Geekiness to the Nth Degree

Yeah, I'm a geek. This post is going to be brief, but I figured I'd show off a bit of my technical acumen (limited as it is) with my latest web project. I have been working as an educational technologist on top of my day job as an English teacher. It's been pretty interesting, all in all, and has brought me in contact with many interesting people and even more interesting technical projects, one of which has been to redesign the school's technology website.

I did the website, but my boss wanted a blog on the site, and, not being a web designer, I was baffled as to how to get it to appear on the page. Lots of research and work with the tech guys led me to the hack I eventually found, which was to house the blog on Blogger and to bring it in to the TechTimes website via the iframe tag. It's not perfect, but it works! Maybe I'll take another stab at getting Wordpress up on the site, but, for now, the blog is there, the boss is happy, and I can begin the Guidance department redesign!

I have to say that, while it certainly isn't writing fiction, it's still pretty damn rewarding...and fun, too. Techtimes is found at http://ves.neric.org/techtimes/index.html. Just go to the Blog section to see the handiwork.

The Times They Are A Changin'

Let's start with Bob Dylan, shall we?

"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'."

Had a relatively good weekend, all things considered, even though it didn't start out that way. I saw "Pride and Glory" with a friend, had a great steak dinner, watched sports, slept in, and all in all tried to reassemble my world order. Lots going on, here, folks, beyond the typical school stuff. I suppose the greatest seismic shift that occurred for me this weekend was a radical shift in the personal geography. I guess after all this time reality caught up to me and the landscape changed. The tectonics of my personal life are forces that I try to keep stable, but sometimes a confluence of events overwhelms the berms, and I get shaken. Unfortunately, this latest earth quake, which I should have seen coming but was blissfully squatting with my head in the sand, disrupted my stability so much that I lashed out at those around me, those who were innocent and unaware, and I ended up looking like a real ass.

For those who happen to read this, take heed: keep your personal crap to yourself and don't unload on people unless they are aware and able to help. Otherwise, you end up like me, having a weekend of silent brooding and agonizing over an apology that you can't make until Monday.

And, if you're keeping score (who is?), it took me two days to reestablish the bedrock of my personal life. I feel fine, now, and actually have evaluated the past week's events as positive, life affirming steps. In the language of my students, it's all good. Now I can move forward. Now I can take that step that I've been longing to.

Not a bad weekend at all.