evilwayne

One of the issues with letting all this go has been the zero-update-problem (or ZUP, which is only a shade worse than the intermittent-update-problem [IUP] and less evil than the dreaded involuntary crisis update problem [I-CUP] which was pretty much my 2007-2008 Year of Hell, but I digress…).

Anyhoo, one of the things Tine and I did late this past Spring was to start a garden. It was something I had wanted to do last year, but couldn’t get out of my own damn way at the time to get it off the ground. Even the arrival of Jenn’s funky seeds wasn’t powerful enough to make it happen. But this year, Tine was on board and, truthfully, the biggest reason it saw the light of day at all.

It’s not that big really. Probably 6′ x 8′ if we’re lucky, but Tine bought some tomato and cucumber seedlings and it was off to a good start. We planted some of the seeds Jen gave us, carrots and beans. Despite their touted ease of growth, about the only thing that didn’t come up were the beans.

This is the very first thing we harvested:

Turns out Tine bought a lot of plants. A real lot. There were so many cucumbers … well, actually, I don’t have an analogy for that one. It looked like a dildo manufacturing plant? No, that crude. And I should have saved it for the zucchinis, because those things were monstrous. I should have taken more photos of them.

And now the tomatoes are ripening. There are way to many damn tomatoes now.
This is what we got tonight:

There’s at least this many more out there. The cukes are done, I think. Most of the ones left are small and gherkinish (or white and yellow and malformed like mutant vegetables that are probably, as we speak, plotting a way to leap over the fence and partake of the tastey man-flesh just scant feet from their front door…)

This weekend we’ll take up the carrots, I think. Right now, there’s six stalks of various sizes, but a couple are of them are poking through. I have no idea what kinds of carrots got planted either, so it’ll be a surprise.

I’m not really a fan of carrots, but it doesn’t matter. I’m just happy it didn’t all up and die on the second week. We’re totally doing this again next year. The plan, right now, is to be more prepared for one. We’re hoping to map out what we want to plant and where (the tomato plants are too close to each other–hell, everything is too close to really walk around easily). We’re also going to expand it, I think. Take up a lot more room than this year.

While I’m sure I’ve let this site languish long enough to be forgotten by most, I have finally manged to get around to updating it. Blogger.com did away with ftp publishing, which was the only reason I was there in the first place. At the time, it was the easiest way to create a blog and export it to this site. But it apparently became too expensive to maintain for Google–probably because they needed all the money to take over the Internet and what all.

They terminated it sometime around May. They did attempt to work with ftp users and created some kind of migration tool that would have allowed any blog to continue. But, for some reason I still don’t understand, they weren’t allowing users to migrate to a root domain. I mean, it’s probably something simple that I don’t get, you know, like nuclear fusion. But the result is the same, I would have had to redirect the front page and that’s just too much work for me. I mean, there’s probably two or three buttons I’d have to push… come on.

So, I haphazardly… or is it lazily? Yeah,  it’s that one, I lazily figured I’d do something in the near future with this site and here it is. After looking around for some blogging software, I figured I’d give WordPress a shot. The hosting service offers it as an easy install, they have a bunch of templates (so the front page may go through an identity crisis over the next short while) and it’s has been extremely easy to work with; so far, everything I want is somewhere within the admin options. Some things I used to have to access through an FTP client. So, neat!

Right now, there’s not a lot here. I should be able to access all the old, Blogger archives (they’re resident on my site anyway) so none of my past rantings are lost (is that a good thing?). And the other pages need to be updated as well.

All of which will surely happen at my normal, lightning speed pace.