The following originally appeared on my political weblog (now located at RumpusGoopus.wordpress.com).  It has been edited to serve the same purpose for this site as it did there:

Well, it’s finally done.  The Comrus Xanga Weblog is officially no more.  It’s not going to be deleted or anything, and the blogging will continue, just no longer with Xanga.  During the last few months I’ve been rather aggravated by the intrusiveness of the ads, particularly when they twist the words of my posts to come up with advertisements for things that are completely opposed to what I was writing about. 

However, that’s not the only reason I’m moving.  I’ve always found Xanga to be far too MySpace-like.  It exists more for social networking than it does for any serious discussion or writing.  Back on July 15, 2003, I really only chose Xanga because it was the first “Weblog” site I had heard about.  I stuck with it over the years for reasons of laziness and comfort, far more than anything else.

But that is now over.  The new location of my Weblog is at Comrus.wordpress.com.  The RSS is Comrus.wordpress.com/feed/.

I chose Wordpress for its multiple features, its lack of any advertising, and because I can eventually transfer the Weblog to my own domain should I want to do that one day.

So, farewell Xanga.  You’ve served me fine for the last 4.5 years, but it’s time to move on.

Cheers,

Charlie

Another explanation for being neglectful of this weblog:

Oh, have I been neglecting my weblog yet again?  That’s so unlike me.

Anyway, I at least have excuses for being neglectful this time.  Like I said before, a lot of my free time is being taken up by the The Godfather for the Wii.  Additionally, I’m on a new project, and I’ve finally found a book that has really caught my attention, which has been a rare thing of late.  That has left very little time to write anything here.  In fact, I’m even starting to get extremely far behind in my Judy-box watching.  I believe I still have a Creature Comforts from a few weeks ago waiting.

Anyway, once I get tired of the game and finish the book, I’ll probably be posting regularly again. 

Cheers,

C.

Two things, both very annoying.  First, my last post in my political weblog was spammed by a Jehovah's Witness.  I would erase it, but it’s so idiotic that I cannot.

Secondly, in a previous post I wrote about how much I hate IT policies with regards to password requirements (although, my rant was admittedly way too short).  E.g. They must be 23 characters long, contain at least one number, one symbol, and one Russian language character, they can’t be the same as your previous 900 passwords, etc.  Well, now Xanga requires passwords to contain a symbol or a number.  Okay, this isn’t so onerous, but it’s frickin’ Xanga, after all!  Am I afraid someone’s going to hijack my weblog and write absurd things?  If so, shouldn't I be the one to choose to have a more difficult password?

Minor inconvenience, but a symptom of a much more annoying problem.

Cheers,

C.

Tonight, I went to bed feeling pretty normal.  My wife fell asleep on me, as expected, and soon after, I developed the most extreme headache I’ve ever had in my life.  My teeth were actually numb.  I tried to tough it out, but it just became too severe to continue lying in the bed.  Thoughts of Geekday aftermath definitely crossed my mind, since I was essentially writhing.  I went to the bathroom, and felt the odd desire to floss my teeth.  After all, they were very numb.  A similar numbness that one feels when something big is caught between the teeth.  It did no good.  I hung over the toilet for a bit feeling very nauseous from the pain.  Nothing was forthcoming, luckily, and I took some ibuprofen and headed of to the living room, since I knew I was not to sleep anytime soon.

The head was pounding, and there was a blue light.  Sure enough, the disk drive of my Wii was pulsating.  It’s a very odd thing to experience.  Luckily, I had discussed such a thing with my friend on Geekday, and I knew that the blue light meant that my Wii had received new data, most likely from a friend.  I assumed it was from the friend I had discussed such things with, since he’s the only person with my Wii number, and I recently sent him the Miis of four Supreme Court Justices I had created earlier in the day (I’m a geek, I know.  Hence Geekday, really).

I was considering, yet again, a trip to the emergency room when I checked the Wii messages.  And at that very moment, I felt and heard my sinuses, in particular, my right sinus next to the nose, open up.  It was a long, drawn out whine.  And then, all pain and numbness left me.  That headache was the result of plugged up sinuses.  As far as I know, this was the only time this has ever happened.  I pray it will be that last.

So, it’s really time to go to bed.  By the way, yes, it was a message from my friend, but it wasn’t about the Miis I sent him, but rather about his accomplishments in Wii Sports.  I really can’t blame him, since I did the same thing a couple of nights ago.  Plus, he included at the end of his message: “Ow.”  Methinks he might be experiencing Wiiittis too.

Cheers,

C.

I woke up at about 4:30 in the morning, having gone to bed around 1:00 AM (it was a late night after all.  I guess that happens when you have dinner at 10:30), with my arm in excruciating pain.  The insides, the outsides, every little bit of my arm was struck with piercing stings.  My bones felt like sharp needs were being poked into them and then scraped along the surface.  Needless to say, it was awful.  So awful that I actually did seriously consider going to the emergency room to get some pain meds.

Instead, I writhed in bed for a number of hours, taking too much ibuprofen, just trying to get the pain to lessen.  Almost nothing worked.  I took a cold compress out of the freezer and applied that.  Unfortunately, I had no idea where our Ace bandage is, and actually still don’t, so I had to position myself awkwardly on top of it.  I don’t know if it was the numbing caused by the cold compress, or simply the sheer exhaustion, but I did manage to fall asleep for an hour or so.  That’s when I woke up with still quite a bit of pain, but it was lessened a tiny amount.  And so, finally fitful sleep took over, and I awoke this morning (a few times, actually), with my arm severely aching, but without the sheer agony that was the night.

I get the feeling I might have played the Wii a little too much.

The arm still aches, and I just spent 20 minutes looking for the ace bandage, to no avail, so now I’m just going to suck it up and do some housework.  Geekday is well over.  I did want the cold compress while I did so, so I’m thinking of stopping by Walgreen’s quickly.  Should probably do that.

Cheers,

C.