Oops.

"Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to."
--Unknown
[from today's "Treasures" on the company intranet site]

Well folks [even though many don't really know about this yet], it is now time to announce the leading contender. All the votes have been tabulated + accounted for as of last night. During a tight race between Movable Type + Blogger, the winner to be my web log for the next 4 years [or so for now] is... *drumroll* ...Blogger! Congratulations to the winning candidate! Your task is to make sure that I am journally-sound [you like that word, ah?] to mark the events + thoughts of my life for as long as possible until it stops posting my posts like some other prehistoric fossil of an online blog that will go unnamed for now. For those that do not know, I unfortunately lost all posting opportunities of commemorating the new year in January + even part of December because of a neglectful admin. Those December posts that you see below are actually copied + pasted from my ex-blog since they were officially posted, but never showed up on the page. :P So, like a hermit crab too big for its shell, I had to evacuate + find a new place to cozy up in. This might as well be it!

And just so you know, I wanted Movable Type to win. MT just requires more of my time in order to get it up + running + I don't really have that kind of time right now to sit down + pick at it. Trust me, that's what I was doing last night. Code, code, code. Perl CGI is a new world that I have little to no knowledge of. I was so persistent in trying to figure it out... then a headache was on the rise + I had to put it to rest. For those with some knowledge of MT, I was able to upload it to my server + managed to get the login page to work. It just would not generate any index pages for my blog after I rebuilt it. So, until I figure that all out, I will patiently sit here with Blogger instead. Maybe when my time is a bit more freed up will I then pick up where I last left off with MT, since there are so many possibilities with the app. Blogger will do just fine. At least I can store it on my server just like MT... such an upgrade from the last blog [which I've had since 2000]!

In other news, SuperBowl feva is abound us. I think *I'm* even getting semi-excited. I drive through downtown twice on a daily basis, during the day + then later at night + would always see things change around the city. Bright lights + fanfare. Dozens of private jets are parked right outside of my office window [that's right, I have an office window!] near the hangar across my work building delivering VIPs, rich folk, + possibly the NFL players themselves into our little big town of IHOPS + Hooters. Props to Dalton for doing an awesome job with designing the SuperBowl account! It is kind of exciting to see our town get all gussied up for the sports shenanigans. They even allowed us to wear jeans to work today in honour of this weekend's events. Aren't we so lucky? ^_^