MNXMFan's Blog

I know, I’m really late on this, but life has been crazy.

XM just announced the addition of 8 more music channels. With the addition of XM Chill and Big Tracks on March 1st, that brings the total to 10. Four channels get dropped, to make way for the new channels. They are Luna, Music Lab, The Flow and The Torch. In addition, a few channels are being retooled, or just simply renamed.

Overall, I am pleased, but there are a few channels that I don’t care about. And I am upset about losing niche channels to make rooom for more hits channels. More of my thoughts by clicking below.

Well, after giving the whole situation with the ex friend as stated below absolutely NO THOUGHT aside from that night, and this post, I have decided to not do anything.

I have decided that no good can come of the situation, as the amount of changing that would need to happen would be merely impossible. His goals vary too much between mine, and I am not OK with that. I have a very clear direction for my life, and people such as him would only prevent me from attaining my goals.

With that out of the way, on to more important things. The SPAM here has gotten out of hand, and I realize that. Unfortunately, with my current school load I do not have the time (almost an hour a day in some cases) to delete all the SPAM. There is an antispam engine built in, but it requires updates from a central server, and in most cases, by the time they know about it, the damage has already been done. The engine does not go back and delete the existing spam.

With all of that said, I will spend the next month and a half testing out other blog programs (behind the scenes) to see if it can offer what I need from an engine. Then, sometime this summer, when classes let out, I will be upgrading the blog to whichever software seems to work the best. I am sorry it will take so long. This requires alot of time, alot of customization, some light coding, testing, UI tweaks, and time in porting over all the old posts from this blog. Hopefully, when all is said and done, it will be for the better.

I will continue to update this blog in the meantime, because I can’t just stop blogging for 2-3 months. Also, I will most likely move the blog from this subdomain onto the main URL, as that has gone without updates for about a year. For those of you with RSS readers setup, I will make sure that your made aware of the update before this subdomain is inactive.

Whew! Sorry for such a read. Thanks for reading, and hopefully all will be much better when the dust settles!

Long time no update! Just wanted to hop on and say that Minnesota has temporarily stolen DJ Squigy0h from the Squigy0h Radio show out in MD. He arrived Tuesday and is staying till Friday.

Tonight, we did a rather fun, yet raunchy radio show here at the studios of my LPFM Project “Energy 87.9″ which was relayed on Liquid Radio out of Duluth. Good times were had, but that was all about to change.

Evidently, my home phone number was given out in a Yahoo Chat Room. Not an extremely bad deal normally, as I can usually deal with it. Tonight was a bit different. One of the people in the chat room was my former best friend’s ex-husband, who is apperantly now living in Shakopee. This is the same friend that I had spent a great deal of time dwelling on in this very blog circa 2004. For those of you who would like to catch up on the story, it is available in the archives circa August 2004.

Now I had not spoken to anyone involved in that whole situation for almost a year and a half at this point, and he wants to start hanging out with me now, presumably to get back at his now ex-wife. I’m flattered, as I must have really pissed her off to get that much attention over a year later!!

I’m thinking I might catch up with him, but a bigger peice of me is saying “stay away, stay far far away”. The reason is that I am literally a completely different person than I was back then. Back then, I was happy showing up to pay my bills, with no real future plans anywhere in sight. Now, I have been a full time student on the honor roll since August (exactly 1 year after, for those of you keeping score). I don’t feel that association with this person would be in my best interest now, as I barely have enough time for my personal, and small but existing current social life. My goals have changed from hanging out at bars and such to studying, and trying to get my MCSE from Microsoft in the next 2+ years. Not only that but I have even quit smoking, even if it is only a week ago that I did.

But part of me is curious to get into that “other side” of things, to see why exactly I became so hated, so quickly. I would also like to know why I am STILL so hated, once again simply for curiousity sake. Necer before has anyone ever outright hated me or treated me with the amount of disrespect as she/they had, and I’m wondering why that is. I completely understand that I was far from perfect over a year ago myself, but one could almost say that the circumstances of the time warranted such action.

I will most likely not take any action at all, and I will definitely report if that changes, but it does leave me with those questions. Is that wrong of me?

I think the right thing to do right now is to completely avoid the entire situation from both or all sides. This could open up a can of worms that could easily set me back over a year in regaining my own self esteem, and I don’t think I am in a position to have the time to deal with that right now.

More later!