If you can read this then you’re looking at krissyville.net being loaded from a new data center.  I was sick and tired of the previous service, it was always down and over the course of the last few months I’ve had some pretty heated arguments with Tony so that’s put a damper on business through the company.  I’ve found a new host that comes highly regarded and I’m in the process of getting everything moved over.  For the sake of DNS I had to transfer over all of my personal stuff first, and then I’ll go and work on the clients.  I’m unable to find any files for krissy.nu which is why that site is currently down.  I do have a back-up and I’m manually restoring it.  I believe my hefty Wordpress database had a lot to do with it.  While I only publish two years worth of archives, there’s about 5 years worth and it covers about 1,000MB, so I’m downsizing quite a bit and we’ll see where things go from there.

I’ve got a horrible cold, to the point that I can’t really concentrate on much of anything.  It started out as a sore throat which came on instantly but only half of my throat was scratchy, I wound up falling asleep and by the time I’d woken up my entire throat was sore.  The following day it turned into some pretty nasty chest congestion and now I’m dealing with the nasal end of things and I’ve just taken a strong dose of antibiotics because I honestly can’t focus on anything.  I feel as though my head is going to explode which typically means the infection is heading north.  I also have a pretty high fever, I think it was 103.something.  At the same time, I have double vision so who knows what number actually showed up on that little digital output.

I think it’s time to get back to bed.

For the past couple of days I’ve been working on a few different things.  The big one being the FAFSA so I can hopefully get something out of it this year. I’ve decided that the University of Phoenix Online is the route I intend to take for school.  I’m going in for Bachelor of Science in Information Technology/Multimedia and Visual Communication.  It’s 120 credits and like $45,000.  The first sixty credits are the Bachelor of Science, the remaining 60 are the focus in Multimedia and Visual Communication.  So it’s safe to say that once I get rolling with everything, I’ll be pretty busy for the next year or so (as far as school is concerned.)

I picked up a few freelance jobs this past week so I’ve been busy with those.  I’ve had to create a few Wordpress Plugins that weren’t readily available.  One was a basic Javascript, the other was an email thing that I just couldn’t find anywhere else.  I like coming up with new and interesting things, it keeps my mind working.  Something I desperately need these days considering how tired I’ve been.

I think it’s the constant up and down with the weather, but I’ve been feeling under the weather so that really isn’t helping me too much.  One day it’s 90*F the next it’s 66*F.  Why in holy hell is it bouncing around like this?  Just about everyone is sick, and I’m starting to feel the effects as well.  I’m OK as far as allergies and stuff go, I’m lucky enough to just have a food allergy and not an “allergic to everything” kind of allergy.  Sean’s pretty bad when it comes to the typical dust, pollen and other outdoors kind of allergies, so with the upwind and all the other things going on he’s really not doing too well.  The poor thing can’t breath at all.

In any event, guess it’s time to get back to work.  I’d like to have these projects completed by Sunday and being as it’s officially Friday (about 12:30 AM here) I guess my time is limited.

I woke up very early this morning in anticipation for the landscapers.  I make it a point to be outside so that they properly cut the grass when they finally make it to our house.  If I’m not out there they tend to half-ass it and kind of brush over one area and call it a day.  I understand they have a lot of lawns to cut but seriously now - you’re being paid by the hour to do a job - why must you insist on doing the most amount of jobs in the least amount of time? Efficiency is the only proper way to work, but I guess when you don’t understand English and are working off the books - you can get away with it.

But either way, come 9:30am (their typical time-frame) I didn’t hear the rumble of all the mowers coming up the block.  Around 11:30 I poked outside again and they still weren’t there.  By 1:00PM I figured they weren’t going to bother even showing up at all.  By now the exhaustion had set in.  I’d only gotten about 3 hours of sleep last night so being up and moving around for the morning took a lot more out of me than someone who’d had a solid 8 hours of sleep to work with.

I started redoing my portfolio and I also updated my resume.  There are a few outsource positions open through some companies I found and I requested more information on the tasks they have and hopefully the updated portfolio will help me out.  I’m also working on getting a new template up for krissy.nu, the pink is starting to bother me.  I’d also like to remove a lot of the ads on acidgloss.net but I am actually making some decent money off of them so I guess time will tell with how far I’m going to go with that.

After I completed that, I couldn’t keep my eyes open so I wound up taking a bit of a nap.  I hate sleeping during the day when there’s a lot of things to do but when you can’t function without that extra hour you’re basically useless.  So I crashed for a little while, woke up and did some quick shopping and I’ve been accomplishing quite a bit ever since.  Hopefully I’ll have it all completed before I’m ready to completely crash for the night, I just hope I don’t start falling asleep anytime soon, there’s still quite a bit of things left to do.

I’m still working on three different templates at once.  My laptop is really lagging because Photoshop hasn’t been closed since Friday afternoon.  Hopefully I’ll be able to put a few final touches on things tonight and get the chance to shut down for the evening.  My laptop IS on the verge of death though.  I’m not sure if I’m going to have to reinstall window or upgrade the RAM at some point, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see what happens.

I have been looking into new laptops.  I really can’t afford to buy one at this very moment but that hasn’t stopped me from looking.  Naturally I’d love to pick up a fully loaded 17″ MacBook Pro but who really has $4200 to kick around on a laptop these days?

I’m staying more in the $800 max range.  I know that may not seem like much but I can get everything I’m looking for and still have the ability to run Mac OS X so naturally that works out well for me.  All I need is an Intel based laptop with at least 2GB of RAM and the rest is history.  I’ll install my Leopard disk after wiping out the very annoying Vista installation and then take it from there.  I’ve found an ACER laptop that’s reasonably priced for what I’m looking for but unfortunately I’ve read reviews that note ACER is the worst Intel laptop to run Mac on - a lot of issues there.

So I guess I’ll see what I can do with an HP. Costco has some really well-priced ones and I can order it online when I’m ready - instead of trucking it all the way up to Dover to pick it up.  I would never be dumb enough to purchase a laptop from Best Buy, with that huge lawsuit against them and my true dislike for the store there would really be no point in it, you know?

As for “Site News”, I’m hoping to convert this domain over to a true photo blog but I have to come up with a better template that will show off the images a lot better, instead of just having them pasted in the entry.  I’ve found a Flickr based plug-in that makes it very simple to do that, this way I don’t have to load up my disk space here but I’ll see over time.  I have other priorities at the moment, getting the bills paid being the main one right now.

I guess I should get back to work.  It’s knocking on 12PM, I want to be done with everything by 1am so I can crash for the night - get up bright and early to start my Monday and take on the rest of the week with a clear head and loads of creativity - something the Photography is really helping me with.  It used to be the beach, but now it’s just getting the camera in my hands and looking for all kinds of great photo opportunities!