After a few hours this morning, I finally feel at "home" as they say. While this is only a shadow of the home I used to know, it's still a place that I can feel comfortable. It took some time to get used to the dogs, birds, parents, sisters, missing the girl, sound of television, computers everywhere, full fridge and "lights out" period. But with a little practice, I got the hang of it.
My site's back up, finally. I'm still working out the kinks on it, as there were quite a few things that quit working when I moved it to the sub domain. I'm hoping to get the subdirectory that most people visit fixed soon.
For the record, while I like having the Web server in my house as opposed to elsewhere, this has been a pain. I don't like not being able to do something exactly the way I want it when it comes to a computer. If I know it can be done, there's never really a reason for me to expect that I won't somehow pull it off. This hasn't come to fruition with this server, as it uses a proprietary system. It may have widespread use, but I'm of the opinion that it is limited in what it can do. Besides that, I prefer editing a config file rather than using a Web interface any day.
That, effectively, earned me the boot from being able to work on it again as a root. I've been stripped of that privilege in no uncertain terms. Not insulted by it, but I stand by my assessment that this could be handled better.
Anyway, I've ranted about that enough both to friends and on here. It's back to the grind of getting the rest of this site up. The WordPress coding site is down, so I'm not able to extend the application much, but overall I like this setup.
The Pacer site's back up, although the ads seem to be missing. The data tables were corrupt when I logged in to phpAdsNew, so that probably will require a reload. The judges for SEJC probably gave up when they saw that our site was down. I'm not too heartbroken, but I'm sure Tomi will be. She really wants another award for that site. I suppose some day I need to hand it over.
Also, living at a house where light rock blares through it isn't enjoyable. Where did those headphones go?
I'll take a moment and say the whole blog thing is working out. I don't think anyone really cares what goes on this thing, and to some degree neither do I. My general rule has been that this blog will always be about ideas, never about people or too emotionally charged. There's no since in it.
Time for lunch.