About Time

I've never really been a leading-edge thinker. Heck, I'm not really sure if I've ever even been considered much of a thinker at all. I have to say that when it comes to the 'Net that I have been here a while. Heck, I registered this domain (www.hedrick.org) in June of 1996 -- six months after I started work at a (dot)com. Over the years, that website has had many faces (and lots of pretty cool graphics -- photoshopping is a favorite pasttime of mine).

But I've always been a technician -- never much for the drama or design or creativity. Which is probably why the site's been languishing for years now. There was a while when my lovely wife had taken on the responsibility, but she's even less a geek than I am. Which meant that certain tools had to be in place to make it easier to post and update. And then, probably about 4 years ago or so, I stopped hosting the site myself and handed it off to the great folks at Verve Hosting and they've done a fabulous job. But that means that the tools I had in place didn't work so much any more. No biggie, but it means that updates were taking even longer... and then they trickled to a stop.

Well not any more!!!

It's time to jump on that proverbial bandwagon. I've had mixed emotions about blogging for quite a while. Hell, I can't even really stand the term "blogging" much at all. But here I am. About a million times over the last 3 months (summer, really) I've said to myself, "self, it sure would be nice if there were a place you could have written that down."

And here it is.

Suffice it to say, I don't think I'm going to go into a whole lot of effort to back-port the last 3-months of consciousness, so let's see if we can sum-up. This is basically in reverse chronological order, starting at the beginning of summer.

• June started out mostly quiet, except that a friend of mine, Steve Harper was trying to launch hhis new book and I was (am) doing his website for him.
• Vacation to Ouray, Colorado, was fabulous. Including the wi-fi cafe and chocolate bar.
• Our house had a slab leak in the hot-water supply to the kitchen. While insurance is taking care of this, it has really cascaded into basically remodelling the entire living room. And oh the drama (never let a plumber into your house with a sawz-all!!!)
  
• My grandmother's husband, Charlie Carmichael, died and my dad and I drove to Hobbs, NM, to attend the funeral. Interestingly, while we were at the funeral, I didn't have any sort of weird flashbacks or deja-vu about my actual grandfather's funeral. I'll chalk that up to being young, stupid and in shock (back then).
  
• Meredith's 20th high school reunion was a blast, but not so much the event, as seeing all her HS friends, who've become my friends but yet, we don't see them often enough.
• I missed the Capital City A&M Club's Coach's Night event.
• I got invited to the Brazos Valley A&M Club's Coach's Night (and what a great table!)
• A very close family member has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Well, that's the long (and short) of it. This being a FIRST POST, it's gone on a little long and rambled a bit, but I hope that is not the case for the future.