Sparse Update

I know that I haven't updated in a long time.

Last Tuesday (a week ago tomorrow) I went with Mama and Daddy to drop Mari, Chris, Pounce and Mouse off at the airport to go to Japan. Obviously I was sad because I am going to miss them (indeed, I already miss them- mosly Mari and Chris, not Pounce and Mouse quite as much). But it was comforting to know that we'll be able to see their smiling faces via webcam! I have already had at least three webcam conversations with Mari in the (less than) one week they've been gone, and they were very nice! I'm glad we have that technology. It makes them feel not so far away.

As I headed back to work Tuesday after dropping them off, I felt glad to be returning to a normal routine- sitting at my usual desk, around the usual coworkers, would help me not think about the absence of Mari and Chris. So I felt very sad when I was told that that was my last day at this client; the next day I would be reporting to the home office!  Normally this would have been good news, since I had long ago run out of work to do for this client, and the atmosphere was a little bit depressing.  But on this day of having to part with my sister, I didn't feel like also parting with my familiar desk in which I had been sitting since July.

So for the past 3-1/2 days I've been at the Houston office, and I've taken up a project: learn how to build a website.  It's kind of fun, and it's cool to be learning something new and useful.  If I get good enough, I may endeavor to replace this blog with my own website! For those of you who might be asking "wait- isn't this blog a website that you have built?" the answer is "no, not really."  In setting up a blog, all the hard work has been done for you- the blogger simply chooses fonts and formats and whatnot.  In building my own website, I would start from scratch.  Think of it as the difference between baking a cake from scratch and ordering a cake from a store where you simply choose flavor, icing, and shape.

So far I have learned how to do the basics of a website, like put in text, pictures, and even links, but it doesn't look very nice. I am also still hosting only on my local machine, which means that it looks like a website and I can open in my internet browser, but noone else could access it from their browser because it's not on the web.  Anywho, once I learn those things I may have my own publicly-viewable website! Wouldn't that be neat?