The Mad Rants of a Raving Genius

Why would I be writing a post at three in the morning? One reason: I can’t sleep. Normally, I wouldn’t bother to post if I wasn’t tired, but this particular situation bears mentioning. You see, I can’t sleep because my roommate, Jay, is making noises somewhat similar to those made by a chainsaw cutting through steel. It’s awful. I was on the verge of falling asleep when Jay came in and lay down. He fell asleep almost instantly and began snoring. Loudly. Normally, I can abide by loud breathing, but not this. Nothing will drown it out. I’ve tried everything (including throwing things, to no effect), so I just gave up ever getting to sleep and decided to wait out the night in the library, which is luckily open 24 hours. I may try to catch some z’s up on the silent study floor if I can find an empty chair or couch, but I’ll probably just sit it out for the long haul at one of the many computers until morning. I don’t have class until 11:30, so I think I’ll be good. I’ll be dead tired, but this is better than laying in bed contemplating murder.

Last night, it snowed an incredible amount. We got around six or seven inches (if not more) between noon yesterday and noon today. Crazy. I have pictures, actually, but my camera is being annoying and it won’t let me get them off, and I’m too lazy to go find the card reader. Meh. They aren’t very good pictures either. That camera is on its last legs. Er, tripod. Whatever.

Anyways, it snowed so much that I wasn’t able to get back down to Seattle yesterday. We got down to Burlington (near the Highway 20 exit) and turned around since we had heard it was snowing all the way down in Seattle. But it took us two hours to get back home. We got stuck on Old Highway 99 right near the entrance to Friday Creek Road and we eventually had to go all the way back to the Cook Road freeway entrance to go all the way up to the Alger exit and get on Friday Creek Road that way. Very slow going, even on the freeway. Of course, the snow was so bad that the State Patrol was “strongly recommending” chains from Burlington to Bellingham, the first time anyone can remember them saying that. Heck, Bellingham got over a foot of snow, so I can understand why. Apparently, Western Washington University even canceled classes for today.

So, I stayed the night at home last night and will stay the night tonight. I heard it was snowing really bad down in Everett, so I’m not sure when I’ll be getting back to school. Oh well. I’ve already contacted all my professors and my boss, so it’s all good. It’s not as if there’s anything I can do. Even if the roads are clear, getting out of our driveway will be a chore and Friday Creek Road is treacherous on a good day. Well, at least the power came back on. Yeah, it had been out since 10 pm yesterday and came back on a little under an hour ago. And with temperatures outside being around 25 degrees Fahrenheit, it was absolutely miserable inside. I can only hope the power doesn’t go out again.

Anyways, I got my new website up and working. It’s codylogan.net, and I plan to offer web templates, both for free and for sale. Soon, I hope to also offer other services, like web and graphic design at reasonable prices. Now, I just have to figure out what “reasonable” is… Anyways, I’ve got one template up now, and I plan to have more soon. This site will stay up as my blog (remember the change to mroarg.lp.tl!), so be sure to check back often (or just subscribe by email up top).

Eventually, I plan on having this website be useful, but for now you’ll just have to suffer hearing about my life.

(Note: when I say useful, I mean to offer stuff like website templates, web/graphic design services, and some other stuff, in addition to the program and website reviews above.)

I’ve been having some rather unusual problems in the backend of WordPress (which powers this blog, in case you don’t know what I’m talking about), which has been causing me grief, but shouldn’t affect the outward blog at all. Lucky you. I’m working on getting that all figured out, so then I can concentrate on making this website productive, and not just a glorified LiveJournal.

In other news, class registration is coming up soon. Soon as in a mere 14 hours. Yes, I get to register for classes starting at 6:00 in the morning tomorrow. Yes, I suppose I could register at a more civilized time, but then I would have to resort to taking classes other than the ones I want and/or need. Of course, with my luck, all the classes I want are already all taken, considering registration has actually been going on since the 3rd. Being a lowly freshman (with only 13 credits, to boot) automatically pushes your registration date quite a bit farther back.

So, now that we’ve established that LJ and being a freshman both suck, I shall be off to solve my WordPress problems. And maybe make a few bucks off the side, if that five bucks I paid on eBay bought me something useful.