Fuck you SixApart. You can't be trusted, so I'm moving my journal off of LiveJournal.

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I am back home, in Bloomington. Safe and sound, with male offspring. Sigh.

Notice to anyone who uses hindenburg for hosting (web/email):

The main drive is apparently unwell and possibly on the verge of failure. Please backup your data as soon as humanly possible to avoid data loss! I'll be replacing the drives as soon as possible, I'll use my LJ to keep everyone updated. Leave comments with questions if you have any.

Okay, hindenburg is back up and running again, this time in the Springfield Underground, specifically in SpringNet's colocation facility. Safe and sound and should be in no way harmed ever again by fire or whatever. It's currently sitting on a 50 Mb/s connection out to the Internet so it should be faster than the past by quite a bit. I'm still ( Read more... )

I am suffering from some kind of insomnia, so I decided to write a journal entry. This post is about job-related stuff, mostly ( Read more... )

I apologize to anyone wondering what's going on for my lack of socialness lately. I'm dealing with some stressful and honestly depressing events lately and I am not sure of how well I can keep up my traditional persona of optimism and general civility.

My feast:

• Fish sticks
  
• Corn (I hope there is some left in the freezer)
  
• Apple cider
  
• Perhaps apple pie for dessert
  

I consider it prepping myself for a return to bachelor life. Last night, I had Totino's frozen pizza! Pepperoni, of course.

Things just get better and better at work. Every few days now, the owner takes out of his "busy" day to give me little pep talks, mostly involving how things are going GREAT but really offering no explanation as to what IS so great. He will often also tell me about how much he appreciates all my hard work, blah blah.. all while I'm thinking "you ( Read more... )

End of the week, trip to Indianapolis possibly for tasty beverages, then a relaxing (I hope) weekend. Still haven't decided where I'm going to take the kids, I have been looking online a bit today between doing bits of work ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I took the kids on an outting to the Freeman Family Farm just south of Bloomington. We visited the farm animals, took a ride on a tractor cart to a corn maze, then picked out one big and two little pumpkins. What follows is the link to the photographic evidence.

Pickin' PumpkinsThe last few pictures are of the results of gutting and ( Read more... )