Artistic Meanderings

Okay, I have everything migrated, including comments, from my Livejournal. The posts say “0″ comments but trust me, they all migrated. My next step will be to get all 193 posts categorized. Joy.

I’m still trying to decide whether to work with eFiction for my fiction, or just categorize and tag posts accordingly. Ditto for Coppermine Gallery, where I currently have my concert photography and all of my older Poser Artwork. I also have a lot of legacy pages that I’m trying to figure out what to do with.

Once I get everything migrated from my old website and once I’m sure everything is working correctly, I’ll be deleting it. I’ve had a personal web site since 1995 in one form or another. The first few incarnations I hand-coded in Notepad. After awhile I found that hand-coding almost 90 pages of Moody Blues concert photography was just too much – and I switched to Frontpage – which is what I coded the old website in, later updating with MS Expressions. Now I’m moving onto Wordpress, and I think I am really going to enjoy this.

More later…

After a lot of deliberation, sulking, and waffling I’ve made the decision to migrate over to my domain, where I really belong. Coming along with me will be my fan fiction and fan art, as well as the more personal aspects of my life.

Until then this site is going to be amazingly dull. Patience, grasshopper!

Sunday evening I talked to Mom and got the bad news: They’re discontinuing chemotherapy for Dad.

Several years back Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had surgery to remove it. At the time the doctors pronounced him clean of all cancer, and we thought that was that.

Almost three years ago Dad was diagnosed with bone cancer, having metastasized from the original prostate cancer. Suddenly, things weren’t as hopeful as we’d thought to begin with.

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They’re moving me.

I’m sitting at my computer desk, still connected, while around me my sons, my daughter-in-law, my brother-in-law and one of Rich’s friends are loading up all of my belongings into a Budget Rental van.

In a few short hours I’ll be residing permanently in our state’s capital, about an hour from here.

I’ve moved away from my home town area, but that was because my ex joined the Army during the 80’s Recession.

Now I’ll be on my own, literally. I do plan to adopt a cat from one of Springfield’s animal shelters, though. Have a little lady already picked out, in fact.

Wish me luck!

This whole “not being around much” is really starting to get to me. I mean, I read my friends list and such daily, sometimes more than once, so I AM around. I’m just too exhausted to contribute – at this point.

My job has turned into something wonderful, and it was definitely the correct move to make. Mediacom has gone steadily downhill since I’ve left, with the employees bearing the brunt of cutbacks. Rich reports that his group is now working four phone queues at once, plus reports, call backs, etc. They’re remodeling, and the two tech support groups got booted from their cubicles so Sales could move in and take over. Instead, they’re working side-by-side on conference tables. I don’t know which stupid management person came up with this solution, but whoever they are should give up THEIR office and try working that way – for several months, apparently.

Back to my job. The commute is 68 miles one-way, which translates into 2.5 hours of  driving each day. I’m so brain dead from the drive that I’m barely functioning at the end of the week.

That’s about to change.

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