Today is Christmas Eve! This year has really flown by for us--having kids seems to enhance that effect, definitely. At least this year we didn't pop out another kid...for a while it seemed as though it were a yearly thing...
The past few days it has been pretty unnaturally warm, and we've had all the windows in the house open, but last night it seems the cold has rolled back in. Not very cold, but at least the heat is back on and the windows are shut now.
I did come across an old blog of mine a couple of days ago--on livejournal no less. It was quite amusing to read through--I think the dates ranged from early 2004 to the end of 2006. I was definitely a dumb kid back then, haha. Had a lot of good times with friends, though.
And that got me thinking about blogging systems. I like this one decently, but it is "no frills" for sure. Sometimes it is nice to have some additional features... So I was considering moving back to wordpress, or maybe even tumblr or something. I don't actively think I will do it though, it is nice to have the freedom of my own platform and host and all that. Besides, I could always program in the features I would like to add, since this whole thing is open source! One thing that I do not like is that articles are stored and named as numbers, since there is no db backsystem. I may have to go and try to re-work this so that it is more intuitive for humans. Without using a db, it can get tricky, and would be facilitated by an editor of sorts to create posts. Right now I just ssh in and use nano to create posts, which is an advantage of the simplicity in the way that it is currently set up.
I think today the family is going to go to church, and then this afternoon we will go to my parents' house for Christmas stuff with my immediate family and mother-in-law. Should be fun, and I'm sure that the kids will have a blast.
Kids really bring Christmas alive!
Tags: #christmas #random #life #blog
