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What I want to know is... those people who blog casually - how do they get the time to write, it seems, so much and so often? I'd love to do things like rant or praise life or whatever, but I often don't care enough to do it.

However, to all those folks that do keep up with what Donna and I are doing, a big "Hi!" goes out to you. I'm not dead, I just sysadmin more than I write. heheh.

Speaking of which - I figured that I would mention that there's been a bunch of changes with our website, and it all came about mostly due to these asshats who think that guestbook spam is cool, or even the slightest bit useful. Not here, buddies.

So I went to try and make the guestbook not allow spam, and, since I don't code, had to go looking for improvements that other people have made... say, in the form of a new version, or some add-in spam control, a captcha, whatever... anything to cut down on the automated bull#@!&$ that arrives at kiwicanuck.ca daily.

I quickly learned that the best thing to do was to upgrade to the latest version of the software that powers this site, Drupal. So, I did that. And found that the theme broke. I then found that the theme wasn't upgradeable. I found a bunch of things were broken.

So, I went into 'fix' mode, had to update a whole pile of other stuff, and, long story short, had to give the site a new look. I had to spend a pile of time debugging why other things broke when they were updated. It took awhile, during which time parts of the site were unseemingly ugly.

However, I'm happy to say that it's all been completed.

This was a very important process, you see, just so I could spend less time blasting spam... and now I can spend more time saying things like "I have a baby on the way and I'm so excited I could puke!" I'm not sure why I'm so excited, other than I've now read a book that suggests it's a good thing. ;-)

Heheh... I'll have to write more on that topic later. Dinner's buzzing...