I’m making some changes on the site so there might possibly be some things that are broke. I need to resolve some redirect issues from the old setup as well as continue to add content. If you subscribe via a feed, make sure you update it. Links can be found in the sidebar. I will try to setup this redirect soon.
I don’t know what it is lately. I don’t know if it’s the changing weather (cold, warm, back to cold) or what, but lately I’ve been really tired. The thing is, even though I’m so unbelievably tired, I can’t sleep. Sunday night I couldn’t sleep and didn’t wind up dozing off til 3 AM Monday morning. I don’t know what it is exactly that is keeping me up. I’ve had a lot of things on my mind, but no more than usual I don’t think. Last night I couldn’t sleep either. I know why it was last night. I have a job interview on Tuesday that I really want to nail. The interview was just set up yesterday, so last night I was worrying about it. I really hope I do well and get the job. If I do, I will be doing what I’ve wanted to do since I was a Sophomore in high school. So wish me luck! This weekend is a three-day weekend so I’m hoping that I can catch up on a bit of sleep. I still don’t know if I’m doing anything for St. Patty’s. In all honesty, I’d love to be living in Springfield so I could go to the pub crawl. Oh well. I’m sure I’ll occupy myself somehow.
I have decided to start putting a small amount of ads on here just to help pay for hosting and whatnot. I know what some of you may think and remind me of my thoughts on ads on personal blogs, but this site generates a fair amount of traffic, more than my others that my ads do okay on, and by okay I mean at least I make a little something every day. And I don’t think they look too terrible here. The theme is nice enough that the ads blend in fairly nice. If I don’t really make anything from them then they shall disappear. We shall see.
If you are reading this via the feed, you might want to hop on over to the site and check out the new theme. I thought it was time for something that was a bit more simple, yet eye-catching. I think this theme works well. It’s very simple, minimal image usage, yet at the same time it’s very elegant and professional looking. I have been modifying it a little, adding the recent comments plugin to the sidebar, as well as a link to the feeds. I’ve also changed the way the theme handled the title of the site and page/post. The other way seemed a bit backwards to me putting the page name/post name before the site name, e.g. About Me-piece of shep instead of piece of shep- About Me. Also, the sidebar is not widgetized yet. I was thinking of widgetizing it but I think that would just spell trouble because I’ll just continue to add more and more stuff to the sidebar and the goal here is for simplicity. I think I may keep this theme for a while.
If you’ve used the contact form to try and get in touch with me over the past couple weeks, I’ve probably not gotten the email. There is something weird going on with the php mail () command and emails generated by the contact form (or WP) aren’t getting sent out. So if you tried to contact me or need to contact me you can always email me at mike at mikeschepker.com Hopefully this will be solved soon.
EDIT: Everything seems to be working fine now. If you contact me and I don’t respond, let me know, but all emails from the comment form and contact form should be working now.