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Blog Enhancement Weekend

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I use WordPress to infuse AFK Gamer with ultimate blogging power. WP recently released their latest stable upgrade, version 1.5, which is supposed to be easier and shinier, and probably happier.

I like easy. Shiny can be good; happy is overrated.

Nevertheless! I will take the plunge and upgrade some time … maybe today, or tomorrow, or the next day. So, if you stop over and things are fucked to high hell, that’s what’s going on.

No ETA on completion, but worst case scenario is I have to beg for help from the IT guys at work on Monday.

(Note to self: Use these instructions and do not deviate or skip steps, particularly the backing up data stuff. Also, upgrading while sober would be a good idea.)

UPDATE: Well hot damn! That wasn’t so terrible, only took about an hour. Was scary as hell tho.

Any other WP hags looking to do the 1.5 upgrade, the instruction link above is well-written and easy to follow, even for an idiot like me.

UPDATE02: Spent a good couple hours trying to beat this thing into submission and all I have to show for it is: I centered the Days of the Week in the calendar. I R Stoopid.

One sorta significant change is to commenting. If you’re a new commenter, your first comment will be held in moderation (I think) and you will get a message stating that (I think). Previous commenters and users that are registered with the site don’t get moderated (I think).

Too bad for you, asshole Texas Hold’em dude! (I hope.)

Comments are held in moderation until I either check my email or I’m inside the blog bowels and check the moderation queue. ETA on that … depends.

The Best I Ever Had

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I can feel for the Blizzard minions. Truly, I can.

I swear some days that I’m working for J. Peterman and I’ll change a pitch slightly so it now involves the Protagonist diving into a subway tunnel, ruining the very pants that he was about to return, and my boss will declare, “now THAT’s interesting writing!”

Some days you just get beat. And other days, you beat yourself.

On those other days, I remind myself that, after all, I’m the best I ever had.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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In the old days, we had to walk to the pizza joint uphill both ways because we didn’t have money for the bus and our beater was unresponsive (yet again) and we had to pay for the pizza with change because that’s all our on-campus jobs paid. Loose change.

And no way could we use the monthly allowance from our parents for pizza because that was already spent on the EQ subscription and other stuff that we bought just for show like books and essentials like weed, which, in hindsight, was probably just oregano because it didn’t really do anything when we toked, although my breath was surprisingly fresh.

And fergitabout delivery because that was for rich people, like the grad assistants, and the delivery dude would just briefcase it anyhow and the only thing worse than a briefcase job was some noob guild asshat that would aggro the portal area and bring that shit to the wall when we’re trying to do the naked CR from the first two breakin attempts.

Then we had to run back from the pizza joint because we told the guild “afk fas” which indicates that it won’t be a 30-minute afk and maybe our final piece of Planar armor would drop and that would suck hardc0re if we weren’t there to /random for that shit, and for sure! our pretend online GFs and/or BFs (not that there’s anything wrong with that) would leave us for a fully-planar dude that was starting his own Planes-capable guild. Asshole.

And we liked it!

The apocalypse has arrived.

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