Ash the Mighty

So in efforts of keeping my hands and mind a bit busy, I’ve been doing something that I had vaguely considered doing for years.

Back in the day, when I first started keeping a blog, I did so without the help of a database, hand writing each blog entry into a text file and dividing them up into month groups. They were time and date stamped, but that’s about it. I always thought it would be nice, though mind-numbingly boring, to go through and separate those entries out into individual blog entries like a nice modern blog like this one.

Well, I sure was right. It was mind-numbingly boring. Which was the whole point.

So if you feel like clicking around, you’ll notice I’ve gone from 3 recent entries (the legitimate new ones) to around 130 or so (the ones which I could auto-import from Live Journal), to now exactly 300 (301 after this). Hey, that’s not THAT bad when you consider the blog goes back to 2002 (and we’re ignoring that I’ve lost all the blog entries from when I was in Aberdeen. Oh, dueling-bunnies.net, how I miss you!).

The point is, if you really feel like reading the carnage that are my years in Glasgow or the randomness that are the years since, there they are, on display for the world to see. May whatever god you pray to have mercy on your soul.

~Ash.

21:29 EDIT: Well it took all of what, 25 minutes?  But I was able to hunt down and insert all of the like 25 blog entries from dueling-bunnies.net.  Turns out that they were archived over on the Way Back Machine. At least I’m pretty sure I got them all.  If not, they’re gone forever.  And yeah, I checked for those few from the sagittarii.com too.  Nothing.  I’d say THAT’S for the best!    Have a good night, everyone!

So you may have noticed that I was gone.

Oh. No? Not at all? Not even a little bit? Well that’s somewhat disappointing.

Well I’ve been gone for a while. Trust me on this. The reason? Well, the reasons have in fact been oh so many. One of the main ones is that I had found myself a really truly wonderful girlfriend who I enjoyed spending time with so much that I didn’t really feel like blogging all that much. Plus there’s the fact that her parents seemed to be a little on the overtly curious side in the “we’re going to stalk and/or hire a PI to investigate you” kind of way, and so not only did I not feel like blogging, the more observant among you may have noticed that my old blog was taken down.

But I’m back. Alas this is not because I have reached an accord with said lovely lady’s parents, but instead because she and I have parted company. Those of you who run across this blog are probably already aware of this, but it wasn’t exactly my idea and I’m utterly heartbroken by the fact . . . but to be honest at this point I really should be getting used to it. Just time to put up some walls again, up the cynicism levels once more, and spend some time bitching online!

So LOTS has actually changed in the few months since I wrote, and I can’t really get in to all of it. At least not in the first entry. But suffice to say that I’m alive, I’m still gainfully employed, though erratically scheduled, and I greatly look forward to irritating you all with my Idle Ramblings once again, in a whole new and fresh blog environment (yes, yes, for the record I am once again moving venues. I’m shifting away from LiveJournal, which I’ve not made good use of for years, and have just installed a version of WordPress on my server. Possibly a bit dangerous, but I was getting EVER so irritated with LJ, so we just all have to deal, don’t we?).

Hope you are all well and I look forward to hearing from you soon . . .

~A.