After that table-flipping post of mine, I think I need to ask myself why I’m doing this. Imposing this burden on me.

When I wrote it, I was writing from an obvious sense of frustration with myself - self-hatred - I was shocked by my unthinking actions on Friday night. I’d betrayed my Dad and myself. In a sense, my semi-temperance is a sort of punishment.

At the same time, I felt and still feel that I can do better in my life and savings regime. It’s going to be a challenge, and it has a set goal time, which I may have to adjust depending on externals. Doctor’s bills, counsellor’s bills, SL rents, that sort of thing.

The first big ask of the week will be on Wednesday. Weeks ago, I thought that it would be clever to slope off for a late afternoon pizza and beer at Tuatara’s cellar door (they have a special on Wednesdays and nice pizzas.) Then there’s Friday evening, and then Sunday, I think. It depends on the weather.

Let me explain the reasoning. Tuatara’s special is a fixed price. I also know how much I can drink on a Friday. Any other drinkies, I know I’m getting rorted at the bar and think twice. Think twice, spend less, find other things to do.

I suppose you could call it self-tough-love?

One of the reasons I’m starting this Tumblr account is because last night, I stared at the admin screen and asked myself: Why bother?

Why am I paying big biccies for web hosting when I hardly post at all?

Why am I still wrestling with TextPattern when it’s screamingly obvious that the damn system can’t do what I want it to do?

What’s the point of straining with TxP’s formatting and hammering in…

…well that’s it really.

Some of my posts involve lots of pictures. Others involve one picture. Some are text.

TextPattern’s all about the text, as blogware, but what I really want is a CMS that doesn’t feel as overstructured as, say, PHPnuke.

And then there’s the long formatted post. What I wouldn’t give for a rich text editor in TxP! At least Tumblr has one.

Also, Tumblr allows multiple images in posts; the only two things I’d really like are titles for photo posts and the ability to create photostories with the photo thumbs embedded in the text. I’m unsure how that would work but it would be awesome.

In the next few months I’ll probably go through my existing blog and consider shifting as many meaningful posts as I can onto here, before letting my hosting lapse and switching my domain to point here.

I first purchased web hosting services in 2004. Six years later, I’m returning to a free system. Plus ca change…

…went rather well.

One of my SL alts is Precipitate Flood, a female white rabbit - I didn’t want another male av, so nyeh to you. Originally she was to be a gushy freebie hound, but there’s plenty of freebie hounds blogging out there, so I gave up.

But now she’s got the DJ bug - and played her first set last night at Flight of the Kiwis’ hangout in Pacific Dreamz Lagoons. Unfortunately it was from 7pm-9pm NZT, so everyone was either having dinner (like I did) or out with their sweeties.

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