I’ve got nothing else.

I used to feel younger than my actual age. Now I feel older. I’ve got to reverse that.

This vacation has given me the time to catch up on website work. RebelZero.com is slowly coming around as I learn the Drupal CMS. I began another site called SungInBlood.com which is a tribute site to my favorite author, Glen Cook. It, too, is based on Drupal and, since I haven’t officially released it, I’ve been able to take my time adding content to it while experimenting with how Drupal works. I’d like to concentrate more on customizing the theme. Of the available ones that I’ve found, only a small handful seem to fit and only to a certain degree.

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The teacher notes on the back of my report cards always mentioned that I rarely applied myself. I could never understand what they were referring to and, if possible, how to change that. After a while, I thought it was one of those rubber-stamp phrases they had for certain students in which they didn’t have the patience to teach. I see now that my problem was never a lack of applying of myself but rather the opposite. Concentrating on one task until its completion before moving on to another is the problem I see before me today and must be what my teacher’s were referring to. I always apply myself to the task, but my interest wanders from task to task until I have so many tasks going on at once that I don’t seem to complete any of them.

At work, I can manage priorities based on the needs of the day. If need be, I can micro-manage tasks off to others instead of assuming them for myself. This comes in handy when my boss is too busy to see how unbalanced the workload has gotten throughout the day. But at home, there are rarely no real reasons for tasks to become prioritized. Just looking around the room, I can see nine tasks that need completion. I can also see that my beer is empty. And with that, the distractions continue.

I recently migrated this blog from Movable Type “Open Source” to WordPress which went very smooth in regards to the text. Any inline pictures, logo, graphics, screen shots weren’t part of the import. Luckily, I had a backup done before I wiped the MTos installation off of the host’s server. I think I’ve gotten most of the images back. This current theme likes to float them to the left whereas I like them to the right. After trying to hack the css file to make it work, I decided to live with it and adjust.

Aside from the blog, I have other action items to prioritize for my vacation that include renewing the plates, replacing the rotors, and performing an oil change for the car. I’ve got a few books from my reading list I want to either finish or start. I’m also looking into re-organizing the home network so I can move a more robust and feature full server forward to act as the router/firewall while at the same replacing the current Linksys router by converting it into a simple wireless access point.

The Type-A personality side of my brain must be taking over as my re-organization tasks all began with the few websites I’m currently administrating. During this re-organization, I noticed that my page for working around OpenOffice.org’s bug while using a dark GTK theme was missing. It was due to move to my RebelZero.com site, but the link to its original location was still in place. In the mean time, I place a static page at its original location until I find the time to officially move it.

Now I’m off to get a bottle or three of Labatt’s Blue and enjoy the start of my well deserved vacation.