Warning: Construction Ahead

I've decided to make some changes around here, unfortunately that's difficult with the site in its current shape. The first step will be to transfer this site into Blogger, and in that way it can live through the transition. Once it's there, I'll tear this down and start anew. Hopefully it won't take too long, but I'm not very good at keeping promises on this thing so all I'll say is "just wait".

In the immortal words of the T-1000, I'll be back.

If you don't use it...

Thankfully the old adage isn't true and this blog isn't going anywhere. Some could say that it hasn't gone anywhere in a long time, but those would be jerks who I choose not to listen to. If you can believe it, this site is regularly on my mind, but if thinking were as good as doing then I'd be a much more interesting person.

Either way it's a new year now. I've mostly recovered from the holidays so here's a promise: my goal is to outdo myself this year. I'll post more than you've ever seen me post! In fact, my goal is to post more than I did in 2012 and 2013 combined! That's right, I'm promising an entirety of 14 posts this great year of 2014!

How can it be done you ask? Why, it's easy, I just have to not be quite as lazy as I have been in the past. In fact, this post itself counts! I'd say I'm well on the way to being a slightly less lazy person, wouldn't you?

1 down, 13 to go...

Shiny

You may have noticed some updates to this site. That's because I spent the time digging through Suffusion's settings and found some I liked. I also took the time to give myself a nice image up top, because I figured you'd all like that. So, you're welcome.

If you have qualms or comments on the update, let me know and I promise I'll give at least 30 seconds of thought to whatever your issue is. I normally charge ridiculous amounts of money for such a thing, and you're getting it out of the goodness of my heart. So, again, you're welcome.

Admittedly this is to point out I haven't forgotten about you all again. Yes, I have posts coming. I unfortunately found myself stuck on what exactly I want to say in my next post (and how to say it without paragraphs and paragraphs of exposition). It's a difficult task I've set for myself. But I'll do it for you people. So, if you haven't figured it out yet, you're welcome.

If what I'm working on isn't out by Friday, I'll have some other real post in its place. And not just a stupid little status update thingamajig. Because honestly, I don't want to write this and you don't want to read it. So, to end this off, you're welcome.

The Return

Yes, that's right. The Return. The Return of me. As in posting. On this blog. Like this one. Only with more content. And less incomplete sentences. And likely more run-on sentences instead.

"But Zous," you say, "you never left!"

Of course you didn't actually say that, because the lack of activity the past 5 months speaks for itself. But I digress.

If you haven't figured it out yet because you never were one for lacking subtlety: I'm going to try to get back into this again. Why? Because I've gone much too long without a proper rant. So many things constantly beg me to mock them, and I've failed them thus far. Also, I forgot how many posts I had in the works but simply never finished. If I can manage it, I might even get a few weeks buffer in there.

Not that you haven't heard this before, but maybe, just maybe I'll keep it going this time. Of course, being me, there's a certain joy I get out of disappointing others. So we have that working against us, don't we?

Side note: it's also possible a certain someone out there continually pesters me to blog. At the very least, they deserve a stern finger wagging. I can't be bothered to post just because someone wants me to! I have to have the right level of grumpiness to reach that specific activation energy required for posting. Sure, you think it's all just sitting down and typing, having these words magically appear from the launching point that is my imagination (or lack thereof). But the diamonds that are my posts simply don't occur without the proper conditions! And trust me, you simply don't want to know where that pressure comes from.

In other words, good job raising my grumpiness to its old levels.

You Have Been Warned

I've been a bad writer the past few months (but Zous, you're always a bad writer). I had multiple ideas as to what to write about, and some of them you might've even seen pop-up in my feed because I scheduled them thinking "there, now I have a deadline". Unfortunately the deadline didn't mean anything and instead I just forgot about the posts completely. You're welcome, as I'm sure I saved you the horror of reading them.

Meanwhile though, I've been told to return to this, and as peer pressure is the wind to my house of cards, I gave in (for more examples of my lack of self-control, see my beard).

So if you're lucky, I'll be back. I'm thinking weekly at first, unless I come up with enough goodness to share with you more often than that.

Also, any pleas to stop writing will only be met with contempt, forcing me to write more out of spite.

