I just felt kinda bad about my site for a while because I couldn't get the server upgrade I wanted, so the migration nver actually happened. :( Apparently it isn't available yet, and someone else had misinformed me. Meh. I mean, I COULD get it if I went and moved my site to a new web host, but... I'm not keen on moving from where I've been a customer since 2001. It'd have to take some pretty bad service.

I may eventually consider it, though, but it'd have to be after a lot of research and with some free time for me to move things properly. I don't envision myself having much free time for months, if not years, so I am going to stick with what I've got unless slow website loading starts to bug me again. Eventually I should be able to get my upgrade!

Been waiting on the OS upgrade, since I'm checking to make sure people have backed up stuff. Though I'm pretty sure I will sign up for it today.

Basically, I've been told that to upgrade, I have to order a new VPS on a new server, as the one I want is incompatible with the server I'm on right now. Apparently. So they have to go through the fun process of transferring my data and giving me a new IP and etc.

I did save backups of my sis's, Eni, Rin and Selina's directories, and MAY do it again right before I know the site will go offline, but if I REALLY wanted to be thorough, I should go on IRC and tell people myself. Meeeh don't wanna. I know Eni reads this now and then, so Rin is the only one who'd be kinda in the dark. I'm just... having a hard time nowadays being communicative with anyone. I feel like withdrawing more and more. Maybe I will still try to nudge him myself though, I really ought to. :(

Compounding my asocial behavior is the fact I had a bad situation happen with RPoL recently. I am reluctant to write about it much because I don't want to risk any messy fallout if the people involved read this. But it put me in a terrible mood for a while, and so I feel inclined to detail it. Perhaps it will be therapeutic.

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.

(This was actually written yesterday but I forgot to post it.)

Why oh why do they always release updates right after I've updated. Why~. I should just stop being stupid and automate already but I'm so nervous to let a script do my updating for me, for whatever silly reason.

I'm kind of inclined to just wait until Drupal 7 to come around though, since with the captcha and various brute force protections I'm protected enough.

The site itself needs a facelift but who knows when I will have time for that... or inspiration to work for that matter. Hard enough just to write for my games, and I've been repeatedly letting Selina down too. Doesn't make for helping me feel like I'm much of any worth, since I mean... what else do I do with my life?

Though, again on the Drupal side of things, I had to adjust my Views *again* because the block filter was broken. I swear, the people making the Date module keep screwing with how dates work. I have a feeling it'll get changed again, too, because there's still a lot of weird errors going on with it.

After slacking on the updates for months, we're on Drupal 6.11. I ended up doing a few early birthday wishes in the event posts since I needed to test them again (why is it that every time I update there's problems with the date module, rar!)

I finally finished Snow Tempest's sheet which is probably the longest sheet I've written in FOREVER. I'm really happy with it. She's a Northern Lunar (white tiger totem) who's kinda a 'cerebral barbarian': a warlord with high Charisma / Intelligence who never got formal military training but is still a very effective, if ruthless, leader and troop trainer.

Snow's also pretty good at combat (Dex favored, celestial battle armor, Ess 6 warform...) I even got her Five Dragon Style to help with piercing through magitech armor. She's also taught it to her troops ,who include the likes of white tiger beastmen berserkers in demon-possessed gunzosha armor. Fun stuff. Did a lot of work on her manses too, including a fortress at the fringes of the North.

Jon's character in that game is loosely based on Mu La Flaga from Gundam Seed which we are now rewatching. (Eeeeee~ my fangirl heart thumps.)

Anyway, I need to be running Dynastic Moon in like, an hour or so. I hope I can make it work this time. :(