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We drove home from Virginia Beach yesterday, in fairly good weather and making fairly good time. When we finally reached the house, we found Houdini-Dog still in the kitchen where he belongs, for a change.

That was the good news. The bad news was that the only reason Chance was still in the kitchen was because the bathroom door had blocked his ability to pop the gate all the way out. So instead, he shredded the corner of the carpet he could now reach. Whee. Nothing like a 6 hour drive to come home to a pile of shredded carpet, carpet padding, dog toys, and poop.

So my first hour home consisted of mopping the floor. Joy.

Anyway, it didn’t take us long to get settled in — the house was mostly clean before we left and my sister left the place in pristine condition for us when we arrived home (sans Houdini’s attempts to escape via carpet burrowing, which she clearly couldn’t have predicted. Hell, she even unloaded the dishwasher for me.) so we mostly just need to catch up on laundry and the mail.

Sounds so simple when I say it that way, doesn’t it? How come it alway takes so much longer?

The other thing I need to do is transfer files off the laptop and onto the desktop so I can finish Tuesday’s comic, start Saturday’s, and generally get off my ass in getting my online life back in order. Wordpress needs an upgrade, the Mac has a security patch to install, the laptop’s optical drive is dead, etc. etc. it never ends.

In an attempt to get off my ass a little faster, I threw out two thirds of the RSS feeds and comics I read just so they wouldn’t pose a distraction. I’ll probably throw out more as the next week or so goes. How well that will actually motivate me, I can’t say. But here’s for more blog and less late comics.

Site clock fixed, forgot I’d have to adjust for this abomination that Congress has impressed upon us.

Did some WordPress upgrades and cleanup this weekend, which got kind of interesting just running the backups, but everything’s up now and some bugs I was annoyed by before are now gone. Please report any weirdness in the forum

My hosting folks are currently working on a problem with my account’s software, and as an unintended consequence, it looks like the forum’s experiencing database issues. We’ll have things up again as soon as we can. Thanks!

I’m going to try to update the forums to the latest version sometime in the next week, while I’m on vacation. The last time, things didn’t go so well. If the forum collapses in a fit of flame you can always email me at kirabug at kirabug dot com.

My router has pitched a fit and blocked me from going online at least four times already today and it’s only 1pm. I think it can see the Airport base station sitting in the box on the entertainment center waiting to replace it. Grrr.

So, uh, yeah, the database server disappeared for a little while back there, but it’s back now. Dunno how long we were down. Hopefully it won’t happen again.