This Is Different

It’s almost 12:30, I am still up, not even feeling that sleepy, and having continued a productive day broken by little besides dishes, making the kids nachos for lunch, making spaghetti for supper, showering the girls and getting them in bed at their respective times, and watching part of the rerun of the first episode of Top Model.  Which I am more enthusiastic about than I was, having seen their selections in action.  I went out on a limb this season and picked two I thought looked likely as winners from the picture published before the first episode even aired.  I’ve settled on cheering on the one I felt most strongly about from the outset.

We’ll see.  One cycle I picked the eventual winner during one of the first episodes, but I haven’t done that again.  Jaslene was a surprise to me, last season.

Anyway, I am usually in bed by now, and generally asleep or on the verge.  If I don’t feel so sleepy now, perhaps I’ll break my 5:00 curse.  I keep waking up at 5:00, hitting the bathroom, then requiring as long as two hours to fall back to sleep, then being miserable because I slept until 9:00 and that is just too late to sleep, and because the net result was broken and insufficient sleep overall.  That why the oddly timed post about Word, when I was awake enough to write a page of intro for the theoretical book.

I was thinking that the nature of the work I did today is one of those challenging things.  It’s all stuff that has to be done, at some point, that doesn’t feel or look significant, yet can tie me to a desk for long stretches.  Some of it wasn’t vital, except from a loose ends or networking or supporting standpoint.  Late in the day I downright geeked out, working on something just to prove it could be done.  The old XTremeBlog is down due to the move.  I exported a .SQL file from MySQL.  The blog could stay down forever, as my content is duplicated at Geek Practitioners, and I have the other content available to me to replicate as desired.  I could even put the entire content back as a series of static pages if I wanted them to be seen without worrying about broken links and exact formatting and all.  Making it go again was a Challenge.  I created a database and user.  I went into the admin tools and tried to import the .SQL, but the first thing in the script is create database, as it assumed it doesn’t exist at all.  Before I realized that was a problem, I had to change the database name, as the prefix automatically assigned differs.  I got the data restored to a new MySQL database and was all pleased, but that resulted in a blank page where the blog would be, even with the config file set right.

I think what I needed to do was create the database, import nothing, and run install of the version of WordPress as if it were the first time.  Then import the data and make sure the theme files were right and fix any settings not carried over somehow.  I forgot that WordPress generates you an admin password and the move would probably mess with that, thus the need to approach rebuilding from the other angle before adding the old data.  As crazy geeky as that sounds, that didn’t take much time and was a worthy mental exercise.

Ah, see… the weariness just hit, finally.  I’ll get some water, take some kneebuprofen (hey, it’s not my eyes that hurt...), and see how quickly I can zonk out.

Posted by on 09/23 at 11:21 PM

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