The *Angriest* Pharmacist You want your prescription filled when? Eat shit…

Rise and Fall, RAGE and Grace

Well, hello world. How the hell are you? When we last parted ways, the site was infected with some sort of virus that was spiraling out of control, and I had taken it offline to try and remedy the situation. I expected a 72-hour turn around. Yet, here we are -- more than 3 months later. Where'd I go?

I dug in to do some work and found that this festering virus had scrambled and garbled a signficant portion of my older posts. It wasn't anything that was unfixable. It would just require man hours proofing and editing as opposed to the semi-automated way I was going to cure this silliness by exporting my posts as a (as far as I know) uninfectable source file, and reinstall wordpress and plugins from scratch.

The download was done. The new database was created. While comments were going to be lost, I was confident I could get it rebuilt quickly. Locally (meaning, in the website's Parent Folder on my computer), I was all ready to go. All the was left was to delete the garbled mess and re-insert my original words if I could remember those final words. I began reading, analyzing, considering, and re-considering the words I had written...some as much as three years prior as a much younger, immature, unmarried, and overall unrefined young man.

My path to correct a technical error led me on an intrinsic exploration of how I felt then compared to how I feel now -- and how my beliefs and perceptions of the world around me had changed in the previous year based on the events of my life (the triumphant, the tragic, and even the traumatic). Those of you that read more than five of my posts know that I am opinionated, unapologetic, brash, and often crossed the line in how I treated those that disagreed with me -- especially if that person expressed their dissent in an unprofessional manner (a standard that I did *not* hold myself to -- which was hilariously frustrating when I posted a slanted viewpoint to get a rise out of a specific population of people).

I'm a few years older, a few years wiser, so what? I agree. One way to show true naivety would be to speak of deep personal growth in three short years. I'm certainly not saying that by any stretch of the imagination. Have my stars changed so much in that time that, perhaps, my thoughts, opinions, or views have shifted dramatically? Not really. What opened my eyes was the stark contrast in my voice from February 2007 to February 2010. While I had the occasional bright spot where I showed a glimpse of maturity, like the very popular post "The Worker's Plea," it was negated when followed by a post where I disassembled a commenter's opinions for disagreeing with me and handled it by posting his picture, real name, email, home address, and home phone number. It was funny to me then. Hell, it's funny to me now, but these days, I at least have the common decency to realize it's wrong and gains nothing for the site.

So, what's the point here? Well, I have a few goals here. As you can probably tell, this is not wordpress. I am using this now as a vessel to teach myself ASP.NET -- I have plans to implement several functions on this site to flex those dotNet muscles. I also aim to use it to catch up the world on what all their favorite pharmacist accomplished in the last three months. To sum up: A move, a new house, a huge mortgage, a new job, another new job, an additional state license, and much, much more.

As far as the archives go, consider the majority of it as lost (even though it's not). Much like the Worker's Plea above, I have the backup of the posts. While not convenient to access and pull from, I do plan on pulling out my best, most popular pieces of writing and sharing those....as I expand in my programming skills.

I don't have a public email address as of yet. After being pestered by 30 people on AIM in the past two hours, I've recreated "webmaster[@at@]theangriestpharmacist.com" for emails. I'm not sure I want to add that level of access again as it often became so bogged down that I was weeks behind in replies. No telling on response time to emails. Therefore, if you would like, try and catch me on AOL Instant Messanger. TheAngriestPharm seems like a good place to start. No promises on availability. Just loose promises for fresh, relevant content on this site which is sure to be down a lot, buggy as hell, and have the potential to kick my tail for trying to expand beyond html.