diff --git a/up.rb b/up.rb
index 2484e20..f14dcb4 100755
--- a/up.rb
+++ b/up.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require 'open-uri'
 UPLOAD_BASE_PATH = "/home/arachnist/public_html/c/"
 LINK_BASE_PATH = "https://arachnist.is-a.cat/c/"
 HOST = "i.am-a.cat"
-USER = "arachnist"
+USERNAME = "arachnist"
 
 ARGV.each do |path|
     Process.fork {
@@ -17,16 +17,14 @@ ARGV.each do |path|
         ext = "." + path.sub(/.*[.]([^.]*)/, '\1') if path.match(/[^.]+[.][^.]+/)
         content = open(path).read
         md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(content)
-        Net::SCP.start(HOST, USER) do |scp|
-            # basically a glorified syntax sugar for (ext.nil? ? "" : ext)
-            begin
-                scp.upload!(StringIO.new(content), UPLOAD_BASE_PATH + md5 + ext)
-            # we probably tried to add nil to a string ("ext" could possibly be nil)
-            rescue TypeError
-                scp.upload!(StringIO.new(content), UPLOAD_BASE_PATH + md5)
-            end
+        # basically a glorified syntax sugar for (ext.nil? ? "" : ext)
+        begin
+            Net::SCP.upload!(HOST, USERNAME, StringIO.new(content), UPLOAD_BASE_PATH + md5 + ext)
+        # we probably tried to add nil to a string ("ext" could possibly be nil)
+        rescue TypeError
+            Net::SCP.upload!(HOST, USERNAME, StringIO.new(content), UPLOAD_BASE_PATH + md5)
         end
-        printf("%s\n\t=> %s%s%s\n", path, LINK_BASE_PATH, md5, ext)
+        printf("%s\t=> %s%s%s\n", path, LINK_BASE_PATH, md5, ext)
     }
 end