I haven’t posted a thing since October.  Probably because I got so damn depressed when a second surgery was required in early November.  Since then I’ve been slowly recovering and trying to put my life back together.

This weekend is when it all finally happens.  I’m moving back into my own place, going back to work full time effective Monday, and gaining some semblance of sanity once again.

I hope that I’ll be blogging more often once I’m settled in, but if you’ve been around this long, you know that I tend to get easily distrac…

Ooooohhhh SHINY!!

I apologize for any comments that were made recently that didn’t get published.  I had several hundred items caught by the spam filters and I really just couldn’t bring myself to go through them all.  If your comment never appeared, that would be why.

I only receive a few comments here and there, generally from people I know, and only one that I know of was caught in the spam filter.  This round there may have been more.  I blame the pain killers.

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!

Okay, it took forever, and there’s no good reason for it to have done so. Well, other than I’m lazy. But, hey look, the blog is back!

I still have a buttload of content to back-fill, and that’s what has been holding this whole thing up. I finally decided that I’ll deal with that later, I just wanted to get this up because I am seriously itching to bitch about a thing or two.

Yeah, I know, shock and surprise.

*cough*

Once I figure out how to convert my old data to something that WordPress can understand, I’ll pull it in. Well, not figure out. That part is easy. Let me rephrase, and be honest this time. Once I get off my lazy ass and convert my old data to a cvs file that I can import into WordPress, and pull in (manually!) content from the evil MySpace, the old content will be here to once again critique and poke fun at.

I missed you little blog, I missed you so much!

I’m sorry that I haven’t kept this up. There are many reasons for that, mostly that I’m too lazy to update the software and am not happy with what’s running here. There’s also the spam that drove me batshit crazy, and the nasty comments from old familiar faces that I wish would just fuck off and die. (Yeah, I’m real sweet, aren’t I?)

If you are interested, you can find me goofing off on MySpace. A little light blogging, a little serious blogging, but mostly just having fun. Come by and see me
If I can get some free time, I do promise to get back to updating this site. Free time, well, not so free, if you know what I mean.

I’ve spent far too much time screwing around on MySpace and not enough time over here updating this. So, again, I cheated and entered in a few entries from the last month or so that I’ve posted over there.

Hey, at least you always know where to find me!

I posted some pictures of me over here, plus a picture of Grace. Grace is the only person (she is so a person, shut up!) who can make me happy no matter what is happening in my life.

Hrmmm. I need to edit that category. Goddess knows the flower pictures may be beautiful, but not so much the ones of my face!

Okay, so I haven’t been updating this the way I should. I’m sorry! I got lost over on myspace
I’ve just added a few entries from the last month, mostly just rambling incoherent thoughts. I promise to update more, I swear! I just need to move this to a new host, get better software, and find an answer to my spam problem.

Yet more stuff on my list o’ crap to deal with!