But I made a commitment to my daughter to stay right where we are until she graduates, and I intend on keeping my word.

Although… (yeah you saw that coming, didn’t you?) if I were to, say, find a job within driving distance of her father, I bet she’d take me up on it.  And driving distance from her father is about 1000 miles from here.  Oddly enough, right around the same area that Goddess is relocating to.

Possibilities?  Perhaps.  Rather interesting that I keep finding these reasons, and enticements, to return to the state I came from.  I’m not especially homesick, having run from Florida as fast as I could once the opportunity presented itself.  But I am… something.  I don’t know what.  Ready for a change of my own?  Yeah, ready for a change of my own.  And while I doubt that change is going to be a move back to the land of sunshine and warm breezes, it is nice to think about from time to time.

Tonight I believe I’m going to just shut the thinking machine off and curl up with my book, and later Heros, for awhile.  I don’t believe a whole lot in things being “meant to be” or anything these days, but I think that when the time is right, an opportunity will arise that I won’t be able to say no to.

I won’t actively seek it for now, but I’ll certainly know it if I happen to accidentally walk into it.

Oh, and Monday?  Shape up, bitch.  You are making me crazy.

Finally got everything moved from stage to here.  What a pain in the ass.  How kind of WordPress to import my links from the stage blog, but not the categories associated with them.  Thankfully there weren’t that many!

So now, finally, I can has blogging back?  Can has!

I’ve been steadily c&ping my little fingers to the bone trying to pull over stuff from my myspace blog.  I still have a year’s worth of archives to work though.  I’m not pulling everything over, some of it is just nonsense, some only relevant to my other myspace friends.

It’s a boring, tedius task.  But I hate seeing that big gaping hole in the archives.  It annoys my sense of esthetics.  So I’ll continue copying and pasting until it’s done.

I really need a personal assistant!

updated Feb 17, 2009
I manually imported over 200 blog entries. I didn’t import a lot of the quizzes and surveys from over there, nor any of the quick notes meant specifically for people on that service. And, much like the other entries pulled in, comments didn’t come with. However, as far as I’m concerned, it’s done.

Yay me!

I got all of the blogs pulled off of the old Sabreland.com database. Due to the nature of the homegrown cms running everything, I didn’t get comments pulled in on the old posts. There were too many to try and link up with the new ids assigned by WordPress.

To get the old entries in, I used the Import CVS Plugin. I found this one after hours of searching. I found another plugin first, and saw it referenced all over the web, but apparently the support for WordPress 2.7 isn’t so hot. So I went with the other one.

It took awhile to get all the data in. My comma delimited file was causing issues with the plugin, and I couldn’t get categories to come through. But after hours of massaging and promises of chocolate, it finally got all of the posts imported.

I then spent several hours reassigning categories and cleaning up some old links. There’s still a few tweaks here and there, but they can’t really be done until the blog is moved live and off the stage domain.

Now I’m off to try and get some of my myspace content in. Which means nothing but hours of hand entry, one by one. Joy.

A few more style tweaks, a bit of rearranging, and I’m done. I can’t recall the last time I was this happy about something so mundane!