I know I said that March 1 was the 21st anniversary of the site, but the actual date of the first post was March 23. The post on the 1st was added later becuase Sam wanted to see something on the calendar widget that the site used to show. I am out of the habit of posting anything to this site. I would like to change that. Right now the limiting factor to keeping this blog going, to actualy writing more, is time.

The first post on the original SysMango.com was on March 1st, 2003. Sam had asked that the first post be on March 1st. I didn’t see a reason why not (#DaddyDuty). The original site was developed using Movable Type. When the licensing for Movable Type changed, I moved over to Drupal. I had looked at a lot of of the available software for hosting a personal site. The primary limiting factor at that time was what could I use with the hosting options I was paying for in 2003.

Well, this is awkward. I posted something in April of 2022, blinked and it’s mid-January 2024 already. Actually, I had originally started this post in Jan 3, but well, things happened. Between work demends, everyone getting the normal winter sick (thankfully we haven’t had COVID-19 in the house since May 2022), I just haven’t had the time. I have tried to keep the daily photos thing going, but honestly who really wants to see my face every day?

I have been a little busy, but I did want to note that today is the 14th anniversary of my starting to work from home. April 1, 2008, was the day I moved out of the last office building where I had a dedicated space. People couldn’t tell if my moving out of that office was some sort of April Fool’s Day joke. A few, if I remember correctly, actually expressed some degree of panic that maybe I had lost my job.

Happy New Year! The last two years feel like they’ve lasted a decade. The last five years feel like they’ve lasted longer than anything else I can remember. Let’s hope 2022 dosn’t live up to the threat of being 2020, part 2. Love and Coffee Butch