I'm going to try to get around to writing more later, but for now Amy has posted a series of pictures which gives a glimpse of what I do at Dragon*Con.

Well, after lots of time making sure the design was okay and more time building the back end and more time getting enough content to reach "critical mass", the Huntsville Master Chorale web site is now open for business.

There's not much there yet, but there's enough to get started, and I don't want to grow things too quickly. I'd rather start slowly and keep our hands around it then lose our grip.

Kudos to my lovely wife for the site design and for setting up the back end (running Drupal).

And thanks to Misty for redrawing the Chorale logo in vector format! *hug*

This has just not been our year so far. Not 2 weeks after I recover from the flu, Amy is now sick with some kind of virus (doctor says probably not flu, but symptoms are similar). For those that already know, she's doing okay. She's resting a lot, drinking plenty, and ibuprofen is keeping her fever and aches under control pretty well. I'm just hoping I don't pick this one up. After already missing a week of work, the last thing I need is to miss more. Anyway, the important thing is that she's doing okay.

In much less interesting news, I've also been dealing with a sick computer this weekend. It's a long story, but the gist is that somewhere during a major upgrade I did recently, a hardware or software bug crept in that was occasionally causing random corruptions when trying to read data from the hard drives holding the RAID array. After much head-scratching and trial and error, it looks as if replacing the controller card running those drives with a different (newer) model worked. I don't know if it's the Linux driver or the card itself at fault, but I really don't care any more. It's working! It's been pretty frustrating lately to not be able to trust the very mechanism I put in place to help guard against data loss.

As of yesterday, Amy and I have been married for six years, and I somehow never got around to actually saying the words, "happy anniversary."

Never fear, we had our now-traditional dinner at Pauli's on Saturday night. If you live in Huntsville, and you haven't eaten at this place, treat yourself to it at some point. It's worth it. As for the rest of the weekend, well, it was pretty normal: I was lazy, and she worked on more stuff for Dragon*Con.

So, we didn't have a big celebration or anything. Nevertheless, I meant to at least mention it yesterday. So, instead, I've decided to post a few of the many reasons I'm so happy she clubbed me over the head (just like it happens to every geek guy I know). Happy anniversary, dear. And since you asked, yes, I'm definitely keeping you. :)

I'm convinced that she's the only reason I know as many cool people as I do.
She doesn't mind when I get buried in some kind of computer project, because she's likely to be buried in her own.
Her music sounds better on my hand-picked component stereo than mine does.
She reminds me that reaching beyond my comfort zone every once in a while is a good thing.
She knew even without asking that what I needed more than anything last Monday was to be alone and write for a while.
Who else would do such a cool web site design for me?
She appreciates geeky gifts.
She's perhaps one of the most determined people I know.
She has faith that I can handle things that not even I would believe I could.

Here's to the next six, Amy. I think we'll make it yet. :)