I hate the blogosphere.
The word "blogosphere" itself gets on my nerves. Who coins this garbage?
Boring days ahead before I leave. This is a good thing. I'm all packed up, almost. Still have one box to mail out and to throw my junk into the shipping container but other than that it's all over. I've taken down my poncho walls and feel very exposed even though I'm the only one down here right now. I'll have my camera with me the whole way home so I'll try to get a bunch of pictures of the process. My memories are as reliable as pre-second edition Windows 98 and taking pictures of things helps me to remember them later. My memory is very visually connected. I won't remember something if you tell it to me but if I've got it written down or I see something related to it, I'll remember. Then again I have big issues with seeing faces that look familiar but I can't place a name or a memory to them. Like I'm recognizing total strangers. I tend to think I'm haunted by the ghosts of my past.
More pictures
So if you're blind, I was testing my Flickr account yesterday. Apparently it's working. So go see new pictures here.
Test test test
This is me testing my Flickr account. By the way, kind of funny that my "this time in the past" entry is about deploying to Iraq and now I'm less than two weeks from coming home.
I’m lazy.
Between counting days and working with my replacement, I haven't been doing much of anything besides sleeping. If I just sleep away the next two weeks they'll pass by much quicker. I might get briefed today, which is one more step closer to going home, but we tried to do that yesterday and it didn't work out too well.
I swear I'll edit and post those boring pictures I took last week before I leave Iraq.
One testicle: $30,000
I wouldn't do it.
I was going to take pictures of my day and make an entry about Saturday in Iraq and I did take some pictures but a lot of stuff I did I couldn't take pictures of. So it's mostly "what brian eats on Saturday in Iraq". I'll still post the pictures but it won't be anything special. Just more boring pictures.
Doom is still not boring. People are still making new levels for Doom. I'm currently trying to make it through a short partial conversion called Zen Dynamics. It's insane. The weapons need reloading, there's a bunch of new monsters, and there's little health. It's hard but I want to keep going just to see what else is in it.
I'm not particularly attached to my testicles though we've seen plenty of good times. I just think $30,000 isn't really enough to justify missing one.
Changes in the future
Okay so I've got my domain transferred and my new webhost purchased so I'm just setting stuff up right now. At some point I'll make the switch and hopefully no one will notice the difference.
What is up with David Lynch?
Go to davidlynch.com and see. Watch his daily weather report. Read his interesting questions. Download a ringtone or two.
Encrypted
I've used this quick little guide from Lifehacker on encrypting email in Mozilla Thunderbird to setup keys for all my email accounts. The only one that really matters here is my "default" email account so here's the public key for brian(lol)dreamofwaking(what)com:
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
I'll update my "where to find me" page to reflect this. Note: I'm using an enormous 4096-bit key because I'm insane. Also note that this kind of thing works two ways. You can send me encrypted emails but I won't be able to send an encrypted email back unless you set up something similar (as in, PGP and not something else) on your end too.
Technical Difficulties
Bad news, kids. My host is going under by the end of the month. The good news is that I'm resourceful and I've got a new host and domain registrar lined up. So Katie and I are backing up our stuff and I'm getting the domain transferred so stuff might break for a time. I'm going to get the new host set up before I move anything over though so downtime will hopefully be minimal. I've got everything backed up so nothing should be missing when I do swap over though. Bear with me.