A new blogging software suite and a new web host–I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time.

Not that I wasn’t happy with my previous host, because I was. The problem was with Movable Type.

MT is a bear to set up and maintain. I’ve spent more time in the last month cleaning out all the spam and trying to deal with my database than anything else. I’ve been so busy and so damn frustrated with that I haven’t even updated my blog in three weeks.

I’ve been playing around with WordPress and it’s a bazillion times better than MT. It literally took me 3 minutes to set up. That started with downloading the software and ending with logging in. It was that quick, painless, easy…

Unfortunately, my old web host didn’t offer MySQL and php. Now that I’ve got a new host, I’m free to experiment and stuff, and do all the things I’ve always wanted to do.

So here we go. A new beginning.

This morning I ate a stack of flapjacks that almost reached the moon. Really. I’m surprised you didn’t see it on your way to work.

I went to bed last night around 6pm and immediately fell asleep. The next thing I know, it’s 4am and I’m well rested and wide awake. And I don’t feel like I’m sick anymore.

Coffee first (decaf now, I made the switch). I’m looking through the cupboards and I see a box of sourdough flapjack mix. I flip it over and skim the instructions, and at the bottom it says in big bold letters: Try adding a cup of beer instead of water to the mix.

Hell yeah, this is my kinda flapjack.

So I mix ’em up (with the cup of beer), cook ’em up, slather ’em in sugar free syrup (the only kind of syrup in the house). When I was done the stack o’ flapjacks almost reached the moon.

And so I ate them.

… and woke up Tuesday morning with a fever, sick as a dog. I have no energy right now. My whole body aches–muscles, joints, head, stomach, ears. My sinuses are burning. My throat is constantly dry and scratchy and irratated. My head feels like it weighs a thousand pounds. This sucks.