Guest Post: Connor on Super Mario Odyssey

Hi! My name is Connor. I am a kid and this is my video game blog. The topic today is Super Mario Odyssey! I started playing near the end of December. I have 38 hats, 37 suits/outfits, 50/52 captures, 34/43 souvenirs, 81/82 music, 721/1000 moons, in balloon world I am level 33 with 36146 total coins earned, and I’ve beaten the final boss 7 times. My Nintendo Switch friend code is [available from my Mom]. PLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE FRIEND ME!! So anyway… I will blog again next week Saturday morning. Friend me plz byyyyeeeeeeeeee!!!

P.S. PLEASE FRIEND ME!

Bullet Journal 2021

I don’t usually take the time to really lay out my bullet journal like some people do; for me, it’s really a physical place to keep my medium-term memory, and I only give passing thought to making it look visually appealing.

This year, though, I must be craving the artistic outlet or something, because I just spent time over several days to design this cover page for next year’s journal.

Hell, I even created a goal brainstorming page. I’ve never sat down and done that before, even though I’ve almost always set yearly or monthly goals.

This year hasn’t been as bad for me and mine as it has for some people… but I still hope next year is better.

My 12-Year History of Step-Tracking

Last Wednesday, I woke to discover that I’d let my Fitbit battery drain completely overnight: my sleep data ended abruptly at 1:15am.

My Fitbit Charge 2 never quite recovered. Despite following all the instructions I found on all the knowledge bases and forums, the heart rate function remained borked.

Within two days, I found myself online with an AT&T sales rep, purchasing an Apple Watch (Series 5, 40mm).

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Whoops

As previously posted on social media:

I suddenly find myself in search of a new webhost for the first time in FIFTEEN YEARS.

Amazingly enough (my Aunt Sammie would say it’s ESP), I thought to save off a local backup copy of my WordPress database last month, so my blog is not lost.

Micfo never raised my webhosting fees for the entire time I was a customer (which could be one reason they fell behind on their own datacenter payments, resulting in their customers’ data basically being held ransom), so I’ve been overpaying for unlimited storage and bandwidth.

Party’s over.

So, current status: Trying to restore my SQL-based backups and get my blog back up and running. Also realizing that I didn’t actually have the sweet-ass grandfathered-in deal I thought I had.

Update, 10:15pm
I’ve imported every blog entry from my backup, plus the few I’d posted since then (thanks to Aaron pointing out that our RSS reader of choice, Newsblur, had the text cached). I’ve made my theme look pretty seamlessly like it used to (for better or for worse). I’ve imported my blog categories.

Still to do in the near future:

  • import comments
  • upload and relink images
  • reinstall a few key plugins

Considering that it took me about a week of evenings to convert my site from Movable Type to WordPress some eight years ago, getting everything back up and running in a couple of days (including securing a new hosting service and waiting for DNS propagation) really ain’t too shabby.