So I’ve actually been thinking about dividing my personal stuff back out into a separate blog again.

It would be a lot of work, but I think I would be able to much better showcase my geek/designer/marketing skills here if I took the mommy/faith/life stuff over to another blog. I’d also feel far more comfortable talking about faith and life stuff if I wasn’t always a bit concerned about what potential client/employer has to sift through everything else to get to my work-related posts.

The new personal blog in the works already, and in fact has just a few posts in place. So the trick is just going to be getting everything migrated. I’ve never tried it before, but this is what I’m guessing I’ll need to do. Or at least this is how my woke-up-at-four-and-desperately-need-more-sleep logic wants to send me. I figure I’ll write it down and go over it again when I’ve got my wits about me.

- Back up both blogs!
- Export this blog
- Take the few articles I’ve got in the new blog, untag them, and uncategorize them
- Export the new blog and increment my post_ids, wherever they might be, by hand
- Possibly edit the novapages.com export to swap out instances of novapages.com for my new domain
- Make a fresh WordPress install on the new site
- Import the old blog to the new site
- Import the new blog to the new site
- Fix pictures if I need to (copying them over from one site to the other, if needed)
- Get a handle on the new site’s look/feel/organization
- Get rid of techy/marketing/designer-ish articles on the blog
- Start removing / redirecting personal posts from this blog
- Redo novapages.com organization & look/feel

Un-techy considerations:
- Check with CJ.com about segmenting my domains You might have noticed I don’t put many ads on here, but I do have one article that’s popular enough to help with the bills. I’d want to keep that going.
- Comb through my analytics so I can figure out which popular articles I’ll want to redirect. (I won’t worry about anything that doesn’t get google hits)

I also want to get VaultPress installed on the new blog as well.

Wow. And the moment I finished writing all of that down, my tired brain instantly decided to relax and let me sleep… at least for a few more hours. Hooray. I’m off to bed. And I won’t start this project til next week when I won’t have much else to do at night (while the kids are out.) Wish me luck then and sweet dreams now.

D’oh! I totally missed the last launch this morning because this plane caught my attention as it was circling over my town. I wonder what they were up to?

Looks to be a Marine QB-067. Or maybe a QB-8067 if there is such thing.

This is my friend with his dog, Rocket. I wasn’t happy with how these pictures worked. I need to figure my camera out, particularly when it comes to shooting people. But in spite of my lack of technical ability, it’s clear these two are good buddies.

Rocket wishing he could eat me

I need to learn to use my camera better. Thanks DtD for letting me take so many pictures!

I shot a bunch of pictures at another family party recently. Not many of them turned out very well, but they should be great for the memories. My nephew had just scraped his little hands (hence the less-than-happy look on his face) and was standing in the doorway watching me get ready to take pictures of his baby sister in the shade. The inside of the house behind him was relatively dark, the indirect light of a sunny afternoon fairly bright, and the sky reflected nicely in his eyes. And I sort of like the way the blue is emphasized by my accidental failure to correct the white balance. I’d like to try taking more shots like this.

He's got the blues. But I sort of like the look...

For contrast, here’s the same boy eating some cantaloupe in a sunny living room, likely needing some white-balance correction in the other direction. I like this shot, too, but I think the other has an entirely different feel.

A boy and his cantaloupe

Just a couple of fun pictures from a recent family party. The lighting was pretty awful, but I thought these captured the essence of these particular boys and girls anyhow.

Playing Pokémon on the DSI

Do we have to go to bed?