Though it may look the same, This blog is now running smoothly with wordpress under it’s hood.

Instead of trying to migrate my old textpattern blog over to wordpress and have to deal with all the formatting and other things that don’t work right, I’ve just decided to keep all that the same and drop it in an new directory called “archives”.  Soon (once I get it all cleaned up) all my old posts will be able to be viewed there.  Stay tuned.

Update:

I’ve decided to just import the old textpattern database into wordpress.  it actually worked quite well.  The only thing that missing are my tags (I’ll get to those) and any one of my old posts that I had images in.  I was using a textpattern gallery plugin so that won’t work here.  Still trying to figure out how to deal with that.

Here’s a quick rundown of a chat Mr. Anderson-Coovert and I had last night:

JP: Steam says you’re playing Adobe After Effects
Me: That’s right!
JP: I don’t get it, how does it know?
Me: I figured I’d add it as a third-party “game” because I’m always “playing” it so much. And, of course, I’m winning.
JP: Haha! Badass, dude. This is why we’re friends!

Well, my birthday is officially over and I’ve got to say, it was full of twists and turns of surprises and well planned out gifts by Tiffany. Never has anyone gone to so much trouble for me and I still can’t believe that she went through it all. But she was bustling all day, just as much as (or even more than) I was!

I also can’t believe that it’s still not finished yet. there’s one more surprise for me today that involves some more people so I’m excited about that.

What I really can’t believe is what Tiffany gave me for my final present. I’m going to tell you but you’re never going to believe it…

we’re going to NEW YORK CITY!!

This is Tiffany’s dog, Diamond who lives with us in our apartment with our 3 other cats.

This past Sunday, JP, Tiffany, D and myself were gearing up to play some Left 4 Dead 2 and we realized that Tiffany didn’t have a headset to talk to us all with. She just built a new desktop and all the other times we played together before, she just used my laptop which had a built-in microphone.

So, in the middle of the game, D realizes something: “Oh! She can just use one of the Rockband Microphones!” A good enough idea, so I take off my headset and set it on my desk and go out in the living room to grab her a mic. This is where Diamond comes in…

She decided to follow me out in to the living room, as most dogs tend to do, only she got herself slightly tangled* in the cord to my headset. *Side note: when Diamon gets remotely stuck in anything, she violently freaks out. So I’m out in the living room and I hear a bunch of yelping and then a huge crash. I run back into the bedroom to see what happened and there’s my headset, completely destroyed. I’m talking headphone part is all out of place and the cord is torn right out of the body.

So I sit down and type to JP, who is still waiting, “Now I don’t have a microphone…” :p

I’m surprised to see how many people still put this number on their business cards. It seems like such an antiquated technology that really doesn’t have it’s place anymore.

I thought for a minute that maybe in an office setting they might be relevant… but then I thought, “wait a second… I work in an office and I’ve never even heard the thing go off.

It’s just like when I was in middle school: I never used a floppy disk to save my projects because it seemed so stupid to me. Standard floppys at the time could hold 1.44mb of data and the most e-mails services would give you at least that much for an attachment limit.

Get with the times!

Today, March 23rd, 2010, Tiffany turned twenty-one! whoooo!

I normally don’t reserve my blog for personal messages but here’s one for a special occasion:

Tiffany, since the day we met, you’ve been such a strong influence on the direction that my life has been going. I’m so lucky to have you with me every day. I love how you’re always looking out for me and trying your best to make sure everything is the best it can be for me. You’ve been spoiling the crap out of me and making me feel like I’m the most important person in the world since almost day one. I can’t imagine going on at the rate I’m going without your motivation and support.

Thank you so much. I Love you, Tiffany!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!