The blog is back up, at its new address and running WordPress 2.3. There were a few moments when I was about to say “fuck it” and erase the whole thing, but I persevered, erased the whole thing three times and then reinstalled everything from a backup. It was truly a triumph of man over his own incompetence.

I’m already liking the fact that the editor doesn’t freak out and give me random paragraph breaks all over the place. Tomorrow I’ll check out some new themes and see if I can get embedded Youtube videos going.

You motherfuckers are relentless! 15 porn spam comments since I checked last night! Perhaps I should maliciously break my comment system, much as Peter Lynn has. That cheeky devil.

Apparently, if you drink a Redbull at 6pm, you can expect to be up at 3:20am staring at all the porn spam in your blog comments. Then, if you drink a Redbull the next day to make up for it, you can expect to be a total zombie by 5pm, asleep by 6:20pm, and awake again at 9pm, wondering if you’ll be able to get back to sleep at a reasonable time. The answer is, obviously, no.
If you haven’t seen Die Hard 4 or Ratatouille yet, go do so! Transformers was pretty good as well, but it’s hard to beat Bruce Willis as John McClane or the Pixar/Patton Oswalt combo.

The Darkness and Super Stardust HD are pretty fantastic games… uh… that’s about all I can think of right now. More at some point in the future. Maybe I’ll make fun of Spence Diamonds new commercials. People seemed to like that.

This is going to be a busy early summer for me. My brother and sister are both graduating in the next few weeks, and there’s an engagement party for my sister as well. I’m off to Washington tomorrow morning for my sister’s graduation from Med School, so that’s pretty impressive.

Hopefully when I get back I can upgrade WP and set up some comment spam filtering.

I can also change the template for the site a bit. I mean, my profile picture is a set of dice. I guess dice are okay, but do they really represent me?

#1 – I need a spam filter

#2 – Some people also think the Spence Diamonds ads are clown shoes. Sorry if your comment got deleted, I had 1000 of them to go through!

Holy shits, I intended to put this post up when I got from Mexico a full 6 weeks ago. It’s not timely at all, but I want to talk about some other stuff, and I can’t have people riding a cliffhanger about how my vacation went. Are you ready? Here goes!

I’m back from Mexico, which was a nice break. I realize my post heading is not only repeating Ludacris from my previous post, but I thought it was appropriate (if not 100% accurate) given that I spent my time lying on a beach watching some fat goddamn people walking around. Some of the guys there looked like red Grimaces.

We arrived near the end of spring break, which meant there were a lot of college girls walking around in sparkling bikinis. You’d think that would be, you know, awesome. But it was actually pretty depressing because they were all there with their boyfriends. Which reminded me of relationship ruin! Even though I’m seeing someone now! Oh my god /emoface

My brother and I managed to get sunburned on the first day, due to waiting outside at the Pizza bar at noon. The resort was all-inclusive, so there was booze and buffet for every meal. The cafeteria fare got tired pretty quick, so we ended up eating out a lot. We went to an Argentinian steakhouse a couple of nights, and I had a breaded chicken breast the size of a dinner plate (schnitzel style), and it was fucking awesome, sir. If that restaurant was in Toronto, I would be 500 pounds and deceased.

There is a really cool nightlife in Mexico, but that’s not really my scene, so I stayed in and read Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys” and the first book in the Warcraft “War of the Ancients” trilogy, “The Well of Eternity”. I also put a bunch of time into the new Castlevania DS game, “Portrait of Ruin”, which is really very good.

I also watched a bunch of late night Mexican television. Did you know that the proper pronunciation of “Hugo Boss”, if you’re Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, is “oooogoboz?” I do, thanks to foreign television. That’s not even a slag on a bad dub. That’s the way he says it. Is it correct? I don’t know, but it’s pretty funny. You have to purse your lips at the end, though.

I’m off to Mexico for a week, which is my first real vacation in 7 years. I’m a little nervous about leaving work, which is partly why this is my first vacation in 7 years. The last time I took time off work, it was to help A. renovate the basement. Yeah, I know how to show a lady a good time!

It looks like I picked the right time to take a break, as it’s now dumping ten feet of slush outside the house. That’s going to make it a little interesting to drive to the airport. Hopefully when I get back I won’t have 80 spam comments for Russian MP3 sites fucking up my blog.

Despite my best efforts, and one and a half hours of shoveling, I’ve had to call it and phone work to say I won’t be in. I now have (had? I haven’t checked outside) a pristinely snow-less driveway, yet even my best snow clearing efforts can’t get rid of the massive snow drifts on the roads around my house.

From Dinosaur Comics! And an ancient CBC news report!

This is the best picture I’ve seen in a long, long time. I don’t blame him – Jessica Biel is gorgeous – but it’s still goddamn hilarious.

Image originally from What Would Tyler Durden Do.