Well, I stayed in town this afternoon/evening so that I didn’t have to make extra trips with the vehicle, and it paid off. I was incredibly productive all day at work today. Of course, not having the phone ring (because the ringer was shut off) helps that out quite a bit. The plus side is that now that I actually got a bunch of things done (that I was hoping to have done by the end of today), I have absolutely no qualms about taking Monday off.

So that’s a Good Thing.

I really don’t have that much to ramble about right at the moment. I got Kirstin’s baptism video tonight after church, so I’ll likely capture that quick (seeing as how I still have the VCR connected to my computer and sitting on top of said computer) and eventually then burn it on DVD.

Short of that, and the fact that it’s still damn cold outside (currently is 14.7), life is hanging in there. Kirstin slept for on the order of five and a half hours straight last night (which is an increase), so we might be working into even better sleeping patterns. She’s not been really that bad at all since we brought her home…she’s always slept at night for 2-3 hours on average. But I know that the five and a half hour thing was welcome for Beth. 🙂

Anyway, I hope to get a few random things done around here tomorrow. We’ll see. If I don’t get to physical stuff, I do intend to get some more pictures uploaded on Flickr. There aren’t that many left, but what’s left are the miscellaneous bits (and that makes them arguably the most complex).

Speaking of pictures, I’m still doing the Daily Kirstin thing. Sometimes I don’t do anything but just get a picture or two of her, just for that reason (the daily posting). And sometimes I think that it’s a bit redundant. But, then I look back at pictures I chose as the daily photo even a few days back and realize once again that it’s all for a good cause. It should be interesting to see how things change even more as time goes along.

Flickr recently introduced this thing called ‘Collections.’ They’re only available (from what I understand) on the Pro accounts (which is what I have)…but they’re basically ‘sets of sets’ in one way. Seeing as how Kirstin’s main photoset is 149 pictures in size as of tonight, and seeing how it’s getting a bit unwieldy to manage (it’s easy, but I can’t see every picture on the organizing page without scrolling now), I think I’ll be breaking it up into more manageable chunks. Most likely by month of age or something like that.

It also will potentially make it easier for frequent visitors to see only the more recent photos (without always seeing the old ones or having to go through the old ones to get to the new ones). So, I can use a collection to encompass the entire ‘set of sets’, but keep each set smaller in size.

I’m thinking about making that change, and the more I think about it, the more it makes sense to me to try it out that way. We’ll see what happens for sure. Time will tell…

Anyway, that’s about all I’ve got to say. I’m heading for bed and based upon how much I’m yawning right now, it won’t take long to fall asleep. I know it didn’t take Kirstin long to fall asleep tonight — she was pretty much out before I started carrying her upstairs.

Until next time…

–MZ