The Aerie
In preparation for the Tenth Anniversary of my blog, I'm preparing to do a little housecleaning. Yes, it's been TEN YEARS of blogging here at the Aerie, which would be impressive except that there are people like Asia Carrera (first entry in the Wayback Machine is 3/5/1997 and unsurprisingly NSFW) and James Lileks (12/4/1998 and unsurprisingly SFW) whose blogs are in driver's training class. Both of them have blogs so ancient that the Wayback Machine can't even go back to their beginnings: I hope that they have archived their own early postings for posterity. Okay, I'm SURE Lileks has them organized on color-coded index cards.
So to celebrate my tenth anniversary of blogging I'll be starting when my finals finish mid-month to set up new blogging software, redo the layout, and possibly even put some advertising on here so that my vast readership can help keep me in decaffeinated coffee and Uncle Hugo's paperbacks.
However for the next couple of weeks I'm going to be quite busy wrapping up the college semester. I'm undecided as to whether I want to register for any classes next semester. Part of that will be determined by whether my current employment contract ends on the 10th or not - there's a big Board decision that will either bring me two years of work or 0 days of work. If I end up on the street again, I'll probably register for classes since that worked this semester (I'm shooting for an 'A'). However if I have work then I might skip a semester since work plus college makes me grumpy, and I have a bunch of my own projects that I'd like to complete.
Anyway if over Christmas break you see some downtime, or the page jumps up and one of the crossbeams has gone out askew on the treadle, it's probably me hacking away at the layout.
Meanwhile we just finished Thanksgiving, which was very nice. My mother, sister and brother came over with my nieces and nephew. Theresa's friend Serena also joined us.
During the days that followed it was wonderful having the twins at home. Dinnertime conversation goes rocketing off into complete silliness.
I also had a ton of work to do over the weekend, and some of it got done. I had to put in four hours a day of paying work, which ate severely into my homework time. I also suffered a bout of insomnia on Saturday night, and Sunday ended up being rather a wash as I was addled with fatigue. But I got my ears lowered and my laundry washed and ironed and put away, so it wasn't a completely useless day.
So that's the latest. Back to work!