Stupid Hurts

I really need a new hobby. I don’t have my sewing machine, or my bicycle and I only get depressed when I have too much time on my hands. So I have decided to buy myself some yarn and knitting needles once I get some extra cash, learn how, and then knit myself a 10 feet long scarf.

Long enough to be a hazard. Or long enough to fight crime with it. Odds are to do that many stitches it will be warm again by the time I get done, since the estimate I have read is just this side of 30,000 stitches or about 7 pounds of yarn.

My friend Jake and I moved from different parts of the country up to Seattle, Wa into an apartment. It is pretty nice up here so far. The apartment is on the water. I have been so busy lately. The initial culture shock was kind of difficult and I have been told to expect rain for the next nine months.

I have been putting off anouncing this, because it does seem a little unrealistic, but I am moving to Seattle Washington next week.

Jake and I are moving in together. Of course this might be a mistake, last time we tried to move in together, I ended up with epilepsy, and he ended up with tuberculous. And most importantly someone died.

I got another picture published. I really should find how many that has been so far.

And like I was telling a friend; “it is always nice you see your name in the paper, without dieing or killing someone.”

Stupidhurts.org if in the midst of being completely rebuilt. It is taking a while because I was going from Wordpress 1.3 to Wordpress 2.6. So pretty much everything was outdated. You will see the site go up and down and change several times over the never few days while I get it right, but eventually it will get there. The next step is to find an elegant way to handle my pictures.

Stupidhurts.org has never been updated to a more recent version of wordpress because of the fact it just hasn’t been worth how long it would take considering the site worked fairly well. When I originally built the site I have kinda odd needs, so a lot of the code is heavily hacked and changed. It is part of the reason I am so careful about backing my site up. Partially because I know that if something happens I pretty much refuse to recode it again. The last person saw the back end of my site and the lots of notes referring to the hacks said it was being together by spit and love.

Since I had a seizure and fell down two flights of stairs at my sister’s house were I landed on my head and my broken hand yesterday. I have had some time around the house, so I have decided to try to rebuild my site locally on my computer before I try to upgrade the live version. After setting up a suitable server on my Mac using MAMP which is awesome. It took about two hours to track Wordpress and all the plugins to be semi-sure the site has the same functionally as this one. It doesn’t yet, but give it time, and a little spit and it will. I did get after 4 hours get the important thing done. I got a gallery integrated. I am actually a little excited about showing that one off when I am done.

Now to get out and shot and new banner.

As you will notice Stupidhurts.org was down for a few days, and thankfully it’s back up now. I screwed up and let the domain name expire and I had to work get it back basically. I was actually sweating for a few hours that I was going have to have to come up with a new blog name. You really don’t realize how awesome your blog name is until you almost lose it and you are given the suggestion “sillyhurts.org” by a registrar. No thank you. I am a bit attached to mine.

It has actually been a long, long week. I actually was forced to cancel the my trip Dragon*con. Partially because my seizures have been really bad this week, and I found myself at the Dr’s office again this weekend, but also because someone else canceled my pass. So among other things, I didn’t get to speak at the panel like I had planned.

And finally in a bar during a conversation with several people about the difference between wrestling and wrasslin’. And I after I pointed my favorite crystal meth billboards are gone, I found out I was the only person at the table who has never done drugs they were not prescribed. I have lead a sheltered life considered the crazy stuff I have gotten into in the grand scheme of things.

So I got selected to speak on a panel at Dragon*con next weekend, and my first thought honestly was, “that will make a great blog post!” Dragon*con is the largest science fiction, gaming, comics, art, and film in the US. And I was contacted to take part in a panel on “Freedom of Speech and Privacy Issues for Sex-Positive Bloggers and Pod-casters.” I am pretty excited about the entire thought. I am pretty much going to speak about people who work in the sex industry who have blogged about it who have had privacy issues and other negative repercussions.

Now I just have to figure out how to get to Atlanta.

I’m sitting in one of my favorite lunch spots that the bank execs and help desk guys go to during the day for milk shakes and chicken nuggets. It is the only fast food fast place I know of that they open the door for you and refills your soda at the table. I normally don’t eat there because of the crowd during the short time they are are open, but I had a meeting downtown today. This is one of the best places to eavesdrop during the day. You get to hear gems like; “I didn’t find out it was illegal till later, I have to worry about internal spooks now” and, “do you think she just does coke to fit into those dresses?”

I was also riding the high this morning from getting my name in the paper without breaking any laws or dying a horrible death. This picture was published in the “Seen“ section of the Birmingham Weekly.

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And lastly I managed to bluff my way into a job as a poker dealer. Now if I only knew anything about poker.