So you know goblinbox has to move… again… to a new server? Well, Keef found me this groovy linux chick with root on both servers to help me with my move, but other than FTPing all my files to the new box (a HUGE help, that) not much is happening yet because my scripts don’t want to run on the new server. Some Perl module or another is missing. I have backed up all my blogs, but have been adding posts since so my backups are already obsolete. *sigh*

I have The Fear. The Fear that I will be here (in the office) on Sunday night, madly trying to move stuff before the old server goes down forever.

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Yesterday, my beloved man spent nine hours roofing. On the roof. In the sun. The roof, he reports, was reflective.

He came home looking like a lobster, poor dear.

Nine hours! ROOFING! IN THIS HEAT!!!

goblinbox.com is moving one more time. This week, even! So, if you have trouble hitting this site, it may be that DNS is still updating. Please be patient.

Here’s my list of shit to do:

1. Migrate mail users. (done)
2. Migrate users. (done)
3. Install the following apps:
Movabletype, Ikonboard, LH10, Gallery
4. Take the old site down.
5. Back up all MySQL databases.
6. Export all MT blogs. Make backups of templates.
7. Export Rants content.
8. FTP entire site to local machine.
9. FTP needed files to new machine.
10. Set up subdomains: 2012, chaos. (done)
11. Import MT content.
12. Import Rants content.
13. Import Gallery content.
14. Have DNS updated.
15. Bang head on desk repeatedly. (done)

At least the new box has a nice, shiny new version of Plesk on it, with a browser-based SSH interface. *sigh*

According to this article, the U.S. leads the world in mental illness.

Huh. Aren’t we also the richest nation in the world? Could there possibly be a correlation between craziness and wealth?

Naw. I didn’t think so either.

I’m currently on a Six Feet Under kick, catching up with the characters after not watching it for a couple of years. (TiVo! TiVo! TiVo!)

The final season starts tomorrow night at nine.

Health

I feel better. I’m still stuffed up, though, and woke up with a bitch of a headache. And I’ve been having several panic attacks a day for about five days too, so that fucking sucks rocks.

Pudge

But the weather’s nice and I’m browning up nicely. Why is it that pudge looks so much healthier and more attractive when it’s tanned?

My motto: If you’re gonna be fat, you might as well be tan.

Legal

The hospital has agreed to waive my e-room bill in exchange for my never mentioning them on my blog again, removing all past mentions, clearing cached content from Google, and agreeing not to sue them for malpractice.

They capitulated so rapidly that Brett thinks I probably had a viable malpractice suit. His eyes actually lit up just thinking about it. He almost told me not to sign the agreement. Lucky for them, I’m not the suing type.

Avarice

I want a new cell phone. I want a new Pocket PC. I want a new iPod with a bigger drive. I want a full-body deep tissue massage. And I want my fucking house remodelled.

Pics

Speaking of our house, here’s an exterior tour. I took these pictures the day before yesterday.

God, I love our property. When our house stops being such a dismal piece of shit it will be SO AWESOME! I spend a lot of time sitting on our incomplete porch ’cause it’s the nicest place there is.

My throat hurts, and my tonsils are huge like softballs.

Sniff.

Winn Schwartau, a nationally known technology security expert from Seminole, has migrated his whole company over to Mac because he’s sick of, and I quote, “WinTel hegemony.”

He goes on and on about how expensive it is to run Win boxes when you have to spend so much time trying to deal with support, viruses, down time, BSODs… he says, “I want my computer to function every time I turn it on. WinTel platforms don?t work anymore ? at least not reliably. More than anything else, I need my box to work. I don?t need it to crash.”

My favorite: he refers to Dell’s phone support as “New Dellhi”. HOW FUNNY – but not really funny because it’s too true – IS THAT?!

Read the migration blog (from bottom to top to get it in chronological order) HERE. (Note: It’s a group blog, so there’s more than one poster; note the name at the bottom of each post to figure out who’s talking.)