Life is short and those who spend too much time worrying about how their blog looks will invariably miss out on something better.  That’s been my thinking for the past four years.  The old look of this blog always bothered me but I could never really figure how to fix it (so, in fact, it wasn’t because I was out appreciating life, rather I didn’t have the skills to get the job done).  It had a very narrow column for the entries, not enough information available on the homepage, no “About Me” page, and after all these years the whole thing seemed really old to me.  This past year I’ve tried to do a bit of cleaning up and uprgrading on this blog (no more viriuses!), but could never find a decent new theme for the website.  While I’m not sold on this theme, nor has it been tweaked enough to my tastes, we’re going to stick with it for the time being.  Suggestions welcome.

This blog has been under repair for the past month or so.  My apologies.  I had been hearing reports of people getting virus warnings when they visited the site, so I tried to upgrade the Wordpress software I use.  Unfortunately my skills as a blogger don’t really include technical aspects like tinkering with the site’s software, plus I was having problems with various parts of the site that left people at a loss for what was wrong.  Today after a few hours of hard work I figured it out and all is well again!  New posts coming soon, promise.

The first post!