Still tinkering under the hood, but I finally purchased a new theme for the site and have posted it under the Trip Diaries page and I am continuing to learn how to use it and make changes to the existing content over there to make it more a) eye catching and b) closer to the vision of how I wanted to present the Trip Diaries…
June 4, 2020It’s getting down to the wire as my deadline to refresh the site and add more content before the 25th anniversary in June. Today I finally published my Japan 2017 Travel Diary which was amazing since I hardly had any notes from that trip and didn’t think I would ever publish one. I wasn’t sure what happened, but I think I must have been procrastinating…
May 28, 2020While rummaging around the dark dusty corners of the site in my effort to spruce the place up, I realized that today, May 25, is the 7th anniversary of this design for my site. My intent when I converted to WordPress was to be able to change the site design easily and for one reason or another that never happened. So disappointing in some regards,…
May 25, 2020
Third in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up.. One of the things I have always wanted to do is sit down and watch all of the Godzilla movies in order. I have seen most of the films over the years on cable or DVD or in theaters, but the Godzilla mythology never made much sense to me as it all seemed to…
May 24, 2020
Second in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up.. Before the world changed in March 2020, one of my television obsessions was the 2019 Chinese series entitled The Untamed. I was scrolling through Netflix one night while Daniel was working on his homework and remember thinking that the name sounded familiar. I think some random people I follow mentioned the series but I…
May 23, 2020
In my revisit to the Daily Update archives, I noticed that I used to muse long and poetic about media that I was consuming. It slipped my mind that I used to even write e-mail movie reviews. I regret that I have no idea what happened to the backup files for my mid to late 90s web site. Due to that loss, those reviews are…
May 22, 2020
Walking along the cliffs of Laguna Beach remind me of summers in Elementary and Middle school when we would spend a few days at my grandparent’s timeshare. Sometimes you just need to relax and listen to the ocean. We were told it was the end of the bioluminescence in the waters of Orange County, but I didn’t see anything…
May 20, 2020
I wrote a quick link post six years ago about Mount St Helens and I won’t repeat post the links (especially since I just validated them). However, I will present more of a personal story about this volcano. Mount Saint Helens exploded when I was 7 years old and I remember it vividly. Even though we were living in Southern California (I think – it…
May 18, 2020Spent the better part of a week going back through the Daily Update in an effort to update the Flickr links as I am getting ready to delete my old account and host the files locally. There are still a few large Flickr posts I skipped over (especially in the Flicker heavy mid 2000s.) that I need to go back and redirect to the new…
May 17, 2020In the list of lockdown things to do, I finally crossed one off of the list. I was able to finally get the Europe 1996, 1997, and 1998 photos uploaded, edited, added captions, and keywords to my new local photo gallery. With that, everything from 1996-2010 is now hosted locally. I still need to go through remaining galleries that were imported and add some additional…
May 6, 2020