Finally, I got logged in
Well, that was fun. I've spent the last several days trying to get logged into Blogger.com. Turns out, Google owns GMail, and GMail is now the way to log into your Blogger.com account, if you have one. But, fear not! After miles of traveling down that info-super-highway (yes, I'm old enough to remember that phrase), I wound up right back at Blogger.com, and noting that darkened-out little itty bitty link up at the top right, about a 1/4" down (on my screen), that says "Claim your old blog." Ooooh - thanks Blogger, for making this easy... But, anywho, I'm finally logged in and blogging here.
I'm thinking about going ahead and just posting stuff here from now on. It's been fun using EECore on my old server while I could, but until further notice (and it'll be news to me too, believe me!), that server is going bye-bye. Which is fine for me. I may be technically back into "Sabbath Keeping" (for all the right reasons), but seriously, I just don't like the way Adventists typically go about things. Hell, I'm here at the CC right now, and just met some total stranger, a guy who's into horses, who was nicer as a person in general than a lot of Adventists have seemed when I first met them. That story keeps replaying in my life over and over again, thus, though I'm perfectly willing to go to an Adventist church (or any other church for that matter), well, I'm just not comfortable calling myself an Adventist anymore. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as it does to the ears of many who aren't SDA who've encountered Adventists in the past. It's not that most Adventists mean any harm or anything, they just don't "get it" when it comes to putting people above rules, seeing beyond one's actions into one's soul, etc.
All this tyrade is about how I'm actually glad to be rid of that server, once it dies. And of the financial dependence on my parents that it's represented to me. It'll be one less cost to me in the end, that much is for sure. Some day, I'd like to find a good solution for my EECore blogging needs, and perhaps I've missed something. But seriously, it doesn't look good at the moment (I've tried a bunch of "free" PHP/MySQL hosts out there, and either they don't have FTP or their allowed file sizes are too small, or their FTP just doesn't work, etc). I'm considering the hosting that ExpressionEngine offers, but don't know if my honest four-letter-musings are quite their style, thus, I might not qualify for their service, I have no idea. Anyway, I'm glad, super, super glad, to have Blogger.com to fall back on in times such as I'm living in right now.
At the moment, I'm just in the process of backing up all my latest entries at the old server, plus ensuring all my other files are backed up. I did a backup before, but I've posted since then, and also, I'm not sure where my latest backups for the old singles site are. Sharif and I worked hard on that, so I want to keep those. Perhaps someday they'll be useful elsewhere in life. I have no idea.
So, that's an update for today.
Oh, as for my personal life, yeah, mom keeps trying to contact my DSHS worker (the guy who does my food-stamp stuff) to try to convince him that I'm crazy, and that thus I need mental health services paid for by DSHS. She just can't seem to just mind her own damn business. I've tried being her friend. I still am trying. I've been nice to her overall, though yesterday I'd finally had enough of this and told her I felt that she was just bullying me. She's so controlling it's just nuts. She left a form on my bed last night for me to give her total control over my mental health (not in so many words, but pretty much the same thing). Then she, dad, and Jeff left for who knows where, and didn't leave a note saying when they were coming back. They left most of their clothes, so it won't be long. But the point is, this is totally out of control, I'm just trying to live my life and move forward, and frankly, any "emotional issues" I might have are a DIRECT result of her and dad's crappy treatment of me over the years.
I really don't care that she's trying to come off as the "concerned mother." No adult has the legal right, under any circumstances, to treat another adult this way, regardless of what she thinks, how "sane" I am, or why I might have this or that difficulty or whatever. She's not a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, counselor... She has no business putting me through this and a lot of other bunk. I'm at the CC today because I've decided to finish my AS degree in business (turning it into an AAAS degree), starting in January. I'm hoping that my name will come up by then for the housing I'm on a waiting list for, etc. In the meantime, it's back to the grindstone regarding getting employed. And I mean: G R I N D S T O N E. As in, Wal-Mart, here I come. And a few other places.
