ashke.nu

I’m going to have to come back to writing here, because my LJ is now mostly friends only. I decided to do that since I talk a lot about real life over there, and the people I’m around with, so as respect to them, I don’t want to upset them by them knowing what I write about them. But I’m a person who needs to vent a lot, and obviously I can’t vent to these people, so I vent to those whom it will matter very little - my online friends. So, this journal is thus RL-free, and won’t upset anyone who reads it, at least not by having to read of themselves. In ways that would upset them, that is.

Gah, I might have confused myself there for a bit.

The thing is, you can find all of my website through finding only ONE, if you were inclined to look for them. So this is just a JUST IN CASE thing. That’s why my LJ is now FO.

So “welcome back, Val, you were sorely missed at ashke.nu.” Thank you, I’m glad to be back.

I haven’t really known what to write here about, as I have quite gotten the best of my livejournal. Though I promised to only rant there about stupid stuff, I have come to realize there isn’t much more than the stupid stuff to write about.

Other than moving to England on September 21st, nothing important is going on. I am planning on revamping kalenedral.net, add a lot of stuff I haven’t updated yet, and make the updating over there more simple by writing some sort of script for it. I’m already brainstorming on things to include in the script, but it will probably be a while before I start even coding the thing. Once I start coding, it will be at least a month or two before I finish it, considering my studies, and my knowledge of PHP. But at least I have a project to look forward to.

What to do with ashke.nu, as I do have my livejournal as my blog, nowadays. I’m going to keep it my personal site, but what to do with the blog? I don’t want to throw it away, if I ever were to need it, and I do have more than one year worth of ramblings which I am not very much inclined to trash, even with the content considered. I haven’t decided yet, but I am thinking on it. I have a few ideas, but I don’t want to destroy the ideas by abusing them with my blabbering about them. So until I have some sort of conviction what to do, I’ll keep my mouth shut about it.

So yeah, regarding frequent updates, you can check out my livejournal at veele.livejournal.com, and friend me if you’ve got your own LJ.

I’ll keep this blog posted on my decisions regarding my domains etc. so be on the look out for that.

Until later - cheers!

I had an Appendectomy on Wednesday at 3AM. I came home on Thursday at 1PM.

I have a scar on my stomach the size of my thumb. It hurts.

Otherwise I guess I’m fine. As fine as you can be after being sliced up in ways you didn’t want to be. I mean, they just informed me that I’m having surgery sometime during the night. In case my appendix is infected. In case. Try to sleep after that. I thought I was going to die.

Well, it was infected, so no harm done. I wasn’t cut up for no reason at all. But I ain’t a happy camper anyway. I haven’t worked long enough to get paid sick leave, so I’m losing many, many euros during my two week vacation. I was supposed to be working the whole Mid Summer, and get extra payment for work on a bank holiday. Many euros, lost – like that!

Am thinking if I’d use my last pay check to travel to the south or somewhere. It’s cheaper if you pick a “left over” vacation from the travel agencies. So I might be able to afford it. This is, of course, just brain storming, nothing is saying that actually am going to travel. Should save my money for England. But I’m desperately needing sun, my skin is white as chalk.

So, Pal is telling me to start walking so my stomach won’t build the wrong kind of scar tissue. She informed me that the three separate scars I have are going to grow into one (not good) if I don’t start moving around a bit. Maybe I should. Am having nightmares where I get a hole in my stomach when my scar starts to grow inwards. Also dreamt that I took a swim and panicked afterwards that I’m not allowed to swim as long as I have the stitches still left.

Now Pal is begging me to bring ice cream, how rude, considering that I’m the crippled one. Forget her referring to my inwards-grown-scar and other nightmares, I call it blackmailing.

I am having a hard time with wordpress. These theme things just mess up everything! Am starting to think if switching to Wordpress was such a good idea. Only thing that looks okay at the moment is the blog-index. Everything else is pretty much fucked up.

I might as well check out the quotes. What else, what else.

How does this border thing look like?

Yeah, so, beware of seeing weirdness all around until I get things fixed.

Well, I did it. I transfered everything to Wordpress and got rid of Movabletype. Geamy, if I can’t now get rid of the comment spam and templates messing themselves up, I am rightfully entitled to switch over to LJ completely. Eh?

I installed WP, didn’t uninstall MT. WP worked. Mt worked (so and so). Next day, WP has stopped working, MT (for god’s sake!) has overriden WP with auto updates!!! Have now deleted blog from MT. Wordpress seems to be working again.

So this is my first offical entry with wordpress. Although I haven’t found all the finesses everyone else seems to have on their blogs. Took me a while to figure out where the syndication files were.

What I think will be easier is keeping the code tidier and W3 friendly.

But I have to disappoint those who registered with typekey. You know why, of course.

Anywhoo. I’ve finished my UCAS application, finally. As I am applying to a university in England, I had to go through the hell of filling in a three-page application form. Plus photo, plus interview, plus International Reply Cupon, plus this plus that. And I had my bank tell me they can’t make direct debits to a foreign account. :blank: WTF? What the hell is the bank for if they can’t do anything? Well, anything that a customer might ask for, and not even very outrageous. So, had to drive to Helsinki to have mum sign the credit card payment form. Great.

