I am just letting you know that there will likely be some interruptions in this blog in a sense. It was unavailable for a few hours today because I forgot to renew the domain. I took care of that, but now Movable Type 5 has been released, and I will likely want to upgrade and try different features. This includes template changes, so don't be surprised if the blog looks absolutely horrible in the next several days or weeks.

Sorry about my absence folks, although those of you that follow me on Twitter or Facebook know that I am alive and kicking.

I should be talking (or should have talked) extensively about my experience on the Owyhee River. It was tremendous, to be sure, and not easily put into words. Maybe I will give a somewhat brief summary soon. Maybe I will vlog it instead. I do plan on returning here again in any case. Let me fill you in on the last 2 months.

July 10-July 24: Trip of a lifetime. Returning feeling healthier than I have since fall 2005.
July 25: Picnic in the park with friends followed by watching the best worst movie ever. Wore Columbia gear.
July 27: Found out the contract with Cedars is basically over and the job in the fall isn't going to happen. I am also overqualified for anything else. Radiation started. Barbecue with friends (this time in French!). Wore Columbia gear.
July 29: I learn that another young adult with cancer died two days earlier. I drop the ball WRT to Julie's birthday.
July 30: Severance pay ends. Start really feeling ill, tired and depressed from radiation.
August 12: Interview at company. Not too impressed.
August 13: Tumours acting up. Not happy.
August 18: Apply at three game companies.
August 19: Phone interview at one of them. Tumours gradually begin to stop bothering me.
August 20: Face-to-face interview at the second one.
August 21: Accept offer at the second one.
August 24: Start work. As a producer.
August 28: Lose backpack with a lot of valuables.
August 31: Realize that the backpack is actually lost. Meeting with oncologist suggests that the cancer is under control. We'll see.
September 3: Start class once again.

I will go back and elaborate on some of these things soon. By the way, it seems that this blog has absolutely no formatting in some browsers. Could you indicate to me if you can see my template at all? Just leave a comment. Thanks.

I think I have finally figured out how to add to and change things properly (as far as the templates go) in this blog. All pages, including and especially the individual entry pages, should look right. Also, the category and monthly archives should be looking good, too. There remains a couple of pages that are not fixed yet, including the archives and the comment confirmation page. I will get around to those soon if necessary.

I will also be making a comments RSS feed, if I can figure that out.

I tried (and tried and tried and tried) to install the Magic Paper template here on this blog. This is as far as I can get so far. The front page doesn't look so bad, but everything else looks like hell, especially the individual pages. I'll get to it soon. 

The ease with which you make changes in MT's templates is buggy, to say the least.

Sorry about the outage there. Things should be fine now.

I have been away for two reasons. One, I have been busy with work (more on that later)  and chemotherapy (more on that later). Secondly, I couldn't have blogged even if I wanted to, which I did. There were technical problems that prevented me from entering information in the text box. Stupid, no? What's worse is that it was all caused because I didn't include the "www" in the login URL. Thanks, MT.

What I intend to do for the time being is to show you some pictures that I have taken over the last little while. I will expand on the topics I broached later. This week, hopefully. In the meantime, check out some photos from a recent trip to the Botanical Gardens.

Sorry about that.

That's because I can't quite figure out how themes and templates work in the new MT. I'll figure it out soon.

Anyway, welcome to the new blog. It's not very different from the old one. I have gotten involved in some photo therapy, so I should have an interesting gallery to show you soon, probably by tomorrow or Thursday.