Okay, so I have about half of February of 2003 migrated to this space now. All I can say is what was I thinking?
Also, reading through my life in those days, I cannot help but wonder whatever happened to my friend who I tend to refer to in this space as "kcandthesunshineband". Wherever you are, KC, I hope you're doing well!
While scrolling through the very distant past of this blog, I discovered that years I previously thought were complete are actually incomplete.
It looks like everything between January 28 30 and May 16 April 26 are missing. Sorry, I just posted a couple of entries from 2003 so as to make it something like an even 20 entries that are missing.
This makes me wonder if I actually managed to snag everything from my old Diaryland site or if I missed something somewhere.
Actually, I know that I missed something. I have a link on one of the old entries that is supposed to go to a post there, but doesn't and I added a note in 2017 that I have no idea what it was supposed to say. I guess I should probably work toward getting that restored so I can verify that I didn't miss anything.
Now for a LiveJournal throwback:
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I guess I'll be a little more motivated to keep up with this one way dialogue.
I am pretty sure I have everything from 2023 through now from WordPress on here now. I have other things from other places that still need to go up here, and I have rough outlines of things living either on paper or in my head that I need to expand upon (2025 goodreads year in review, I'm looking at you) that I need to still get up here as well.
It would be a little easier if I felt like I had more time to do any work though.
Yesterday was kind of a weird day, I'm not going to lie.
I was adding something that I wrote elsewhere to this in it's proper place, and discovered that people somewhere are actually reading this thing for some reason?
I don't know how I feel about that. Obviously, I'm putting it out there into the wild world of the internet so I'm not allowed to be annoyed or disappointed or anything, I'm just slightly curious about how people stumble across my little corner of the virtual world.
Word of mouth isn't the answer. I said something to one person about it in the last, what? Ten years? That was something like two weeks ago (If you are one of the people reading this, feel free to let me know next time I talk to you!), and I wasn't exactly specific on how to find it. All I said was that the title has been Every Which Way But Lucid for at least the last ten years.
This is an extremely roundabout way of saying HELLO WHOEVER YOU ARE! Feel free to drop an email or comment or something, I'd love to know something about my (presumed) audience.
Apparently, the fans of the sitcom of my life want to see the next season story arc go something along the lines of "This Inevitable Ruin" > "Damage Control" > "Rooting for Team Mexico (in, I presume, the World Cup?)"
Go figure.
I should probably actually turn my life into a sitcom.
I ended up helping a friend take care of something today that she was avoiding for...A year. Once that was done, I went to pick up a copy of The Butcher's Masquerade for the Pineapple Cabaret chapter. I also realized that since it's winter time and dark out, if I was planning to read something else, I should have not forgotten my Kobo.
I snagged a teal GlowLight 4. I discovered that I didn't have my ebook library on the computer that was in my car, so I ended up having to buy a reading light to read the actual book that I picked up. I did hotspot the Nook to my phone and set it up, but the battery wasn't really charged, so I just let it be. I'll load it up in the next couple of days and see what I get with it.
I kind of enjoy Nooks, honestly. I still regularly use my Nook Color and a 1st gen Nook that I came across a while back. They have both gotten new batteries, and appear to be pretty happy. Hopefully I like this one well enough too.
creativeSo about 20 years ago, I was trying to get things figured out for moving. I was going to a place where I didn't have a great deal of personal space to work with and no internet access in any way, shape or form. It was also almost an hour away from where I worked, so things were weird there too.
I only spent about a week living there before I packed up my stuff, again, and came back somewhere closer.
I'm entertained to note that the computer I was attempting to put together at the time, for the reason I was trying to put it together, wasn't easily done in those days, but now it is a way of life. Especially for me.
My aim was to downsize a desktop to a laptop footprint and use a USB hard drive as a permanent, high-speed storage addition. In those days, anything that I could get my hands on would not have come with a reasonable number of USB ports, and USB 2.0 was a maybe. External hard drive? Hah!
I did end up building one out of a USB CD-ROM enclosure at some point shortly thereafter. It looked like a mess, but it did the job well enough.
I did eventually get a laptop for pretty cheap that could run what I needed it to run, but by then I was a little more established with life.
These days I have a few things going on that weren't a thing previously.
I spent several years running my home network data off an old Dell rack server (Which I don't appear to have ever mentioned anywhere here), and an HP network switch that were given to me. I had to do a little updating on the server to get everything set up the way I wanted to, but it worked.
Here is where things get relevant:
Once I moved into a smaller house, that didn't have someplace I could run a giant server and switch, I had to figure something else out.
I am now running everything that was previously on the server, which ONLY (I know, I know) ~6TB of storage space to a 8TB USB hard drive plugged into my primary desktop PC.
I could, however, run it off a laptop these days, because they are now powerful enough to stream high quality video and audio in the background and not suffer from too much in the way of performance issues.
It's crazy what twenty years can do.
