New Directions
October 25th, 2006
It has been quite a while since I last posted anything here, and for that I apologize. Life has been terribly busy in the last while. Work has been eating up a lot of my time – overtime is great for the bank account but not so good for the blog. Added to the time being consumed by work, Lindsay and I renovated our family room, a task which kept my main computer offline for a little over a week. Once I get the photo galleries on this site up and running I’ll post some pictures of the new and improved family room.
With all that has been going on I found myself getting very angry very easily, all of the time. Stress has a way of doing that to a person. Since that realisation, I have been working on learning to be more Zen. Reading a few books on the subject has helped a great deal. My stress levels have become more manageable and I can actually start considering taking on some more again.
Additionally, a few things are changing which could very well indicate that this is a good time in my life to initiate changes. I just sold my car and placed a deposit on a new Dodge Caliber. The Passat was a great car but we are finding an increasing need for more space. the Caliber has the dual benefit of lots of storage space and of being a very cool car. Also, when Lindsay and I were getting married I said I wanted two good years of marital bliss before we even consider the idea of having kids. Well, 2 years is coming up in July and I am not happy with where I am. I want to be in good shape and healthy before we have kids because making drastic changes to my health and routine after that will be impossible – well, making drastic changes will likely be par for the course but making conscious drastic changes will probably be more difficult.
Another change is my friend Ralph got himself a new job. With that he’ll be leaving Cover-All and he’s looking to make some changes in his life too. Such changes on my part will no doubt be a little easier if I know someone going through similar changes at the same time – especially if we can turn it all into some kind of competition 
So, what does this mean for my blog? Well, I should be making more frequent entries. There should also be more entries about my life and such with perhaps less tech/geek entries. Maybe less geek, not likely but possible. I am also going to abandon development on this blogging engine. It was a great project for learning CakePHP but such development these days takes away from the time I have to create content. Look for this site to become powered by WordPress in the near future. I will still keep a copy of this codebase on my development machine so I will continue to write tutorials for CakePHP and anything esle I can think of. Such development will not be readily apparent on this site in the future, however, unless I start writing WordPress plugins.
Wish me luck as I start down this new road. It is said that even the longest journey starts with a single step and for me, on this site, that first step is this post.
