What what what? Have I posted nothing since last week?! Guess not! Guess I've been busier than usual. Prioritized other things. Spent time in a different dimension. In another world. Offsite. In the spectrum of life and light, on the broad band of the world, mobile and external! Our phone lines should be fixed tomorrow btw, if all goes according to plan.

Meanwhile I've attained mobile Internet, a 30 day trial from the same ISP that's taken 3 weeks (and counting) to fix our wired connection. It's much faster than Internet via cellphone, and compared to my free ad-based cellphone subscription... it's not ad-based. That's a perk. Here's a couple of speedtests from /img/3/Internet-3-3G.png">3 (cellphone, 3G) and /img/3/Internet-Telia-4G.png">Telia (computer, 4G) and while I'm at it here's what I had (computer, VDSL). Woah. I didn't remember having more than 8 Mbit. Can't wait to get that back! It excels in all but upload speed, and compared to my current trial it's unrestricted.

In life I've been to a (job) interview. Worked. Played more Oni. Read a bunch of comics. Caught up a little on NG. Helped out. Taken a couple longer walks. Eaten a fantastic Pizza. Regular life stuff you know? And it's snowing today for the second day straight... melting away at the same time. What a waste. Here's a stuntman video and somewhat related behind-the-scenes footage from one movie I'm really looking forward to this year (Kung Fury). Till next week! Probably tomorrow.

They cut our phonelines! Downtime! And so the week started via cellphone, which I realized (not) soon enough I could actually 'tether' to my computer! Use as a wireless modem! Make things a whole lot easier! In a week's time I've used over 3/4 of my monthly allotment, despite careful consideration on what to use this valuable mobile bandwidth for, staying away from most media, with plugins disabled by default as to not bring forth any unexpected losses. Might have to actually buy some mobile broadband until this blows over and Telia manage to fix their issue. Wifog isn't bad as a free alternative (if you happen to live in Sweden), but regular mobile bandwidth only lasts so long when applied to normal computer work!

In other news, a mysterious Frenchman who goes by the name of Dr. Pixel is attempting to review all games on NG this year, and just reviewed one I'd beta-tested! Short video review here for those interested. I did point out the flaws he mentions (the mentions I understand - the review's in French and automatic translation isn't helping) during my beta testing reports, but a tester only has so much power. Fun idea with video reviews on even the most obscure games though: they're the ones who need them most!

On the blog I've posted 6 reviews and some music. In life I've worked, shoveled snow, biked once in a soggy mush of melting snow that jammed the mudguards until I had to pedal even when I was going downhill, and occasionally stop and ease away masses of packed snow and salt with a wooden ice cream stick I happened to have in my pocket. On Thursday I decided on a whim to weight lift like there was no tomorrow and spent the day after in lumbago limbo contemplating potential kidney stones when maybe... it was no more than muscle soreness. Hope I'm not slowly morphing into a hypochondriac here!

Spent Friday at a tortilla party where the host accidentally spilled a batch of stew on my bright white T-shirt, and Saturday playing digital Minigolf with a buddy while most of the family partook in dinner table socializing downstairs. Not much to report otherwise. It's been a considerably better stretch of days than the previous, and I'm feeling devious, mischievous, like there's an outlet of craze to heave and free of us and besiege the world with until we reap the dust. Until next week!

I'm typing this on my cellphone.

It's a slow and painstaking process riddled with typos, even on a smartphone, even with the screen tilted sideways for extra typability, but alas my cellphone is currently the only device at home with Internet access, and home is where I normally access the net. Feels strange not having the world at my fingertips... but at least I still have it at my thumbs! Albeit with a crappy connection and not enough processing power to do any real site work or surfing.

So... why am I typing this on my cell? It's not like I volunteered for this unexpected handicap! Somehow our phone line's been severed. Not just for us, but the entire neighborhood, and since 1400 hours - Wednesday, we've been castaways from the world, living with unwantedly primitive technology... and they say wired is the old and primitive; less the new. Nothing as reliable as a wire as long as you don't accidentally chop it off with a bulldozer while tearing down an old unsanitary apartment complex on a nearby hilltop! Which we assume they did.

According to the latest Intel (before week turned to weekend and irresponsible ISPs without care for their customers took a short break) this downtime might last all the way through next week as well! I hope not, but for now I'm making the most of time offline: catching up on games and crappy TV shows... amongst other things.

More details to come soon as I connect with a keyboard! Until soon, I hope.

Update: I just fixed 6 typos, apparently invented two words I can't/won't change, and I am now in fact typing this brief message via keyboard! Though my regular Internet isn't back yet. I realized my phone can be a modem; until they do solve the issue I shall manage with restricted speed and bandwidth caps.

This week otherwise (the one this post ^ was referring to) was filled mostly with games, the first season of Parasyte Maxim, the first season of Transporter (the series - yes there's a series based on the movie), a little work, a little snow and much much aggravation. I wasted rare mounds of free time with plentiful internal ranting and entertainment that wasn't very entertaining, but I actually typed up a post on all this while offline, so more on that soon.

