i removed sparkybear’s place from my links. for a number of reasons, primarily that the blog is down and isn’t coming back any time in the forseeable future. she didn’t use the thing anyway, and when i migrated from hosting at home to hosting at laughing squid, i didn’t move her stuff (because she told me to not bother).
so i’ve changed hosting providers. from me. to laughing squid. we’ll see how they do. no contract, no promises from me. i’m just trying to transition my hosting away from my dsl line so i can cut costs.
hopefully the comment spambots won’t kill my bandwidth here.
i don’t know really why the system has been down for two days. i know it has, and i know it’s caused me no end of heartache.
if you can see this, though, it seems to be back up. i think i should just hit myself in the face with a brick a few times and be done with it.
i switched back to my older hand-done theme. i decided i like the white background better, and it has kyle’s really cool photo on it. maybe someday i’ll rig a deal like michelle and let the user choose which theme to use.
i found the problem with apache, and it turns out to be doglady.
doglady had installed a file sharing program on one of my computers, and incoming requests to that program were being sent through the same place web requests go through. this overloaded my web server.
in the meantime i dropped back from debian sid to sarge. i may start tracking etch on the server, but not just yet.
so anyway, the blog is back up. i apologize for the downtime.
the first exam in the history course has been returned. as i said, i did better than i’d feared but worse than i’d hoped: i got an 81. the next exam is monday. remember, this is a five week course, so exams come fast and furious. but at least this one is multiple guess. i’m much, much better at multiple guess. i’m so much better at multiple guess that i smoke most of them. 
in other news: confirming my faith in american justice, michael jackson got oj’d. i wish i had enough money to change my race. ’nuff said.
other thoughts: i’ve been considering trying my hand at a little adult photography. not the tasteless crap traditionally associated with porn. rather, something slightly more tasteful and appropriate for appreciation, not just masterbation. note that neither of those links are appropriate for the office or small children; you’ve been warned. consideration and pointers toward examples welcome. be aware, i’m not strictly interested in shooting stuff that’s straight porn; rather, i’m more interested in the artistic qualities of photography, and my appreciation of the female form. (as my friend abby said, men have too much hair, they’re smelly, and they’re dumb.)
we haven’t gone through referrals in a while, so here’s a sampling.
lots (tons!) of people come from cecily’s “and i wasted all that birth control.” welcome aboard. we also get some from the infertile gourmet, julie’s a little pregnant, and julia’s uncommon misconception.
i get lots of search engine crawlers (msn, yahoo, and google), and lots of spambots. i also get searches like these:
- iq of 127
- articule about the court system (edjumakashun at werk!)
- introverted ovary? (complete with question mark)
- ivf in dallas, texas (let me point you to our doctor)
- iq of 122
- xa-speakers, a website i privately mirror
- dumbfuckistan (i live there)
- aclu commencement in minnesota
- montessori schooling negatives
- ovidril dose (consult your doctor, sweets)
- lap dance (any titty bar, an experience i highly recommend)
- iq of 111 (we get dumber every time!)
- “what do the colors of the rainbow mean? (homosexuality)” (how the fuck should i know?)
- preeclampsya (again, consult your doctor, this shit can kill)
- work the steps online (can you say “half-measures availed us nothing”?)
- community colleges in 76118 (a crappy one)
- rainbow search freedom
- costco diapers (their diaper selection is name-brand only; their formula fucking rocks)
- “magic time machine” san antonio (good for one shot only; the ugly is cool; the food sucks)
- “fuck my wife” (thanks, i have one)
also, it seems my links are being passed around in email some, because some of the referrals link back to gmail’s login page. so if you’re coming from gmail, or forwarding this to somebody, say something! i’ll try to be better about checking for comments that make it past spam-karma but not far enough to actually show up, like cecily’s and alexis’s last pair, sorry.
i seem to be having trouble with apache, so if you don’t get an answer, don’t fret; i’m working on finding the solution. this is what you get when you use debian’s sid, the “unstable” release. debian’s code-names come from the movie toy story, so releases have been named such things as slink (slinkey dog), potato (mr. potato head), buzz (buzz lightyear), woody, etc., and of course sid is the child who destroyed his toys. so since debian’s unstable periodically breaks important things and occasionally renders the machine totally unbootable, sid is an appropriate codename for it.
finally, much love to my wife, who doesn’t use her blog but who chose to quit smoking june 10, for our anniversary (she’d previously committed to july 7, the twins’ second birthday, and then june 18, her birthday). today is her first day back at work and i’m really grateful she’s giving this a try. i’ve never smoked, but i’m told it’s harder than giving up booze. if stopping smoking is harder than quitting drinking, i’m ever so grateful i never started smoking, because giving up drinking goddamned near killed my sorry white ass.
i’ve been remiss, so here we go.
ian: the results of all the bloodwork and the mri are all “within normal limits.” the mri went well, but i didn’t realize that they could put anesthetic into his rectum. he obviously didn’t care for that, and neither would you. so next is the speech people and the eye doctor. we had to move the eye doctor so we could do the mri.
school: the idiot teaching the technical writing class sent an email tonight: everybody who hasn’t yet gotten her response to their rough draft of the huge project has their due date extended until next week. i’ve gotten her response to mine, but with only three days left until my due date, and i’d already waited like two weeks and gone ahead and turned in my final draft. i resubmitted a final draft instead. she also said she’d post the final, but haven’t seen it.
the statistics class is over. the instructor distributed the final on monday, saying take it home. so we sat in class and all did it together. the instructor corrected some of the mistakes we made. she obviously takes grading real seriously.
the children’s lit class has actually been interesting and challenging. the instructor won’t post the final until monday, but i have every confidence she’ll actually do it. she’s been on the ball all semester and i’ve actually grown to like her quite a bit.
the geology class has me nervous. i’ve done well and i anticipate an a (i need only 50 on the final, out of 100, to get an a), but i obviously still want to do well. i’ve very much enjoyed the class and found it considerably more challenging than i thought it would be.
registration is done at uta. i’m taking history of england 1 during summer 1, a five week course; american judicial system during summer 11 (an 11 week course); and business law during summer 2 (a 5 week course).
i’m wildly excited about switching schools. it’ll at least be a step in the right direction. perhaps i’ll find the instructors more engaging and challenging, and the students slightly more intelligent than the sophomoric twits that inhabit tarrant county.
nerd: i’ve played around some with the theme here. i really like it. i’m still fiddling with the colors, but all the links and stuff from the previous incarnation are in this one, and i much prefer a left-side nav. kyle’s photography will make a reappearance at some point. photoshop to the rescue.
sue: libido dead. we had a great time at the hotel and tuesday morning she got up in a “don’t touch me” mode that hasn’t ended. she’s been showing a tiny bit more affection over the past couple days but hey, i’m high maintenance and i admit it.
meds: depakote and zoloft. the psychoneurologist who did my personality testing said that nothing jumped out at him but he didn’t evaluate the mmpi right there on the spot. but he did agree to send me a copy of the report. if you’ve ever taken the mmpi, you’d remember it: it’s 567 (five hundred and sixty seven) true/false statements. very annoying.
sue asked that i upgrade her blog to wordpress 1.5 and install a theme for her. i did both, and liked the theme so much i’ve decided to steal it myself and hack it up a little bit. i’ve already started dicking with the colors and will of course figure out how to lowercase everything else, although i did manage to lowercase the text in the entries. i’ll also be putting kyle’s photography back up, integrating it into the theme.