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Summer, 2009

Trying to figure out this spring and summer.  Spring was cold (especially at the Woodstock High School softball field), and summer has had more than its share of rain, in fact this last weekend was the first that we did not have weather related rain-outs for softball tournaments.  Really can’t complain, as we have only had to run the air conditioner just a handful of days. 

The upcoming weekend will be Abby’s final tournament of the summer, they have had a successful season to date, with one 1st place and four 3rd places out of the 7 tournaments they have participated in.  And the weather looks good for this weekend!

Caleb has been trying to caddy this summer, you can tell the economy is still struggling when the affluent are cutting back in areas that they never did before.  He is lucky to get one carry a week. 

Changed my blog look last night, love blue, but it was TOO blue.  This is simpler, but still tweaking it.  Michael Hyatt (CEO of Thomas Nelson) was kind enough to let me use his twitter and facebook icons, now just to get them dropped down on the page and add “you can find me …”.  I really need to take an HTML class to get the basics down if I want to do more web work. 

Not much sleep last night, Abby went to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter film, so I did not sleep well until I knew she was back at her friends where she was spending the night.  She was good about texting me and letting me know where she was and when they arrived.

Off to work, hoping nobody asks me anything difficult today. :-)

Blog Update

Last week I went to a seminar in Nashville called Lifework 2.0 (www.lifeworkseminar.com) that is about Web/Blog design, Seach Engine Optimization (SEO), and Social Marketing (facebook and twitter).  It was led by Spence Smith (www.spencesmith.com & @spencesmith) and Randy Elrod (www.randyelrod.typepad.com & @recreate).  Learned a lot, and am experimenting with what I learned on this blog. 

To start, I moved it from Blogger to WordPress (www.wordpress.org) hosted by Bluehost (www.bluehost.com).  I will also be moving my other two websites (www.bellpaintingandremodeling.com and www.myaccuratebookkeeping.com) to blog-based websites as they come up for renewal. 

I learned about SEO and how and why to implement it.  My head was spinning by the end of the day.  It is really difficult to cover all of the information that Randy and Spence could spit out and absorb it all.  Fortunately, they provided us with many links that will help us keep doing what they taught us to do.

If web work is something that drives you, interests you, or your are simply curious, I would encourage you to attend this seminar.