I guess I should learn to backup more often myself, but I don’t think in this case it would have made much of a difference… It’s hard to back up from a distance every night! Besides, that’s why I retain my RSS feeds, neh? -_^

Overall it seems pretty nice. If I run into anything particularly irritating I’ll post it in the comments…

UPDATE: I see the New Post button at the top right now… Weird because I could swear it wasn’t there before.

It’s slow typing on here but it’s great that I’m no longer tethered to a computer. Yay WordPress!

Many of the visits are a result of searches (overwhelmingly from Google). Some of the more interesting searches took you to learning about the best deodorant, they lyrics for the OREO cookie song, my fun encounter with the TSA a couple years ago, and my choices for top five speculative fiction actresses from a year ago. Mind you, these aren’t the only things that bring people in, they are just some of the top search entries. I have to shout out a big thank you to Costa for the deodorant one… Who knew it would get such attention?

Anyways, thank you for visiting and I hope to see you again soon!

And this was only about a quarter of the work stress last week.

Anyways, it’s not the best excuse, but it’s what I have and I’m sticking with it. Next weekend is our big ski weekend in Tahoe and I have a few days off. I can’t wait; I need to decompress big time.

In the meantime, we are back, and will posting promptly about something not related to outages. Not that it’s any more exciting (you should have seen me freaking out late last night!) but it’ll be something beside this boring update.

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

And here are eight random things about me.

1. I’ve been stabbed in the arm with a knife by a wild Korean boy screaming, “American!” after being chased by his gang out in Hannam-dong after visiting my friend John Schaffer. It was, as they say, “Merely a flesh wound!” Saying I was Canadian calmed them down. They even apologized. I lied, though. I’m American.

2. Speaking of Korea, my friend Robert, my brother Chris and I were almost killed by a notorious serial murderer! I even wrote a song about it, called Chopping Up Robert.

3. I used to have a cat named Lucifer. Otherwise, all my pet’s first names started with “K” (Killian and Kitwik).

4. I’ve lived in San Francisco just shy of 10 years continuously, which is almost three times longer than anywhere else I’ve ever lived.

5. I have over 700 books here at home, and have read approximately 85% of them. This is a small portion of what I’ve read in my life.

6. I hate theme parks. I think it’s the crowds, the lines, and the bad attitudes all the parents are repressing.

7. I love chocolate covered cherries. Their nickname is crack.

8. Just like Carlos, I’m a closet optimist.

Who to tag? I’d like to pick a few people who will play along, unlike last time. Jordon, Kevin, Cassandra, Heather, Different Boy, Molly McGee, Mookee and, just to see if she’ll bite, Milla.

I’ve been looking at a few of the Carnival listings and chose these: carnival of cinema, bookworms carnival, funny days (because we all have odd stories to tell), the comic book carnival, harry potter carnival, and the anime carnival (which also covers manga). The thing is that I don’t know anything about these things. It seems I just submit material and see how it goes. If anyone’s done anything like this let me know how it went!

Since WordPress 2.2 was released I’d been meaning to upgrade and today made the time. The most important thing I discovered with the upgrade is that it fixed my problems with the Geo plugin! Yay!

So now I can get back to maps. I’ll have to go back and tag a few older posts that missed out on Geo data now…

I haven’t forgotten the site, but until I start engaging the world again I think things will continue to be a bit light. I’ll try to keep it interesting by just posting quick links and such.