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My stress update

I probably should have wrote this a few days ago, but it still seems to be changing more and more.

Having a job and spending time with family are indeed excellent ways to manage stress. Quality time with children can be relaxing and enjoyable for parents, providing a break from work-related worries. Celebrating holidays and birthdays with children, including thoughtful gestures like getting them modest girls dresses, can add to their joy and create memorable moments.

• That coding job I did for the guy wasn’t actually giving me a run around for paying him. He actually did end up legitimately paying me a couple of days later.
• The site migration/server project I did is now online. There’s 3 sub sites to do, which unfortunately COULD be a bitch since they have more customized themes, but they might end up being very simple. We’re not sure yet.
• As for the job apps I did put in, well one place sounds like they already hired. However, one place is looking to interview sooner than expected since another person got a new job elsewhere. Also, 2 stores I looked at are hiring, and I found out an old school mate of mine is an assistant manager at a bank and has been looking to say hi to me.
• Biggest news of all: Dad is okay! It sounds like his blood pressure medicine somehow reacted with him very awkwardly (maybe in conjunction with other medicine he took). They kept him overnight, but all tests turned up negative for stuff like blood clots. So no strokes, no additional blood clots. He’s still in pain from the 28″ incision, but still nothing more severe. Thankfully, he’s getting the appropriate care and opioid addiction treatment is being considered if needed to manage his pain more effectively. If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, you might find helpful resources at this site https://luxuryrehab.org.uk/.

So yeah, just gotta work out getting a job soon.

I usually never use this phrase but: I have stress

So I’ve got a lot of stress lately. I’ve got a project that I just completed whereby the client is apparently giving me the run around for trying to pay me. I also have some other work I want to do that isn’t going anywhere at the moment because the guy doesn’t seem to understand that I can’t do certain things for him YET until I get other equipment first and has yet to give me a list of other things to do.

I also have some small side work I am doing as a favor for some folks that is dealing with some code and server components that can be very frustrating, and it took me nearly a whole day just to get one feature of the site to work.

Also, since I moved I have yet to get a call about any applications I have put in and do not have my own funds to get around town to find said jobs easily. Everything within walking distance is pretty much mom and pop stores.

But the biggest issue just happened about 1 hour ago. My dad had vascular bypass surgery on Tuesday on his leg. A nice long cut along his leg to. He decided to smoke. After about 4 puffs my mom was trying to speak to him and all he could do was mumble for about 2 minutes.

So now he’s back IN the hospital and just arrived minutes ago. I have too much stuff going on and too much stress to want to be in the hospital, so I need to get out of this house for now. I’m considering looking into the best rehab centre for stress management to help me cope during this challenging time.

tl;dr: my head is now ready to explode.

Finally, a bio page for me!

I have no clue why I’m up so late right now considering it’s Mother’s Day and we’re doing an early dinner tomorrow.

Anyway, I finally spent about 1/2 an hour or so and typed up basically a small summary of my life about some of the more geeky things I enjoy and why and how things lead down that path. Might be an interesting read even for those of you that think you know me well! Check it out in the “About Me”  section here on my site.

Oh and an update about wp-cornify. So far 37 people downloaded my plugin. 37? In a row? Err I mean 37? I didn’t expect that many so far. It’s not even been 5 days and 37 other people wanted unicorns and rainbows on their site when they put in the konami code. Weird huh?

WP Cornify plugin goes live on wordpress.org

Figured it wouldn’t take long. WP Cornify is now available on the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. So now you can actually search for “cornify” in your plugins section and find my plugin and install it. Cause you totally know you want to.

This blog now brought to you by unicorns and Konami

So I randomly decided to Cornify my page. You can check it out by putting in the “Konami code”. If you don’t know what that is, ask your local video game geek. I made this a WordPress plugin, so if anybody cares to put this on their WordPress site, feel free to! Just goto the WP Cornify section of my site.

Special thanks to Cornify for their site’s existence, Paul Irish for his Cornify easter egg plugin with jQuery code, and Konami for their infamous Konami code.

Fursuit DDR/bemani videos

What am I getting myself into! I’ve been thinking of possibly recording videos of me playing DDR and other fursuit-friendly music games (drummania and Pop’n Music come to mind) and posting them to YouTube. I’ll probably make some list of songs available based on the mixes I have and whether I’ve done them or not. I’ll also let people vote on songs they want to see done or re-done if they think I can get a better score on it.

Let’s see how this goes.

#amazonfail more like #amazonfailfail

Wow. This right after I post the link for the cheap G1s. But I still support them…

I glanced the trending topics on Twitter the other day and saw the #amazonfail tag. After reading many of the Twitter posts, there was obviously something not quite right on Amazon.com: Books disappeared. You couldn’t easily find them. Why the big stink? Because many of these books were either written by a homosexual author or were LBGT-oriented.

That’s definitely got a disturbing ring to it. I still have yet to understand a full non-religious specific reasoning behind anti-gay movements. It’s different, sure. But to hate? Come on guys. But back to the topic at hand.

Right away I was skeptical. I was not convinced a large company would do something like this and figure they’d get away with it. Nor would they have an intention. To think that such a large well known company would even consider such an action doesn’t make sense at all. They know better than to think people are going to assume they have no such books, or that they suddenly, without warning removed these books. Even if they did think others would notice, they know that there would be a loud outcry by the community that would hurt their image.

So why does everybody seem to want to bring out pitchforks and torches so easily? This post lays it out pretty clearly in my opinion: “Moral judgment is harder to reverse than other, less emotional forms; when an event precipitates the cleansing anger of righteousness, admitting you were mistaken feels dirty.”

I think that more people need to take the time to remember there’s always two sides to a story. Even when you are angry at somebody, some corporation, or something, think of the possibilities as to why this decision was made. Take everything into account.

I leave you with a link of irony. The sale of AmazonFail.com on eBay. The picture used is that of Amazon.com’s web servers less gracefully announcing a technical difficulty and that the site is unavailable. The added caption: “404 – FAIL!”. The irony of this picture being that 404 is an HTTP status code which means “Object Not Found”. 404 is, unfortunately, a heavily overused term to mean you cannot view a page in general. “Service Unavailable” is actually status 503.  So I call this “‘404 – FAIL!’ FAIL!”

Really cheap G1s from Amazon.

Apparently Amazon is selling the T-Mobile G1 for under $100 after a contract. I didn’t look at the details of this but it seems to be done directly by Amazon, which to me means less of a chance of being screwed over. They’re available in black white or bronze, though the black one is $0.22 more for whatever reason.

Hello, again

So I’m putting stuff back again. But I don’t know what I’m putting back yet. This is just filler for now. Don’t hold your breath!