This week’s activities have been a bit of a departure from the norm for me. That’s often a mixed bag: I am, after all, a creature of habit, and disruptions of routine don’t always go well. At the same time, I enjoy novelty. This variation, so far, isn’t falling toward the positive side. So far, […]

This afternoon between courses of laundry, I got a new version of the links up. With that, I think most of the kinks are out, and this site is now once again 99% open for business (I won’t commit to 100%; there’s always something broken somewhere). Also, some sad news from the homestead…even though ours […]

Had a few minutes this evening to sift through the old corrupted db backup, and restored some version of all the lost posts…they should even mostly be in the right order. Given the weirdness of the DB formatting, and the existence of multiple versions of a post (one for each revision, apparently, and I fix […]

And by the look of the youtube search results, it’s happened quite a lot: Clearly, I’m not a huge Taylor Swift fan (or heck, an Eminem fan either), but I must admit, I kind of like this. Nothing like breaking your audience of it’s comfort zone. Still want to see her bust out those Gelfling […]

I found a backup from two weeks ago (that I didn’t remember making, but must have done so) that worked a little better.  Looks like things are well and good up until July 27.  I’ll take that. Now I only have to pull maybe two dozen posts out of the mishmash of slightly corrupted SQL […]

so yeah, this page looks a little…uh, blank and generic today. I tried to be diligent and back up the database last night, and somehow hosed everything up real good. luckily, I have a good backup with all the posts; hopefully I’ll be able to import the last three years of posts with some level […]

Happy Birthday, kid.

Since I started working the schedule I do, the appearance of the random ten is honestly just as random as the order of the songs that might appear. Oh well, I got one in this week. Enjoy, while I take a pre-road trip road trip: “”She Said, She Said – The Beatles “”Mockin’bird Hill – […]

From a historical perspective, it’s hard to discount the premise presented in This article regarding the demographics and positions of the “”modern”” Tea Party movement. Back in US History class in high school, we called this the “”Solid South.”” …But while there may be Tea Party sympathizers throughout the country, in the House of Representatives […]

It seems like the concept of nostalgia is something that is bubbling up quite a bit these days, here and elsewhere. For the last several weeks, I’ve been going back through my music collection and re-visiting the thoughts and feelings those fifteen and twenty year old records dredge up. I’ve written at least three pieces […]