no one of consequence.

On the path of life, I wish you well
Divergent journeys, but we will meet again in Hell
I kept my head down and moved on

-Barenaked ladies “Everything Had Changed”

Tentatively making contact with some of the BloodKin. It’s strange. It’s like, I dont have the same wiring as some people do regarding family. I’ve spent so much time feeling like the odd one out, it’s hard to connect. It was always just so much easier to just step back into my personal space, the place where I could surround myself with the people who simply accept me as I am, as a friend, with no reservations, no “but”s. To just move on rather than feel like I was being continually dismissed as ‘the weirdo” or “crazy”.
Yanno what? Im not a weirdo. Maybe a little crazy, no more than anyone else. But above all else, I am me. Here I am, take it or leave it. Flawed and fucked up and in all probablity someone most folk on the other side of that wall dont even know. Even though some seem to think they do.

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Long day.

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Times like this I miss my Grandfa. And my Stepfather.

See, this is an old building, in a not so trendy area of town. There’s a decent managment company, so stuff actually gets done, but apparently over the decades, it’s been mismanaged, shoddily patched at and generally neglected by past superintendents. There’s all kinds of stupid patchwork in this apartment. Such as a block of 1″ plywood thats screwed to the wall fitting perfectly between the corner and the molding around the hall-closet door. God only knows why. And the apparent trend here of just layering new sheets of drywall over the old fucked up sheets instead of actually… oh, I dunno… replacing the crap, which has apparently resulted in the loss of several inches off our bathroom ceiling. (more…)

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As I mentioned in my first post, I’m a longtime user at Livejournal. Simply put, I really enjoy the sense of community there and I love the “friends page” functionality.

However, it does have a downside. I often feel constrained and/or censured for continuing to write so personally about myself and my life. Oddly enough, that was in fact the entire point of starting that blog in the first place. So I’ve decided to move to my Wordpress blog, which I hope to keep as impersonal as LJ was personal. But oddly, I feel rather isolated here. Blogging in the void…

So I’ve reopened my LJ account, which will exist and function in some new ways.

• LJ will mirror my posts from Wordpress via Theta’s Livejournal Crossposter
• I will read my LJ list (including “friends only” posts, which Ive figured out how to make show up) through NewsFox My RSS reader for Firefox/Seamonkey/Mozilla along with the rest of my blogroll.
• My “Friends List” on Livejournal will be pared down considerably. Core people, my NY contingent and anyone who feels strongly enough to comment about it will remain. Feeds are being shifted to the RSS reader and LJ Comms will probably be dropped entirely.

LJ will change from my former Friends Only Policy to all open posts, because it would be stupid to lock down content that is freely accessable elsewhere. If that gets abused, I’ll simply stop crossposting and lock it down so that I’ll still have access to posts and commenting.

Do feel free to add me to your blogrolls if you also keep a blog elsewhere though. I like all of you folks on LJ. But it’s too hard for me to change my old blogging habits to what is now acceptable while using that interface.

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Been mucking about with the code and the options here today.

I’ve installed WPG2 and added a random picture from my Gallery 2 install. Which of course led to me actually fixing Gallery. Sadly, the theme for Gallery I like best just doesnt want to function on my install. So I ended up just moving to a new theme that DOES work.

Part of why I was tinkering with code at all was in hopes of finding a theme I could embed into a full site that would match up relatively well with both Wordpress AND Gallery. Then of course I found the plugin. And so I just looked for a theme that could handle the colorblocks. But lo and behold, when I loaded the test, I found out that the plugin is applying the stylesheet to the gallery data all by itself. This pleases me to no end.

So since the blog and the photo gallery are really the only interesting bits I have on the web at all, I may just redirect the main site to mirror the subdomain I installed this on. It’ll simplify things, and keep me from having to reinstall to the top level domain. If i’d realised WP had plugins like this I probably would have installed it there to start with.
Sadly, I dont really know much about coding for the web. Mostly I just alternate between poking at Dreamweaver and Googling till the toys do what I want them to do.

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Yeah, just what everyone needs right? Yet another blog. But then, I’ve been blogging for years over at LiveJournal so really this is just me stepping out in a new direction with an old habit.

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