If you are not here via Googling the phrase “I can’t f&*#ing install WordPress on Aplus.net WHY GOD WHY,” you should probably skip this post, because it is filled with technical jargon (and many occurrences of the word “shit”) that you will not care about. However, since there is nothing else on the web with help for this question that I could find, I’m going to write it in the hopes that it will save some of you the heartache that I had to go through to get it to work.

1. Don’t use Aplus.net’s WordPress application. It sucks. Once you have it installed, the files are all willy-nilly and messed up and you can update neither automatically, nor manually. It’s– in a word– shit. Don’t do it.

This is a screenshot of Aplus.net's shitty WordPress installer. Avoid it.

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Ok, well, you all know that I don’t really have the energy to obsess about anything, but this is as close as I get. Here are my obsessions (or, um, things that I like a little more than other things) currently:

Zumba

So much fun! It’s like you’re not even working out. I got a LivingSocial deal for Tease Fitness in Durham. They’re a women’s “boutique” fitness facility, which, near as I can tell, means they’re in kind of a crappy, low-rent building with sucky air conditioning, but their classes are super duper cheap even without the LivingSocial deal, and I’ll probably keep coming back for Zumba at least. It’s Latin flair aerobics without all the yelled instructions, which is nice. (No more, “Come on, ladies! Feel the BURN!”) You just follow the teacher and move, and in an hour you’ve sweated through all your clothes and burned a bajillion calories.

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