stuff is cool

Danny has been in Indiana for work all week so I have been staying with my parents and my brother at the house I lived in since I was 12. Prior to this one we had 3 others, and those I actually remember more fondly than this one, but this is the home I have known for most of my life.

Since moving to Post Midtown with Danny I have spent much less time here. I used to spend several nights a week at home, but now “home” means my apartment with Danny. This week of being with my family has been a wonderful treat.

My room is mostly unchanged since I was 16. I have a wonderful tall bed and all of my furniture pieces are beautiful wooden antiques from my great-grandmother. I have an awesome old tv cabinet that is actually going to waste sitting in the corner of my bedroom. When Danny and I have a house I will rescue it.

When I come home I always spend hours and hours in my mom and dad’s bed, watching tv and playing on the computer. This week, with my pained spine, I have spent days here. At night I watch tv with my mom and we talk and my dad sleeps in my bed until I tell him he can have his own bed back.

I wonder, when I am a married woman will I still be able to come home and eat candy and drink Dr. Pepper with my mom while we watch Still Standing and laugh even though we know it’s silly?

I think so.

I love coming to my other home. Home home. It’s nice to have two places where you feel safe and loved. And I have even more at the homes of my extended family. I am a very lucky girl.

Okay, so you’ve probably noticed we’ve gotten a new theme. It’s a little less pink, much to Meg’s chagrin, but she still gave it the thumbs up anyway. Other than the ajax inline comments plugin (the thing that made it so you could show/hide comments on the main page) being disabled, pretty much everything else should be the same.

If you haven’t already, head over to our photo gallery and take a look around since, after all, that was one of the main motivators of this whole move in the first place.

(edit: I just noticed that this particular theme doesn’t note who wrote the post in question … I’ll have to hack that in or go back to the old theme, as it’s pretty important for this blog) fixed, that was surprisingly easy

Last month I found a pretty incredible deal on web hosting over at Dreamhost. For $20 up front, I got everything you see in the “Crazy Domain Insane!” package seen here for an entire year. And considering that I drop $60 a week on poker sometimes (of course, I make some of that back…), I figured I could justify this.

Anyway, since it has so much more disk space and bandwidth (compare: 1.5GB disk/23.4GB bandwidth to 200GB disk/2 TB bandwidth … and each of those grows per-week), I’m going to try moving everything from stuffiscool.com over to my Dreamhost account this weekend. Currently, the 1.5GB disk space available would barely be enough to hold half the photos Meg and I have taken with our her digital camera in the past year. Meanwhile, not only can I put every photo we have up on the Dreamhost space, I can put a lot of my personal projects up there as well under a different domain name as well. Once I get those up and running I’ll be posting about those as well, since apparently the consensus opinion of the readership (well, the vocal readership anyway) is that I should just go ahead and post anything that I feel is worth saying.

So, if you can’t read this, then I’m probably moving things. Just a heads up. But it won’t be happening until this weekend (11/4, 11/5), so live it up for now.

UPDATE: So far so good, I’ve got most of the stuff moved over for the blog and I’ve got the DNS updated. Now I just have to re-theme it and reinstall the WP plugins I had installed before, as well as redo gallery.stuffiscool.com

UPDATE 2: Got Gallery up and running but due to some version mismatches that I couldn’t really fix, I’m going to have to recreate the albums and re-upload all the pictures that I had already done as a sort of pre-staging thing yesterday. I’ll try and get the theme and plugins done tonight when I get home.

UPDATE 3: Bah, all of the images uploaded into the older posts are going to be broken unfortunately (see my Web2.0 Greek Festival post for example), and rather than muck about with more DNS changes and wait for them to take effect so that I can get the files back and move them over, I’m just going to chalk that one up as a loss. Oh well. Getting it about 95% right isn’t too bad

I’ve added a link to our photo gallery on the right hand side of the page in the “Other Links” box. Check it out.

I’ve updated the Wordpress theme for the site to be a more-Meg-appealing pink theme, so if anyone has any comments, let us know - post a comment!

Also, I vote for Meg to post all her travel stories on here. Lord knows I’m not much of a blogger, so the majority of new content on here is likely to come from her. She’s more entertaining anyway

Also, any of you folks out there with RSS/Atom feed readers will be happy to know that we have a feed here (Xanga doesn’t have those — take THAT Xanga!)