Kévin

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[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: So Kaja saw another cat, one that just went a bit further than it should have because it’s in heat
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: Kaja blew down the closure
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: And went to fight this cat in it’s own territory
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: When I hear it I flew out the window
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: I’ve been in an hour long negotiation with this psychopath
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: Fucking all the neighbours coming down, watching, this fucking savage wild cat scream and wreck a broom
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: After throwing flowers off of this poor guys house, kids traumatised, I managed to knock her down enough rage pegs to corner her with a towel and disable her legs
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: Drag the little psycho back in, screaming the place down
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: She’s now focused her rage on me
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: I can’t sit or work
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: And she’s banned from her garden for at least 2 weeks to chill the fuck out
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: And all my neighbours now know me as the guy with a savage animal
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: I have to move
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: Change my name
[16:47, 21/04/2020] Kévin: Change my face

My Life, F it

Since then I discovered she managed to rip out two of her claws, and of course she’s still heinously angry, so next trauma is washing her foot and checking it in the morning, then the vet visit.

Oh the vet visit will be bloody. Probably mine.

I started to get my shit together during what is now the fifth week of being locked in a box my home and getting all my online stuff in order.

The idea was to use a pretty good domain I found on backorder, ynn.org, getting a three-letter .org would have been the masterpiece, but instead some dipshit domain guru auction site got it. So it’ll never be available again, forever full of ads to buy it which nobody ever will.

But I digress, after reeling in from my perceived loss of the situation, I got my brain working. Granted it didn’t work well, since one of my ideas was Downtown. Yes, I now own dtne.org because that made a lot of sense.

I got thinking again, later, looking for a few combos, then I started to link things, and looked for uldl, upload download. To be fair in the early 90s I used to do more D/L than U/L, but it read right and uldl.org was available. I renamed my WordPress from it’s temporary name Project X (pjx.mmn.on.ca) which it turns out you don’t do that because it fucks everything up. A few rules in CloudFlare later, it’s somewhat fixed but still not quite working with my S3 upload system.

I started to move my domains over, I imported my huge post history from lj.gl to this new WordPress Multisite install at uldl.org, asked the gods at Jetpack to move over the subscription and voilà we’re here now.

Using the redirect plugin for WP over at lj.gl I’ve got everything redirecting. There are still some issues, since WP crashed out if I tried to import the media library, which is irrelevant anyways since all the images still live in the same Object space, but WP doesn’t give a shit and broke all the images for the lolz. There also seems to be a loss of about one thousand articles, somewhere, no idea what since the import was successful, but as I find them I’ll bring them over by hand.

After this cacophonie of hell was completed I’ve started moving in other sites, I’m kind of halfway through bbs.ec, I got phlog.bbs.ec over with no problems at all. The decision on that, was to move it into this journal rather than being its own thing. Which makes sense, since I want to control more where I post things.

Although all the other network sites have their own blog parts, I keep my various personal posts at journal.uldl.org mirrored with my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal and the other stuff that is more related to the « not really a personal post thing » I put in the uldl.org news section. I’m also working on a better menu system to fluidly switch between the networked sites. There will be some weird-ass shit for a while, no lies.

Some of the other good things about this arsery is that this site is hosted on a dedicated server with DreamHost, so it’s more reliable than the previous place I hosted lj.gl. I also have centralised where I keep all the contact forms to uldl.org directly, so I don’t have to piss around with too much nonsense.

I’m heading back to the grindstone on this one to finish off bbs.ec and drop in the redirections.

What wonderful news, I can hear my inner 17-year-old self say. After losing my personal domain nrg-online.ca back in the early 2000s to the horrid Michael “Mikey” Yack from FerberleursSabings.com I managed to get it back.

Granted it took many years, but it’s the principle of it all. What do I plan on doing with it ? No idea, maybe make a homage to how much I detest Mikey Yack, but I already did that for a while on mmn.on.ca.

While it’s not a massive victory, by literally any stretch of the imagination, it’s kind of the same feeling I got when I managed to get MrMan.NET on a domain auction from Dynadot in 2014.

