It's been a bit too long...
Posted by Kyle Heon Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:05:00 GMT
It’s been super chaotic here in the Heon household with end of school celebrations, father’s day, and multiple family birthdays (father-in-law, my daughter, and my wife) all falling within the same two-week period. Finally we can come up for some air as we are all done with my daughters sixth birthday party. It’s amazing how loud and crazy things get when you add three girls to the mix. I almost think it’s easier with the boys.
So what else have I been up to? Plenty. We bought a new vehicle about a week ago. We’d outgrown our Ford Focus wagon and decided that the time was right to upgrade to a minivan. Thankfully we had a cousin that sells vehicles at a Dodge dealership in the area so we headed over there and he took care of us. We picked up a fully loaded 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT with 11,700 miles on it. Not new but pretty close. When I say fully loaded I do mean it, all it’s missing is heated leather seats (has cloth seats) and the kitchen sink (smirk). Automatic doors, dvd player, 3.8L V6, stow-n-go seating (really sweet), 6-disc dvd/cd changer, 6 (or 8, not really sure) speaker system. We take an annual trip to the family down south (North Carolina) and this will make it much more comfortable.
Other then that it’s been mostly business as usual. I have been listening avidly on the Radiant CMS mailing list and have been exploring this as a replacement for Typo as it seems to be becoming a bit bloated. Everytime I go to upgrade it I inevitably run into issues, be them migration issues or textile/filter related. Additionally my blog seems to be going down on a weekly basis lately. Not sure if that is TextDrive going up/down or Typo simply consuming too much memory and the process being shutdown. I’m also monitoring Mephisto as a possible replacement. Ideally what I want to do is make it possible to continue to have something that makes it easy to post but also flexible enough to let me create a place to post my photography, something that I’m not really finding easy/possible with the current setup.
Speaking of Rails, I picked up a copy of Rails Recipes (for Father’s Day) and I just ordered a copy of Ruby for Rails which recieved a very good review on one of the blogs I subscribe to. It seems to fit well for me simply because I’m trying to learn both Ruby and Rails at the same time and really struggling to grasp either of them (this is probably due to the fact that I only get to spend a few hours a day, sometimes a week, exploring it).