Gina and I had a happy fourth of July with fireworks and the whole nine yards. Someone on metafilter said the fourth is an excuse for unabashed nationalism. The poster was probably right. But nations can probably do with one day a year devoted to that.
I have a lot of improvements in mind for many of the sites I manage but I haven’t had much time to code lately. I’d love to take a week off of work and do nothing but freshen up everything. My WheatBlog project (a PHP/MySQL content management application) has been on the back burner for months. And with what I’ve learned in the interim, I’m considering rolling it from scratch. But it really is a good start, so I probably won’t do anything that extreme. I have several other small things ready to go but no time to impliment them.
I’m going nursing home shoping tomorow with my wife and sister. We need to find a place in Fayetteville for my dad, who is currently at a short-term treatment facility here in town. He’s doing better, actually, but his stay there is less a matter of rehabilitation than of damage control. It’s also been a time of adjustment and reframing for me and for everyone close to him. Dad has some form of dementia (probably of the Alzheimer’s type) and also (possibly) Parkinson’s disease (an affliction which his oldest sister also had).
On a happier note, I ripped mp3s of several Tares tracks that I recorded with the band during my stint as their bass player. None of these versions will appear on the new album (assuming it actually surfaces sometime). I’m considering adding them to the bands page. I might have a chance to do that tommorow. I’m also working on editing some live tracks from two Nancy shows that we played earlier this year. I bummed a minidisc player from a friend and have dumped most of it into SoundForge. Now I just need to find two or three good tracks and export them to mp3s (that’s one more thing to add to my list).