inside.my.mind

Wordpress 2.5 is now out and I upgraded tonight.  I had some issues with the section that was displaying my flickr images.  I tried to fix it, but I really don’t know much about all this web stuff, so I ended up just changing themes.

That is all just wanted to share my bit of frustration and announce the new theme.

This weekend was wonderful outside. I have put a couple of pictures I took on Saturday up on flickr. In the picture of the squirrel I got more than I barged for, but had to post it anyway. Hoping some of you will at least get a laugh out of it.

Just some FYI, the server transfer went though just fine along with the DNS transfer. If anyone sees any problems let me know, but things have been running great for the last week so I don’t think we will have any problems.

This past weekend wore me out. By the end of day yesterday I was almost falling asleep at the keyboard. Today I did not feel sleepy, but from what my co-works were saying I was being a grump. They were right, I cough myself thinking some very grumpy things.

Isn’t it funny how when you think you might finally be figuring some stuff out things end up more confused than ever?

I have a song I want to hear. I don’t know the artist, title, or any of the words. All I know is it a sad sounding song with a female singing. I talked to Dusty about this and he is right I am going to have to go though everything I have to find it. I am not sure I want to hear it that bad.

I forgot to mention, but I finally finished all the complete Sherlock Holmes book that I bought a few years ago. I had a lot of trouble with it at first, but after I got used to the language it was pretty enjoyable. I have now moved on to Jules Verne. It has four of five of his novels in it so I will be reading it for awhile. After I finish that I maybe asking for some reading suggestions.

I have been dreaming again.  Sunday night I was out hiking in a beautiful mountainous area.  The sky was so very blue, with no clouds to be found as I walked along small clear river.  It was such a perfect place.  Then the rednecks came and tried to kill me.  I spent the rest of the night running instead of being able to enjoy this wonderful place I was in.  I did not wake up very rested on Monday morning.

I have not been having to work quite as much as I was, but can’t seem to snap out of this slump I seem to be in.  I have been in worse so I am sure I will snap out of it at some point.  Some people are not helping with the things they are doing, but they are completely clueless about the effect they are having.

Freedom Writers is a great movie.  I just finished watching it and really enjoyed it.  I know it has to be the nice friendly version of what happen, but it is still a wonderful movie that I really recommend you watching.

If I can ever get my host’s support team to believe I am who I say I am the blog maybe undergoing a few changes.  Should not be anything you all will notice, just trying to get moved to a server with some newer software on it.  I have it in my head that I am going to play with some of it, but who knows if that will really happen or not, but I know I will be more likely to do it if I am on the latest stuff verses trying to learn an older version of the technology.

It seems my brain has been going crazy at night. I have been having a plethora of dreams.  As I have stated in the past I don’t dream often.  Once or twice in a six month period is about as often as dreams come to me.  I would love to be able to dream more.  In away I feel like I am getting ripped of with my lack of dreams when most of the population gets to escape to another reality while they sleep.

Over the past week I have been dreaming pretty much every night.  It has been great!  I have been lucky that none of my have been nightmares.  They are more strange than anything.  People acting in ways they never would in the waking world.  It is a very interesting experience.  It also amazes me how fast dreams fade, with in a couple of minutes I am lucky to remember a few pieces of what on in my brain the night before.

What I want to know is why I have started dreaming so much.  Don’t take that is a complaint, because I really am happy to be dreaming.  I still wonder what has happen that caused this change.  It does not seem like something that would just all of the sudden change, maybe I am finally losing my mind.  It could just be that my brain is so tired of my everyday that that it is using my sleep time to keep from going crazy.  Who knows, I am sure someone out there has an answer, but I am betting they don’t read my blog.

It if funny that I can ramble on for this long.  I remember when I first started blogging it would take so much effort just to get a few lines out.  Now I can just sit down and write and write about nothing, not saying it is quality stuff, just that I can put out more quantity that when I first started.  I still have all the old entries from modblog laying around some where.

I just spent the last few minutes going back and reading some of my old modblog posts.  Wow.  A lot has changed.  Maybe a lot would be an understatement.  I don’t guess I should be surprised it was more than five years ago.  It all seems so far away.  Stuff that I thought would never change has.  People that I thought I would have always have are now all but gone.  I don’t think anything has turned out how I wanted.

I got board with the old theme of the blog, so welcome to the new one. I like it so far. I will give it at least a day or two and see how it sits with me. Feedback is welcome as always.

Is it just me or has this been one long week?  I don’t really know why, but it seems like it has taken forever.  I hate when that happens.  Tomorrow is Friday and I can’t wait for work to be over.  I am just sick of this week.  I know Friday I am going to dinner with a bunch of people, but past that I have no idea what I am doing.  Hopefully something fun will come up.

I went to the gym today.  It was the first time in I don’t know how long.  It is crazy how out of shape I have become.  I am going to try and start going more.  If I am going to run in the 5k in October I am going to have to do something.  Speaking of gym and health and all that stuff, I have lost 30 lbs since Decemberish.  I hope I don’t screw it up by talking about it.  Like I said not been going to the gym.  All I did was start eating less that I did before.  I did really good for a really long time, but I am stuck now.  I do great during the week, but on the weekends not so much.  I would like to lose another 10 or so, but I am not going to be upset if I can just manage to keep my current weight.

I am going to get a new car soon.  I was trying to wait until I had enough money saved up to just buy it, but that is not going to happen.  I would like to have something by the end of the month or the middle of July at the latest.  I am going to get a Nissan Altima.  I am also thinking about switching insurance companies, so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

Just a little update on the spam situation.  I was right about it being caused by my lack of posting.  Since I started posting again I think I have gotten 10 spam comments at the most.  I guess they target inactive blog or something.  Anyway heres hoping that Friday goes by faster than the rest of the week.

I have learned that if you don’t blog for a month you start getting a ton of spam.  I got over 700 spam comments in the last two days.  So take it from me and don’t let your blogs sit and gather dust as long as mine has.

We got a new guy at work.  Isn’t the new guy the one that should be picked on?  This will be the second new guy we have had and I am still the one who gets picked on all the time.  Guess that is what I get for taking it so well, or maybe I do more stupid things that everyone else.  Who knows.

Lots of stuff going on all over the place in my life since I blogged last, a lot of it is bad and nothing that I want to go into.  I just wanted to check in and let everyone know I am still alive and kicking.  I will try to blog more often.   Oh and if this thing is not being updated try flickr it seems to get updated more.

I have updated the theme on my blog. I did not get all the changes finished that I would have liked, but I am out of time, so don’t be surprised if there are small changes made over the next few weeks.

No everything made the conversion. The shout box happens to be one of those things. No one was using it and the way it converted did not go well with the new look of the site. If I find the time I will either get it looking right or find a new one.

I like the over all look of this new theme, but am open to any suggestions that anyone may have.

Well after playing with Wordpress yesterday I have decided to go with it, so update all links and feeds to elemak.net.

I am still working on so I am sure there are a few errors around. Let me know if you notice any problems and I will get them taken care of.