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June 4, 2005 - Overdue update

So remember how I was going to do all kinds of cool stuff with my site? I was going to make my gaming section cooler, re-do my links page, and re-organize my archives; any of this ring a bell? Yeah, well, guess what. Following my near-flawless track record of procrastination and otherwise not accomplishing what I say I will, I've done a whole lot of nothing on the site here. However, I have an excuse, and that excuse is named Guild Wars. I'd say that you should expect an update about it to my gaming section shortly, but let's be serious.
The past week or so has been relatively uneventful, which is just how I like it. With a lot of time for friends, family, and games, it's been a nice and relaxing change of pace. Oh yeah, I guess I had a birthday in there too, or something, which was also cool.
Anyhow, as usual, I have relatively little to talk about, at least until I get out to Seattle. So if you're in town, let me know, because this may be the last chance I'll have to see you!

June 15, 2005 - New adventures

Wow, so this update is way overdue. I think I've been meaning to write something here every night for the last week-plus, but it's only happening now because my Guild Wars computer has been dismantled. What can I say, I'm easily distractable and easily entertained.
Anyhow, I have several things to cover in this update, so here we go:

• First, I've actually done something for a couple days now, and after a lot of work, I've redone the way my news posts work! They now include "permalinks" to easily reference individual entries, and my archives have been redone as well, to be much easier to work with and update. Everything should be much faster now too, and in the near future, I'll be adding the ability to search my archives. That may not happen for awhile, though, because ...
• I'm moving in ... a little over thirty hours. This is not like moving to Ames again - oh no, this is me packing everything I own -- and a lot of stuff that I don't (thanks, Mom and Dad!) -- into a truck and flying out to Seattle to live ... forever, I guess. It definitely has not sunk in that in a mere four days, I'll officially be a working stiff. Welcome to the next fifty years of your life, right? And on the subject of the move ...
• No move would be complete without a couple hassles and miscommunications, right? Well, the packers, loaders, and car-shipment folks were all supposed to come today, somewhere in the 9:00 AM range of things. About 10:30, I called my moving contact, who's on the west coast, and asked where my crew was. After a couple phone calls on her part, the short answer is that "your local dispatch has you scheduled for tomorrow, but I have you marked down for today. Sorry." Well, good thing that I'm in town for another day then, isn't it? And then about 4:00, I get a call from the auto shippers: "Hey, our driver is way behind, can we pick you up tomorrow morning instead?" ... What fun. I'm quite lucky that I have an extra day between my scheduling and when I actually leave.
• And lastly, this whole leaving thing. The last two weeks or so have been wonderful; I've seen most everyone here that I know, and spent a lot of great time with my folks and my friends. I'm not a very emotional or sentimental guy, but still, leaving all of this is going to be hard. I seem to have missed saying a proper goodbye to many people, which I'm not happy about. The good thing about this is that I'm coming back in six weeks, and the majority of people will be here then as well, when I will hopefully get around to this whole 'goodbye' thing that I try so hard to avoid.