UPDATE: Site has now been completely migrated to the new location. I lost a few of the most recent entries here (Day 9, Day10, and Day11) but they were short unimportant posts in the large scale. I’ll be re-doing my month-long outdoor zen experiment next moon-cycle. I’m still spending time outside now, but not blogging about it on a daily basis due to the issues here recently.

After a few days of research by my web-host, we discovered the database for the blog was slightly corrupt, which is what was causing the RSS feed errors.

I tried to re-create the entire blog from an old backup, wiping it and re-uploading the entries, but the RSS still is borked. This means a post, or blog entry, or comment somewhere in the past has some sort of weirdness going on with it, which essentially broke the feed from that point forward.

In order to figure out where, I am in the process of making a second blog database, and copying over each post one at a time, to see where it stops working. We think it was a spam comment or an accidental mis-type in a user comment, since first glance at the entry database itself looks clean.

Thus, at worst case, I will have to wipe the comments from the older blog entries, and manually re-enter a few of the better and important-to-the-discussion ones myself. If this fixes things, I will direct this blog to the other database, and copy over the theme and other style sheet files so it looks the same as this version.

Keep your fingers crossed. I hope to have RSS functionality again in the next few days Currently working again, YAY!.

PS: send my friend Nettle any extra warm fuzzies and strength if you have some extra fuzz. She’s being a mighty battle-druid in a stressful life-situation I am not at liberty to expand upon. Suffice it to say, I’m sending her as many good vibes as I can this week.

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