ghotifish.net

I’m in training for version 6.1 this week, which is both a blessing and a curse — a blessing because I don’t have to deal with customers at all; a curse because I have to sit through 40 hours of class when only about 5 hours worth is actually new to me. I am quite glad to be learning the new stuff, though; one tires of having to feign knowledge.

One of the perks of being in training (other than freedom from the telephone) is that I get home 1–2 hours earlier than normal. I am amazed at what a difference this makes: I am able to cook and eat dinner before the sun sets. Today I did a couple of laps around Lake Calhoun, which was mildly abuzz with windsurfers (Windboarders? I’m not sure if it can be considered a form of surfing if done sans surf) and sailboats.

Even better, I found out yesterday that starting next week I’ll be working 9:30–6:00 rather than my current 10:30–7:00. This is great not only for the reasons discussed above, but also because it means that David and I will be able to carpool to work and/or bike to work together. As David points out, we might as well just get married while we’re at it… but then we’d have to leave lovely Minnesota, wouldn’t we?

Preparations continue apace for the Loyd–Applegarth wedding. I spoke to Matt this evening about helping out with the inevitable airport shuttling. So many plans to make! I really don’t think I could handle it.

On to geekier news…

I’ve been doing a lot of poking around with WordPress. It’s not nearly as polished as MovableType, but it is available under the GPL, and it’s written in PHP, which I find to be much more friendly than Perl. Don’t be surprised, therefore, if ghotifish.net suddenly changes again in the next few weeks. I think I may even be able to coax WordPress into serving as the backend for Professor Yeti, which would be great — I’d be able to apply expertise gained from working on my own site to PY, and vice versa.

Speaking of Professor Yeti, the broken server/missing files craziness sorted itself out when everything suddenly reappeared on the server as if nothing had happened. We still haven’t heard from 1&1 about the incident. The hosting plan is a free promotional deal, so I guess you get what you pay for, but on the other hand I strongly doubt that 1&1 will see us sign up for a paying plan when the free one runs out.