December 25, 2003 at 09:41 am
Merry Christmas!
See you next year!
December 24, 2003 at 09:31 am
Happy Last Day of Advent Eve!
After I post this entry, I think I’ll drive over to Hallmark and propose a new line of greeting cards…
But, seriously, this Advent has been a good one for me and I have received a lot of fulfilling insight and many invitations from God throughout Matins this season. Something that I realized this morning, is the fact that when Jesus arrives (whether analogically during Christmas or daily) I don’t “jump for joy“ nearly enough. So, in preparation for tomorrow, the commemeration of the birth of my Lord, I thought I’d share a few of the things that I learned over the last 24 days.
December 23, 2003 at 1:08 pm
The Blogdom of God
“A new Alliance has been forged. The God Blogs have begun to unite. This potentially formidable force is rallying aroung the banner of ‘The Blogdom of God‘. Although now a small alliance, which could be seen to be like a mustard seed, will it grow as in the parable to be a large tree that birds can nest in?”
December 23, 2003 at 12:16 pm
MT Trackback Pings...
I posted this in the MovableType Support Forum today.
Because of some MySQL DB errors that I was getting after I transferred my MT DB to a new host, I had to delete a Weblog from within MT and import all of the entries back into a newly created Weblog. This, of, course, created new entry locations within the DB (i.e., the imported entries had to be created with new unique IDs). Because of this, every Trackback reference that’s ever been done to any of my entries is now invalid (e.g., if an entry used to be at http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/100 and after importing it is now http://www.my-site.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/500.html, any previous ping that pointed at entry #100 will no longer work).How about any of you out there? Any ideas?
Would there be any way to change this — like Trackbacking title-based locations?
December 23, 2003 at 11:29 am
State of disarray...
Well, if you’ve been to this Weblog lately, you may have noticed that it is hit or miss with what comes up on your screen… I apologize. I am at my wits end with what to do about it, but I am still trying. Give me some time. It will get better.
December 22, 2003 at 10:49 am
A week-full...
This is a tough entry. My Weblog has been down for a little over a week and, during that time, much has happened.
Last Monday, December 15, 2003, at approximately 2:35pm, my father-in-law passed away. It wasn’t completely unexpected, though, after the weekend we had just had.
The previous Friday, shortly after my wife and I arrived home, after leaving a friend‘s concert before they even went on-stage (we were just too tired), we got a phone call: the hospice nurse was at our friend Julie‘s house and was suggesting that we take Julianna‘s dad to the hospital. Without baring all of the details, we ended up staying at the ER until 3:30am. So much for an early evening, huh?
During that weekend, although a couple more friends were able to come and visit, father-in-law’s condition degraded very rapidly. By the end of Sunday, he wasn’t able to do things on his own anymore and Julianna decided that she should stay with him that night.
Then, Monday, with Julianna and her brother, Jason, by his side, their dad died.
We are so thankful for the time that we had with him, though. It was truely a gift to be able to care for him and talk with him in his final days. And so many people (family and friends) were able to come visit him too. God is good and faithful and we will not take that for granted.
Two days ago, Saturday, we had a funeral mass for him at a beautiful Catholic parish in Midtown. On January 24th (father-in-law’s birthday) we are having another memorial in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thank you, everyone, for your prayers and kind thoughts. Julianna and I appreciate them all. Our church community has been wonderful, as have all of our friends. We don’t have the words to express how you make us feel.
December 21, 2003 at 11:05 pm
I'm back!
There’s more to transferring a MovableType database from one host to another than one might ever think. It is a draining, time-consuming process. (I still don’t have Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist back up and working so hopefully I don’t get bombarded — by the way, Jay has been extremely prompt in returning my annoying e-mails too him.)
Anyway, I have thought up a number of notes that have to do with making the MT transfer a much less painful process, but I won’t bore you (or me?) with them now.
Thanks for your patience… I have so much to tell but I am tired and it will have to wait.
December 15, 2003 at 10:31 am
I will be back soon.
Thank you for stopping by. I’m in the middle of switching servers, so please bear with me! I should be back up in a few days.
December 10, 2003 at 06:55 am
Waves...
It snowed again. This time it was “real” (as opposed to the other day, which was but a taste). It is 6:50am and I am at work. On the way to Matins this morning, I discovered out (through the modern miracle of the radio) that all of the school districts that our group observes were closed. Go figure. So I decided to come here.
Last night, I wrote a Blog entry about a bunch of stuff that was going on this week. Now, you may only ever hear about these events in retrospect. They’re vast and deep and full of family history. But it’s all so personal. And difficult. I apologize for being vague.
We have been so emotional lately, which is to be considered, but sometimes, the waves of grief wash up so strongly onto the shores of my psyche that it’s all I can do to stay afloat. We swim, we tread, we fight…and we make it through. God has given us that promise.
Adrift in the waves. But I see land off in the distance. And maybe that’s a light that I see out there too.
December 06, 2003 at 09:48 am
Blessings...
So, I hit you all with a ton of bricks last week (though, possibly, slightly less weighty than the bricks that we were slammed with). Then I neglected to follow up. I admit that my tenor towards nonaccount was intentional, but after looking back on a week — that really seems more like four — I begn to accept that our life may actually be worthy of writing about for more than just my own sake.
December 04, 2003 at 1:26 pm
The bottom majority and proud of it!
December 03, 2003 at 9:14 pm
First snowfall 2003...
