Time really does move faster as you get older, doesn’t it? I went back and checked what I wrote to mark this occasion last year, and after glancing around adjacent posts a bit, what I remembered of them didn’t feel like a whole trip around the sun ago.

Oh well. As I’m sure I commented on before at some point, this time ’round is significant, as I finally get to make a certain joking reference that, to be honest, I’ve been anxious to do for years. So, we might as well get to it:

I think we all know someone like this, don’t we?

So, yeah.

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, it’s largely been pressure and relative isolation.

Oh well, by next week it’ll be a habit and then it’ll be time to change it up again.

Speaking of changing it up, here’s a randomly generated playlist:

1. “No One Said It Would Be Easy” – Sheryl Crow
2. “Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn” – The White Stripes
3. “I Can’t Be With You” – The Cranberries
4. “The Captain’s Wife’s Lament” – Paul and Storm
5. “This Boy” – that dog.
6. “Jonas and Ezekial” (live) – The Indigo Girls
7. “Mama They Must Crazy” – The Badlees
8. “You Don’t Remember, I’ll Never Forget” – Yngwie Malmsteen
9. “I Turn My Camera On” – Spoon
10. “Dope Nose” – Weezer

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 was, at best, a bi-polar relationship, fairiemom’s eulogy for a stray had me welling up a bit.

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 spelling and grammar stuff almost immediately after putting something out live almost every time, it seems), there are probably a bunch of broken links, spelling errors, and instances of double quotation marks all over the place.

Maybe I’ll fix ’em one of these days, or I might just leave a few as gentle reminders to back everything up more regularly from now on.

That puts the rebuild progress as nearly done; just the rebuilding of the blogroll, and all shall be well once again.

Also, today, I learned that this exists. I’m not sure how I feel about this.

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 wings one of these days.

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 data extracts I have cluttering up the desktop.   Hopefully I can save those happily; I thought there was some decent writing in there.

Also, there’s the links section to rebuild, but that needed some housekeeping anyway.

Probably won’t happen for a while, though – I’ve got enough on my plate to deal with.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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 of automation, rather than stripping them and re-posting them automatically in the days to come.

wish me luck.

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:

1. “”She Said, She Said – The Beatles
2. “”Mockin’bird Hill – Less Paul & Mary Ford
3. “”Nobody’s Hero”” – Dropkick Murphys
4. “”Skullcrusher Mountain (live)”” – Jonathan Coulton
5. “”Be My Yoko Ono (live, acoustic)”” – Barenaked Ladies
6. “”O Valencia”” – The Decembrists
7. “”Sail Away”” – The Pet Shop Boys
8. “”Minneapolis”” – That Dog
9. “”Not Pretty Enough”” – Kasey Chambers
10. “”The Trooper”” – Iron Maiden