I’ve changed my site a bit. Been “playing” with Drupal and WordPress, found this theme, liked it, so I installed and activated it for this site. Thinking of completely doing away with my “regular” site and just going with this blog as my main site. Thinking on it… Would save space on my server and I wouldn’t have so many sites to keep updated. Not that I update regularly.
Y’all let me know what you think of the new theme. I’ll still be playing with it for awhile but eventually it’ll settle down to how I want it to work…
Man, I’ve been busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest!
Completely re-ripped our cd’s to .flac format. That’s a couple of hundred cd’s that now take up way too much space on my hard drive. And I still have to convert it all back to .mp3 format for our phones!
Been selectively re-ripping our dvd’s/Blu Ray’s to .mp4 (HD) format. Getting much better video quality in just about the same file size as the .avi files. MAY just re-rip all our dvd’s to .mp4 format. (Only the blu ray’s will do .mp4 (HD) format.)
STILL laying flooring in the mother-in-law apartment! Have less than half of the last bedroom to lay. Then it’s paint and re-install the trim, lock the toilet down, clean the place up and we’re finished! Anyone need to rent a 1000 sq ft “apartment” for only $750 a month?
Our son has occupied the RV. Don’t get me started!
Radio stuff is going okay. Spend more time listening in than talking but it’s still fun. Finally got my laptop to consistently connect to the radio. Had some antenna troubles the other day and wound up taking my 2-meter antenna down (in the rain), rebuilding it and putting it back up (in the rain). Works great (again).
Speaking of rain: it finally did start to rain. Then rained for several days. Sometimes down poured. We need it but, damn! Not all at once! It has controlled the various fires in Western Washington but, damn! Not boding well for the coming winter…
The Garden has finally given up it’s last for the year. We had a great crop of peas, beans and maters. Still have a ton of green maters on the vine even though we picked 20 lbs of maters day before yesterday. Have them in paper bags on the counter getting ripe. I canned a bunch (14 pints) yesterday that we picked a few days ago. Nice having sliced tomato’s for whatever in the fridge. Gotta remember to grow my own onions next year. If we let ourselves (and could afford it) we’d have the whole back yard filled with the raised-bed planters…
Like I said, spent some time trying to learn a program called Drupal. Was thinking of using it for the new website MC-ARC wants me to put up for the club. Too involved though. The guy who takes over as “webmaster” after me might find it hard to learn and keep up. I’ll probably just set up a WordPress blog and try to keep it looking about the same as it does now. That’d make it easier to import all the posts that have already been posted also.
NMARES is still a failing Ham Radio Club. I’ll probably kill our NMARES site and incorporate it into the MC-ARC site since we’re an ‘affiliated” club now. Would save NMARES $14 every quarter anyway. I’ll have to run it by the members. Those that show up, that is.
And that’s about it for now…