Mephistos

I am back…

By Ray on March 22nd, 2009

As many of you know I have been gone the last several days and prior to that I had not done much in regards to blogging for a bit, both in getting ready for heading out, being busy in general and a good deal of lazy thrown in as well. But I am back and have a few hundred blogs to catch up on and post.

As I am coming back I want to shout a big THANK YOU to everyone that visited the blog the last few weeks. It is nice when the numbers, while not as high as when I post daily, only fall off to a certain level and generally maintain. An especial thanks to the folks that visited Thursday and Saturday – as without new posts those days got up there in posts and were not far off from record highs.

As was noted back before I went out, I have set up the Eligius blog where I will be posting all the future medieval based blogs, including those which I am involved. I will be, hopefully later today, getting some sort of schedule of upcoming events posted over there. In addition, I will slowly be moving all the old post that are directly medieval in nature from here over there as well. That will allow for an easy central location to narrow in on the one subject matter and putting all the old ones there will give a level of content and allow for search ability. Additionally, with the current functional levels of the plugins in WordPress, I am slowly going to pull in all the archive pictures and videos from over the years into that as well. Granted, WordPress does not have all the flexibility of some CMS systems, but on the other hand, it does not have all the overhead and headache of keeping up with and learning a full fledge CMS system either.

Now for new information, similar to the above in regards to the medieval stuff, I have had a farm site for sometime. Granted, as I am not on a farm now, I have let it go into a state of dis-repair. Actually, a conversion from PHP 3.0 to 5.0 somewhere along the way in the last year completely broke the site that I had (with a good deal of custom code). Rather then trying to rebuild it and such, I have started putting it back together as a WordPress blog at travellershavenfarms.com. Initially I will make posts there that are about farming and simple lifestyle choices and such that directly relate there. I will also move over those old post that directly relate to that subject to that location and also there are 1000′s of pictures that I have that belong over there as well. To begin with the site will be more about the longing to get back to having a farm and land and such, but there is a plan for that sometime later this year hopefully. I am reminded of a conversation with a friend of mine where in he said, “Once you got poor dirt farmer in your blood, it is hard to get rid of it no matter how hard you try…” Anyway, this one is a step or two behind in full on coming around, but it should get a post or two this week, perhaps even this evening, even if I do not get everything in order on the site.