With the holiday past, I finally have a chance to stop and decompress, and post.
During the holiday seasons, somebody had given me a $20 Best Buy gift card. I don’t normally shop there, so I figured I’d swing by and see what games they had for $19.99. I ended up snagging Grand Theft Auto 4. For $1.34, I figured if it provided me with an afternoon’s amusement, it would be worth it. After playing it for a bit, I remembered why I loved GTA 3 so much.
Other Christmas goodies were for the Jeep.
Lastly, my webhost decided to stop their offering for MySQL version 4, at a version lower than what the current version of WordPress requires. They do offer a version 5 for MySQL, but there is no direct upgrade path. I ended up having to create the new database, wait for it to be ready, backup the blogs as an XML, rename the config php file (as a backup method), re-run the install & configure for the new database, re-import the XML, and test/make corrections to the theme to make it look right again. All of that was in an hour and a half for 3 WordPress blogs.