Sorry in advance for the excessive acronyms. Google means never having to say you're too sorry.

I spent a good deal of today reading, both on screen and off. I decided it's time to jettison Blogger as my CMS of choice and I discovered that I can now install WordPress at my ISP. This is good news. So, the process for moving the data was easy and yet hard. WP has a Blogger import function, but not if you used Blogger just to ftp files to your own site. If you did this, the importer cryptically fails. Fortunately, there is not one single tech support problem you can have that someone else hasn't had and blogged about, so I Googled for solutions. I changed this blog, briefly, to a blogspot blog and then exported that data... to WordPress.com (because my ISP can't do some sort of secure socket tango required to import directly from blogspot). So, once I was on my third blog of the day, I could export all 130+ posts (and comments) directly to a raw file on my laptop which could be imported. Hurray!

Then my ISP had a bizarre tragic once-in-a-blue-moon crash and all of the sudden my new blog started failing in bizarre ways. I called the ISP to see if it was me or them, and they seemed to think that it was them. So... I waited. I had dinner. I finished reading a book. I sat down to watch a movie and the phone rang. It was Bob the guy who owns my ISP, asking me how long I'd been using WordPress. I said I'd been using it in general for a few years but only on eskimo.com for a few hours. He seemed happy to hear this. Apparently their crash had messed up one table in my database and he went to restore it from yesterday's backup only to find that nothing was there yessterday. I think I made him happy when I said "Oh just delete it, I can reinstall from my backup" which I bet is something a sysadmin rarely hears. So then I reinstalled WordPress, reuploaded my data and here we are. This is, if I'm lucky, the last post on Blogger then I'll flip the switch and start using WordPress which I much prefer. It shoudl be fairly transparent, but maybe just a wee bit better looking.

I read a whole book today and didn't do much else besides that and this whole tech transfer nonsense. My birthday is on Wednesday. I pretty much like birthdays. Anyone who would like to, please feel free to send me a postcard. I like mail. Box 81, Bethel VT 05032.

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It's my sister Kate's birthday today. I was thinking yesterday "Oh I should invite her up sometime..." and I had completely forgotten that we had spent TWO WHOLE WEEKS together about two weeks ago. She's a fun companion. She's a loyal friend. She's a snappy dresser. She has a great sense of humor. She's the city mouse to my country mouse and it's fun to have her around, or be around her generally. Happy birthday Kate, I hope it's a good one!

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