Fairly dull weekend -- didn't really get much of anything done. Hopefully I'll be more productive on these "days off" in the future. But maybe I needed the rest.

After I finished up my last day at the bookstore, one of the managers took me for a ride into some neighboring cities and showed me a few cool shops. At Creature Zone, I picked up another copy of 2046 (I'd gotten the film in Boston back in February, but unfortunately my copy was a faulty one that only played the first few minutes before giving in to skipping and glitches) and, at Tower Records, acquired three random CDs from the bargain bin. (more...)

It's official -- as of today, Wes is without a job. Let's see if anyone will hire the poor worthless philosophy major. Still waiting to hear back about that job I interviewed for a few weeks ago, but I'm not terribly optimistic given that, as of next Wednesday, that interview will have taken place exactly one month ago. Sigh. 🙁

In other news, for those of you in the market for a good online hosting service, look no further -- WordPress offers several hosting suggestions that sound pretty great. I'm not presently looking to switch over, as I'm not in need of any new features at the moment (my hosting plan, for instance, only includes three MySQL databases, but do I really need ten?) and I kinda feel like I owe 1and1 for hosting Scary-Crayon and the blog's first year for free (more/less, anyway, but the service has been good to us), but if I were the plan offered by Blue Host looks pretty hard to beat. Just a suggestion for those of you who use Blogspot hosting yet are tired of Blogger's downtimes and problems and whatnot. 'Cause WordPress f'n rules, baby.

All for now -- ja ne, minna-san.

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Quick post before I run off to the bookstore (man, these next two weeks are going to go by soooo slowly). Just wanted to apologize to everyone for having been so bad with e-mails and contacts and whatnot lately! So here's the deal. Since I started the new blog, I'm not really sure who's with me here. (The old Blog of Wes is still getting new comments and referrals, but not so much over here -- probably because other folks' links haven't been updated yet. Speaking of links, don't worry if yours was on the old blogroll but hasn't made it over here yet -- I'm doing it as a gradual thing to make sure I keep up with the "maintenance" around here. Though I should mention that not all of the old links will be coming over -- namely because I want to maintain a lighter tone over here than I did when I first started the old blog, even though I'll continue to write serious entries from time to time.) There are folks who used to comment on the old blog who don't say too much these days (who haven't said much in a while, actually), and there are some newer folks (welcome!) who I'm not quite familiar with and would be interested in knowing a little more about. (more...)

I was pretty anxious about doing it, which is why I waited until now, but I actually found the experience to be fairly painless! And assuming it gets approved and everything went well, I should be getting a nice return in the neighborhood of $700! Which will come in handy since I recently handed in my 2-week notice at the bookstore. No, I haven't heard any good news from the company I interviewed with a couple of weeks ago, but I finally decided that I'd had enough of being treated like shit day in and day out for minimal wages while in the employ of a company that obviously doesn't appreciate its workers. Anyway, more on that later. (more...)