uptime, downtime, castle time

As you may have noticed, the site has been acting quite janky lately. It’s down, it’s up, it’s slow. Finally, I decided to get rid of my shared hosting and move to a real VPS. Ah, the freedom!

I can set everything up just the way I like it, allocate resources just how I want, and have root. Root root root root root. Love it.

Everything should run a thousand percent faster now. There were some odd issues migrating everything, so if you see anything that’s obviously broken, shoot me an email or comment.

I’ve been having a lot of fun this trip, despite the fact that this all reminds me so much of my grandma.

Mario and I started out by going to a thrift store on the other side of Bernal Heights
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Hitting up the farmers’ market in Civic Center

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We ended up at the MoMA, where I met Jose, this amazing artfag friend of Mario’s whose disdain of San Francisco’s neoliberal conservatism exceeds even mine.

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Mario and I biked around a lot, taking in the view at Dolores Park. So many bearz!

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The next day, after a rendezvous with Sam and his boyfriend, Taylor and I met up and went to see the sunset at Ocean Beach.

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Mario, Kyle, and I went to Hearst Castle last week. The drive was epic: at least ten hours total. However, most of it was on the absolutely stunning vistas on Highway 1 around Monterey and Big Sur.

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The castle itself, which we got to on a bus that wound up the hillside, was stunning on the outside, but the insides of the buildings were a hodgepodge of ugly but priceless antiques.

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We also stopped at a beach on the way back. It totally reminded me of Endert’s Beach, with all the cliffs and seastacks.

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  1. Molly

    I miss Endert’s Beach.

    Posted June 30, 2010 at 8:57 am | Permalink