I have now officially moved to a WordPress blog. My blog is all set up (for the most part). There are some things I want to do yet, but all the functionality is there. And I've got it customized the way I want it. I still need to find or make a 'comment leaders' plugin, but that isn't a top priority at this point.

This blog will be closed. I am going to be leaving it up, but I'm going to close the comments and trackbacks ... I'll probably do that tomorrow. I'm leaving it as more of an archive for myself than anything else. It will still be at this URL. My new blog has a brand spankin' new URL. I didn't import any of the entries from here over there because I wanted to start fresh.

So ... after all of that babble ... here's my new blog ...

WxGal's World :: Journal at it's new home

I hope you find the new place to your liking. And if not ... ... it's my blog and the fact that I like it is all that matters ... LOL.

And those of you who may have me on your blogroll, make sure you change it to the new URL or you'll never know when I update.

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I'm just testing something on my new blog. Making sure that trackbacks work ... not that I get many trackbacks, but who knows. I want to see how they display over there too.

Carry on. Nothing more to see here.

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Or at least, it soon will be. I have decided that I AM going to switch my blog to WordPress. I have it up and running now and mostly customized. But there are still some things I need to do before I move over ...

• customize comments page
• add show/hide more script
• add show/hide comments script
• add comment/trackback plugin
• see if I can find or come up with my own comment leader plugin
• figure out how to add 'today', 'yesterday', 'weekday name'

That's about all that I can think of that I need or want to do as of now. I'm sure I'll probably come up with more stuff after I play more. But I don't wanna clutter up my blog too much.

Also, I'm going to archive all of the posts here. I'm not going to import them into the new blog. I want to have a fresh start over there. And there "MAY" be a URL change, I'm not sure yet how I'm going to go about that. But consider yourself warned.

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OMG!!! I'm so freakin' happy right now. I was just offered a job. It's the web design one I had applied for. They had called this morning and left a voicemail while I was at my job service workshop. I called back when I got home (an hour later), but she was busy, so I left a message. She just called me back. I start next Monday ... 28 June. I am so happy that I was crying ... if that isn't just silly ... LOL.

I tried to call Mom to let her know, but Dad must be on the computer. So Lisa ... when you read this ... make sure to let Mom know.

Here's the start to my new life. I'm gonna be a happy person. I'm gonna enjoy my job. I'm gonna live like I wanna live baby ... (that's the lyric to a song isn't it? can't think right now ... too happy)

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I have been thinking about installing WordPress and tinkering with it. And if I like it and can get it set up the way I want it, I may move this blog over to it. It's not that I don't like MovableType or because I don't like their pricing scheme. I'm really not bothered by their new pricing. I'm thinking about moving to WordPress (from now on referred to as WP) because I want to keep trying new things in the web design world. I've heard good things about WordPress. Jennifer has moved over to WP recently. She's got lots of good things to say about it.

I'm also considering the move because of the possibility that I just might be able to write plugins myself since it's written in php. I can't do that with MT because I don't know perl. It's not that I don't want to learn perl. It's just that I have a good handle on php already and could possibly write something with my current knowledge.

I downloaded WP tonite, but haven't installed it yet. I want to do some reading up on stuff first. I want to see if there is a way to add fields or if that would be something I'd have to figure out myself (I want to keep my current mood hack if I do move over). And I'd need to figure out how to add smilies (I'm sure there's something for that already).

And I'm also trying to decide if I'd want to import all of my current entries from this blog or if I'd just want to start from scratch. There's been a lot of negativity in the past here (dealing with my previous job). I'm not sure if I want to carry that over. A clean start is what I need. I need that in my life too (hence the need to move into a new career path). But I'm not gonna make any decisions on that at this point. I wanna play with it and get it all set up first and then decide how to proceed (if at all).

Well, it's almost time for the Busch race to start (6:30pm is pre-race). I think I'll veg out on the couch and cheer Martin on.

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I feel like such a loser today. I had to use my credit card in order to get groceries. I probably wouldn't have gotten any, but Lisa's coming up this weekend. It's one thing if I don't have food to eat, but I'm not gonna do that to her.

If I don't get a job soon, I am so fucking screwed. There's only enough in my savings to pay one more month's rent. And I'm sure that my unemployment money is almost gone. I don't want to have to pay for bills with my credit cards. I've got good credit right now ... I don't want to fuck up my credit rating because of this. I just don't know what to do anymore.

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For the first time since I moved into this apartment (Dec. 2001), I cleaned my living room windows. I've been kinda annoyed lately when looking out the window ... they were pretty dirty. I discovered that the parts come out really easily (a little push up and then pull out the bottom). So I took all the inside parts out and cleaned 'em. Those Windex wipes I bought sure came in handy. I went thru quite a few of those wipes too. They were all black after a swipe or two ... and I don't smoke (or allow anyone to smoke in my apt).

The worst part was the one piece that didn't come out at all. I was able to clean the inside, obviously. I took out the screen on the other side and reached as far as I could to clean the other side. But having it only half clean would have driven me nuts. So ... I went outside and cleaned it. That's the first time that I've been in the 'quad' or 'courtyard' inside of the 4 buildings in this complex (they are situated in a rectangle with a good sized 'yard' in the middle).

I came back in and put it all back together. It looks nice now. It should stay that way 'til it rains again ... which will probably be tonite or tomorrow. At least it'll be nice and clean for a bit anyways. Maybe I should tackle my bedroom windows next. Nah ... not today.

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What's the big deal about Gmail? I've seen people on message boards begging for invites, people having contests for invites, and I've heard about people selling invites on eBay. What the hell is the big deal? Is it the fact that you get 1GB of storage? Who cares? I pull all of my email into my computer with Outlook. I've got 3 Hotmail accounts (via Hotmail Popper) and a Yahoo account (via YahooPOPS) in addition to the accounts I have thru my domain name. I don't care how much space you give me for a free email account. I won't use it ... don't need it.

All Gmail is (in my opinion) is another free email option. Yahoo just upped the storage space to 100MB on free accounts. If you actually need the 1GB of storage, you should clean out your old emails.

If anyone who may be reading this has a Gmail account, fill me in on why it's the "It thing" right now. I'm curious.

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I've got a major case of the blahs today. I have no idea why. I'm not sure if it's because of the weather ... cloudy and rainy and cool. Or if it's something else. Just sitting around my apartment doesn't help either.

I've been trying to decide if I want to delve deeper into php and MySQL or if I want to start into something new ... either XML or javascript. I think I'd take javascript first. I've worked with it on a basic level only thus far. I think it would be a good thing to add to my resume (whether I get this job or not).

All I know is that I NEED to get out of my apartment on a regular basis. I can't handle being here all day, every day any more. I'm at the computer for the majority of the day ... either looking for jobs or working on my websites or checking message boards ... I've got the radio on most of the day (except over noon ... gotta watch Days of our Lives even tho it's stupid). But if I'm confined within these 4 walls for much longer (not that it hasn't been too long as it is), I'm gonna go completely batty.

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I just got my pics uploaded from RibFest this past weekend. They're full size (1280x960) from my camera. I had to lighten up the Trick Pony ones. I lightened up some of the 32 Below ones too just so you could see 'em better. You can find 'em here. Enjoy!

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