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Oh. My. Fuck.
Please, someone, make sure my tombstone reads “... and she went off into the sunset shouting, NO BETA! WE DIE LIKE MEN!”
Life does not need to take direction from some stupid question asked by a stupid teenager on a stupid Facebook group.
Besides, didn’t I say I was the deadest of doves?
A few nights ago, I decided to do Camp NaNoWriMo, because why the fuck not? I’m not working weekends any more and torturing myself sounds like a perfectly good idea.
I set a lofty goal of 500 words during the month of July. Not a typo. 500 words. That’s a whopping 17 words a day.
Why such a low, totally achievable in one day goal?
Because. Ukrainian.
I am going to blog a minimum of 20 words a day in Ukrainian and NOT rely on Google Translate. I’m hoping that I can remember more words than I need to look up, but it’s already day two and I’m out of ideas.
Blogging. In Ukrainian.
Nope. This isn’t a bad idea in the slightest. (The fuck-it factor comes back to haunt me…)
There’s one teeny, tiny, little issue.
My current webhost HATES Cyrillic. For whatever reason, too much Ukrainian causes them to shut my site down. Some sort of protection against Russian bots, I guess.
Despite that, I decided that I would use a domain already set up on this host to blog from and use WordPress. I didn’t want to recreate the wheel, after all. Blogging in Ukrainian is going to be hard enough. No reason to drive myself crazier by needing a whole new blog.
I want to like WordPress. I really, really, do. Shit, I know the person who named it.
But I’ve been with ExpressionEngine since it was still pMachine… and now that it’s on version SIX(!!!) and FREE(!!!), I figured I would try to use EE instead of WP.
Well.
The EE install went bad. Terribly.
I had to update the PHP version and then this thingy wouldn’t work. I downgraded PHP and then that thingy wouldn’t work. The permissions wouldn’t stick.
It was a fucking nightmare.
I decided to go back to WP, because why not. A 1-step install. Even I couldn’t fuck that up.
NO BETA! WE DIE LIKE MEN!
I didn’t need to do a back up. How badly could I fuck up my site?
Badly, in fact.
So badly that I was in tears waiting for tech support to find a backup for me.
So. Yeah.
I ended up installing WP in the wrong directory.
Lost UGCU. Lost GA. Lost WAE.
I don’t even know how I took out Good Advices and With an E considering I installed WP in the UkieGirl directory…
WordPress overwrote my ExpressionEngine index.php file.
I uploaded the original one from the EE download folder.
I uploaded the one from Good Advices and fixed the one setting that I changed.
I uploaded the one from With an E.
*crickets*
They found a backup and GA came back to life. UkieGirl came back to life. With an E has never seen the light of day, but the test page loaded OK.
After that, I decided to move to a new webhost.
I did the 1-step WP install and began to hate life.
I still hate life, but there is no way in fuck that I am doing any of that again.