Category: Personal

Personal Category

Problems I make for myself

If it’s not bad enough to confront ordinary problems, one is confounded by problems we beget of our own making.  Such is it with these three fellows.

catproblem2A stray cat showed up, staying under our back porch.  She went away, or so we thought, until one day we were ambushed by a snarling cat, protecting a litter of kittens.  We trapped the mother and took her to animal control, because she was aggressive, but the kittens were too light to set the trap, and too fast to catch them all.

I had never seen kittens grow up, and grew rather fond over the circus act they put on every day.  Time has gone by, and now they are almost cats.  What should I do?

Innovate or Die

Well, my time with the NBA.com development team is drawing to an end.  My contract was up at the end of September and I got notified it was extended a month last Friday. So I was happy for the weekend.

But, I had already interviewed for another job, and after careful consideration, decided that I would take it, if offered.  There were things there, that I wanted to learn.  And today it was.

I like where I am.  I prayed about it.  I thought about that every time I think about being ABLE to specialize in something, I get driven back to the generalist role.  And then the thought came to me that I could come back someday.  “Better. Stronger. Faster.”  I will know what drives the industry that monetizes a web site.  I don’t know that I will, but it’s comforting now, because I liked it.

I think sometimes that you’re guided to the point that your will and God’s will are the same, if you’ll be quiet and listen, and maybe this is one of those times.  I owe Him the benefit of a doubt.  At least I can still have lunch with my old team. 🙂

A Sunday Morning

I sitting here on a foggy Sunday morning, after getting early and catching up on things. I can’t explain how 2 months have gone by since my last post, but I’ll tell you this story.

I saw the gap in time, and so I thought I’d post something, since I’m out back on a quiet, foggy morning, and I intended to devote some time to my spiritual well-being.  So I logged in and first was obliged to upgrade the site, because it was out of date.  That lead to having to update some of the plugins, one of which I had to do some research on to make sure it was compatible before I installed it.  After 30 minutes, I was able to start writing this

And that is how things have been going, before I can do this I have to do that.  But it don’t mean nothing, not a thing.  That’s why I’m here.  There is a lot going on in the world, and when I need guidance, there is nothing better than Proverbs, so I’ll leave you with this one:

Proverbs 4:26-27

26 Give careful thought to thepaths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

My new job

It’s been two weeks since I started a Drupal development job for NBA.com at Turner Sports.  I think back on the path I’ve been on – Linux, Drupal, Website development.  I can see that God prepared this path for me.  I’ve been able to get in and provide value to the team, and more importantly, validate that I am on the right path, which gives me hope for Loganville Linux.  Here are some pictures to commemorate this time in my life

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I found out this week that I’m going to get to meet Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal.  I’ve learned a lot about Drupal multi-site development, and confirmed for myself that the same issues I have with moving a site between DEV, Integration, and Production sites, even the big guys have.