I think this will be my last blog for a little while. I'm sure you will all miss me sooo much. Not. Hehe.

Pretty much everything is all packed up now. My room is bare of all my things. I like my things. Things are good, especially my ones! It's strange to be in there and I half expect to here an echo or something.

My Mum had to have a minor surgery done on a toe this morning, so she has to rest and keep it up all day. Inconvenient much? It's not too bad really, I'm just whinging because I'm tired.

Right, I should go and be productive and useful!

I'm very boring when I update this blog. All I ever seem to talk about is either website related, something to do with dentistry (which is all over aside from my wisdom teeth) and moving. I have nothing of any substance to contribute whatsoever to the world of blogging.

Woe is me.

But I can say this (which I may have done already...): I recommend the song 'Frances The Mute' by The Mars Volta. Just remember that. It makes me gloriously happy, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala are geniuses.
I heard a tragic rumor today though! The new Volta album, Bedlam In Goliath, is supposed to be released next month, but it may be pushed to January.

Oh noes!* Whatever is a girl to do? How shall I manage another three months? My ears will shrivel up and fall off for I will not have the medication they so crave. Le sigh!

There are too many exclamation points in this post. I shall remove some of them.
Actually, no, wait. There are only three and I think they are necessary. Nevermind.

On the subject of music, I will be missing Snow Patrol, who are playing in Auckland on Friday night. We're moving up that day but I wont be there early enough to get to it. Oh and there is the small problem of me not having any money to pay for such things.

On the weekend I caught up with an old online friend that I'd not spoken to properly in quite awhile. It was so wonderful to speak to him again. It would have been easy to just carry on with my website stuff that day and say I was too busy to talk, but I didn't and you have no idea how glad I am about that. More so than I shall write about here, as it's public.

Oh and I know people have commented on my last post. I will get to reading them and replying, honestly. I'm just super-busy and scatter brained at the moment so it might take longer than usual.

*Sorry, I couldn't help myself with that one.

Been a busy few days in terms of getting my Internet things sorted. I managed to successfully upgrade B2, so now everything is valid (from what I can tell so far, anyway). Hooray! So very relieved. I've also been using the last two days to make a new design for my Quilting Bee quilt and integrating the wonderful MyQuiltAdmin script by Bubs into it. This means I can add all the patches I trade through an admin panel instead of manually putting them into the files. I need something like MyQuiltAdmin because I'm not going to have the Internet at my house in Auckland (at least not for awhile, anyway) and I need to be able to add patches without needing my HTML files and FTP.

So, for at least a few weeks I will be without my computer (which isn't technically mine), and Internet when I'm not at someone's house who has it. My main "issue" is that I could really do with a memory stick to store my important website files on so that if I do have some sort of emergency I can grab the files easily and upload them through my Cpanel.
I wish memory sticks, or laptops, for that matter, grew on trees!

Maybe one day they will...

Anyway, I haven't even started packing my things yet. I don't know how much I really have. It doesn't seem like a lot because I already packed up quite a bit of stuff back in May and Dad took it to Auckland, but I just don't know what else there is that isn't in my room. Once I've finished my new quilt site all my time will pretty much be taken up by sorting and packing either my things and helping Mum.

I'm getting a sore throat which is the last thing I need this weekend.

Last night I discovered the joys of Wikipedia's random article function. Normally when I use the site it's only to look at a specific thing—I've never actually taken a look around the front page.

Anyway, I learnt about European communes in the Middle Ages; an English footballer; an American baseball player; a fantasy writer; a controversial English author, journalist, and lifelong feminist; and a few other things that have since escaped my memory.

Perhaps not the most riveting Saturday night of my life, but it was a good way to pass the time while waiting for To Kill A Mockingbird to load (it took so long I only watched four minutes before giving up and going to bed). By the way, the book is wonderful and I highly recommend it.

What else did I do last night? Watched Iron Chef America, of course! The secret ingredient was goat though, which, with me being vegetarian/an aspiring vegan wasn't my plate of, erm, tofu. However, I did see the neatest little jellied red wine balls being made. They cooked red wine with sugar and something to give the balls a hard/jelly outside, then put the liquid into syringes and proceeded to slowly put drops of it into a large dish of what I'm assuming was very cold water. They shook the dish and the balls formed. Apparently they were liquid on the inside. Yum!

Validating B2evolution is becoming a nightmare in many ways. It's supposed to be valid! I don't get it because all the code I've put in is valid and the stuff that isn't is probably in some file in some folder that I've not touched since I starting using the script. It's so bloody frustrating! It's not valid strict either, but transitional. I've switched the rest of my pages to transitional DTD for uniformities sake.
Despite all of that I do like B2 though. It does what I want and that's what is important (for now at least).

I finally got into gear and found a CSS image rollover tutorial, thanks to the help of some lovely bees! It seems to be working fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer, but if you notice anything funky going on with the navigation, please let me know (I will give you a cookie if you do).

I've removed an affiliate, Sarah, because her site isn't there anymore and I haven't heard from her at all in a very long time. It's always sad when you loose touch with people, but I still have her email, so maybe I'll email her sometime.

The whole affiliate thing is a weird business at times. I'm not a good affiliate, I fully admit that. I don't visit my affie's sites on a very regular basis. Maybe a few times a month and some more than others because I know they update more often. The only exception to the above are two of my affiliates that I have become good friends with over the last three years and year, plus we are connected in ways other than just our websites.
I rarely make gifts for my affies — mostly because I'm too lazy to, but also because I don't even really see the point in making them all the time. I know it's nice to get them and to give them, but if I have to make a new one every bloody month then forget it!

I'm also seriously considering dis-affiliating with a couple of people purely because I hardly ever go to their sites and their content and such doesn't appeal to me at all. Or they themselves don't. It's not that they're not lovely people, it's just that we're very, very different and I also like to read blogs and other content that is tasteful and nicely done. Not "I LyK DiS Gy N lYk i WnT Hm 2 cAl MeH" or misspelt words all the time, and definitely on purpose as opposed to a genuine mistake (which I make all the time... But you love me anyway, right?).

You know what I'm talking about. *facepalm*

It's not that people who write like that are bad or horrible people who aren't worth my time, it's just that I personally cannot sit through an entire entry written like that, or with content like that. It's just not something my mind is capable of doing, and I'm glad for it.

So, that's what is on my mind at the moment, in regards to the Internet.

Offline, however, is a little different. In a few weeks or so I am definitely moving to Auckland. I'm really pleased I have somewhat of a date to work towards; it makes things so much easier.
On the other hand I'm not exactly sure if I will be able to take the desktop computer with me, which essentially would leave me computerless and thus incapable of updating the site (aside from the blog). That would be a rather large, unfortunate pickle. I'm hoping like hell my dad says it's okay to take it because a very large, important part of my life exists on it (as sad as they may seem to people who are not addicted to webdesign — you are missing out).

Even if I get to take the computer I have no idea if it will be Internet enabled for some time. I will definitely have 'net access at various places, including where I will be living, but I'm not sure if my computer will be hooked up or not (it's complicated as to why it might not be).

Oh well, so long as I use the last few weeks here in Gisborne to make sure every minor detail about my sites are all good then I should be fine. Thank the Universal Powers That Be for Enthusiast, otherwise I would have to give up all my fan and namelists! Tragic if ever there was a tragedy!