I decided to un-retire from the photo biz. With Lily getting a little older, I’ll have more time to put into it and I think this summer we’re going to start working on the summer house to get it together for use as a studio. This makes me =)
I moved my blog from Joomla to Wordpress. Wordpress is easier for me to update and manage.
Unfortunately, the script I used to transfer my articles munged the Joomla database, so I lost a lot of stuff. Fortunately, I don’t update very often, but still, I lost some things I’d have rather kept.
Oh well, what are you gonna do. At least now I’ve got a blog that I’ll update on a semi-regular basis.
I love the idea behind linux. I like the sense of community it fosters and the innovation that comes from having many different ways to go about a project and yet having a general concensus on the direction the project should go. The only thing that has kept me from adopting linux in general, and Ubuntu in particular, as my primary operating system was the sheer amount of things that didn’t “just work” out of the box.
All that has changed with 9.04. I’ve got it installed on my netbook, my laptop, and both my home and office desktops and everything (so far, knock on wood) “just works”! Well, actually, I haven’t gotten the webcam on the laptop to work yet, but it gets used so rarely that its not really a priority for me to worry about. If I need to use video conferencing or the webcam, I’m more apt to use the netbook anyway (which does work).
It’s nice to see enough progress that I’ll soon be able to ditch M$ as an OS altogether and use free software. That’s the dream.
I haven’t updated in awhile, which I’m sure comes as an immense shock to anyone who’s ever been to my blog before. I won’t claim to make up for lost time, but I do have some notes.
Things are pretty quiet around the homestead, hence no updates for awhile. The working out is going well, Lily is growing like a weed, and things are just generally humming along. Lily is starting to get more of a personality now. She’s definitely going to have our sense of humor. She’s also fascinated by all things animal, which bodes well for her inclusion in the household…although it probably doesn’t bode quite as well for Jude, Max, and Luna. I think the fish are probably safe.
Saturday, I did some cleaning around the house and got the bookshelf in the living room semi-organized. I’m still working on getting things simplified around the house…getting rid of the things we don’t need or use and just trying to reduce the sheer volume of “stuff” that seems to have crept into our lives.
It’s finally happened. Barbara has turned me completely to the light side. I’m now officially a bleeding-heart, tree-hugging, recycling, enviromentalist, open-minded liberal.
I don’t remember when it started…I have to give her credit for the insidiousness of her operation. It’s progressed over the years, up until Lily was born and she convinced me to go with cloth diapers. Cloth diapers…didn’t they go out of vogue in the caveman days? And then, again, with cloth wipes. We don’t buy household cleaners anymore, we roll our own. We have resusable rags for cleaning and have severely curtailed our usage of paper towels. We (usually) take our own reuseable bags to the supermarket. We patronize farmer’s markets.
Now, I may be off base here, and correct me if I’m wrong, but when I became a full-fledged member of hippie commune, wasn’t I supposed to get a complimentary pair of birkenstocks and an introduction to the secret handshake?
She’s done her recruiting with a Master’s skill, you see. For no longer is it just my going along with her idea to go green. Now I find myself doing it on my own…taking my own initiative. This morning I cleaned off all my desk and made a pile of paper to recycle. Then, I got to thinking about how much paper I waste on a weekly basis and realized that I should really try to do something about that.
I’m kinda forgetful, so I’ll jot down notes on a pad, then forget where I put the pad, and end up jotting notes on a new one. No lie, I cleaned up six pads today. I installed Dropbox on my PC last week, and I just installed Evernote this morning. Although I’ve tried it before and failed, I’m going to see if I can gear up to going at least 90% paperless in my normal work/home day. None of my information is super secret, so I don’t mind that it’s in “the cloud” and with regular backups, I can ensure that my data doesn’t disappear if one of the services goes tits up.
I have to admit though, it sure is nice saving money on things that we’d normally throw out. We use a lot less consumable paper at home since the introduction of cloth diapers/wipes and more organic cleaning supplies. With the economy in the state its in, every little bit helps.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go weave my own baskets…
