April 30, 2025

Stay tuned!

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…

April 3, 2025

Blogus Interruptus, Part Dieu

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…

January 8, 2025

Happy Belated New Year!

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….

January 6, 2025

Jamestown Settlement

In the summer, Tim and Terry came to Williamsburg for a visit. We love having them, they are wonderful folks, and it’s really nice to be able to just talk to people of a like mind. Love y’all! Anyway, we tend to go out sight seeing when they are here, so we decided to go to Jamestown Settlement. There are two Jamestown museums in Williamsburg, the other being Historic Jamestown. The two are not related, but are very near each other geographically. It’s a bit confusing, but there it is. Oh, before we get too far, I would be remiss not mentioning that the camera du jour today was the…

December 25, 2024

Merry Christmas!

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.

November 17, 2024

Agecroft Hall

In June, Jourdan and Stefani came over to spend the weekend with Melanie and I for Fathers day. They had proposed a trip to Agecroft Hall in outside of Richmond as a nice day out. Having never heard of Agecroft Hall before, I investigated. It’s a fascinating story of an English manor which fell into disuse and was purchased by T.C. Williams Jr in 1925. The useable parts of the building were disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic and reassembled overlooking the James river in Richmond. It’s an interesting story, and we like old buildings, so it was perfect for a day out. The camera used for these images is the…