Archive | July 16, 2008

I’m Off!

We’re looking at a long weekend starting tomorrow here in the Land of (Fake) Smiles. Truth be told, that doesn’t really affect me in the least. After all, my days are pretty much the same every day – a constant holiday or work day, depending on how you look at it. But at least, the boyfriend gets a few much-needed days off.

Naturally, we’re taking advantage of the holiday. Tonight, we’re off to Koh Chang on the eastern gulf of Thailand, and we should get there before sunrise. The last time we were there was back in December when it was nice and sunny. Presently, however, it’s the middle of the monsoon season, so there’s probably going to be some rain. I hope there won’t be too much of it, though. We haven’t been to the beach since we went to Krabi in April, and I’m now looking considerably pale. I could really use the sunshine.

I would probably look forward to the trip even more if I didn’t have to work half the time, but, hey, at least I’m on a lovely island with a fantastic beach. Besides, working on the beach is a hell of a lot better than working cross-legged on the couch and getting cramped knees.

(Oh, and I can’t wait to wear my bikinis again, especially now that I’ve lost some weight. Again. If you want to know how I did it, click here.)

In any case, I’ll be back on Sunday, hopefully tanned, relaxed, and with considerably cheerful – and browner – knees.


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Upgraded, Updated

For the past day or so, that salmon-colored, rectangular-ish thing somewhere near the top of my dashboard that’s telling me to upgrade to WordPress 2.6 has been bugging me incessantly. I visited my control panel at my host’s to see if there’s a way for them to upgrade the damned thing themselves, but the latest version they had available was still WordPress 2.5.1. I figured I’d wait a few days because I didn’t really know how to go about it myself.

Then I remembered I had an automatic WordPress upgrade plugin installed after having read somewhere that it’s a must-have. So rather gleefully, I activated it, thinking that it was going to go through the entire exercise without me having to do anything. Well, it did, in essence – but not before it made me do scary stuff like backing up my database and agreeing to deactivate my plugins; which, I might add, only made me quite panicky. I kept thinking that I didn’t know what to do if it all went awry. Yes, I had a backup of my database, but much good that’s going to do me if I didn’t know what to do with it.

Eventually, the upgrade finished. How long I’ve been holding my breath, I’m not really sure, but it felt good to exhale. So now my blog is running on the all-new WordPress 2.6, thanks to ‘em geniuses who created such a marvelous plugin. Why (or how) that matters, I have no idea. But at least, I don’t see that salmon-colored, rectangular-ish thing at the top of my dashboard anymore.

Hooray, for bumble and bumble! (Me, a bumbling fool. Get it??? Lame, I know.)

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