The school where I got my Airframe and Powerplant mechanic's license just revamped its website. They contacted me to get a "testimonial" and then sent me an email with a link when the new site went up, which was this past week.

In addition to the current photo of me on the job that I sent them, I found that there was a picture of me at the school when I was a student. I don't even remember it being taken. Most of the pictures from the school that they used on the website were from my class, apparently, because I recognized a few of my classmates. We must have just been the most photogenic class, or something, because that was nearly ten years ago.

I have been messing with WordPress and importing posts, templates etc. for most of the weekend. Then I realized I was messing with blogs so much I hadn't remembered to post. Mike helped me out and installed WordPress on my hosted space alongside this blog and I successfully imported all of my posts and comments from here over to there. There is still work to do before I am ready to make the big switch over to the new format, though, but I am getting much closer. I still have to get a template set up that works with all of my old posts and photos.

As far as life in general, work is busy, school is good (I got a 95% on my last paper) and the animals are all mostly fine. The neighbors are still loud and annoying, our water heater sprung a leak last week, and Louie (the fat black dog) has gingivitis. Exciting, huh?

This has been a busy week, and I haven't had much time to post. Thanks to Mike, Tortoise Hollow is now back online after a long hiatus. There were technical problems: Mike said that my installation of WordPress over there had a virus, but he was able to fix everything- except my template, which was destroyed. Hopefully Melanie has a copy of the template though, and can put it back to looking good.

Mike from absent.canadian posted this photo of his living room mantle the other day, and while I liked the items he chose and the reasoning for them, I thought the arrangement screamed "bachelor" and he needed some help with arranging.

I photoshopped his stuff into this configuration and told him that it would look even better if he had some more items of different heights, because three of the items were all about the same.

We got to chatting and Mike said that a lot of his post-divorce house could use some help. He thought he would post photos of the current configuration and his blog friends could help him rearrange. I think it is a fine idea.

And don't worry, I already told him that the shoes on the hearth have got to go!

I know I have been a sucky blogger lately. Every time I sit down to post something, all I can think of is the house; how nothing is going right and how it probably won't ever get built and then I stop, because you guys don't want to read gloom and doom all the time. So, instead I post boring little posts about nothing, and then I feel bad because I know nobody wants to read that either, and they don't even scratch the surface of what is going on.

Sorry for being so "superficial" in my posting lately.

This afternoon when I got home, I went out to get the mail. On the way out to the mailbox I stopped to pick up some random trash in the driveway. The garbage collectors around here are somewhat careless and there are frequently pieces of trash that are liberated and blow about the neighborhood.

Today's driveway litter consisted of a single dirty white baby sock and a small list folded in quarters. The list said:

Marlboro Lights x 3
Camel Lights
newport
hershey
Pnut M+M
hubba bubba
cups-

I hope it wasn't someone's grocery list, but I think it was. After all, man (or woman) can't live on cigarettes and candy alone.