In the process of writing the last post, I did a great deal of thinking. No, you wouldn't have noticed. I did it between little spurts of typing. Unfortunately I became so derailed by planning the future of the blog, I totally lost sight of the post I was writing. Not sure where I was going with that, but it's over now. Whatever it was that motivated me before is gone, to continue it would be to water it down. (and frankly, I'm much more excited about where I'm going with this now.)
So, I'm leaving the last post unfinished. Moving on... I started thinking about how I could improve the blog. Couple things came up:
#1: Make it more convenient for me to post. Even little things.
#2: Organize my thoughts in advance. Outline blog post ideas and links and such.
#3: Have someone else host it. That ought'a lower the overhead, yea?

So I started to write an outline of things to be done. Started to produce notes on posts I think I'll do. Haven't yet done this, but I plan to come up with a regular schedule for formalized posts, augmenting them with the little snippets my next host should facilitate.
Anyway, that's not the point. My point is that I've actually come to a decision! (for once) I'm moving the blog, if not the whole site eventually, to Tumblr! hooray! I plan to start the transition immediately. Transferring things may take a while, not to mention fiddling with all the knobs and switches and things over there on the Tumblr control panels, moving my domain... handling the issue of not having the email account at MacDock. I'm sure there'll be plenty to do. I should study for my AP US History final tomarrow, but this is a worthy diversion methinks. College is a time to find oneself. I've been doing a lot of soul searching and such. (My grades have suffered for it, too.) And I think writing is something I must do. I have these Ideas, you see... I find them at times most insightful and take great pride in them. I've come to realize this site has always been an outlet for all that pent up creative energy I have built up over these many years in high school without so much as taking ceramics.
I've come to realize, in this search for self, that I need to form my own ambitions and motivations. Soon I'll be without anyone to push me or guide my behavior, leaving me as my own guardian.
Oh, wait... I'm already 18 years of age... I guess I'm behind schedule...
Whatever the case, I've selected objectivism as my philosophical framework, prompting a an audit of all the values I hold to revalidate them through reason. This has meant a certain apathy toward to pursuits of questionable objectivity. My grades? I can't remember a time when they made me happy... etc. That's brought me to things like reading and thinking, and the realization that writing holds a lot of value for me. I want to be remembered, I want to prove my worth, I want to do my part to heal. All things I can tackle through writing. So putting this much effort into a diversion such as this blog has new meaning. It's a creative outlet that I know I want.
So that's that. Now I'll get to that time table item...

Still considering restructuring of the site. I fear I may be forced to leave much of it as it is, not wanting to break any links to files I've agreed (with Apple no less) to host. Also, I feel like I want to keep the blog intact. Many posts are useless, and I fear the whole thing may lack direction, but it is supposed to be a web log, right? There's a divergence in what it means to different people, as a medium, but I think principally it must remain an archive. A log is only so valuable as how much content it contains, and over how long a period it has been kept. So I do want to keep these postings. Though that may not be that hard to do. I'm probably making too much of it in fact. There are only 77 posts on here. How hard could it be to copy-paste them into whatever new service I may choose?
So then the question becomes where I'll host the new blog; and I have many thoughts on that. I see that while the Internet moves closer to "Web 2.0," it becomes clear that services like blog hosting can be differentiated to cater to an infinite number of niche groups. Thus have many blog hosts found new ways to style their service, and I think step 1 in finding a new home for the blog should be defining what I want the blog to do. On that point, I have a few clarifications to make: 1st off, I think I must make it as accessible as possible. I never know when the mood may hit me. That means I want a web-based form to post. RapidWeaver is great, iWeb has a lot of virtue, but I feel I've outgrown them both. The principle user of this blog is me. It's where I will vent, occasionally offer valuable opinions others might benefit from hearing, and occasionally offer advice and solutions as my own contribution to humanity. Maybe even produce some new idea. Sometimes I feel like my own, one man think-tank...

I can't be sure if I was on the road before, when I left said road, or whether or not I'm back on that road now. I'm considering all sorts of radical restructuring of this site... Thought about moving my blog to somewhere where I can post via a web portal... something RapidWeaver, for all its charm, does'nt allow for. And while CushyCMS seems like it might offer some kind of jerry-rigged and/or MacGyver'd solution, all that seems to complex for my taste... I think. I was for a while thinking of moving it to The Pirate Bay's new blog service... That would certainly grant me some protection, but still, I don't think I'm there yet.
I'm also, (and I'm now whispering to you) considering changing hosts. Now don't get me wrong, MacDock has never done me wrong. But I do in fact get the distinct impression that the service for which I am paying is not only overpriced but also feature-poor. Seems like this web hosting tailored specifically for RapidWeaver may in fact be some kind of RealMac-MacDock racket. It may in fact be.
I'm also particularly concerned about things like MySQL and such, as I'm considering hosting a Wiki for my "Family Group" at Bishop's. And while the people at MacDock assure me that I should be able to install one, I get the feeling they're just giving me the runaround...
I'm too ashamed to tell you what they charge me, really... But I have indeed gotten most used to the cushy-ness of a paid host, so I'll likely just find me a cheaper one... I'm considering NearlyFreeSpeech.net if anyone has any input. I'll also have to redirect the DNS... and find some way to move my email... but the site itself should remain intact I think. And thats sorta comforting. Beyond that, it may afford me the chance to try new things. And you know how I love that.

So once again I find myself trying to revive my long defunct blog. Ugh. Well, what to say? I got into Occidental College. I'm nearly failing half my classes, have a bunch of work to make up... pent up stress... Modem was on the fritz for a while, booted me from WoW. Oh yeah, back into WoW right now.
As far as Tasty Buffalo operations, I'm considering hosting a wiki site for my "Family Group" at Bishop's. We're the Corleones. Sweet, I know. Also planning to revise/overhaul the Tasty Buffalo logo. That should be fun.
Anyway, just a quick post to prove to myself that the blog is salvageable. Considering moving the blog over to the sexy new Pirate Bay blog host. I could post sketchy things there and nobody would care. Well, maybe people would, but not the people who could take it down. Cool. Otherwise, I've got to move a bunch of files over to my laptop before I can upload all this stuff and be sure not to obstruct all the file paths on the server.
I may write another couple of posts about something else before moving on with my life. May also attempt using this blog as my on personal venting channel. That'd be cool. Get myself some digital catharsis. Oh, that reminds me, I have psych to do...

I'm working on adding in a concise gallery of all my iPone Wallpapers, as well as implementing a strange new feature: The Codex. The Codex is where I plan to make a database of all my projects, and episodes, as well as define names for those who don't know, and serve as something like a dictionary of all the things exclusive to my world. It sounds pretty heady but I got the idea from Mass Effect, a game I should write a review on, but maybe later.