The MySQL database on the site was down for quite a while on Wednesday morning too, I saw it and submitted a support ticket just before my own Internet went down. So the timing could've been worse!

At the start of the week I finally posted my resolutions, 2 reviews and a special collection of music. Last week.

First real week (as in: not split between both years) just flashed by!

I've made some Flash, I've played some Flash games, I one day made the grueling discovery that my Flash saves are apparently purged every once in a while, I then made the startling discovery that you can specify how much space Flash is allowed to allocate for its saves on a per-site basis (here's the official tool), but then I made the disappointing discovery that it doesn't seem to matter how much space I allocate on either overall or per-site basis: the saves still disappear mysteriously at seemingly random intervals.

So I installed Synctoy, set up my first ever scheduled task in Windows (a really nifty little feature most people probably aren't aware of - check your control panel for more info) and am now having my Flash saves backed up on a daily basis. Of course, they may still get purged right before the backup's made, right after I've spent pain-stalking time plowing through some new highly addicting Flash RPG, but at least now I have backups, and no longer need to copy the folder manually on random occasions.

The one downside to Windows built-in scheduler is that you can't have tasks run on a more frequent basis than daily - at a specified time. I'd rather have this specific task run a few times each day, just to be on the safe side, but to do that I'd need a different program.

Apart from Flash Saves, I've also had some trouble with a recent FileZilla update which for some reason messed up my connection settings. I've spent this morning toggling options and through trial and error finally figuring out that if I connect to a very specific port, use SFTP instead of regular FTP via TLS and have a passive connection limited to 2 concurrent uploads/downloads at any one time - it works!

Setting minor computer issues aside, and what appears to be Pericoronitis (Infection Near Wisdom Tooth), the week's been well. Winter started again, and the last three days (today included... though that's the week after this week's post) it's been snowing for three days straight. I've just been out shoveling snow, shoveled snow this morning, shoveled a little snow yesterday, shoveled so much snow the day before that I wondered if I'd be able to even raise my arms the day after. It's OK, I can raise my arms just fine! Don't mind the gruelingly sore muscles that tell me it's snowed waaay too little this winter, until now. But tomorrow, on my first work day of the year, I hear it's all about to melt away again and make way for a particularly difficult first bike ride to and from that place to which I bike (work).

I've written, I've played Pokemon Rangers, I've read comics, I spent a day with a buddy, I spent a day wondering how my calender had mysteriously vanished (by some mischievous miracle it'd wedged itself behind my computer desk, far from the place it usually hangs around) and yesterday I recorded /mp3/1/Week-2-2015.mp3">this little thing which I was planning to make something more important out of, but that was before I stumbled upon a couple of One Piece clips on YouTube and in sudden One Piece frency watched through 12 episodes straight in the Impel Down Breakout arc. There's room for self-betterment yet, and a few more episodes of that today...

On the blog I've posted 6 movie reviews, a plug, a bad review (fuck Hosting Cove's horrible support), music, and here's last week. And I'm just about to post my resolutions...

It's a New Year! And I have no resolutions! I thought about abiding by two mottos rather than a more concrete list of goals. To live as if each day were the last, and to live as if each day is a new day.

I also wrote up a bit of inspirational wisdom as I contemplated how, in further detail, I want to live. It goes like this: Don't wait, but don't haste. Don't hesitate. Don't stall, don't fall, don't all. Don't say "yes" if you stress. Don't do if you are not supposed to. But mostly, a 'can't do' won't do: think instead of what you could do. Be good too.

Is that it? Will that concise note to self of the do's and not do's be enough to motivate me in achieving all the great things I wish to achieve this year??! A formal resolutions post might be more fun to look back at when it's all done... assuming I've achieved what I set out to do. Unlike last year. That aftermath is finally posted at last... feel free to read up on my failures and inabilities of the past year, if you wish! And my one success.

On the blog I've written 5 reviews this week, the first two music posts of the year, an inspiring quote by a good friend rather than a famous person - for a change, and that traditional New Year post. Did I mention I spent New Year with a headache? I'd rather had cake than had ache, and I rested so much during day I had to stay up a tad bit late, blinded by light even though I had my blinds drawn as the New Year's light slowly rising on a white lawn.

Life? There's been too much candy, too much sugary goodness, cakes and baked goodies, Julmust and Cider and heaps of sweet things! And chips. I've walked. I've written. I've played games. There is little to foretell apart from the seamless transition between years. More seamless than usual, I believe, due to my lack of new motives. Goals. That grand to do list for the new year that usually sets it apart from the previous.

We watched the fireworks in a dog this year, uncertain times ahead, but I think I see the light on the other side of this gray haze! The New Year starts hopeful.

Last week? Here's the archive for all weekly posts last year.