They say the key to keep marriage waxing strong is keep talking. I always thought that would be a snap to do, but in a way, it makes sense why that is hard to do sometimes. M and I just passed our 3 mth mark and it was great. We went to see a band (Pelican) at a club downtown. It was great even though (as expected), I was the only person of color there. 🙂 Oh well, nothing to worry about there. I didn’t feel like an outcast or anything. In other news, we live in an old house that’s had quite a series of problems. From a recent $200 power bill to air issues, things are happening. I’m sure that, understandably, this might increase overhead. However, rent is still not what it would be if we were doing the usual renting-style. I won’t feel the pinch once I’m working and speaking of which, I had an interview today which went well, IMHO. The question is if they liked me/my style/my presentation enough to hire me. Now, they have more interviews to conduct so I’ll just hope they call me back. I’ve had enough interviews to know that when they say they’ve got more interviews, it means they didn’t like you sufficiently to hire you on the spot. Now, I don’t know any different i.e. I’ve never had a “real” job before to know how it works. So, if I do get this job, I’ll edit this post, but till then, I’ll keep actively searching. Wish me luck!
Author: Jane Ullah
Comparison of WordPress and Drupal
I cannot say how good it feels to be back in “old” waters i.e. with WordPress. I dabbled in Drupal for awhile but I didn’t dare mess with the actual php files because it was a bit more than I could handle. Granted, I switched from WordPress for a reason, but right now, just being able to add more than 1 goddamned music or video file to one post is a blessing. I thank Heavens for the podpress plugin which made this possible. I think it’s a fact that WordPress has more plugins donated by the community than Drupal. I mean, Drupal has some neat plugins, but I was really disappointed that I had to have more than 1 plugin to essentially do something that should have been inbuilt into the system. I’m just glad that I didn’t have that many posts there because it would have been a major pain to try and figure out how to import my posts into WordPress. There is a great need for documentation when it comes to plugins. For instance, the first plugin I installed and activated was the WPG2 plugin. I mean, I have Gallery2 on a different subdomain and a different database. On the plugin page, it says this plugin has support for different databases. However, there’s no mention whatsoever of how to configure the darned plugin to realize that Gallery and WordPress aren’t sharing the same database. Short of altering the wp-gallery2.php file to read from a different wp-config.php file, I don’t know what to do.
3 month mark!
We started out on a very good note and got quite a few things done. I updated the address on my drivers’ permit for GA today, got Matt to have a chat with the Personnel Dept. to clear some things up and will be getting prints from Walmart in about 2 days time. We went out to eat at a place called Barberitos where they served some banging salad in a shell that’s scrumptious. Their salsa and chips were off-the-hook and we, accordingly, ordered a bag of chips to go with their salsa. Tomorrow, we’ll be taking a trip down to Atlanta to take care of some business, Matt’ll probably take his bike to ride at Fort Yargo and we’ll pretty much play it by ear. I’ve gotta run. Ciao!
What goes around … comes around.
This latest video is one from Justin Timberlake and the only one that I happen to like from his entire album. It’s the classic girl cheating on guy who gets cheated on in turn. It’s a never ending themes with so-called R-n-B songs. He used Timbaland on this song so in fairness, the beat is the nice. I actually just watched someone’s short video to the last few seconds of the song and it was fan-tis-tac. 🙂 What I don’t like about the song is the ghetto-isation of Timberlake a la the “ay ay ay” that is a staple of rappers’ songs. Oh well, I’m sure he knows where his bread and butter is. In other news, I’ve been uploading pictures from my high school days to Facebook and the comments I’ve gotten on them are hilarious. It makes me wish I’d taken more pictures in highschool. Actually, I hope it’ll make those who did take pics to put them up just for kicks. On another front, I’ve got a job interview!! Just after 1 day of applying for said job, and I get a callback! Well, I hope to high heavens that this pans out. If it doesn’t, I think it’s refreshing that my skills are not rusty. Wish me luck. Shout out to mom for calling me daily. Just awesome. Thanks!! In other other news, my 3-month anniversary is tomorrow!! Woot!! lol. 9 more months to go to make it a year of marriage. Here’s to my wonderful and persevering husband, Matthew. He is singlehandedly responsible for the redemption of the human male because he’s countered the emotional moodswings of a hormonal woman and survived without major mayhem! lol. Muahh!. Continue reading What goes around … comes around.
Like a phoenix
If you even bothered to keep track, I’ve switched back to WordPress. I had a weird error with my Drupal installation and I finally lost all my patience with it. It was a case of using an anvil hammer to kill an ant. All I really need is an un-complex content management solution and I’ll try to make WordPress work. I do wish they had a permalink system akin to Drupal. I just wanted to rush this post out here to explain the oddities that have been going on. If not for Awardspace messing things up, I’d be doing fine. In a way, I’m glad to be out of that abusive service.
Fretting
Well, Matt and I have been super busy, data gathering, etc. It’s been hard, but I’ve been preparing. Keep Matt and I in your prayers. In other news, I’ve been getting a lot of flack (loving flack) from Paul (my landlord and friend) and Matt about the amount of time I spend on the internet. All I can say is that I’m 100% positive a job will cure me of this temporary addiction. 🙂 I’ve not got much to write actually. I’ve been catching up with my music library and listening to music. I’ll update later when I feel more garrulous.
Ciara and latest news
Holy smokes! Embedded video works on this thing. Awesome. I’m going to start things off with a cheeky video from Ciara called “Like A Boy”.
I absolutely love it and something for “thugs” or outright scoundrels to think about. In other news, My mom stayed behind after my dad left for Nigeria. She just returned on the 15th. She will be thoroughly missed by all who got to know her. In other news, I’m beginning to find that I’m in a catch-22 situation. It’s a resolvable issue but one that could turn out really well, partly mess or downright ugly. 🙂 No alarms yet. I’ll have to wait till the end of a certain month to find out if the end is in sight. Kthxbye. 🙂 That’s LOLCat speak, FYI.