{"id":558,"date":"2005-05-12T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=558"},"modified":"2008-01-02T06:36:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T11:36:28","slug":"one-heck-of-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-heck-of-an-update","title":{"rendered":"One heck of an update"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a been a heck of a couple of weeks, dear reader.<\/p>\n

My dad got out of the hospital last Wednesday, and we’ve been working on his recuperation (I’ll post more on Andre2005<\/a> soon. He’s improving daily, and the surgeon seemed pretty optimistic at their get-together on Monday.<\/p>\n

My web host has been out of commission for the past 10 days, and doesn’t show any sign of getting its act together. Till it’s up, I won’t be able to access any of my voyantpub.com files. That means that a lot of these archived entries are going to have useless links in them (any of the links that go to a voyantpub.com file, in other words). I’m going to try to fix those up in the next week or so. Also, a bunch of images were only<\/span> hosted up on the site, so some of those will be dead for a while. I’ll repost the images that I have on hand.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, this gives me an excuse to start over with the web. So I’ve bought a new domain name, republished my various blogs (Virtual Memories<\/a>, Mad Mix<\/a> and Andre2005<\/a>), and can now get a leg up on my nefarious plot to waste people’s time on the internet!<\/p>\n

To that end, I’m planning on building chimeraobscura.com into a sort of online magazine in the next couple of months. I’ve got some ideas for articles, interviews, and more content that I’d like to put up in a non-blog format. Zap over your e-mail address, and I’ll keep you apprised about that (you can also pitch me on article ideas).<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

But the biggest news I have is that the official VM girlfriend is no more. As of last night, she has become the official VM fianc\u00c3\u00a9<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Yes, dear reader, your Virtual Memoirist has popped the question! My One True answered in the affirmative! Now we just have to figure out the rest of our lives!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I have a lot of stories to tell (as usual), and I’ll get to them as soon as I can. In the meantime, play in the archives, redirect your RSS feeds to http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/, and be well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a been a heck of a couple of weeks, dear reader. My dad got out of the hospital last Wednesday, and we’ve been working on his recuperation (I’ll post more on Andre2005 soon. He’s improving daily, and the surgeon seemed pretty optimistic at their get-together on Monday. My web host has been out of … <\/p>\n

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This photo from the EA booth says it all:Anyway, not much time\/motivation to write this morning, so I'm just posting links to my\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2021,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-bypassiversary","url_meta":{"origin":558,"position":4},"title":"Happy Bypassiversary!","author":"Gil","date":"April 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the third anniversary of my dad's quintuple bypass surgery, ably performed by Dr. Peter Praeger. I can't speak for the doctor's line of heart-healthy food, but he did a heck of a job on Pop. 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