Free throw
Originally uploaded by sldownard.
bulls versus knicks at the UC tonight. should be fun — not least because Sec 113, Row A, Seats 3-4. am looking forward to it. if bill irritates me, will simply push him out of his chair on to the court where someone can dribble the ball on his head!
p.s. if, while watching the game on the teevee, you see a girl with short brown stripey hair wearing a green sweater get pummeled in the face with a foul ball, you know… send me a get-well card.
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am now determined to go see the hawks play, because i haven’t been to a hawks game since, like, ’98 or ’99 or something ridiculous. hawks vs. leafs sounds fun. friday, 22 dec. anyone in?
so, i have done most of the heavy lifting for porting the blog from blosxom over to wordpress. a few things remain. sadly, they are mostly the annoying and hard-to-accomplish things.
set up apache, mysql, phpset up wordpressimport blosxom entriesmodify comments in templates to point at haloscan instead of wordpresscustomize wordpress theme- go through and properly categorize imported posts (about 200 of ~980 done)
either fix the formatting that broke in the import, or decide i don’t care about ugly formatting on imported posts(showstopper) make sidebar less uglyfigure out how to rename existing haloscan threads to re-align them with their proper posts- do the legwork on renaming existing haloscan threads
(showstopper) figure out why WP’s rss feed isn’t escaping &s in blog subtitle fields correctly, and is therefore too wonky to use(showstopper) set up apache redirect for existing rss uri to new rss uri- (showstopper)
decide how to implement redirects for old blosxom permalinks (and then actually implement them)
you can view the new blog now here, though that link will only be valid as long as blosxom is still the “production” blog. there are a couple of entries up there that aren’t in blosxom, but they’re mostly along the lines of “play with the pretty shiny new toy” stuff. whee!
as i have previously had issues with denying myself things i wanted and then being immediately presented with something bad — am wondering if the fact that i decided against buying new speakers (which i really really want, and have wanted for months — have actually gone out shopping intending to buy, twice!, eventually talking myself out of it both times because i don’t really need them) is why i had to spend $280 taking poor pathetic kiyoshi to the veterinary ER last night.
he’s okay now, but man, was he not happy yesterday. first he’s yakking all over the carpet and, uh, let’s just say “engaging in unusual behavior patterns,” then he gets stuffed into the kitty carrier and hauled to the vet (meanwhile i’m both worried about my poor cat and also starving to death because i hadn’t eaten since lunch and i was getting ready to go out for dinner when kiyoshi started freaking out), then he gets poked and his temperature taken and x-rayed and an IV and all kinds of mean nasty ugly horrible things (right there on the group W bench). they gave me a CD-ROM of his x-rays, antibiotics, and i have to start feeding him metamucil and take him to his regular vet for a checkup. poor cat just can’t catch a break. all he wants to do is take a nap, man!
so, in short, these things make me wonder. i’m crap at self-denial, but am i so crap that engaging in it actually causes bad things to happen? am i meant by a cosmic force to yes, have those great shoes! yes, get speakers for your kitchen! yes! should i continue to be more scared of the consequential having of no money than i am of the potential consequential DOOM!, or should i give in and CONSUME!?
man, being a grown-up is confusing.
