It’s been a while… quite a long while in fact. Life got busy. I got to work on projects. One of those (Xen) had to be punted and I’m getting the itch to try it again. I think it will have to wait though. A higher priority is figuring out how to deal with a website content management system that’s old and unsupported, not so much for me as for church. I’ve tried out a customized package of drupal … which seems neat, but doesn’t seem particularly responsive when I first hit the site … not a good thing. It has plenty of CPU/memory behind it so I don’t know what the issue is. Better bet is to look at migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3.0. Whether I can do that with the upgrade plugins or not, I don’t really know.
Work has been an adventure. Big changes since I last posted. New boss, new responsibilities. Less work in areas that I enjoy but am not really the best at. More work in other areas that are pretty unique to me. Long term roadmap? That is less clear. Lots of changes are going on. Change is happening with my parents too. For the first winter in far more years than I’ve been alive, my dad didn’t have to worry about cows being milked. It’s a mixed blessing of course … work provided stability but certainly took its toll on both of my parents. Now, far moreso than with me, their future is cloudy, but I have faith they’ll make it through. Mom is working in a care center and Dad delivers meals on wheels. The Lord provides.
The kids are growing. I worry about whether we provide enough mental growth potential for them at home. We don’t really do extracurriculars like scouts with them, but I would like to take them on more learning opportunities. They’re little sponges. They were looking at a book on volcanoes on the sofa earlier this evening that dear daughter had checked out from the library. I wonder how many other little girls have checked out that book. What does her future hold?
Well, early to bed after a troublesome night of sleep last night. Hopefully getting into posting again will clear some mental cobwebs and the spiders that come with them.
