I’m a bit out of sorts this week.  I went out of town over the weekend (for work) and didn’t get back until Monday evening.  This threw my entire week off.  Granted, I get derailed rather easily when taken out of my routine.  I’m quite sure my weekend contained nothing of relevance, so I’ll go with the “random news” format.

In major life news, today is Donette’s last day as a teacher.  She is retiring from her life as an educator of our city’s children.  I do hope the little ones can cope, and this doesn’t throw them into a downward spiral of life.  Time will tell.  I imagine they will pull through.

Almost but not quite as exciting was my birthday last week.  I quit counting but I’m somewhere in the mid-to-upper forties.  Remarkable.  Proof that good living and a healthy lifestyle aren’t necessarily required for longevity.  I went out for a nice steak dinner, and bought myself some new motorcycle tires and a pair of sunglasses.  (Neither of which have actually shown up yet.)  Yay.

In far less captivating news, I upgraded the code on my webserver and switched it to a wireless connection.  Then I promptly switched it back to wired.  This is part of my grand plan to install a new drive in it and get a bit more practical use out of it.  You know, some use other than serving up web-pages to three readers and catching 40-50 spam comments a day.  Optimistic but quite feasible;  Stay tuned for more fascinating progress on this project.  (In slightly related news, has anyone seen the prices of hard drives lately??!!  Eeeesh!!  I bought a 1 Tb drive in Oct 2010 for $54;  Now that same drive is $100.  That ain’t the way it’s supposed to work!)