Which reminds me, I have some call-backs to do today. I've spent enough time dealing with the FAFSA I'm trying to resurrect and edit, the application for the CC, and trying to find some free server out there that'll actually take EECore. I have a life to live. I'm just glad I can still write about it here.
I'm thinking about going ahead and just posting stuff here from now on. It's been fun using EECore on my old server while I could, but until further notice (and it'll be news to me too, believe me!), that server is going bye-bye. Which is fine for me. I may be technically back into "Sabbath Keeping" (for all the right reasons), but seriously, I just don't like the way Adventists typically go about things. Hell, I'm here at the CC right now, and just met some total stranger, a guy who's into horses, who was nicer as a person in general than a lot of Adventists have seemed when I first met them. That story keeps replaying in my life over and over again, thus, though I'm perfectly willing to go to an Adventist church (or any other church for that matter), well, I'm just not comfortable calling myself an Adventist anymore. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as it does to the ears of many who aren't SDA who've encountered Adventists in the past. It's not that most Adventists mean any harm or anything, they just don't "get it" when it comes to putting people above rules, seeing beyond one's actions into one's soul, etc.
All this tyrade is about how I'm actually glad to be rid of that server, once it dies. And of the financial dependence on my parents that it's represented to me. It'll be one less cost to me in the end, that much is for sure. Some day, I'd like to find a good solution for my EECore blogging needs, and perhaps I've missed something. But seriously, it doesn't look good at the moment (I've tried a bunch of "free" PHP/MySQL hosts out there, and either they don't have FTP or their allowed file sizes are too small, or their FTP just doesn't work, etc). I'm considering the hosting that ExpressionEngine offers, but don't know if my honest four-letter-musings are quite their style, thus, I might not qualify for their service, I have no idea. Anyway, I'm glad, super, super glad, to have Blogger.com to fall back on in times such as I'm living in right now.
At the moment, I'm just in the process of backing up all my latest entries at the old server, plus ensuring all my other files are backed up. I did a backup before, but I've posted since then, and also, I'm not sure where my latest backups for the old singles site are. Sharif and I worked hard on that, so I want to keep those. Perhaps someday they'll be useful elsewhere in life. I have no idea.
So, that's an update for today.
Oh, as for my personal life, yeah, mom keeps trying to contact my DSHS worker (the guy who does my food-stamp stuff) to try to convince him that I'm crazy, and that thus I need mental health services paid for by DSHS. She just can't seem to just mind her own damn business. I've tried being her friend. I still am trying. I've been nice to her overall, though yesterday I'd finally had enough of this and told her I felt that she was just bullying me. She's so controlling it's just nuts. She left a form on my bed last night for me to give her total control over my mental health (not in so many words, but pretty much the same thing). Then she, dad, and Jeff left for who knows where, and didn't leave a note saying when they were coming back. They left most of their clothes, so it won't be long. But the point is, this is totally out of control, I'm just trying to live my life and move forward, and frankly, any "emotional issues" I might have are a DIRECT result of her and dad's crappy treatment of me over the years.
I really don't care that she's trying to come off as the "concerned mother." No adult has the legal right, under any circumstances, to treat another adult this way, regardless of what she thinks, how "sane" I am, or why I might have this or that difficulty or whatever. She's not a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, counselor... She has no business putting me through this and a lot of other bunk. I'm at the CC today because I've decided to finish my AS degree in business (turning it into an AAAS degree), starting in January. I'm hoping that my name will come up by then for the housing I'm on a waiting list for, etc. In the meantime, it's back to the grindstone regarding getting employed. And I mean: G R I N D S T O N E. As in, Wal-Mart, here I come. And a few other places.
Which reminds me, I have some call-backs to do today. I've spent enough time dealing with the FAFSA I'm trying to resurrect and edit, the application for the CC, and trying to find some free server out there that'll actually take EECore. I have a life to live. I'm just glad I can still write about it here.
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