Let’s see all the old accounts I still have attached to my old email address now…

I’m moving in to the world of micro.blog since I’ve got the Twatter and the Mastodon on the go. It seems reasonable to also be able to hold on to my own content (see that time I did it with LiveJournal by accident), albeit third-party hosted.

In the process of migrating, I repointed mmn.on.ca over to my micro.blog site and with HSTS switched on, it did not appreciate that at all.

All one can do is wait for the cert to be issued and my long-time domain will be doing something on it’s own again (I recently had it repointed to ec.je cos I ran out of ideas).

The recent election is what we all kind of expected, Brexit was just the test the Conservatives to see how much lying they could get away with and still manage a win. If anything the cover photo says it all, in BoJo’s riding they had a choice of a bunch of fucking clowns and a labour candidate, they went for the biggest clown they could find. 👏

Then we have the bizarre world of « I can’t really stand Corbyn, so I voted Con » lot, which in itself is counterproductive, but hey, you do you.

Either way, I’m not going to dedicate an entire post to this consortium of shit fuckery, because I’d just be repeating what everybody else has been saying and that clearly falls on deaf ears. That and some bot will probably start attacking my blog, the usual things that happen when people don’t agree with you online. 🤷‍♂️

Side note : Grammarly seems to think this post is « optimistic », I think your AI is fucked chaps.

In actual optimistic news though, other than the Great Strike of 2019 griding France to a halt, I have got an upgrade on my internet. 10GB fibre, which has been so amazing. Granted I didn’t realise you had to request a specific IP type from my provider and I panicked a little when my Freebox started to refuse to let me use certain ports. But it was pretty easy to fix, it seems like a pretty solid security patch for those who have no idea what they’re doing from causing havoc in the IP range.

Another update on the news front is that oddly enough I managed to grab I domain I didn’t expect, I was trying to register something else, but Autocorrect did its thing. I went through the checkout and setup without even clocking it.

So here I am right now the proud owner of eu.sb 🇪🇺😂 I can’t say that I’m upset about this moment, but it for once autocorrect didn’t duck something up badly.

Yesterday I finally got most of my adulting things out of the way, getting keys copied, a hair cut, followed by giving up going to the shop and ordering food online. I feel that this could have been the top point of being an adult, I have peaked everybody. Incidentally, I had a bit of a shock when I realised I’m 2 years older than I remembered. Oops.

I guess I’ll finalise this post off with a shameless ad.

bbs.yt, ec.gy, frankenserver.eu, mono.mx, uun.nz, and zigs.eu are being shared via Free DNS, a dynamic DNS domain sharing project where members can setup, and administrate their DNS entries on their own remote internet-connected systems in real-time. You can register your own subdomains at ec.je/public/freedns/default.wct.

Also, if anybody actually still reads this blog I’d be interested if you dropped a comment in the comments, I might put it on my life plan to update more often if there are still lurkers.

( This meme sums up this post... )

I am currently waiting for some people to be all like, finished work.  So obvs I have to update the LiveJournal.  It seems appropriate and all that.

I've been moved around job wise, I've also quit and un-quit while considering quitting, en effet I need to sort out that whole "fully using my skills and making financial gains" thing.  It's pretty complicated as I said.  Equally as complicated is my train wreck of a love life, but I think I'm making some progress in that aspect of my life.  Whether I am or not is up to debate (and time) but I gleefully hope something will give.

Other than the above, I can't think of anything else to write.  So voilà bitches.

This is an apt image of my last two days as all has not been well.  Last night on my way home my wheel buckled out and wrote itself off in quite an annoying and spectacular way…

For many decades my family has passed down the sacred iPhone charger from father to son and so forth.

So understand the epic drama I had when I realised after getting completely wrecked at Damien and Tommy’s Epic Eurovison Party, left with my worldly possessions in a cheap shit Co-Op carrier bag that split without me knowing about it and spewing upon the pavement my iPhone charger.

You see that was the last of the wind talkers, the horse whispers and virgins within a BS post code. So I had to use the one out of my iPhone 3GS box, view the picture below to realise my problem and subsequent resolution.

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