Well I'm back, and I have a few things to say. (Note: I wrote most of this while depressed, and we all know how pessimistic I am when that happens.)

First of all: Linode! I have my eye on this. It's cloud hosting like Slicehost, but apparently even better price-wise. Even Drupal users are giving it praises. Looks so nice... and I am getting concerned with the lagging on HostForWeb. It's just getting incredibly bad and I'm tired of month after month being told to post my traceroute as if this is going to solve anything. :(

Lately I've been told there are load balancing issues, and they're going to fix it... but I've heard that one before too.

I'm just worried because I'm not particularly motivated lately. If I move my site, it may take me a while to set up. And that's fine for me, but not fine for other people I'm hosting. :/ I'll be doing this from scratch, so I have to install everything successfully, and I'm totally unsure I can do this well within a reasonable timeframe. After what happened with Slicehost (me just lagging on actually DOING anything with it) I'm worried it will be a waste of money, particularly since I am planning to order the $40/mo version and thus will be paying $80 a month until I migrate everything.

As for my recent vacation...

I won't make a habit of posting about this, I'm just in this facebook friend adding mood. n.n Send me an email if interested in me adding you to my friends list in Facebook. I'm still iffy about publicizing my RL name in relation to this site, so I am not putting the name of my account here. (Apologies to those of you with this on LJ RSS as it will be repetitive.)

On other news, apparently Drupal is now version 6.15. I SWEAR this always happens right after I update version. Argh! I'll probably procrastinate again and the same thing will happen with 6.16, too. *weeps* It never fails.

And now we are going to get groceries like we were supposed to yesterday. Gah, yesterday there was bank issues and we starved for like 24 hours. I know, not as bad as some people have it but man did it make me unproductive! Dark Siren needs food for writingz. :( But now we have lots of money and we're going to get some holiday treats and something nice for our private Christmas dinner (just the two of us. Yay!)

It's also gettin' really cold now! Hello winter! *brrrrr* Time to step out (I swear, like the first time in a week. :/ I know, I'm bad!)

I never did finish my Christmas cards and presents. So again postponed to sending them on MONDAY. I hate myself for that, but I had a really poor day trying to write the cards, having my ink run out, losing my temper and tearing one of my good cards up... o.O It was just not a day for finishing my cards. I'm pretty much overworked, and the sad thing is I don't even have a real job. I'm just a RPoL GM.

Why don't I have a job? Because responsibility makes me anxious. See, with GMing I can at least fool myself into thinking it's 'fake' responsibility because there's no money involved and people just play for fun. If I were to try doing the same amount of work but for money, I would freak out and completely freeze up. I'd be unable to produce anything.

It's similar with my webpage stuff. I have maintained my website and server for 10 years. I haven't been the best at it especially lately (what with rpol making me lazy with everything else), but I've done it for no pay, I've kept things afloat, I troubleshoot stuff for my users, or make them new accounts, etc. I do this almost without thinking about it. Sometimes it's hard but I get things done.

Finally I am up to date for 6.14. Laziness made that longer than it should've been.

Honestly by next year I should be on Drupal 7... also by next year I should do my tag cleanup! It's ridiculous how lazy I am about such things. But when you have 1000+ tags and entries, well y'know. :P

Though meh, I'm not completely sure I've dealt with the speed issues. Unfortunately I had to shut down my Slicehost, I just didn't have the time to mess with it. :/ When I have more funds I will think again about a move to another webserver, I think. Another thing I have to consider is using ISAM tables, apparently this is supposed to be better for Drupal, but... converting my tables is something that will take time, and something I'm nervous about doing, too. (I'm a wuss.)

I'm just too distracted by RPoL and now DR also. :)

One ingenious thing about DR is that I have scripts set up so I can train things that don't need constant attention. So I actually DR while I write posts. Or work on website stuff in this case.

Which is kind of silly when I think I'll probably be changing layouts again with Drupal 7 (unless this one gets an update for 7), but still...

Mostly got rid of a lot of extra spacing and weirdly large fonts for blockquotes and comments. I pared them all back down to 1em. I guess I'm just not into super large fonts, or text with varying sizes. I dunno. It looks weird to me. If I want larger fonts I'll just increase the zoom on my browser.

I also finally found a trick to get rid of the views horizontal scrollbar annoyance in Drupal 6:

div.view div.views-admin-links { width: auto; }

Nothing big, I just couldn't figure out which way to edit width to make the scrollbar stop showing. I also tried overflow but that didn't work.

Next maybe I'll edit my tag list and streamline my categories... ha, yeah right! n.n