About a month ago, my domain expired. I did not know this… because I am a web slacker extraordinare and never bothered to check if my blog was still accessible or not… in fact, I only noticed it when I tried to ssh into my server and download the flac copy of Tundra 4 by Squarepusher I stashed there months ago so I could listen to it at work… and discovered that my domain was dead.

:( I’m sorry dear blog readers (yes I’m talking to both of you.)

Anyway… some IM Fu later with my domain name registrar super hero (also my previous roomie) had my domain name up and running again. I now appreciate you, dear blog and dear blog readers (yes, both of you again) even more now, so I decided to write a blog post.

*clears throat loudly*

In the news:

I’ve moved into a new apartment as of today. I’m very happy about this. :) Extremely!!! happy about this. :) It’s a 1 bedroom place, with a full kitchen and a freaking washer and drier!! Friends came over to help me move, which was awesome and amazing. new and old friends (Thank you Polvi!!) Then the whole mess of us went and hijacked another friend’s TV to watch season 3 of BSG, which I bought the day it came out, and have been dying to share it with people before season 4 starts.

So that’s the news.

In Other News: PranQster is the best beer on the planet. srsly.

“Thank you so much for your deeply human portrayal of the man Saussure. So often, as you say, we do (or perhaps must) reduce these human idea-factories to a few memorable phrases or greatest-hits concepts. And I think Saussure, because of how widely racinated, how utterly necessary, his ideas have become over so many disciplines, is more vulnerable than most: we think we ‘know’ Foucault, have a grip on who Freud walked around as, don’t feel we need to worry that we might take Marx or Barthes out of context, while the Genevan philologist cited in every liberal arts term paper and dissertation on every continent remains just a surname in a few thousand footnotes. Now at least we can see him in color.”

–Antheia Laplante, Seattle, USA

It’s apparently 150 years since he was born.

Have I mentioned that I miss school? My regrets about not taking more math and science are now in fierce competition with my regrets about not going hard-core into critical theory.

Still sorta swoony. :) I’ve now got a signed copy of this comic:

I’m totally regretting being so damn shy and not talking to him more. *sigh*

In Other News: After nearly 5 months of no music in my car (due to that stupid theft thing), I have a new stereo in my car! I even got to learn how to install it! (Funny though that my friend seemed so surprised that I already knew how to strip wires.)

Somehow the permissions on wp-comments-post.php got changed and was giving anyone trying to leave comments an error.

Funny… it hasn’t stopped the spammy comments from getting posted. How DO they DO that?

If you tried to leave a comment on my last post proclaiming that I am indeed alive, feel free to leave another one. Or something.

What’s happened to me since my last post? Here it is in ROUGHLY chronological order:

• I got the job.
• I moved to Mountain View
• Had a Bad Person come to my apartment and had to call the police
• Had my car broken into and my stereo stolen
• I met some friends from HDK in person
• I moved OUT of my Mountain View apartment for safety reasons
• Got my car partially fixed (Thank you Shadowfox!)
• Polvi moved down here finally
• Polvi and Friends and I went to Palo Alto and poked Facebook
• Went to a SMASHING PUMPKINS CONCERT

I’m generally having a good time at my new location and my new job. Making new friends, traveling some. I went back to Oregon once for our family reunion, which was awesome.

So in short: life is good, even when your car gets broken into.

My next short-term goals are to finish doing all the official things related to moving (like registering my car… I wonder how bad the fine/fee will be). I still have a set of shelves to build and pictures to hang up, and such.

We’ll see how that goes.