Andy Chase

A couple of nights ago I spent a good two or three hours playing my poor guitar (bought in March and hardly touched since, due to various personal-life goings on), banjo, and learning Ducks on the Pond on mandolin. (By the way, a very nice guitar recording and tab can be found at http://www.raccoonbend.com/flatpick/tablature/tab_main.html.)

After nearly four years of being stuck with dial-up internet (no, really — we can’t get DSL or cablemodem service out here in the sticks) I’ve taken the plunge and signed up for Verizon’s EVDO wireless broadband service and ordered a RevA card.

The EVDO signal we get here isn’t the strongest, but it should be enough to get better speeds than 56K dial-up.

If, for some reason, it does not work as advertised, I’ll be interested to see how difficult it is to call them on their “cancel within 15 days with no strings attached” policy.

Leaves
Originally uploaded by Usonian.

I’ve been tinkering with Drupal 5.1 in one capacity or another for the last 2 or 3 months, but by and large it’s been from an on-and-off, complete-newbie perspective; install some modules, click around, add some lorem ipsum content, and wonder if you did it right.

I have spent some time learning about module development, but not knowing enough about the “right” way to do things, even the successes I’ve had there feel like a bit of a question mark.