Well, this should be interesting… I upgraded the main darquecathedral.org site from WordPress 1.5.2pl2 to WordPress 2.0.2. I’m not sold on the backend changes quite yet, but overall it seems to be working all right. Hopefully those of you viewing from home won’t be seeing anything majorly different about the site, though.

I do admit to some annoyance on another subject. I finally got ahold of the service department at the Saturn dealership this afternoon, and they told me that the valve body on my transmission had developed several internal pressure leaks causing the solenoids to warp, and that as a result it needed to be replaced. That’s going to set me back $1100. *sigh* Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it. Also as a result, the car won’t be ready until 3 PM tomorrow, which will be a bit of a pain in the ass. I have stuff that needs doing at both my office and at the datacenter, and I’d just as soon get them fixed sooner rather than later. Oh, well… in the meantime I can still work from home.

On a different subject… I’ve been having a bit of difficulty with something my parents and friends have been telling me. Back when I was going to high school (something like 15 years ago), I passed the intersection of FM 2920 and Kuykendahl, and there was literally nothing there. Each corner was an empty field. Even when I was last at that intersection (something like 6-7 years ago), all that was there was a Shell at one corner. Now apparently one corner has a full Kroger center, another corner has a full Wal-Mart center, and there’s a Chili’s, a Philly Cheesesteak, and a Buffalo Wild Wings there. I’m going to have to go up there to try and reconcile this, because my brain is refusing to accept such a radical change. It’s not that I don’t believe it’s happened; Mom brought me wings from Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch today. It’s just that… I need to see it to accept it. I can’t decide whether it makes me feel outdated, nostalgic, or just plain old. (Also, it should be amusing seeing Merrie express shock that I didn’t know about any of this… when she recovers from her surgery, that is. Speaking of which, get well soon!)

Oh, well… I’m just going to go get a drink and then ponder going to bed. I’ve got a real fun day ahead of me tomorrow… heh.

Well, on one hand, I am working and have been somewhat productive this morning. On the other hand… I’m at home right now, working from the kitchen. As I was leaving work last night, my car’s transmission started seriously acting up, so rather than take the risk that it MIGHT get me home okay, I called AAA and had them tow it to the Saturn dealership. So, right now, I’m in the kitchen, logged into the corporate VPN, and have my office phone unconditionally forwarded to my cell phone. I’ve already taken care of a couple of support calls, but for the most part I would have rather been at the office.

I went and saw Delirium on Saturday, as I stated before. I rather enjoyed it, but my parents did a little less so. I think the problem was that Delirium was much more of a concert performance, with the dancers and acrobats being a bit less involved. I love the music in Cirque du Soleil shows, but for my parents it’s more about the on-stage performers. The opening act was a woman named Nitza, whose performance I really liked. Too bad she doesn’t appear to have any CDs for sale on Amazon or the iTunes Music Store… I also looked at getting the double CD set for Solarium and Delirium at the event, but they wanted $45 for it. I can get it for about $26 off Amazon. I’ll just have to remember to order it at some point.

I went out to dinner with Robin again on Sunday night… just dinner at Chili’s, but it was still nice to get out of the house and see her. We’re already making plans for doing something on Friday, but it really depends on whether there’s a movie she’s wanting to watch and whether we can get a table at the Cheesecake Factory in decent time to catch a movie. I’d rather go to Cheesecake Factory than see a movie if I’m forced into a choice, but that’s just me. At least at dinner we can talk. :-) Though, granted, while I’m partial to V for Vendetta and wouldn’t mind any other movie… I’m tempted to avoid Failure to Launch as I’ve already gotten shit from coworkers about it being similar to my living situation…

Oh, well. In the meantime, I should call Saturn and find out how my car is doing. Fun fun…