But I'm sitting here playing DR on the new year. Yeah, I'm a dork. Jon and I have our hotel reservation and stuff, though! We just wanted to do it post holiday so it wouldn't be too crazy outside. I'm not one for loud noises and crowds. :(

Talli is circle 44 now. Flying through the ranks with my improved scripts (need to write a short bow one now!) In fact I've been scripting all day while beating my head over this horribly difficult post in Soul Collectors which I FINALLY finished. x.x I am seriously hating Exalted combat right now. I either need to be better organized, or White Wolf needs to stop having rules for similar concepts (i.e. mutations, undead, etc.) spread over TOO MANY different books.

On the other hand Selina said she might run a FFT game and let me play a viera in it. Sounds fun. We are both going to be busy with college entry stuff this Jan, though. Ugh, not looking forward to it, I've been procrastinating this time around because of how discouraged I felt last time I applied but couldn't go. I intend to send before Jan 15 though, one way or another. I just hope they won't need more of my transcripts. Gah.

We're gonna have fondue and booze now, so... woo! (AND I'm going to try and sneak a couple more posts in before then. I wanted to do them before but that Soul Collectors post just KILLED all my time.)

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.

What might have been an otherwise nice break was ruined by my new check card (which I received only a few days ago) having some sort of glitch and nearly keeping me from being able to pay for last night's dinner.

It made me very upset and insecure. I wish I had another source of money. :(

Supposedly it should be fixed by tomorrow but I'm very angry about it still. First the bank sends me a card with a mistaken expiration date. Then there's some sort of Visa "network glitch" the first time I actually use the card. Now I'm paranoid it's just not going to work at all and I'll have no source of money at all.

It's supposed to still work for my online fees regardless, but it still makes me upset that these apparent circumstances are conspiring to make me very insecure and miserable.

Well I'm also setting up to get the OS kernel updated for the webserver. It may occur tonight. I'm making my $40/month work for me and getting the techs to do it. Why else would I pay that much, heh!

I'm running into problems figuring out how to install some caching stuff, and while I was flailing at things I thought "I should upgrade my OS." (In this case from CentOS 4.7 to ... 5.3? or whichever it is) Lo and behold the hostforweb people are willing to do it for me. So I will let them do it. :P Mostly, because I'm lazy. Note: I haven't decided to do it yet, because the techs are informing me it's more complicated than I originally thought. But I am starting to backup to my hard drive right now.

It depresses me a bit that I'm too lazy with OS stuff to even bother. I know I ought to at some point just bite the bullet and reinstall from scratch, and really optimize things, because it's something I *could* do... but I am no linux hobbyist. All I want is for my site to run faster than it is right now, the problem is hindering what I *really* want to be doing. That is, WRITING!

I wonder if this bodes ill for when I am actually going to go back to college. Oh well. I have a headache right now so I'm going to lie down soon. I've been having insomnia problems... again.

It seems like am losing at least one player from Five Coils, and while I am likely getting replacements for them (two already lined up) the circumstances have me rather frustrated.

One of the people leaving is someone I had really been looking forward to playing with on RPoL. His leaving bothers me not so much because of his reasons as because I felt like he was hoping for an "out" but guiltily waiting for me to give one. I would have preferred he just told me instead of dragging it on for weeks and weeks. It's not like I couldn't already *tell*. :/ But I suppose he was trying to give it his best shot despite that.