{"id":3453,"date":"2005-08-05T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/05\/girl-talk-mt32b3-and-alan-moore\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:50:42","slug":"girl-talk-mt32b3-and-alan-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/05\/girl-talk-mt32b3-and-alan-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl talk, MT32b3, and Alan Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a pleasant evening after work yesterday, when I headed up the hill to Charlie’s and got together with Melissa<\/a>, her daughter (whose name I either didn’t catch or, more likely, have forgotten), Christa<\/a>, and Erin<\/a>. Quite fun, actually, being as I ended up in a situation I’ve stumbled into quite a few times before in my life and always enjoy when it happens — being the only guy in something of a ‘girl talk’ session. Laughter, rants about current and former lovers and friends, ongoing drama…all that fun stuff.<\/p>\n

There are times when I really enjoy not being the “typical male”…or at least far enough removed from that stereotype that I can occasionally be around for such things. I may have worked over the years at decreasing the amount of drama in my life, but I must admit, I do enjoy being a spectator<\/em>! ;) Quite enjoyable, in any case, and it seems that this may become something of a weekly event.<\/p>\n

After coming home and chatting with Prairie for a while until she wandered off to bed, I upgraded my Movable Type beta installation<\/a> to v3.2b3<\/a>, which is essentially the final candidate build. Ran into one small oddity during the upgrade process, but after filing a bug report and having Brad Choate<\/a> pop up in iChat to talk about it, I’m leaning towards it being a caching issue and nothing major with the system.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to upgrading my main site to v3.2 once it’s finalized and I’ve had a chance to go over the new documentation. This may end up meaning that I do a full redesign — there are a lot<\/em> of changes in the new templates<\/a>, and it may take me some time to wrap my head around all of them. I’m not sure yet if I’ll upgrade the backend and keep the current design and then work on a new one in the background, or just go whole-hog and start over with the new basic designs…more to ponder.<\/p>\n

I’ve also just finished reading Alan Moore<\/a>‘s ‘V for Vendetta<\/a>‘ graphic novel after the movie trailer<\/a> peaked my curiosity about the original movie, and am currently working my way through Moore’s ‘The Watchmen<\/a>‘. While Prairie (a confessed ‘book snob’) may giggle at me for reading “comic books”, I’m enjoying both of these, and ‘V for Vendetta’ in many ways seems very<\/em> topical in todays world — which, given its subject matter<\/a>, is actually a little disturbing.<\/p>\n

And that pretty much sums up life in the world of me at the moment. Not quite sure what my plans for the weekend are, though there’s a lot of Seafair<\/a> stuff going on around town right now that I may see if I can find a way to check out at one point or another. As is usual for me, though, I’m not planning much of anything more than about 20 minutes in advance…except for running off to work, which (insert overly melodramatic sigh here) I must go do. Off with me, then!<\/p>\n

\"iTunes\"<\/a>\"\" “24 Hour Man<\/a>” by Lock Up<\/a> from the album Something Bitchin’ This Way Comes<\/a><\/em> (1990, 4:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And that pretty much sums up life in the world of me at the moment. Not quite sure what my plans for the weekend are, though there’s a lot of Seafair stuff going on around town right now that I may see if I can find a way to check out at one point or another. As is usual for me, though, I’m not planning much of anything more than about 20 minutes in advance….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040,2036,2043],"tags":[2464,13,812,3063,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}