So, I don’t know how many of you folks watch DNS registrations like a hawk or anything like that. If I had to guess, at an outside number, I’d say none of you. That’s fine. I’d be really worried if anyone I knew was like that. It would be like Trainspotting, except creepier. Sorry, I’m getting off-message here.
Back in June, I registered JohnZeitler.com after believing, for ten years, that it was too expensive to do so and/or that it had already been taken. Some of my experiments since then disabused em of the former, and the latter was just a happy coincidence. In any event, most of you have already clicked that there link, so announcing that I’m moving my blog to it now would be kind of anti-climactic.
(Incidentally: You can’t really say “Hooray for anti-climax!”. Well, you can, but you’d have to do it kind of half-assed.)
Yeah. Come the first of January, all my posting will be done there. On Friday I put up a little post explaining why I’m moving, so you can go check it out if you’d like (wait, you already did– damn, now my head hurts). One of my goals for 2009 is to have daily posts again; I didn’t realize how much that motivated me until I wasn’t doing them anymore, and so it’s going to be a thing I try to do continually from here on out. Which means, yeah, the return of Bailout. But it’ll be a tag this time and not a category. For whatever that’s worth.
And yes, the novel that I’ve been writing for God only knows how long will be readable in 2009. Some folks already know how, but on the first everyone will know how.
Oh, one last thing. Only the blog and its related services will be moving there. The forums are staying right here at TFO.net, and the old blog will stay up in a read-only format for a year or so.
Anyway, yeah. Hope everyone had a good weekend and holiday– things are gonna change around here.
I hope that you and yours are all safe on this Christmas Day, and I’d like to offer my own wishes that this year, and every year, is the best year of your life.
I’ll catch you folks on Monday with some interesting tidbits about 2009’s plans.
In case anyone’s planning to rob my house really interested, I went ahead and updated the Collection page, over to your right. I’ve been on the verge of wanting a second ‘big’ shelf to put the cabinet stuff in for quite some time now, and while I still have plenty of room, the primary purpose of the big shelf is to give me an at-a-glance look at the backlog. Despite my best efforts, this is becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish.
Anyway. Enough bragging, I go now to eat and relax for a little while.
So I’m back in Pittsburgh. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving… Really, I’d have more to say but right now I’m just a little tired. The weekend was good, with a few hiccups, but I’m ready for bed already. Oh, and for the record, I did hit my 50K goal for NaNo on Saturday night, so there’s that– I’ll probably spend the rest of the week finishing up the last four chapters before I get even more distracted by Chrono Trigger. I swear, that game is so good it’s bad for me. Anyway, catch you all… eventually. Oh, I have game and anime reports due on the LJ at some point this week… so I suppose I’ll see you there.
Don’t know if you guys saw it on the forums this morning, but there was a little bit of a spammer’s streak. This hasn’t happened in a very long time, and I was a little surprised; but the offending accounts and posts have been removed, and all is well again. So, yeah.
I’m halfway through the word count requirement for NaNo, but in point of fact I’ve only gone through a third of the plot that I wanted to do. I’ve also pulled that plot slightly off the rails, too, so I’ve got to do some revising of the outline to this point. Ultimately I’m still in good shape; with any luck I can get a little bit more hammered out in the next few days and have another chapter done by the end of the week. (Of course, I say that heading into what’s probably the hardest chapter to write well… and I can’t really skip around on this project.) We’ll see how things work out.
I had a post for this morning about Burnout Paradise. Then the mouse in my apartment introduced himself. Needless to say I’m not in a good mood right now…
Yeah, the procrastination started bright and early this morning. I took the time to update my Links page, dropping off a few services I don’t use anymore and a comic which hasn’t updated in over six months, and adding in a couple of the newer things I’ve picked up in the meantime (such as Netflix and LotGD). It might not be terribly interesting, but it is something that I did.
Now, off to get ready to raid the convenience stores for half-price candy write.
Just a few little things worth mentioning. I’ve dropped the Last.fm banner from the top of the blog page, because a) I can’t get it to capture tracks played on my iPhone and b) it turns iTunes into an inert unmoving non-functional waste of electricity anyway. Took me half an hour this morning to finally rip out all of the plug-ins that seemed to drag it down, but now I no longer dread syncing my phone. Woo hoo.
I’m also thinking of dropping the XFire banner as well, as I haven’t used my PC for gaming in months, but that would leave a pretty big void up there. I very rarely update the “now playing” things, which I should have done by the time you guys read this, but that’s just a matter of training and remembering to do it. Are there any other tools you guys think I should put up there?
This week is going to be chaotic, for a number of reasons (most of which I can’t talk about until they’re, y’know, not chaos anymore), but I’m going to try to get posts here on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I need to get back into the whole “regular posting” thing soon, and there’s no better time than now. Hopefully this will mean a return to daily posts at some point in the future, but don’t bet too much on it. Ciao for now.
I really wanted an excuse to call attention to this, though given the massive rant I’m about to unleash, I wish it were under better circumstances (even though it is still somewhat appropriate).
So. We Cheer. You should know a couple of things about my attitude towards this game. The first is that when it was first announced, my reaction was somewhere between nonexistent to active apathy. A cheerleader game? Honestly, why? The more I thought about it, though, ( the more sense it made… » )
So, I guess this means I’m getting back into doing regular (kinda) blog posts. I missed being able to launch into these long discussions with you folks. I’m probably going to drop the whole LJ side as well, and just maintain that as a meme repository or some other thing. We shall see. Let’s shoot for the next post to be Thursday or Friday. After that, we’ll see where we go with this.
