Once Again, It’s Been A While

I haven’t written much lately. For this, I do apologize. There are a couple of reasons for this but the largest one being that I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time looking into two things: web hosting and blog authoring software.

Web Hosting has been a necessity as I plan to revive my rachynski.org domain and blog with that again. In order to do so, though, I had two choices: continue to use a service, like WordPress, and pay to have my domain forwarded to it or get separate hosting altogether.

I’ve opted for the second option as I’ve been finding customizing the layout and theme for my current WordPress blog to be a little confusing. Being able to edit a theme also does not come free as you have to “upgrade” to enable that feature. The upgrade is not that expensive ($15 per year) but it still doesn’t grant total flexibity. To do so, I’d have to install WordPress onto a host machine (or service) rather than use WordPress.com.

Also, it would also cost me an additional $10 per year to point rachynski.org to a WordPress.com blog. This also isn’t a huge amount of money but if it’s costing me money to forward to a service that’s limited, I’d sooner pay a little more for total control over the blog for that domain.

This leads me to my second dilemma: if I’m going to use blog authoring software, WordPress is not my only choice. Don’t get me wrong – I’m quite happy with WordPress thus far and as far as (free) blogs go, I think they’re simply the best.

In the past I’ve also used software called TextPattern, which I was also quite impressed with. The only reason that I stopped using it was because I decided to stop paying for web hosting and use a free blog service (ie. WordPress.com) instead.

I’m sure that there are other equally good options as well that I have not yet looked into.

Anyway, the point I’m getting at is that this blog is now on it’s death bed – at least in its current state. It’s going to be manifested again as rachynski.org sometime in the near future. Because of this, I haven’t been driven to write more as it’ll just be more that has to get carried over to the new system, or will be simply lost altogther (I haven’t decided to carry the blog posts forward or not as of yet).

If anyone has any suggestions for web hosting or blog authoring software, I’m all ears. At this time, I’m planning getting my hosting through Media Temple (http://www.mediatemple.com) and running WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org) on it. The only requirement (currently) for Web Hosting at this point is that the service include PHP 4.3 or greater and MySQL 4.0 or greater.

Everything Old Is New

I keep switching back and forth between various WordPress themes. The current one, otherwise known as Redoable Lite, will probably stick around for a while. Unless, that is, I recall why I switched to a different on in the first place. Time will tell but like everything else in my life, very little ever stays the same for long. I can’t stop tinkering and tweaking long enough to enjoy something the way it is.

So it’s really been a while since I’ve written anything substantial. By “substantial”, I mean something more than posting a YouTube video with a small blurb. There’s been quite a bit that’s been going on and in typical Neil fashion, I over-analyze everything until I’m sick of thinking about it, which only keeps me up and night thinking about not thinking about it. Such a vicious and ugly cycle I wind up in there at time.

There’s a lot of change on the horizon, or that’s already begun to take shape in my life. A new relationship has begun, a new (to me) car is in the process of being purchased, and there are a few other things which I’d rather not discuss here.

Having given up meat some 3+ months ago, I finally got some results back from my doctor about how my blood is looking (other than red). So far, so good. I’ve also been cooking a lot more which has helped keep things healthy in my diet. Plus, when you’re not eating greasy burgers, fried chicken, or other such fat-laden meat; you tend to eat healthier period. I’m not saying that you can’t eat meat and not eat healthy. These two things are hardly exclusive. However, it has been easier to eat healthy when I don’t have to worry about such things in the first place.

The one thing that’s been missing is my writing. Not just on here, as there’s not often a lot that I write about and publish so publically anymore. Maybe that will change or I’ll just stop caring so much about who may possibly be reading this and just write whatever comes to mind.

So many maybes.

PS. I still hate waiting.

A Million Things To Say

I’ve hardly slept the past three nights. Looks like it’s back to a bit of restlessness for me. Christmas always does this to me though – it’s always been too far stressful a time of year for me to get caught up in the “holiday spirit” and all.

Anyway, I’m sure there won’t be much sleep on the agenda tonight as tonight is concert night. I was going to post a video from Rise Against or Thursday, as those are the bands that I’ll be seeing tonight, but I was this particular song appeared on my playlist and it seemed kind of fitting for my mood as of late.

The song is Lights by the Editors.

Hiatus

I haven’t been here in a while. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say – it’s that I lack the words with which to say them. Life is full of a range of emotions brought on by a variety of people, and I’d like nothing more than to crawl into bed and forget about them for a while.

Waiting

I hate waiting. Hate!

Life is stuck in a bit of limbo right now as I wait to find out what’s going on with buying a car, what days I’ll have off for the holidays, with how much time I’m going to be able to spend visiting people, a roommate who plans to move out sometime next spring or summer, a daughter who may be moving out of Edmonton next summer, et cetera.

Some of the above hinge on an offer that’s fully expected but which has not yet arrived. The rest lies with other people who’s lives I have no control over. So, in short, I’m waiting to see what happens so that I can begin to work out what’s going on with my own life. This is a feeling that I don’t much care for.