I'm pretty sure I am in fact going to be moving. I've been at this same location since 2004, roughly 5 1/2 years as I write this, and I've been getting sicker and sicker of it for at least two of those years. A combination of things have finally prompted me to take this whole moving thing a bit more seriously.

For one thing when I first moved it was just me and my landlord/roommate. It was his house so he got the larger room with the private bath. After a couple years he lost his job and has strange requirements about where he's willing to work so he remained unemployed for over a year. At which point he moved into the loft area and rented out his room to another room mate. It's his house and he can do what ever he pleases with it. Of course the possiblitiy of me moving into this larger room with the private bath never came up. I assume because a room for rent with a private bath would be that much more likely to attract a renter. 

Fast forward a couple years and there's now been two different renters that have inhabited the other room, the most recent having moved out within the last couple of weeks. Again the possiblity, of me...the guy who has been in the same stuipid small room for 5 1/2 years loyallly...moving into that room was never discussed as even a possiblity. 

I'm saying I'm necessarily entitled to it, all I'm saying perhaps maybe since every one on earth apparently is open for possibility of moving into said room maybe, just maybe the possibility of me moving in could have been entertained or something. But what do I know.

Maybe that's just petty bitterness talking and maybe I should just grow up or something. Still, I'm a renter same as everyone else who would be responding to the ad, why am I excempt? What did I ever do besides pay rent consistently for all these years? 

Of course there's also this condo and the state of the condo. It's kind of falling apart, ill-maintained, dirty, filthy stained rugs, and a bathroom I'm currently sharing that the haz-mat team may have to come in and visit with special breather apparatii. 

And of course frankly I would like more room. For the same or roughly the same price I could rent an entire place with my own kitchen, bathroom and everything else with that muc more room. So really I can't think of that much reason for staying in the place I'm in.

Of course having just found out I didn't get that salaried position today I probably won't be moving closer to the city as I would have liked. I'll probably be moving further away ironically. But I will be closer to some family. So it'll be easier for me to visit them, for them to visit me and...if and when I run out of unemployment and savings I can simply move my stuff across the freeway into my Mom's house. I am not actually looking forward to this of course. No 31-year-old with any ounce of pride looks forrward to moving back into a parents house. 

Of course, it may be a better plan to simply move in to my mother's house now, thus saving that much more money on a month to month basis with the reportedly lack of rent charged. Assuming that part really happens.

In other news I have decided to try out some other content management/blog engine software that isn't WordPress. I mean I do love WordPress I just thought perhaps I should try out some other solutions and see how I like them. Maybe there's something that better suites my requiements that WordPress out there, I don't know. 

The main problem of course is having to upload all the files to my FTP space. Apparently although my download speed has apparently been upgraded by the ISP recently my upload speed still leaves something to be desired. 

The first CMS I'm trying out is one I had never even heard of called SilverStripe. I extracted the archive I downloaded which resulted in roughly 23 megabytes of files. I have been uploading these files for over an hour at my count and it looks like it won't be done any time soon. I am using that feature of the old school IE 6 to also be an FTP client to upload them. So far as I know there is no way to make the Windows CLI FTP client upload both files and the directory structure auto-magic. Which would I think make it easier.

The other one I will eventually try is called Pixie. I had never heard of this one either but it looks kind of promising to me. The emphasis on it seems be for small, simple sites. Of which I have a few so maybe it will be quite nice. 

For reference I actually found a Wikipedia page listing all the various content management systems and linking to the individual page for each one. I didn't realize there was such an incredible number of them. A majority of which run on PHP/MySQL conveniently enough.

I suppose at some point I should figure out how to get something running with Ruby On Rails. Perhaps. Maybe.