I found myself.

Forget future-dating this, it'll screw up prior entries. I may take jennies up on her offer to help me put up update notices.

To anyone who visits the Weird Web Page, a notice:

Web page updates will be indefinitely postponed.

This is not by my choice, mind you.

As of yesterday, I no longer have Internet access at home. Which means I can't upload stuff, and therefore can't update the website. At all. No matter what option I take to get Net access at the new place, it'll take a while to get it set up - if I get DSL, I need to get a new phone jack run, and if I get cable, I need to wait for them to run a line to the house.

I have NO CLUE when I'll have Net access at home again, so please don't ask. It's all dependent on when I can get someone to run cable or phone wire to my place, what needs to be rewired, et cetera, et cetera. Basically, it depends on the schedules of others.

I wanted to put a notice on the website about this, but I have simply run out of time. As I write this, I have two days to:

1) Pack up for Vegas
2) Get some sockets grounded in my house
3) Get the last of my crap out of the apartment
4) Clean the apartment
5) Turn my keys into the leasing office
6) Make absolutely sure some services *cough*Comcast*cough* still have my termination date on file
7) Go to a baby shower
8) Get a haircut
9) Somehow get to the Comcast lobby to drop off the cable modem that they FORGOT TO SCHEDULE THE PICKUP FOR,
10) Get to the FedEx facility to get my camera before they send it back to Canon,
11) and actually show up for two days of work.

I'd love to just take the day off and finish all the updates I wanted to, but it's just not happening. I don't have enough leave. I know certain games on my hint site need to be updated, I know certain links are broken, I just CAN'T GET TO THEM.

Anyone contacting me to demand updates will simply be sent here. Please don't take this the wrong way, I got three rather nasty "why don't you update?" e-mails this morning and one polite e-mail telling me about a game update I was aware of but just didn't have the chance to finish the hints for in time. I didn't even manage to finish the page update that said "I know this and this and this need to be updated, I just don't have the time and now don't have the FTP access" before it was time to move the computer out of my apartment.

Here's hoping I get Net access at home sometime soon.

Anyone else on the friends list use Dreamhost, and is anyone else having issues with FTP today?

I swear, the ONE TIME when uploading time is actually of the essence, I'm having problems uploading stuff...

*looks at friends list*

*diligently does not click on HP spoiler cuts*

*notes people screaming that they want Book 7 last week*

Maybe sitting on it and gauging the reactions was a good idea.

I'm too stressed for cliffhangers lately. :)

Well, all the furniture is inside the Great White Elephant - almost. I left my computer at the apartment because there are a few things I need to do this week and I need to do them with net access at home and not with my computer boxed up (since until I can get a co-worker to come in and run the grounding wires, I'm not plugging the computer in at the house):

1) Put up website notices to the effect that now I really won't be able to update instead of just not having any freaking time to update. (I'm going with cable Internet for a variety of reasons, most of which are boring and involve numbers and relatives who know the ins and outs of the cable company anyway. However, that means it will take a while.)
2) Change every online account I have to the new info. (eBay and Amazon are not places I should visit at work.)
3) Get pics of the Great White Elephant put up for the benefit of certain friends who will want to see it.
4) Send some stuff to people that I've been meaning to send for months but haven't had time and cannot send from work because the files are too big.

So it's still going to be an interesting week. If I forget about my birthday again, I'll at least have an excuse this time.

Well, after perusing this article that heatherly posted, I need to figure out what to do about this blog. And my website in general, but mostly about this blog, since most of my petty ranting is here.

Too many entries come up when you Google my name, and although I'm pretty secure in my current job, I don't doubt that some employers would shun me based on my fannish tendencies. I don't post any public work-related rants, and I've blocked search engines from referencing my LJ - but that doesn't guarantee anything.

I suppose I'll have to yank the links off my site and create a separate update blog. Problem is, there's still my fan site to consider. I'd have to wipe out all instances of my name on it and then get everyone who refers to it in their links not to reference my name. Which may be pointless given that Google has a very long memory.

*sigh*

Yes, I should have used a handle back in '96.

*goes to start locking up some of my older entries*

First off, overheard at D&D last night:

B = the Lawful Good cleric
T = the Lawful Good druid
G = the Chaotic Neutral fighter
DM = the DM

(meeting up with the druid)

T: "Where are you headed?"
G: "There's a Hooters on Route 28."

(T flips through druid's handbook, shows picture of scantily-clad female druid)
T: "Would that be me?"
G: "Okay, I'll listen to you now."

(after a battle with scorpions)
DM: "Morning comes."
G: "I get a towel."

(cleaning up scorpions)
DM: "I just saved us 20 pounds' worth of tail." (laughter) "Okay, that came out wrong."
B (to me): "You've got to write that one down."

Also, I just saw the latest JLU, and I'm about to spoil the ending behind the cut...

( WHAT THE???? )

Need to pack. But need to sleep. *sigh* If I had more leave, I'd take time off, since there's very little for me to do at work right now..

Postponing the weekend report, I just spent 7 hours finding out more about the Elephant. Skip the next cut if you don't want to hear it.

( *head explodes* )

However, I've discovered that my immediate neighbors are very nice. More later; I need to crash.

For reasons that no one probably wants to hear, the house will be referred to from now on as the Great White Elephant.

(I'd answer the meme that athersgeo passed on to me, but nothing's working.)

Best meme response ever.

Warning, incredibly long and based off Scientology questions. Eating or drinking while reading is not recommended.

*dies*

Made the mistake of checking this one out and next thing I know, it's an hour later.

I don't usually go for most sprite comics. I make exceptions, like 8-Bit Theater, but I usually pass.

Kid Radd is the latest exception.

It's like the Matrix. If the Matrix were a bunch of 80's video games. Actually, it's sort of the Matrix meets sprite comics meets ReBoot, really.

...yeah, I know. You just have to read it. Preferably with IE.

The ending reminded me of all the best video game endings I remember back when I was a kid.

bed now.