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I just like saying that.

“I am children.”

Children: You are still a child at heart,
and the world is still a fantastic place
when you are allowed to see it as such.
Either you are still young or else you have
the blood of fae running through you,
for you are not as banal as a normal human.
You have low/3-5 banality.
How Banal Are You?
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I’ve finally gotten started on my studying. Read two of the four chapters for my health policy class, and have been going over the first chapter for my editing class.

Regarding the health policy class, the readings were not nearly as boring as I feared they might be. Chapter two was almost interesting.

Regarding the editing class, “What do you MEAN I have to learn the names of all the parts of a sentence again?!”

I just put an apple pie in the oven.

Plus I made biscotti this afternoon.

And deviled chicken soup.

Someone better come help us eat all this food.

Slate likes potato chips.

Slate does not like raw potatoes.

Yesterday, from five to seven, was Michael’s first lab of the semester. Since WVU Parking Authority stops ticketing at four, we decided that if he drove to lab he would not have to leave work as early, so that would be best.

So at five, I walked down to the PRT station and took the PRT to Engineering. Now, to get from the Engineering PRT station to where Michael parked the car, the most direct route is to walk through the Mineral Engineering building where my father works, so I thought I’d stop by my dad’s office, and say hi if he was there. He was, and we chatted for a bit, which was nice. I learned that three of my brother’s dogs are still at my parent’s house, and it looks like Cyrus will remain indefinitely. Lucky Dad.

I eventually said I should get home, and Dad says he needed to get to the gym before it closed, which settled it. There is no way I was going to be the reason Dad didn’t make it to the gym. If he wants to irritate Mom, that’s his business, but I do not want to bear the brunt of her wrath for his non-exercise.

When I reached the exit, I saw Michael standing there, and we had the following conversation:

“Hi, dear! Did you just finish? I’ve been up talking to Dad,” I said.
“I’ve been done for a little bit,” he replied. “We finished early.”
“Were you waiting long? You should have come up to Dad’s office to see if I was there.”
“Well, I thought about it, but was afraid that I’d miss you as you walked down from his office.”
“Oh, well why didn’t you just leave a note in the car so I wouldn’t leave without you?”
Silence.

No, I don’t think I’ll feel guilty about this at all.

For those of you who don’t read a lot of weblogs, and who don’t use Movable Type, there has been a second rash of comment spammers hitting Motable Type weblogs. One of the comments suggested over at Making Light was to removed the Post button and force those who posted comments to Preview their comments first.

Having written my share of regrettable posts to BBSes (lo those manyyears ago) and having sent more than my share of regrettable e-mail messages(!) this seemed like a Very Good Idea.

So, as of now, to post a comment you must first preview the comment. It’s just one extra step, but it is slightly different.

The only drawback is that I am not a MT guru, so if you come across a problem caused by this, please let me know so I can fix things!

Not to be obvious, but if you run into any problems, broken links, broken weblog, broken whatever, please let me know so I can fix it.

Thanks!

So, it looks like I may have things worked out, and MT may now be fully functional.

From as best we can figure, it looks like when I was having server problems in November, my Movable Type files became corrupted, and this snowballed until the entire thing broke completely in December.

Ugh.

I still have all the old posts, but they are no longer linked directly to MT–in essence they are just regular web pages and are no longer dynamic MT pages. Mostly this will not matter in the slightest, unless I want to go back and search for something I posted previously. The good thing is that I have saved the old structure, so any previous permalinks will still work, I just can not search old posts, or easily make changes to them.

Could be a lot worse.

Good news from all this, however, is that I have moved to a new webhost, which more responsive customer support, and I have to say that the web interface is a LOT better. I can delete, move and rename files and folders from a web based control panel, which is pretty fantastic since to delete folders using my FTP program, I must first delete all the files in the folder–and all the sub folders and the files in those sub folders… I’m sure you can see how this would get tedious quickly. So, it was a good move, and at least this happened over the break, and things are mostly fixed–before classes get into full swing.

Did I learn any lessons from this?

Nah….

Yup. Things are still broken, but you can read my current posts here.