I have an intense craving to go on a vacation. I want sun, I want relaxation, I want vacation! Everyone else I know is travelling, to Spain, to France, to the Alps, even to Åre in Sweden to go skiing. I want to a spa! Anywhere! Take me there!

I have no idea where all the time went. Last two weeks went by with me doing absolutely nothing except play on my Gamecube (and this only because Pal insisted I keep the PS2 at home). This should tell you at which plane my life really is. Except of course last Wednesday, when a couple of friends and I went to the local club (pathetic little place, really). We got ourselves into a good enough state to survive the rest of the week. I bet the photography teacher was impressed enough about my lack of productiveness. I learned a lot, really, just…didin’t produce much. Two good photos, the two first I made, really.

And OMG!!!11! Pal got the first taste of the new Kent album, which I ordered from CDOn. It arrived yesterday, but guess who’s about 80km away from the precious thing? ME! And she went on and listened to it. My own fault, really, since I didn’t clearly state that she shouldn’t. I mean, I’m just being envious here of the preview she got before me. Well, it’s not too bad, since I’ll hear it tomorrow, but still I’m antsy. Which is no news because I’m always antsy. But that has nothing to do with being excited about something, which regarding Kent is the case.

To wrap up…er… I always seem to be able to mention a lot of things, but never make a clean wrap up of the things I’ve mentioned. So, yet again, a clumsy closure for this entry. I might check into making more updates on the layout while I figure out the rest of what Wordpress is capable of. Oh yeah, and I finally customized fan.ashke.nu.

I have upgraded Movable Type as a last resort against the massive comment spamming I *personally* have suffered. It took me 20 mins to delete all spam comments, so now, I have decided I want my commenters to register. You don’t have to, of course, but if you don’t, I have to manually approve your comments. Which is just as fine by me.

If I can’t get a full stop to the comment spamming, I will officially switch completely over to Livejournal.

This is a warning. I ain’t putting up with this for much longer.

Okay, I guess I’m ready! KALENEDRAL.NET is open for visitor! It’s my new domain, if you’d already forgotten. It’s not even nearly done yet, so bare with me people! I just thought you guys would get tired of waiting to find out what “a few days” means. Please let me know what you think!

And on to more domain news, I’m growing rather tired of this layout, so I might change it soon. Again! I think it’s okay, but not nearly good enough to please me much longer. It looked much better when I’d just finished it. *sigh* We’ll see what I’ll come up with.

I probably should get some sleep, I’ve been up the past few days till 4-6 AM just mingling.

Happy New Year folks! It’s time again to go through last years new year’s promises:

>> Do one better with the books. 38.
21. *pout* Less than the year before. I suck.

>> Do well in all my exams, a 7 at minimum. (Ouchies.)
I have yet to receive anything below 8 (4 being worst, 10 best).

>> Get a job for summer.
Went exceptionally well. Worked there for, what, 8 weeks? And they’ve said they’re willing to take me back even.

>> Get my drivers license, finally.
I just started, so it counts as succeded.

>> Save most of my money.
I’m broke. But I managed to save most of my summer job earnings till mid-September. I’m proud.

As you can tell, I have some work to do. I hope I’ll have more time this year for something but school. I expect that, since I graduate in May. That leaves 6 months for other things.

I’m kind of groggy. I’ve downed 3 bottles of grape fruit long drink, 5,5% alc. My heads clearer now, but I asked for something to drink, they handed me long drink! And I was thirsty! It went down like that!

Anyway, I’m at my dad’s, and I just got, finally, through the King of the Dead (or whatever) part through with Merry, so I worked myself up into an excitement, so I’ll just leave then…

Ahem. Yes, I dragged my PS2 with me. So sue me.

Tired. Just posted to tell there’s a new layout at Heraldic Circle.

I’ll post the beautiful Halloween card I got from Anukk as soon as I find the energy to update a little more!

Whoa dude, new layout.

I just wrote laout. I’m tired. I can’t even think straight, hehe.

Really, I’m thinking I’m never changing layouts again. Not because this layout is superlovely, no, but because I hate changing layouts. It’s tiresome, and a lot of work for no use. Really, I’ve tried to make it easy on me, but I always change the layout of the tableset, so I have to change the whole nine yards when I change layouts. Everything. Flinx settings, the guestbook layout, everything. So no, I’m never skinning this site, ’cause that would be hell. But yeah, if somebody proves there’s no hell, yeah, then I’ll maybe skin this site.

I’m making no sense anymore. On my day off, I make a new layout. I have no life.

I’ll probably putting my Swedish essays up tomorrow, and fix the layout at my Swedish weblog. I haven’t updated that place for almost a year, but I came up with a way to use it, that is, I’m gonna put my writings/essays there. If I can wake up tomorrow, that is. I’ll probably get up around 3PM or something, which is when the 5 hour Sunday TV-marathon begins. And if that is the case, I’ll have to postpone the update. Boohoo.

Goodnight folks, it’s been a blast.