Activity? What?

You might be asking yourself how I've suddenly become an active poster. It's because I finally found this wonderful thing called "Schedule" in WordPress. It gives me the power of time-travel! I can write something in the future and publish it in the past (lame), or write something now and publish it in the future (awesome!).

Obviously, you're not surprised it exists (nor am I). What does this really mean? You're reading a post that was written weeks ago! Yes, weeks! And yet somehow it's like I just published it now! See, it's like how I can mention <INSERT CURRENT NEWS> or <INSERT CURRENT CELEBRITY GOSSIP> even though this was written weeks ago. Without scheduling, those would be old news, but now it's like this whole thing was written just yesterday! (note to self: develop topic-insertion plugin, then retroactively apply it to this post, something you can do with the power of scheduling!)

Thanks to this though, I can prep a few posts each time I sit down instead of trying to work towards a deadline for each. Then the deadline is for me to look back over the posts and reomve any glairing tyops I might have msised. A much better way to do this.

I've assumed up to this point that whenever I've said "You" I'm actually only talking to myself. I don't just mean in this post, I mean the entire blog. However, I'm going to break from that concept for one short moment: If you, the reader, are not me, then I'd like to apologize for wasting precious moments of your life. Surely there are better ways to spend your time then reading my semi-coherent ramblings. I can only hope you get some sort of schadenfreude-ish joy from this.

Now that I've fed my delusions, back to standard operating procedure. You are me; other "possibilities" are pure fantasy.

And you/me can expect to continue seeing quality like this thanks to the magic of WordPress!

Sad News, Everyone!

I was looking through the botched results of the last migration, and realized that the posts which got shanked are irrecoverable (just like in prison). I might try and bring a few back if I remember what they said, but for the most part, they're gone for good (riddance).

All those hours, wasted.

To my subscribers (i.e. you), I'm truly sorry.

New Look

I decided to try out a new theme.  This one has everything I want.  It's called Suffusion, and it's beautiful.  Simple layout, crazy amount of customization.  If you don't like something and think it'd be better, let me know and I'll try it out.  Although honestly you shouldn't waste your breath (fingers?) because I'd never actually take feedback from any of you people.  For that, I'd need some sort of contact page, wouldn't I?  Maybe, some day, if you wish really hard, and believe that it'll actually affect my decision-making process (currently: roll a die, and then do nothing), I'll make one and then simply post an email which goes nowhere (like putting a "Suggestion Box" label on a trash can).

Really, $10 says no one notices this (that's less than 5 pounds for our friends from the isles), because it's not like anyone reads this but me.  If they did, I surely scared them off by now.  Also, if I found out people were actually here, well I'd become self-conscious and go on another multi-month idling-spree (as if anyone would believe it's not simply because I'm lazy as hell).

Hm, I just thought of something: People take talking to yourself as a sign of mental imbalance (nice way of saying "cuckoo"), and yet diaries and the such have always been around.  I'm sure Anne Frank wasn't insane, although she had plenty of reason to be (poor taste? possibly; truth? definitely).

Apparently, the theme has also brought out a bit of my subconscious (no it hasn't), because I seem to have become smitten with commenting on my own writing (something like that).

Another sidenote, WordPress thinks "that'll" is a misspelling.  It also doesn't seem to like sidenote (but that's where all the good info is).  Sorry WordPress, but I can't be bothered to add a space just because you want me to.  I have lots to do (like sit here) and little time (only 5 hours more).

If someone does notice this, well, we never shook on it (yes, I'm that cheap).

Final note: posting at 3 AM might not be prudent (though if I can come up with a word like prudent, maybe I should do this more often).

Migration Woes

So, when I moved to my new server, I did something stupid while migrating the blog. Due to that bout of stupidity, most of the blog entries have become "dereferenced" from their most current version, turning many of them into draft versions of themselves. I might be able to someday save these posts, but for now I'm going to file them away and mark them as "TO-DO"s.

I doubt anyone'll miss them, but if you do, then you need more excitement in your life.

But hey, at least this time the favicon didn't disappear!

The Cabal's New Home!

The Zousware Cabal has moved!

Maybe the move will bring activity with it?