Greetings fair reader. I’m in the middle of a migration from WordPress to either Bludit or Publii. Both tools are static site generators, Bludit resides at the website, meaning I interact with it directly, kinda like WP. Publii is a stand-alone application that uploads the website to the website. In the early days I used something called Thingamablog for the site, which was not dissimilar to Publii. You can see some of that here on the Wayback Machine. Currently, I’m evaluating both systems. Each has it’s plusses and minuses. The challenge, at this point, is getting all the WP stuff migrated over. Each have a plethora of themes to pick…

It’s become painfully obvious, that motivation to continue this blogosphere has drastically diminished. Dunno why, but the motivation to do this has left the building. I’m a bit surprised at this, but retirement has manifested itself in some interesting ways. Contributing to the problem is that WordPress has become a gargantuan beast that, frankly, I’ve got no desire to slay. It’s become large and cumbersome, and fraught with issues at every corner. When I started doing this in WP some 15 years ago, it wasn’t too bad, but now it’s just gotten out of hand. WP is now a developer’s tool, not a blogging tool. I’m going to leave the…

Greetings all, My apologies for the lateness of this post. Don’t really have a reason… It’s been a year of settling into our new lives here in Williamsburg. Discovery, learning, adventure. It’s definitely been a slower pace. Truth be told, we’ve gotten very comfortable with it. Willliamsburg is an interesting city. In actuality, it’s a fairly small community, with the James City County population being some 80k in the last census. I suspect it’s increased since then, but definitely not by a large percentage. The one thing that Williamsburg is, is a tourist community. Between Colonial Williamsburg (CW), and Busch Gardens, the city/county population enlarges significantly during the summer months….

Good morning all. This will be brief as the family will be arising shortly. Melanie and I wish to you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It’s been a full year for us, the first complete year of retirement. I’ll go into the years activities in a New Years post in a couple of days. But for now, we’re hoping you are having a wonderful holiday.